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Ed Bannister
Mountain climber
Victorville, CA
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Topic Author's Original Post - Dec 12, 2005 - 09:40pm PT
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Post a pic of your favorite peak, I lack the tech tonight but thought a little positive would be nice here!
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Gary
climber
Desolation Basin, Calif.
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Dec 12, 2005 - 09:49pm PT
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Not bad, Jody. But how about
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Karl Baba
Trad climber
Yosemite, Ca
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Dec 12, 2005 - 10:46pm PT
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Dhauligiri
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Gary
climber
Desolation Basin, Calif.
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Dec 12, 2005 - 11:14pm PT
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Jody: Hey, a couple of hours after I took that pic, the weather was worse than in yours...I still win. :)
I lose again!
Hey, a couple of hours after I took my pic, it was beautiful and sunny! Humphreys is a beautiful peak, and that just happens to be the best shot of it I have. My favorite breakfast spot in Bishop is the Western Kitchen, only because it has a view of Humphreys out the front window.
Now if it had a view of Dhauligiri...
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Ouch!
climber
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Dec 13, 2005 - 12:14am PT
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NinjaChimp
climber
Davis, CA
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Dec 13, 2005 - 02:21am PT
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Jody, Where is that lovely shot of yours and how big are those boulders by the lake?
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KarlP
Social climber
Queensland, NorCal, Iceland
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Dec 13, 2005 - 07:33am PT
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Where is that one of ouch's? I don't recognise that road at all.
Three of my favourites
Tibrogargan, Crookneck and Beerwah, along with a few of their friends.
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KarlP
Social climber
Queensland, NorCal, Iceland
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Dec 13, 2005 - 07:46am PT
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and one more, something in north america for a change...
One of the Arrigetch peaks
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matty
Big Wall climber
Valencia, CA
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Dec 13, 2005 - 12:09pm PT
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This one is always easy on the eyes-
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Gary
climber
Desolation Basin, Calif.
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Dec 13, 2005 - 01:42pm PT
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Alpamayo alwyas seems to be the consensus winner.
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Hootervillian
climber
Hooterville
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Dec 13, 2005 - 01:45pm PT
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matty,!
my wallpaper has just been updated.
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Patrick Sawyer
climber
Originally California now Ireland
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Dec 13, 2005 - 01:47pm PT
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Far too many, but okay, I'll play, it's tie between Alpamayo and Machupuchare.
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Ouch!
climber
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Dec 13, 2005 - 01:52pm PT
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KarlP, thaat is in Canada. From really old slides that turned all purple.
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matty
Big Wall climber
Valencia, CA
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Dec 13, 2005 - 02:11pm PT
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Hooter- if you want that pic at full resolution I can email you one. It's much better looking.
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Polar Sun
Trad climber
Joshua Tree
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Dec 13, 2005 - 02:29pm PT
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Cerro Torre after a winter storm. Unbelievable sight,
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Mr Knucklehead
Mountain climber
that unmarked van in front of your house
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Dec 13, 2005 - 03:21pm PT
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"Jody, Where is that lovely shot of yours and how big are those boulders by the lake?"
looks like Seven Gables. Maybe taken by Vee lake? Great photo!!
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Hootervillian
climber
Hooterville
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Dec 13, 2005 - 03:25pm PT
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i'd appreciate that. or maybe i can just pretend i'm there with my foggy, scratchy goggles on.
thanks, i'm high speed...
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Karl Baba
Trad climber
Yosemite, Ca
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Dec 13, 2005 - 06:08pm PT
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Gary suggested that I put this over here
Bear Creek Spire
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scuffy b
climber
S Cruz
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Dec 13, 2005 - 07:16pm PT
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Gene Fisher:
I agree that Cerro Torre is awesome and beautiful,
but do you really mean after a Winter storm?
Like July or August?
I always thought people went there in the Summer (e.g. January)
so they could experience conditions that were only as bad
as "typical" Winter conditions.
Please fill me in.
sm
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Gary
climber
Desolation Basin, Calif.
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Dec 13, 2005 - 08:25pm PT
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Bear Creek Spire is beeyoootiful, for sure. I don't have a picture, but BCS as seen from Julius Caesar is mind bending. The U-shaped ridge connecting them would make even Peter Croft pucker at the thought of the traverse.
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Gary
climber
Desolation Basin, Calif.
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Dec 13, 2005 - 08:34pm PT
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Jody, I only saw it from the top of JC. That is very similar. I have no idea if anyone has ever done that traverse, but it made my spine tingle looking at it.
