There's daring accomplishments, there's "crazy" and then there's....
Had time to go by my old high school and get some pics of me standing at the base of the tower that I climbed back in 1970 when I was 17 years old. My son had to walk a long ways from the tower to get the whole tower in the pic so it makes it hard to see standing at the base. I'm 6' 1" and you can just make me out (wearing a black shirt and black pants). It might not be the highest tower in the world but I climbed it at age 17, in the dark, right after midnight so that I wouldn't get arrested with no back up.
To the left of the tower (above) is the 3 story building I had to scale to be able to get to the first rung. You can see the first rung in the pick below, it's bout 30 or 40 feet off the ground:
No side rails on this ladder and for some reason the rungs were very close together, me being tall and lanky I had to scrunch up which caused many cramps as I approached the top. Every time I got a cramp I almost fell because I could not wrap my arm around the "missing" side rail to rest..it was hell...hang on or fall!!
And this is the 3 story wall I had to climb to get on the roof so that I could reach the first rung. There used to be an enclosed tunnel connecting the 3 story building to the tower about 30 feet of the ground that I crawled across to get to the first rung. The tunnel has since collapsed so now the tower stands free.:
Seemed like a good idea at the time???? But since no one (student) had ever climbed the tower to write SRS '55, SRS '65 or SRS anything, I figured I would be the first "Rock on SRS '70"!!!
Here's a close up of the rusty rungs. they've been sitting in rain, weather and salt air for over 60 years!!
Treblig the Fearless
Had time to go by my old high school and get some pics of me standing at the base of the tower that I climbed back in 1970 when I was 17 years old. My son had to walk a long ways from the tower to get the whole tower in the pic so it makes it hard to see standing at the base. I'm 6' 1" and you can just make me out (wearing a black shirt and black pants). It might not be the highest tower in the world but I climbed it at age 17, in the dark, right after midnight so that I wouldn't get arrested with no back up.
To the left of the tower (above) is the 3 story building I had to scale to be able to get to the first rung. You can see the first rung in the pick below, it's bout 30 or 40 feet off the ground:
No side rails on this ladder and for some reason the rungs were very close together, me being tall and lanky I had to scrunch up which caused many cramps as I approached the top. Every time I got a cramp I almost fell because I could not wrap my arm around the "missing" side rail to rest..it was hell...hang on or fall!!
And this is the 3 story wall I had to climb to get on the roof so that I could reach the first rung. There used to be an enclosed tunnel connecting the 3 story building to the tower about 30 feet of the ground that I crawled across to get to the first rung. The tunnel has since collapsed so now the tower stands free.:
Seemed like a good idea at the time???? But since no one (student) had ever climbed the tower to write SRS '55, SRS '65 or SRS anything, I figured I would be the first "Rock on SRS '70"!!!
Here's a close up of the rusty rungs. they've been sitting in rain, weather and salt air for over 60 years!!
Treblig the Fearless
