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Brandon-
climber
The Granite State.
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Topic Author's Original Post - Sep 26, 2012 - 12:32pm PT
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I don't have much to offer. I've just been on the beaten track. Middle of nowhere Utah I guess is the farthest removed I've been.
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donini
Trad climber
Ouray, Colorado
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Sep 26, 2012 - 12:38pm PT
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Either a previously unexplored glacier in the Vinson Massiff of Anarctica or an unclimbed Tepui (Autana) in a remote, boat only access, part of the Orinoco River Basin in Venezuela.
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survival
Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
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Sep 26, 2012 - 12:41pm PT
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Alaska Range, Patagonia, SW Saudi Arabia, Cyprus, China and bumfuk New Mexico is about as good as I can do bro!
Actually, in terms of climbers, that Southwest Saudi Arabia gig was further afield than anywhere I've been. I know there are people here who have climbed in AK and Pata, but nobody I bet has climbed technical rock in the Asir Mountains with baboons watching!
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WBraun
climber
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Sep 26, 2012 - 12:45pm PT
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I made it down to the cookie cliff once .......
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Brandon-
climber
The Granite State.
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Topic Author's Reply - Sep 26, 2012 - 12:46pm PT
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Pictures help.
I just went through my mental list and realized I've only been to fifteen countries. Seems like a trip is in order soon...
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nature
climber
Boulder, CO
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Sep 26, 2012 - 12:57pm PT
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Vampire Spires, NWT Canada
Thailand wasn't that remote - you could belay from the steps of a bar.
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Batrock
Trad climber
Burbank
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Sep 26, 2012 - 01:31pm PT
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Nabisco Canyon, in winter conditions.
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JEleazarian
Trad climber
Fresno CA
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Sep 26, 2012 - 02:04pm PT
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Bouldering in the Bekaa Valley, in Lebanon in 1970. If I tried that now, I'd end up a hostage.
John
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Dirka
Trad climber
SF
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Sep 26, 2012 - 02:38pm PT
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Table mtn. South africa. Beautiful! Dislocared ankle and my birthday. One of the beat days ever!
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Mungeclimber
Trad climber
the crowd MUST BE MOCKED...Mocked I tell you.
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Sep 26, 2012 - 02:50pm PT
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Gritstone
Felt like Joe Brown must have felt on a dry afternoon climbing up some handcracks and boulder problems solo on a biz trip.
Really great time there and to see those huge millstones just laying about was way cool.
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k-man
Gym climber
SCruz
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Sep 26, 2012 - 02:55pm PT
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I climbed in Wyoming once.
Tell me that place ain't far flung...
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Bruce Morris
Social climber
Belmont, California
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Sep 26, 2012 - 02:59pm PT
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The old rock quarry on Crystal Springs Road in San Mateo while I was sophomore in high school. Bet that 'remote' site has never been popular!
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MisterE
Social climber
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Sep 26, 2012 - 03:23pm PT
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Buildering in Kyoto, Japan.
2 hour drive to Ross Lake, then a 45 minute water taxi ride to a trail-head drop-off, then a two-day hike in to do a 24-pitch 5.11 first ascent.
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TwistedCrank
climber
Dingleberry Gulch, Ideeho
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Sep 26, 2012 - 03:29pm PT
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Rio de los Patos, Tucumán Province, Argentine Puna.
Windgate-like splitters in welded tuff at 4200 meters. Takes your breath away and gives you wind-burn.
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ydpl8s
Trad climber
Santa Monica, California
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Sep 26, 2012 - 04:38pm PT
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Some fine igneous crags in P(B)usan Korea
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can't say
Social climber
Pasadena CA
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Sep 26, 2012 - 04:44pm PT
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Tassie
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Gunkie
Trad climber
East Coast US
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Sep 26, 2012 - 06:22pm PT
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Oklahoma, Mt Baldy (when shitty 1/4" bolts were considered bomber)
In Tokyo right now and might stay over the weekend. Maybe I'll find something better than the crappy top-roping I did 20 years ago near Kamakura.
