First time I climbed Devils Tower - July 1977 - I did it with 2 friends and my younger brother. We had big hair and lots of cotton; I'll bet our high tech clothing cost us about $12.50 each.
Ha, I say to you high tech clothing peeps; get real, get cotton. If it was good enough for the ancient Egyptians, it's good enough for you.
The fellow on the far left - Jeff - had climbed in Yosemite many times, including several ascents of El Cap. The next year, he and his climbing partners were killed on El Cap. They became (somewhat) famous because the technique they use to attach to anchors - which was the standard technique at that time - caused them to fall when one of the bolted anchors let loose. After that accident, the recommended way to clip into anchors, was changed.
I'm continuing to go through my old slides. Here's a photo of John examining plane wreckage on Mt Blackburn when we climbed it in August of 1982. This plane was scattered for quite a distance on the glacier at the foot of a 2-3,000 foot icefall. It was a little eerie because this was just where we were starting the technical part of the climb..JPG)
Here is a photo of me and some friends climbing the Grand Teton in 1975. Notice my jaunty and fashionable porkpie hat in the first photo and our high tech clothing - sweat pants, jeans, tennis shoes. (In fact, my friend climbed the entire mountain in a pair of Tretorn tennis shoes.) That's old school.
This is our summit shot. 
I am starting to scan my old slides and came across these from a trip to Yosemite in August of 1980 (I think.) It was 100 degrees in the Valley when we were there. Here is Johnnie Mac relaxing after a multi-pitch climb.
Wednesday afternoon we had an ice festival at Franklin; there were 12 people climbing. Here's a shot of Pete pulling the icicle. We had a few more climbers initiated into the Monkey Death Jump.
