Documenting the evolving tools of our vertical world
Continuing Vertical Archaeology’s long running love affair with LONGware equipment, I present the approximate piton selection Gerry offered from LONGware in 1964. The pitons shown in our gallery and illustrated in the catalog pages...
LONGware made both steel and aluminum bong pitons. The steel versions were often modified by drilling several holes in the sides of the piton, this would save weight and provide holes for tie-off slings. Our...
This Chouinard 3 inch bong piton was found on a great route on Longs Peak in the 1994. The piton must have been wailed on…it’s cracked on one side just forward of the eye....
The largest of Chouinard Equipments pitons, these aluminum 4 inch Bongs were used when the climbing became wide and gnarly. One of ours came to us from an old El Paso County (Colorado) equipment...
These Clog Bong pitons are just barely under 3 inches in size. They are early 1970s or perhaps late 1960s examples of Clog piton design.
Featured in this gallery is the equipment I have collected from my time climbing and exploring with desert legend Harvey T. Carter. I climbed with him hundreds of times in the 1990s and our...
I acquired these massive LONGware bongs from Harvey T. Carter in the early 1990s right before my first trip to his beloved Fisher Towers. I was young and relatively inexperienced but had high hopes...
