[Closed] It's show-off time!

Ok, I'll play!
in da 70s
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then in his 50s 😆

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That's the spirit, DezB. I'm particularly impressed by the consistency of form.

Lookin good Dez: jeans and trainers in your fifties; proving TJ wrong on all accounts 😉

Haven't got any on my phone, so here a pic of me doing nothing and my boy getting rad!

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First Munro
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Last Munro
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davidtaylforth -
Lookin good Dez: jeans and trainers in your fifties; proving TJ wrong on all accounts

Too kind! I was going to skate in a dress and stillettos but they wouldn't let me in the park 😀

From my climbing days:

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Too kind! I was going to skate in a dress and stillettos but they wouldn't let me in the park

😀 Some things are best left at home

Jeez, whitestone. I'm maximum 70 feet up in my shots. Now I'm embarrassed!

I did once climb part way up Mont Pinacle in Quebec, though. So some redemption.

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[i]Jeez, whitestone[/i]

Just what I was gonna say. Nuts!

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Me on the right
Verbier, early 80's

I'm not actually in this photo, I took it. But it's something I'm very proud of- this was the first year of the Glencoe Massacre, a big rideout I created back in... 2007 I think, with SV650.org. It's still going now though I bowed out in about 2010.

The second shot is just me pootling, but I'm bringing home the last riders in my last one. I knew it was my last big ride so it was a Moment.

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And while i'm at it, this is me on the first trackday I did after I broke my hip. So it's sporty, and adventuret because I was still trying to figure out how to go round corners with one working leg 😆 But I like the shot, this one ended up getting printed in TWO magazine in an article I cowrote. Never did get paid for that!

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a fresh faced you man making the grade at rugby.......guess which is me.

Army days
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Well thought might fish out some old climbing shots but then I saw whitestone's.

Whoops only read the action man bit! no hard core climbing photos!

I think Whitestone wins the forum tonight with some great vertical stuff. I've got a few nice vistas taken in the alps, but not in the same technical league.
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Best recruit at my basic training when I joined the RAF.
Basically I could iron a shirt!
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Not sure if this will work...

First pic climbing 4000ers in the Alps in the late 90s

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And competing in the Croatia Trophy as Co-driver back in 2010

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And better add one of my first love... the underworld 🙂

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1980/81..after a 30 year gap I bought another trials bike ..I was still crap so quickly sold and back to peddling up those hills
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Some hang time

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Ooh, an old photos thread 🙂

Clipping the coping in the bowl at ROM skatepark (now grade II listed) about 1988

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Chucking in a flat spin on Nile Special wave, Nile river, Uganda 2005

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Cruising the drops, somewhere in India 2008

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Whitestone features on the cover of at least a couple of my climbing guides. 🙂 I think the top one is one of those - Esk Buttress, no?

I'll have to dig up a picture of me looking ridiculous on something low grade in green Ron Hills. Might have to scan it off a slide.

Well thought might fish out some old climbing shots but then I saw whitestone's.

My thoughts exactly. So I'll go with this instead; taken circa 2005.

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Bet that's a big seagull on the other end of that.

Oops! Sorry guys - didn't mean to post a royal flush so early in the thread 😳

The shots are scanned from slides (the 1980s remember, no digital back then), I've hundreds of slides that I've not scanned for one reason or another. Actually I've hundreds of Kodachrome [b]boxes[/b] of slides that haven't been kept in the best conditions so they'd take some work to be presentable.

@Scotroutes - yes first shot is Fallout on Esk Buttress, second is on the crag behind the Old Dungeon Gill Hotel. Third is on the Petit Dru above Chamonix (the huge obvious rock spire when you enter the valley). Last shot is the crux of Minus One Gully on Ben Nevis.

@welshfarmer - we'd often head over to the Dales to do a bit of caving during the winter but to the best of my knowledge none of us ever took a photo whilst doing it.

@cougar: Flexifoil? Trying to ID the beach. I'm sure I know those rocks...

Now you're asking. I think it was a Blade or Blade II of some description, and it's possibly Anglesea. I'm far from certain though, if I'd known there's was going to be a test I'd have taken notes. (-: I'll have a rummage through my photos tonight if I get chance, the rest of the set might give clues.