I'll try to find a picture. Where was that picture taken from?
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can't say
Social climber
Pasadena CA
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Dec 13, 2005 - 09:21pm PT
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Hey Alpspitz, how about your namesake?
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Ed Bannister
Mountain climber
Victorville, CA
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Topic Author's Reply - Dec 13, 2005 - 11:06pm PT
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can't say? Alpspitz is not one place, but any peak in the alps.
Pasadena area used to be a home to many climbers, Maurer, Bosson, Mari, even the guy with the most peaks, Norm Kingsley lived in LaCanada, so can't say, if I am Ed, then who are you?
KARL!!! everyone has posted really beeyooteeful stuff and thanks go out to all, but yours is exceptional.
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Gary
climber
Desolation Basin, Calif.
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Dec 13, 2005 - 11:45pm PT
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Jody, that does it. I'm headed back to Italy Pass this year and get a picture from the summit of JC.
Granite Park is worth revisiting, anyway.
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can't say
Social climber
Pasadena CA
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Dec 13, 2005 - 11:58pm PT
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Whatever Alpspitz, but that's the name of that peak in Garmisch and I looked at it every morning I woke up there for five years.
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Wonder
climber
WA
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Dec 14, 2005 - 01:57am PT
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F - canada. i been all the way to dawson, its no good except for mushroom picking. I vote Himmies,
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Ed Hartouni
Trad climber
Livermore, CA
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Dec 14, 2005 - 02:23am PT
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one of my favorite places in the world,
in Canada, eh...
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Ed Hartouni
Trad climber
Livermore, CA
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Dec 14, 2005 - 02:23am PT
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in the States....
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Ed Hartouni
Trad climber
Livermore, CA
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Dec 14, 2005 - 02:24am PT
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and in the same area as above:
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Ed Bannister
Mountain climber
Victorville, CA
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Topic Author's Reply - Dec 14, 2005 - 08:52am PT
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OK, Can't, you are correct. It's both a peak, and a generalization. Und weil du funf Jahre in Garmish gewohnt hast, darf ich annehmen dass du auch Deutsch kanst? Oder aber hast du in Partenkirchen gewohnt und wir sind alle gesandbagged?
and... if you really can't say, and you live in Pasadena, was your dad a dentist?
JODY!!
Lots of great pics from everybody, but we must acknowledge, Jody is cool, a real giver, and first to post!
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Patrick Sawyer
climber
Originally California now Ireland
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Dec 14, 2005 - 09:01am PT
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Can't Say, that is Alpspitze with an e on the end. Alpspitz is probably just saying that without the e then it means any peak in the Alps.
Some great pix on this thread, again Jody you show that you have a knack for photography, although Ed and Karl - and others - also are excellent photographers.
GrandMastaD, I have always wanted to climb that peak but I think it is off limits for religious or spiritual reasons or something like that.
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KarlP
Social climber
Queensland, NorCal, Iceland
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Dec 14, 2005 - 09:22am PT
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Ed, I saw the bugs on your first pic, but where are the "american" ones?
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Gary
climber
Desolation Basin, Calif.
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Dec 14, 2005 - 10:27am PT
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Jody, JC is not hard to find at all. Head out of Pine Creek, make a right at Honeymoon Lake, and another right at Italy Pass. Can't miss it. The guys you met were definitely doing it a more interesting way. The storm must have stopped them.
Nice photos of the area, by the way.
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Ed Hartouni
Trad climber
Livermore, CA
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Dec 14, 2005 - 11:28am PT
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Wind River Range, Cirque of the Towers...
first one is Pingora (the 50 crowded climbs East Face) and the second is Warrior (which has a very impressive Beckey 5.9 on it).
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can't say
Social climber
Pasadena CA
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Dec 14, 2005 - 12:19pm PT
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Alpspitz, I was stationed in Garmisch while I was in the Army. I worked as a skipatrolman and climbing instructor/guide in the early 70s and later in the mid 80s. Sorry I can't respond in German, but like my math skills, my language skills also suck. I guess I was around too many Mericans.
It was kind of cool and a bunch of us have a reunion ever year at some gigungus ski resort for 3 days of drinking and skiing. Though these days its more skiing then drinking. My time in Garmisch associtated with the military made the movie MASH, look like a full-on drama.
Here's the link for our bunch http://afrcski.com/
We had a few core dudes like Dave Stutzman, RIP, and Jessie Gurthrie who were around then.
Patrick, until I saw his fluency in German, I assumed his user name was merely a Merican's understanding of the language.
