10/31/09

The Great Pacific Iron Works


Original shed where Yvon Chouinard hand forged climbing pitons in the early 50's-located behind GPIW/Patagonia HQ in Ventura.

3 comments:

David Neale said...

wonder what those shades are he has on in the wiki pic...
made me think of Azechi...

Wolves said...

Too sick. My dad used to go there for his pitons.

R4TH said...

I hope he held onto them, I read (in a display case at GPIW) each one took quite a few hours to forge.