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2006, Snetterton on my GSXR750K1 race bike... OK, so it's not climbing mountains, but having come back from breaking bones in 0ver 20 places, it still goes down as pretty hardcore for me.

This one was Cadwell park
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Old work, digging in
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A bit deeper
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Current work
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The moment we lost the school captured by the brigade photographer, only pic I have of current work I think. I'm stood on left admiring the flames 🙂

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Back when I could hold that stuff
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took an age to nail that
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Drunken night in Jan in the Peak set out some targets, lead E1 by the end of the year, ticked the next morning (I may have lent on the rope a little as my mate explained the leaping finish)
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When Maibe went all North Shore

trying to id the beach

That will be Rhosneigr

Head first abseil with no helmet and slightly inebriated...

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Enjoying proper weather in Cairngorms. Colour of my kit dates the photos!

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Hanging at the top of Mt. Toubkal

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Pic with an arti shell found on bottom when diving at Swanage that mate wanted to clean up for mantelpiece, only to realise fuse head was still in place and beach had to be evacuated!

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Finally, cocking about in North Africa somewhere in my old Land Rover 101

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Here's a couple:

Freebornman at Swanage. This took a bit of working up to as a must-do dws. The route description included this memorable line:
"..like leaving school, passing your driving test and burning down your first public building..." 🙂

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And here on the Diamond on Lundy. I'd just lead the cracking Diamond Life to the left. Here I'm on the halfway belay of Watching the Ocean as my mate pulls out a cracking on-sight. Stunning face of granite dropping down to the sea in an incredible setting. Routes and places like these make me want to return to climbing.
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Me and Son of Fruitbat doing a bit of synchronized stone skimming c. 2010

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Nice Mike - Chamonix, Roaches and Froggatt for the climbing pics?

Only one of me I've got at the moment - Ardeche last summer:
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Yep, bad weather meant the boulders were a good one and the guide had the pictures guide to that simple problem 🙂 on the roaches I think that was the first time I made the leap properly, a really good perfect light pic that I need to find the negative for

Can't climb for shit but did my first Ironman when I was 19.

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30 years ago

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You would have thought I had learned by now, still cant get enough

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2014 EWS. Full beans on the final stage of day 1. Taken by someone on here IIRC and it's a huge favourite

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No climbing shots (though I've done a little bit), but I've been a kayaker for too many years:

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Oh, and there's a reason I'm known as 'Pyro'
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Snow canoe wins it for me.

Some great pics here. Keep it coming.

Nothing says 'guidebook cover shot' as much as whitestones first pic. Love it.
(I think I have the relevant book in the loft)

My first National Race as an Elite and it snowed, think it was the best result I had as an elite too (which wasn't too great):

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2006, on the Dakar Rally route following the Moroccan/Algerian border.

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Dried lake bed somewhere in southern Morocco - same trip.

Dried lake bed somewhere in southern Morocco - same trip.

That might be the same lake bed I started going down with heat stroke and had to pinch welshfarmers air-conditioned seat for a little while to cool down.

Love the canoe shots pyro, and the matching top and local motion(?) framebags Tracey

Frame bag and top tube protector were made by or for Cosmic who were big in the eighties for windsurfing accessories. Still got them somewhere in the garage.

Dried lake bed somewhere in southern Morocco - same trip.

That might be the same lake bed I started going down with heat stroke and had to pinch welshfarmers air-conditioned seat for a little while to cool down.

It was roasting hot when we went - 55 degrees at Erg Chebbi...

I'll throw some skiing in there for now

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Cave diving in France, whilst on a family holiday 😀

Fern Hill at Cratcliffe, at least 20 years ago.

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Skiing in Val d'Isere

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Out of a feeling of complete inadequacy after seeing those amazing climbing pictures some of you have posted, I thought I would post another of me doing something that I assume only I can do (on this forum, at least!).

Alas, not vintage, but a good action shot nonetheless. And a damn fine save.

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I like the contrast in this photo, just taking off.

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I've got some older ones, but this is from the summer, having another go at MX at 56.

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One from my days fell running. 4am on the summit of Binnein Mor in the Mamores on a Ramsay Round supporting these two who had been going since midday the previous day - they both got round in under 24hrs.

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No climbing ones as I'm terrified of heights.

Here's the Delamere Road gap at night.

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1997 (I think), North Glos M/C Club novice champion!

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