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Jacek
Mountain climber
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Dec 14, 2005 - 01:49pm PT
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Karl Baba
Trad climber
Yosemite, Ca
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Dec 14, 2005 - 03:42pm PT
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That point thang above is beautiful
here's Annapurna
and, a personal favorite just cause it's the heart of Yosemite
peace
Karl
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Patrick Sawyer
climber
Originally California now Ireland
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Dec 14, 2005 - 04:22pm PT
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Jacek, what is the peak? Karl, I should know but haven't been home in years - what's the peak? Gawd, it's so familiar but the name escapes me.
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Jaybro
Social climber
The West
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Dec 14, 2005 - 05:00pm PT
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Nice stuff!; Karl, Jody (the moon!), ed,gary. Marty, Janek.
Any photos of Mt Clark? If that's the right peak, fin-like deal south of little yose?
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Karl Baba
Trad climber
Yosemite, Ca
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Dec 14, 2005 - 05:26pm PT
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Mount Clark from my Sunset Gallery
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Patrick Sawyer
climber
Originally California now Ireland
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Dec 14, 2005 - 05:28pm PT
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Jaysus, how stupid of me. I've climbed Cathedral twice back in the mid-1970s, and to think I couldn't recognise it. Either I'm I'm going to jump of the Cliffs of Moher or make my way back home to climb it again to refresh my memory.
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Jacek
Mountain climber
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Dec 14, 2005 - 05:48pm PT
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That's Laila peak in Pakistan.
Lots of beautiful peaks there. What about the shining wall of Gasherbrum IV, with it's stunning contrast of white marble and black diorite - a must see in the evening light:
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rradakovits
Sport climber
san diego
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Dec 14, 2005 - 08:39pm PT
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kailash, the holy mountain
officially never climbed
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Wonder
climber
WA
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Dec 15, 2005 - 01:08am PT
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all right, ill change my vote. Cathedral. been there. its beautiful, from the bottom to the top.
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Ron Olsen
Trad climber
Boulder Colorado
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Dec 15, 2005 - 03:52am PT
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Tre Cime de Lavaredo after a storm.
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Ed Hartouni
Trad climber
Livermore, CA
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Dec 16, 2005 - 12:39am PT
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North Face of the Grand Teton
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EdBannister
Mountain climber
13,000 feet
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Sep 10, 2018 - 08:25pm PT
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Sep 10, 2018 - 08:31pm PT
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hailman
Trad climber
Ventura, CA
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Sep 10, 2018 - 08:59pm PT
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Bear Creek Spire is beeyoootiful, for sure. I don't have a picture, but BCS as seen from Julius Caesar is mind bending. The U-shaped ridge connecting them would make even Peter Croft pucker at the thought of the traverse.
Here's a shot of BCS from Julius Caesar:
didn't catch the ridge, though.
Can I vote for the entire Sierra Crest above the Owens Valley?!
Magical........and many others take better pictures than me! Post up!
Or maybe Lone Pine Peak? The casual visitor's Mt Whitney?
Also, some of those Cascades peaks. Mt Shuksan took my breath away from the Baker Ski Area.
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EdBannister
Mountain climber
13,000 feet
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Sep 10, 2018 - 09:32pm PT
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ahh Jody i was hoping you would post this...
i looked up this old thread because i saw your earlier post..
gorgeous!!
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hailman
Trad climber
Ventura, CA
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Sep 10, 2018 - 09:59pm PT
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^^^^ Wow, Jody. that is sublime...it almost looks like Mt Humphreys, although seems a bit different. What peak is it?
PS. I gotta have more glaciers!
Think someone had Mt Clark upthread too:
bit smoky that day but still nice.
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onyourleft
climber
So Oregon
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Sep 10, 2018 - 11:04pm PT
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Scole
Trad climber
Zapopan
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Sep 11, 2018 - 07:30am PT
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These are some of my favorites
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Capt.
climber
some eastside hovel
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Sep 11, 2018 - 07:31am PT
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Cerro Torre is definitely spectacular. Stupid phone shot from last February.
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AP
Trad climber
Calgary
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Sep 11, 2018 - 08:10am PT
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Ama Dablam is breathtaking and maybe the most beautiful peak I have seen.
I have never been to the Karakorum though.
What would Donini's vote be?
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Capt.
climber
some eastside hovel
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Sep 11, 2018 - 08:12am PT
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The Cuernos in Paine aren't too shabby to look at either.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Sep 11, 2018 - 08:28am PT
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How about smokin’ glaciers?