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nature
climber
Boulder, CO
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Sep 26, 2012 - 06:30pm PT
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^^^^--- yes, it did!
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Don Paul
Big Wall climber
Colombia, South America
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Sep 26, 2012 - 06:30pm PT
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I hate to admit this, but there doesn't seem to be any rock climbing in Colombia. Sure there are the Andes mtns and a lot of it is above tree line but I guess because of the guerrilla and drug trafficking violence it just never became popular to go on extreme backcountry climbing trips. Well one of my old buddies wants to go climb on the Pan de Azucar crag, it's about 200 feet high band, at about 15,000'. Basically looks like a limestone sport crag with snow at the base. Is this really the best I can do for him? I know there is some serious climbing down in Peru, and I bet there are walls there too, but that's actually far away. Ecuador has a pretty good backpacker scene, but I don't know of any rock climbing worth the trip. I wonder if its possible to find backcountry crags with google earth? The Andes are serious mountains, but I don't know where to start.
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Ghost
climber
A long way from where I started
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Sep 26, 2012 - 06:33pm PT
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Locker said:
Ghost Rocks...
Thanks. I'm glad someone thinks so.
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Brandon-
climber
The Granite State.
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Topic Author's Reply - Sep 26, 2012 - 06:41pm PT
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I've always wanted to go to Jordan or Morocco to climb.
Not really far flung, but I'm sure it's far enough out there to make me happy.
Or Kinabalu.
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Fat Dad
Trad climber
Los Angeles, CA
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Sep 26, 2012 - 07:49pm PT
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Dang, never made it to Wadi Rum. Petra, yes. Wadi Rum, no. Some day, and I do mean that. (Edit: and it's in Jordan, not Morocco).
In terms of the OP's question, I'm not sure if bouldering counts. I've hit random boulders and cliff bands--some great, some choss--all over: Jordan, the Sinai Peninsula, Aswan, the Atlas Mts., Nepal, Thailand, Finland, France, Britain (England and Wales), Italy. Those last two involved a good bit of roped stuff. Most of that I'd trade for a solid trip to Patagonia or the Alps. Just too much good stuff out there.
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Andy Fielding
Trad climber
UK
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Sep 26, 2012 - 08:00pm PT
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Darlington Boulders near Perth, Western Australia. I wandered around for hours through the bush until almost by accident I stumbled upon them. Not the easiest crag to find in the world.
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divad
Trad climber
wmass
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Sep 26, 2012 - 08:18pm PT
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Sleepy Hollow
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TWP
Trad climber
Mancos, CO
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Sep 26, 2012 - 08:30pm PT
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Vang Vieng, Laos.
It was a total stoner party town even then (2005 or so) but I hired a Lao climber who took me "bouldering" for a day. We walked around the countryside and I saw incredibly poor, malnourished people during our rambling. We walked through a cave passage that created a shortcut instead of following along a river. The climbing wasn't worth the effort.
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Gene
climber
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Sep 26, 2012 - 08:38pm PT
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Not actually climbing – more jungle slogging than anything – but I once walked across the island of Savaii (Samoa) in a day via Mt. Sili Sili, the highest summit in the archipelago. About a Grade III+, J3. Mandatory gear: machete.
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paganmonkeyboy
climber
mars...it's near nevada...
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Sep 26, 2012 - 09:07pm PT
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the people's republic of boulder...
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Kenygl
Trad climber
Salt Lake City
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Sep 26, 2012 - 09:11pm PT
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Point perpendicular NSW Australia
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tiki-jer
Trad climber
fresno/clovis
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Sep 26, 2012 - 10:45pm PT
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Somewhere in the Drakensburg, South Africa........Mt Kinabalu, Borneo......Girl's Floor at a Singapore Hostel....and bouldering in Curacao looking at Venezuela.
