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Show Russell Jacobs 19 March 2010 time of day, the date. You know, just something, just a little record, but most places ... like Moses Tower had that. .. you know, but The Titan had it, too. But The Titan ... and we thought maybe this little tiny .. .it seemed like a little bait box, like a tin but it had a hinge on it that would open up, and as you opened up, you know those little poppies you get during Christmas time when you donate to the, uh, Salvation Army? MD: Um-hmm. RJ: Those little pots, and they give you the little synthetic poppy. That was actually wound around one of the two hinges that opened the lid. And as you opened the lid, it would get all .. .it just came out. You know, it actually like grew out of the inside of the tin. And there was a small piece of paper and a small, little pencil that you'd find in the library, you know, just a half pencil, inside it. But over the years and because of the weather, it was very hard to disseminate the names. Because water had seeped in and sort of discolored and faded some of the writing. But it seemed like Layton Kor's name was there. We really thought that that little tin was placed there by Layton Kor. Not too many names were on there. I mean, by that time, I don't think there was probably twenty parties that had been on top of The Titan. I don't still think today even many climbers do it. There's one really good ... another good climb on the south side, called "The S undevil' s Chimney" that's pretty respectable. MD: Um-hmm. RJ: Uh, and it's one or two notches more difficult than the core route. But we decided we might as well get to business, you know, and get this scary rappel over with. You know, and, uh, we just were very, very careful and just put minimum pressure on our anchors as we descended off the summit to the notch ... well, it was .. .I'm sure we had to 18 |
