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healyje
Trad climber
Portland, Oregon
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Topic Author's Original Post - Jul 14, 2016 - 02:27am PT
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The Alpine
climber
The Sea
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Jul 14, 2016 - 09:53am PT
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Ahhh, the ol' undercling highstep.
I got tired of that move and eventually migrated over to the north side of that rock.
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skcreidc
Social climber
SD, CA
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Jul 14, 2016 - 10:20am PT
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Kinda cool looking. What rock is that? Thick sequence of welded tuff? Sandstone? Those would be my two guesses.
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donini
Trad climber
Ouray, Colorado
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Jul 14, 2016 - 10:26am PT
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I agree that it is probably Looking Glass. Climbed on the North Face a few years ago, steeper no eyebrows....The Womb, Cornflake Crack.
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ydpl8s
Trad climber
Santa Monica, California
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Jul 14, 2016 - 10:30am PT
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Looking down from above "where did all those buckets go?"
edit: ^^^"eyebrows" great description.
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skcreidc
Social climber
SD, CA
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Jul 14, 2016 - 10:31am PT
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Certainly looks like a match...then Looking Glass Rock is a pluton monolith in the Appalachian Mountains of western North Carolina. That'd make it a "granite" of some sort. Wild weathering pattern on that one face.
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donini
Trad climber
Ouray, Colorado
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Jul 14, 2016 - 10:47am PT
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Yep, the locals call them eyebrows. The climbing on that face isn't very steep but it's way run out.
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healyje
Trad climber
Portland, Oregon
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Topic Author's Reply - Jul 14, 2016 - 10:52am PT
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Looking Glass - looks like a giant kicked steps in it...never been but would like to sometime.
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skcreidc
Social climber
SD, CA
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Jul 14, 2016 - 11:25am PT
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Only pro is in the "eyebrows"? Other areas around the pluton seem to have dihedrals and various cracks. Looks like fun!
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healyje
Trad climber
Portland, Oregon
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Topic Author's Reply - Jul 14, 2016 - 02:53pm PT
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Any geologist about who can explain these features?
Anyone see the same elsewhere?
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madbolter1
Big Wall climber
Denver, CO
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Jul 14, 2016 - 03:35pm PT
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looks like a giant kicked steps in it
The Nephilim did it. PROOF that the Bible is true (or at least the book of Enoch is).
I'm telling ya (or at least Klimmer is).
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Alpamayo
Trad climber
Davis, CA
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Jul 14, 2016 - 03:43pm PT
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Yep, looking glass eyebrows. Granite. Fun climbing. Tricams and offset cams work pretty well. The north side has some awesome steeper climbs and some aid routes.
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guyman
Social climber
Moorpark, CA.
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Jul 14, 2016 - 03:54pm PT
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Are those "Sport Climbs"?????
Or. "Mixed"???
I'm confused
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skcreidc
Social climber
SD, CA
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Jul 14, 2016 - 05:27pm PT
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Healyje, these features are caused by differential mineral weathering. I have never hear of the place much less been there, but I would guess mica is one of the minerals involved. The parallel orientation of the pockets suggests to me that the pluton possibly incorporated some of the surrounding country rock during emplacement (metemorphic rock that was there when the "liquid" pluton was forceibly emplaced into it). These pockets may be xenoliths that have differentially weathered out if that is the case.
I am only guessing though. Another place to go visit!
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donini
Trad climber
Ouray, Colorado
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Jul 14, 2016 - 07:20pm PT
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The eyebrows are unique but the best climbing is on the steeper north face. They are definetly old scool in NC, a state where 37% of the natives have never been more than 20 miles from their birthplace.
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madbolter1
Big Wall climber
Denver, CO
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Jul 14, 2016 - 09:05pm PT
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Nephilim, I tell ya. Nephilim.
How isn't is obvious to y'all?
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healyje
Trad climber
Portland, Oregon
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Topic Author's Reply - Jul 14, 2016 - 09:38pm PT
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Well, the NC crew was always among the boldest and most interesting climbers I'd ever met.
Thanks skcreidc!
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The Alpine
climber
The Sea
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Jul 15, 2016 - 08:16am PT
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Its not all slabs!
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Mike Bolte
Trad climber
Planet Earth
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Jul 15, 2016 - 09:10am PT
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Bill Frey and I climbed up to the first belay on Sundial Crack on that wall in 1976 or so. I headed up and left on a new line between the Nose and Sundial Crack confident that some of those eyebrows would have a place for opposed nuts in the back (pre cams) and afford a good stance and rest. 100ft up, of continuous 5.8/5.9 climbing with one poor nut for pro, and calves cramping the relentless sloping edges, I finally decided to reverse that long series of highsteps.
Glad to have survived that day.
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