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Melissa
Gym climber
berkeley, ca
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Sep 26, 2012 - 11:48pm PT
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A really tall gym in Edinburgh and about two rainy hours at Stanage Edge.
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Fritz
Trad climber
Choss Creek, ID
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Sep 27, 2012 - 12:39am PT
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I only climbed up the trail.
One of many 19,000-21,000 Ft. peaks in Mustang Nepal.
From our campsite at 12,000 Ft.
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karodrinker
Trad climber
San Jose, CA
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Sep 27, 2012 - 01:15am PT
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Wow what a cool thread. Sh#t, I need to get out more! I really just stick to stuff I can drive to. Farthest Drive for climbing is Red Rocks from San Jose.
Brandon, 15 countries is a lot man, considering that most people in this world never leave home. I'll bet you are in the top 1 percent of world travelers!
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Delhi Dog
climber
Good Question...
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Sep 27, 2012 - 01:54am PT
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Hmm, Wadi Rum-check though I wish I had more time there...a return is in order, sure felt remote at times
Thailand- check (agreed that the bar seat isn't quite remote though the longer I sat there the more remote I felt)
Oman-check fairly remote in a couple places, not so in others
Border of Nepal and India along the Kali River-check fairly remote if the time to get there counts (lots of other "remote" river canyon bouldering/tr'ing in India + Nepal
Ladhak, India-check fairly remote
Alaska-check though just along the road so probably knott remote
BC- bugs-check, not so remote
Burma bouldering-check, remote probably but if there are people watching wondering what the heck are you doing that probably doesn't count
Sri Lanka-check probably knott remote ^^ see Burma
Vietnam- check though now probably knott so remote
Wyoming-check, at times when those sheep are looking cute
I'll have to dig for photos
Now fly fishing...that's another story:-)
cheers
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ß Î Ø T Ç H
Boulder climber
bouldering
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Sep 27, 2012 - 02:27am PT
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... a two day hike in to do a 24 pitch 5.11 first ascent.
I plead no contest.
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Guangzhou
Trad climber
Asia, Indonesia, East Java
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Sep 27, 2012 - 03:04am PT
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Not my most remote, but sure felt committed at the time. My mother tried to have me committed when I told her about the trip.
While living in China, four of us decided to visit Gualiang Village. Gualiang Village was isolated until a series of hand carved tunnels were built in the mountainside. (Forget how many years the process took.) The windows in the side of the tunnel were where the carvers would throw the rock out to clear the way. An amazing feat for sure.
From what we had read and heard, it should have been a fairly straightforward and easy trip, but it was China and thing are not always what they seem. We knew a couple other climbers had explored the region and claimed that the area had fantastic climbing possibility too.
Gualiang is located in Henan Province, the Taihang Mountains specifically, and should take about 3 hours to reach from Xingxian but took us almost eight hours because of a tunnel collapse. We were lucky; the collapse happened a couple days before we passed through, no one knows how many died inside. This was nearly ten years ago.
With the tunnel collapse, we had to squirt the mountain via dirt road on a very overloaded bus. One passenger had a couple of chicken and a goat with him, this didn’t help the situation any. About half way around the mountain, our bus driver saw an opportunity and decided to stop the bus near bee farmers. Riders had a choice, pay extra because of the extra fuel cost, or get off the bus and hitch hike. My girl friend at the time, and my buddy’s girlfriend were both Chinese and protested, but my buddy and I convinced them it wasn’t the best place to piss off the driver. We negotiated a fee that was half what the driver initially ask for, roughly $1.50 per person. This cause the other passenger to ask for a refund of 50%, they threatened to tip the bus over if no refund was provided. Money returned, we moved onwards.
Guoliang has about 200 inhabitants, many growing apricots. Decades ago, the Guoliang Tunnel was carved along the side of and through to make the village accessible. Today, the area is a tourist destination, we were early tourist in the cycle, and many of the villagers were seeing white skin for the first time. We feasted on apricot dishes, and some other foods that to this day I can’t identify, neither could my girlfriend at the time. Some was delicious, other ….
