This is my new 1960 catalog which is loaded with Equipment for Mountaineers. On the front cover is David Rearick doing a bit of practice climbing at Stoney Point, California.
My new Dolt hut motto: Equipment for those who prefer mountain and Wilderness recreation……

I included parcel rates for those who need me to ship my Dolt equipment to them. 

I will like to note here that the traditional length of climbing rope was 120 feet. The Dolt Hut offers the new rope length of 150 feet. 7/16 nylon rope. Also I will note that the rope ends are fused, instead of being tied with a thinner cord.
This is Chouinard Model III aluminum carabiner which holds 4000 pounds to 5000 pounds closed, and holds 2600 pounds without the carabiner gate. During the 1959 climbing season, the Chouinard carabiner was introduced.
Chouinard is also making hand-forged horizontal pitons, and hand-forged horizontal and vertical Knife Blade pitons.
Here is a closer look at the Chouinard horizontal and vertical Knife Blade pitons.
I also am selling CCB horizontal pitons which have superior strength. Notice the fine anvil and strong neck on these pitons.
More CCB horizontal and spoon pitons. I also am selling Austrian ring angle pitons which are sold with or without a weld on the hammer end. 
I have created a newer design of bolt hangers that are made of aluminum. My square top and pointed top hangers have the advantage of being able to be stepped on for aid climbing. Also showing is a new thin crack piton by Chouinard named a RURP. Three men at one time have been held by it, then the parachute cord broke.
For superior hand drilling power, I sell the Rawl brand. 
And yes, I offer many choices of First Aid Components. So if you get injured while on route, these are great wound coverings. 
This is my DOLT Hut Christmas advertisement which is shown in Summit magazine.

​I love Christmas.
I handed Tom Frost my Lecca camera and he took this photo of me. This is the very first photo Tom has ever taken.
From there Tom really got into photographing Yosemite valley and climbers.
In 1960 Tom Frost was going after the 2nd ascent of the Nose Route so with Toms help we created some new pitons called bongs. They were named bongs for the sound the pitons made when hammering them into cracks, and the bongs clanking together as the climber ascended. I put two holes on each bong to allow for two different carabiner options. 
On a 7 day push the climbers reached the Nose summit Sept 14, 1960. It was a great monumental climb all done in one push.
Hmmmm.... I am kinda getting lost in my feelings here. Maybe its nothing. Maybe I am being upset with myself since I bailed off of the Nose route due to fear, or maybe that climb was just toooo big for me, but here my friends completed the Nose route in only 7 days.

Okay... so what about that route. I am now focused on being the gear supplier to all Mountaineers. 
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This is a poem I wrote in 1960.

(MK Note - Is this a early sign that shows Bill was troubled, or even contemplated death?)
I was still advertising Chouinard products in the Summit Magazines. Here Chouinard just started creating his line of Ringless angle pitons at the end of the 1960s. I mean I was making ringless angle pitons starting back in 1958. Yvon is my friend so I guess its cool that Chouinard is now making them also. 
​- Summit Magazine March 1961.
(Soon after the 1960 Nose route ascent, Yvon created the same set of bong pitons but having only one carabiner hole. Chouinard steel and aluminum bongs became available in 1961).
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Ummmmm, Now wait a minute here......!

Can I have the house lights ON please.

- (A look into Bill's mind) -
(Bill, Tom and Yvon walk up onto the stage).

Now wait a minute….This is my design for the bongs. Just because you only use one hole and mine has two doesn’t make it necessarily different. I need to think about this a little here…….Hmmmm....
Like whats going on here…..Hmmmmm.....

​We used to be like this.........
But now I think we are like this.......
​Hmmmmmm.......

​(Pause)
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Yes this is more correct now.
- (Okay let's continue, Lights OFF please) -
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- (Narrator)

Yvon continues to create a few more angle pitons in the early 1960s and then joins the Army. Since Yvon is in the Army not much is going on with Chouinard products.

Tom goes to school to become a Mechanical Engineer so he is busy with his schooling. Tom also partners up with Royal Robbins and Chuck Pratt getting the first ascent of the Salathe Wall. Tom also visits the Himalayas and does first ascents with Edmund Hillary.

Bill continues with his gear company, with his Dolt holsters being the number one seller. But later Bill loses interest and stops making gear. He announces in the Summit magazine advertisements that “Dolt is no longer in business.” He spends most of his time at his job with McDonnell Douglas.
But in later 1964 a change happens. Tom partners up with Yvon and Royal Robbins and Chuck Pratt, and accomplishes the first ascent of the North American Wall. Then Yvon partners with T.M. Herbert and gets the first ascent of the Muir wall. These are huge big wall ascents.

Tom now has a Mechanical Engineering degree and partners up with Yvon in late 1964. Both Yvon and Tom go forward with their plans of making Chouinard a bigger company. More piton sizes are added to their line of products, which includes the new Chouinard Cliff Hanger hook.
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- (Bill)

So Tom and Yvon are now in business together, hmmmmm.
Making all sorts of gear some of which may have come from my designs, hmmmmm.
On top of that now Chouinard has a gear catalog, and Yvon purposely lists that he created the ringless angle piton before me in 1957, when clearly he created it and we advertised it as the "New Chouinard ringless angle piton" in 1961.
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Ummmmm, Now wait a minute here again......!

Can I have the house lights ON please.

- (A look into Bill's mind) -
(Bill, Tom and Yvon walk up onto the stage).

​ I need to think about this a little here again …….Hmmmm....

(Pause)

Like whats going on here…..Hmmmmm.....
​
(Pause)

​We used to be like this.........
But now I think we definitely are like this.......
​Hmmmmmm.......
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(pause)
​(Pause)
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Yes this is more correct now.
- Okay

(Pause)

- let's continue, Lights OFF please -