Harvey T. Carter Equipment

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  1. Cameron Burns says:

    “To me, the dull sound of hammer on piton and muffled cursing, will always be the sound of the Fisher Towers.”

    I love that comment!

  2. I have photographed many of his pitons that are now at the American Alpine Club museum/library. I was on the hunt for one which he had showed me once in Colorado Springs, and I believe it is an early Lavender piton, evolved from the original round design. I found it! I will post story on bigwallgear.com soon. It is funny Harvey had so many gold plated ones, I think he gave them as awards to climbers for good routes, Harvey’s “golden pitons” 😉

    • Curator says:

      Harvey painted almost all of his gear gold at one time. I have some of his tube chicks and hexes that are painted gold. We painted several batches of ring angles in the driveway of his parents house in Colorado Springs.
      The “gold pitons” we given out at the bouldering contests he organized in the early days. He would run around and figure out a bunch of hard moves on boulders back in the hinterlands of the Garden of the Gods and then invite people to “compete” but of course he would enter the comp himself…the results were often skewed in Harvey’s favor. Hehe

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