What we found from a climbing point of view was a lifetime of first ascent on clean and mostly solid rock. Of the 10 or so first ascents we did, only two had loose rock worth mentioning. Routes will range from 7 to 20 pitches there. In the main valley, you can climb from the ground and reach the village at the top. On the tunnel side, we stopped at tunnel or road height because we had no bolts for the rappels above.
If you go, bring a bolt kit, even a drill. They were some great looking cracks that started about 40 or 50 feet up with no protection to reach them. Definitely climbable, but to difficult for me to climb unprotected. We did lower/rappel from the tunnel at one point to climb two glorious pitches back up.
While there we found two other valley with almost as much rock. Endless cracks await climbers willing to venture there. Local villagers now have turn their house into excellent bed and breakfast, a week there would cost you less them 60 USD including breakfast and dinner.
We visited the region in Late July/August; I was as schoolteacher so limited. Fall would be much better for sure. If you go, keep in mind, no local hospitals, no rescue, and crap roads.
On our way back, we decide to use an alternate route, but that’s a all other adventure and story.
Eman
I'll post photos later, but you can google Gualiang Tunnel China to see plenty of images.
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steveA
Trad climber
bedford,massachusetts
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Sep 27, 2012 - 06:14am PT
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Vietnam and Blue Mountains-Australia
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RP3
Big Wall climber
El Portal/Chapel Hill
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Sep 27, 2012 - 09:17am PT
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Beach bouldering in Michoacan, Mexico
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Delhi Dog
climber
Good Question...
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Sep 27, 2012 - 09:22am PT
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cool tale Guangzhou.
Sounds like a place to go!
cheers
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John Duffield
Mountain climber
New York
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Sep 27, 2012 - 04:33pm PT
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Hard to say. I've done a few. Some of the islands off the coast of China are/were pretty remote. Africa, Asia, South America. Loads of places
This looks pretty remote. India, near Pakistan. The Hindu Kush. Pick something to climb.
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Sierra Ledge Rat
Mountain climber
Old and Broken Down in Appalachia
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Sep 27, 2012 - 05:45pm PT
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For me it was the Wadi Rum, Jordan, this past March 2012
Jordanians are very friendly, kind and generous. It's their neighbors that you gotta worry about.
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the Fet
climber
Tu-Tok-A-Nu-La
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Sep 27, 2012 - 05:57pm PT
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Long Dong. (Dragon Cave) in Taiwan.
Not my photos:
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Guangzhou
Trad climber
Asia, Indonesia, East Java
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Sep 27, 2012 - 10:54pm PT
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Jordan and Morocco are two places I am dying to visit and climb.
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MH2
climber
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Sep 28, 2012 - 12:12am PT
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That would be Blouberg in South Africa. We had no useful information. It's big but we had more trouble finding it than we did getting up and down it. This is on the way there:
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Fat Dad
Trad climber
Los Angeles, CA
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Sep 28, 2012 - 01:00am PT
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The Jordanians are very friendly and open towards Westerners, despite how really Islamic that country is, particularly when compared to some of their neighbors. Likely a legacy of King Hussein and King Abdullah. I need to go back not just to check out Wadi Rum, but to explore more of the fantastic canyons in Petra, visit the Dead Sea, check out some fortresses from the Crusades and visit the Roman ruins of Jerash.
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Scole
Trad climber
Joshua Tree
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Sep 28, 2012 - 01:37am PT
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Coupla new towers on the edge of the Sahara a three hr camel ride s.e. of Fes al Bali, Morocco
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Sierra Ledge Rat
Mountain climber
Old and Broken Down in Appalachia
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Sep 28, 2012 - 01:58am PT
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...but to explore more of the fantastic canyons in Petra, visit the Dead Sea, check out some fortresses from the Crusades and visit the Roman ruins of Jerash...
