ICE AXE
Vintage Chouinard Model Zero Ice Axe 55cm w/leather head cover $250 Chouinard-Frost Piolet with a Carbon fiberglass blue shaft, purchased at the original REI on capital hill in Seattle when it was the only REI around. when I worked at the climbing counter. These were sold for $75 in 1978. and the minimum wage was $2.65 an hour so $75 was almost a weeks earnings. It has a second set of serrations closer to the shaft. That was done in the very late 78 or 79 The idea…
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