Browsing through my MOUNTAIN magazine collection

While waiting in my Fossil Cabin for the sauna to get good and hot, I was looking through some issues from 1973. The gear has certainly changed and so too have the ads.

How I loved - and hated - those Super Guides. Great to climb in, but hell to hike in. As for the crampons, a joy on steep ice, until they snapped ... as Jon Waterman found out on a lead, 25 feet out from my belay, on a step North Face in Chamonix one winter.