The 5,000-year old Bronze-age city of Jawa, on the Syrian border
The 7,000-year old black basalt Castle Burqu (Qasr Burqu), one of the most remote castles of the Roman empire
Miles and miles of unclimbed walls in the Wadi Rum...
Caves in the vast lava fields of Jordan, Syria and Saudia Arabia (from the 15th International Symposium on Vulcanospeleology in March 2012)
And the Jordanian food is delicious, healthy and wholesome.
Jordan is a great place to travel.
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Fletcher
Trad climber
Fumbling towards stone
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Sep 28, 2012 - 02:41am PT
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A bunch of places in Hong Kong, but Tung Lung Island is probably the most obscure. Only way to get there was on a ferry that looks like a barge that's going to sink soon and was tied up at some random dog-eared pier near Tai Koo Shing. $20 HKD though for a deal (about US $2.75). And I think that was round trip!
Then you get to the island, which has not much on it. Remote and out there feeling but some nice routes.
Eric
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Guangzhou
Trad climber
Asia, Indonesia, East Java
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Sep 28, 2012 - 02:47am PT
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Tung Lung island is nice, but I always felt more remote climbing the Basalt cracks at Waterfall rock. Especially on Saturdays and Sundays.
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Brandon-
climber
The Granite State.
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Topic Author's Reply - Sep 28, 2012 - 11:02am PT
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Radical, drop me a line if you pull the trigger on a Jordan trip. Timing is everything, if the timing is right, I'll let you be my ropegun. :)
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fgw
climber
portland, or
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Sep 28, 2012 - 12:03pm PT
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Tsaranoro in Madagascar...local climber atop a 5c pitch. Apparently they have no issues soloing up to 6a+ (rumor is...harder too)
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FinnMaCoul
Trad climber
Green Mountains, Vermont
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Sep 28, 2012 - 12:43pm PT
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Tahune Face, Frenchman's Cap, Franklin-Gordon Wild Rivers National Park, Tasmania. Felt like being on the edge of the world.
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Branscomb
Trad climber
Lander, WY
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Sep 28, 2012 - 12:48pm PT
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Two of us made an attempt on the Harvard Route on Mt. St. Elias one time in the 80s. We were the only people on the mountain that year. I think that is the wildest place I've ever been.
When we were flown out, had to go out one at a time because the snow field was so soft. I was flown out first down to Icy Bay and dropped off while he went back to pick up my partner before the snow got too soft. He called a friend of his to fly down from Cape Yagataga and ferry me into Yakutat, but the fog rolled in and he couldn't land. Spent some time on that beach listening to the ice bergs clinking away. Probably the only person for hundreds of miles along that coast.
I think Wrangall-St. Elias is maybe the wildest place left in North America. There are a lot of peaks out there that have never been climbed to this day because of their remote nature.
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Jan
Mountain climber
Okinawa, Japan
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Sep 28, 2012 - 02:02pm PT
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The most remote place I've been is Menlung La Pass on the border between Nepal and Tibet. It lies on the north side of the Rolwaling Valley, east of Gauri Shankar, and is very heavily crevassed. The day we were there we had problems with a thin 2 inch crust above deep powder. To keep from sinking up to our waists, we had to crawl like crabs the last few hundred feet.
When we got to the top, we spotted a Chinese border patrol igloo down the other side, so we took photos quickly and descended back down toward the Nepal side. If something had gone wrong, the Rolwaling Sherpas would have come looking for us after a day or so and could have drug us down to an altitude where a helicopter could fly. That would have required a runner going to the nearest Nepalese checkpost 2 days away whose radio may or may not have been working. Fortunately we had no mishaps.
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Michelle
Trad climber
the f*#king peninsula.
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Sep 28, 2012 - 04:55pm PT
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real climbing? lol, Franklin Mts State Park . not real climbing? the freaking training towers in the Army. no photos. sorry
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KabalaArch
Trad climber
Starlite, California
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Sep 28, 2012 - 05:43pm PT
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The old rock quarry on Crystal Springs Road in San Mateo while I was sophomore in high school. Bet that 'remote' site has never been popular!
