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Lollie
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I'm Lolli.
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Topic Author's Original Post - Feb 22, 2014 - 06:58pm PT
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A few weeks ago it looked like this here:
But not today. Winter was brief this year.
A landowner can steer people where she wants people to walk, by building the ladders in certain spots. :-)
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Lollie
Social climber
I'm Lolli.
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Topic Author's Reply - Feb 22, 2014 - 07:05pm PT
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Yes, it's a stätta.
:-)
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franky
Trad climber
Bishop, CA
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Feb 22, 2014 - 07:21pm PT
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In my geology days I never learned a one word name for that kind of outcrop. I'd call it something like "glacially eroded (or abraded) bedrock". A geologist would probably end up talking more about things like chatter marks or glacial striations.
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Lollie
Social climber
I'm Lolli.
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Topic Author's Reply - Feb 22, 2014 - 08:11pm PT
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I found one translation and it's "living granite". But I don't know what that really is.
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Ward Trotter
Trad climber
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Feb 23, 2014 - 12:16am PT
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I'm not a geologist but several terms might apply here.
The nearest English term could be " Whaleback":
Other terms that might apply are:
---Roche Moutonnee (or moutonee)
---Rock Drumlins
In Sweden sometimes the larger glacial erosional landforms like these might be called
"Fryggbergs"
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Lollie
Social climber
I'm Lolli.
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Topic Author's Reply - Feb 23, 2014 - 07:29am PT
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Whaleback! That's a good word. Descriptive. The picture is of hälleberg. As Wikipedia describes it in English: "ice-smoothed bedrock bumps which lack the steep, plucked lee side faces are referred to as whalebacks or rock drumlins."
Hälleberg is, by the Swedish definition, "a place where the outcrop is visible and not covered with earth, buildings nor growth." Such places are in Scandinavia usually polished and rounded, as a reminder of the Ice Age.
Flyggberg, is the not quite the same as hälleberg. They are two different phenomena, caused by the Ice Age. What they have in common is that the reciding glacier made them.
Hälleberg is always flat, while flyggberg has a precipice. The precipice is on the leeward side of the dominating direction of the icemovement.'
There's a mountain named Flyggberget. It's made out of diabas. (It's not the one in the image above, that's the Bergvattsberget.)
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kaholatingtong
Trad climber
Nevada City
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Feb 23, 2014 - 08:54am PT
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TFPU
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Marlow
Sport climber
OSLO
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Feb 23, 2014 - 09:57am PT
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Cool!
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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Feb 23, 2014 - 10:20am PT
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hey there say, lollie.... oh my this is a lovely share! my mom would love this, too...
makes me want winter to pass here and for us to see spring...
it is colder here, than the last few years... i am new to 'snow areas' too...
thanks again and happy good day!
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pyro
Big Wall climber
Calabasas
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Feb 23, 2014 - 11:36am PT
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very kool!
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