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bvb
Social climber
flagstaff arizona
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Topic Author's Original Post - Aug 25, 2014 - 08:53pm PT
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Can anybody ID this tower?
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bvb
Social climber
flagstaff arizona
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Topic Author's Reply - Aug 26, 2014 - 12:35am PT
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That ain't it, Todd. This thing is way separated and stand alone. The summit is a good 35 - 40 feet from the main cliff. Check that video again! No way nobody's done this.
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looks easy from here
climber
Ben Lomond, CA
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Aug 27, 2014 - 11:01am PT
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Looks-too-hard-for-me-but-still-interested bump.
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SteveW
Trad climber
The state of confusion
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Aug 27, 2014 - 12:26pm PT
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Where's Crusher???
Paging Mr. Bartlett to the white courtesy taco phone. . .
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crunch
Social climber
CO
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Aug 27, 2014 - 12:40pm PT
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Where's Crusher???
Paging Mr. Bartlett to the white courtesy taco phone. . .
Sorry, no clue....
puzzled by the way the video jumps from scenic to floor of the vehicle and back, almost as if deliberately not wanting the viewer to see the broader surroundings. Also it appears to be a video of a video, or something.
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mike m
Trad climber
black hills
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Aug 27, 2014 - 12:41pm PT
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Space Tower Kane Creek?
Do you know the answer or are you looking for the answer?
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crunch
Social climber
CO
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Aug 27, 2014 - 01:39pm PT
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Oh wait, it's Lembert Dome!
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thebravecowboy
climber
strugglin' to make time to climb
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Aug 27, 2014 - 02:00pm PT
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you should know this one, Bob
hit me up on the slyband if you want to trade a sixer of PBR/your firstborn for the location of the above
not the most inspiring Wingate I've ever seen...but you'll have the place to yourself, and the accomodations ain't half-bad
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bvb
Social climber
flagstaff arizona
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Topic Author's Reply - Aug 27, 2014 - 04:07pm PT
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ding ding ding ding ding! The Sw0le Cowboy knocks it out of the park! I know where it is, I shot the vid 1992ish. Was thinking about going back after 22 years. Expected somebody on ST would have the skinny. Grade/rack/height/etc? How long ago did you bag it?
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thebravecowboy
climber
strugglin' to make time to climb
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Aug 27, 2014 - 05:34pm PT
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Never jumped on the beast, but the preliminary look I took seemed promising...I know that there has been some significant recent activity just across the drainage and I figgered those folks had gotten on the tower in question. Keep us posted! I am excited for you, and quite envious!
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bvb
Social climber
flagstaff arizona
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Topic Author's Reply - Aug 27, 2014 - 05:42pm PT
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How did you find it? I was hiking in with wife and kid to prospect for yellowcake uranium and indian stuff. Didn't really spot it until we were a stone's throw from it.
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goatboy smellz
climber
लघिमा
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Aug 27, 2014 - 06:19pm PT
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Cowboy, feel free to post more of this goodness.
This place is lacking in desert towers.
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thebravecowboy
climber
strugglin' to make time to climb
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Aug 27, 2014 - 06:56pm PT
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just the usual stuff, you know, poking around alone in the uranium-vanadium zones, prospecting fer virginal choss towers.
thank you for the reminder of where my heart lives whilst I am stuck on the dark side of the Divide.
wingate is not wingate is not wingate
Thank you bvb, seriously, I needed a reminder that my little castles made of sand are not mine alone, nor am I the first, nor will they (all, at least) crumble before I can get back to them.
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KabalaArch
Trad climber
Starlite, California
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Aug 27, 2014 - 07:02pm PT
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OP - Islet in the Sky, I think.
I understand.
I just don't care.
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goatboy smellz
climber
लघिमा
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Aug 27, 2014 - 07:15pm PT
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Several do-able lines, the left-most being most sustained and potentially sexually classic.
I have the weirdest bonar right now for the one on the far right.
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benkiessel
Trad climber
Gunnison, Co
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Looks like the tower at the bottom of Spring Canyon to me.
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looks easy from here
climber
Ben Lomond, CA
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Okay, I give up. What the heck is a "wingate"? Even Google couldn't help me.
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