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ydpl8s
Trad climber
Santa Monica, California
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Sep 11, 2018 - 12:49pm PT
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Some look beeyoutiful from the top. (you may recognize this from RMNP)
Not my pic, taken from mp a long time ago, I apologize in advance if this is your amazing shot.
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donini
Trad climber
Ouray, Colorado
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Sep 11, 2018 - 02:12pm PT
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Sep 11, 2018 - 02:40pm PT
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Nice selection, bitchin' in fact, Jim, most of which don't need captioning.
Aside from your skills at climbing and trolling, you've a good eye and know your way around the camera.
Thanks for sharing these beeeyooteeful peaks.
Thanks go to all o' you posters.
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tradmanclimbs
Ice climber
Pomfert VT
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Sep 11, 2018 - 04:01pm PT
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Donnini is cheating ;) Pretty darn near impossible to top those images..... though I do kind of like this one :)
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EdBannister
Mountain climber
13,000 feet
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Sep 11, 2018 - 04:50pm PT
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Donini,
those are spectacular...
Never met you, we both climbed with Gordon Brooks a long time ago...
sure do love your photography!!
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wilbeer
Mountain climber
Terence Wilson greeneck alleghenys,ny,
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Sep 11, 2018 - 05:36pm PT
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Nice^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
I am humbled. Eagle Mountain,Dacks
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crøtch
climber
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Sep 11, 2018 - 05:38pm PT
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Donini - What's the name of the mountain in your third photo?
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hailman
Trad climber
Ventura, CA
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Sep 11, 2018 - 07:20pm PT
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Wow this thread took a turn toward the sublime! Thanks all.
PS. Thanks Jody for responding. Always liked Convict Lake area.
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Risk
Mountain climber
Marooned, 855 miles from Tuolumne Meadows
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Sep 11, 2018 - 07:34pm PT
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Mt. Ansel Adams is a favorite.
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limpingcrab
Trad climber
the middle of CA
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Sep 11, 2018 - 09:07pm PT
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Donini, as soon as I saw the title of this thread I thought of that perfect pyramid shape peak you posted. I don’t know what or where it is but ever since I saw the first time you posted it it’s been stuck in my brain.
The old posts on this thread are a good example of why everyone should upload photos to supertopo instead of linking! Not to mention the sizing issues.
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dgbryan
Mountain climber
Hong Kong
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Sep 12, 2018 - 01:16am PT
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Donini's 3rd photo ... I'll hazard Celestial Peak, Siguniang, Sichuan. Spied from afar. Still on the to-do list.
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EdBannister
Mountain climber
13,000 feet
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Sep 12, 2018 - 01:43am PT
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limpingcrab
Trad climber
the middle of CA
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Sep 12, 2018 - 08:34am PT
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Wow, that's definitely a noticeable difference in quality, Jody! Fair point, just make sure you never change your picture hosting site so I can still see the pics next year :)
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MikeL
Social climber
Southern Arizona
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Sep 12, 2018 - 01:49pm PT
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donini for the win.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Sep 12, 2018 - 02:01pm PT
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Yes, but he should credit that Argentine who took the aerials of Fitzroy and Cerro Torre.
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ydpl8s
Trad climber
Santa Monica, California
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Sep 12, 2018 - 02:52pm PT
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Yeah, Donini for sure! I especially like that - Camp on the Biafo - picture, stunning!
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Reeotch
climber
4 Corners Area
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Sep 12, 2018 - 03:01pm PT
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tradmanclimbs
Ice climber
Pomfert VT
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Sep 12, 2018 - 04:08pm PT
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buck mountain is pretty darn cool.
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EdBannister
Mountain climber
13,000 feet
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Sep 12, 2018 - 10:37pm PT
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Reilly??
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Sep 12, 2018 - 11:59pm PT
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You rang?
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neverwas
Mountain climber
ak
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Sep 13, 2018 - 01:04am PT
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ontheedgeandscaredtodeath
Social climber
Wilds of New Mexico
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Sep 13, 2018 - 08:19am PT
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Hiked in and climbed the Wham Ridge on Vestal Peak a couple of summers ago, gorgeous area!
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yeahman
Mountain climber
Montana
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Sep 13, 2018 - 08:56am PT
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ontheedgeandscaredtodeath
Social climber
Wilds of New Mexico
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Sep 13, 2018 - 11:50am PT
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Tetons a couple of weeks ago.
Every time I get my first glimpse of the Tetons driving in they take my breath away!
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