Sawyer Cyn Rd?
100 mgs damnitol, Bruce! We at Mills thought we were alone. Learned to rap off of the newly built N. Crystal Springs Reservoir Bridge, whilst bike-hiking to our Secret Beach, N of usgs LM “Poppy Point.” Ever ride that old flume between Andreas and N Crystal?
You must have gone to Aragon, all of which SMUSD H.S.'s were constructed to the same template, including the asbestos siding.
That said, I scored for about the coolest summer job a school kid could ask for: Watershed Worker for the County and City of SF Water Dept. My tasks consisted of: motoring the Dept's Limnologists out onto all of the Reservoirs, conducting dissolved O2 lab tests, Secki Disk Transparency studies, and what have you.
Ever been to the small and obscure Stone Dam, in the Half Moon Bay drainage, Bruce? Or out bluestoning @ Pilarcitos, where the most active branch of the San Andreas telegraphs out to meet the ocean at Devil's Slide? I scored for a key to all of the watershed locks, and, with a '63 MG Midget, I had no intention of hiking any of those killer roads!
SF maintains a cool Chalet up at Hetch Hetchy, with a twin inboard Mercury yacht. What with a plankton bloom coming out of The City's faucet, got to attend to some forensic limnology, from the inlet of HH, to Priest Regulating Reservoir, to Moccasin Re-regulating – the bloom was occurring in the backwash of the Power Plant spillway, we found.
Little known factoid – Moccasin Ck traverses Moccasin Res in a pipeline to the fishery below the reservoir dam, so as not to contaminate SF's water with gold rush era taling outwash.
However the case may be made, I cannot honestly say I've wayfared furthest afield.
But, I am one of 6 who have established the present World's Ultima Thule – I have journeyed to the northernmost land mass yet discovered, just a few minutes S of 84N latitude. Damnest hard place to get to, you've lucky to jump off of Svalbard B4 the DPI bumps you off your chartered Twin Otter.
That's about 350 miles south of the Geographical North Pole, sort of like walking from Mammoth to LA, if our pavement were to be comprised of finger-rafted pack ice, with a rather complex and humbling surface drainage pattern, which did so give pause to Peary, and to Nansen adrift in his Fram, and now so characteristic of what shall become, in our children's lifetime, the “Polar Mediterranean” presciently foreseen in the 1920's. Google “Esquire Mag” for the scoop. ; p
BTW, I've never climbed at the damn Cookie, neither; I got scared off, or too much body English trans: Work, that is. Sorry, face/friction/cash only. Let's go and ketchup.
cu und3r th3 m9t s0n
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philo
Trad climber
Somewhere halfway over the rainbow
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Sep 28, 2012 - 05:57pm PT
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I was climbing...
This flung far...
Does that count or did I misunderstand the question?
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wbw
Trad climber
'cross the great divide
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Sep 28, 2012 - 11:30pm PT
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I've carried my ice gear all over the place on big walks and not found ice, but I think dragging it all the way to Mt. Kenya was the farthest. Went to climb the Window Route, only to find out there was not ice formed. I did get a good afternoon of high quality ice bouldering on a glacier, with a large crowd of Kenyan porters watching me like they'd never seen anything like it. Also got to do a rock route on Mt. Kenya which was pretty cool. Being high on the peak and looking out on the horizon and seeing Kilimanjaro seemed pretty far flung.
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Ghost
climber
A long way from where I started
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Sep 28, 2012 - 11:48pm PT
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Difficult Access: Mt Sir Francis Drake in BC - Ghost was on this one. Mostly c'os of the dodgy flight out.....
Ms. Knight, if I recall correctly, access was cake. Twenty minutes in a helicopter. Getting out again was a little tougher -- I think I fell head-first into a hole in the forest and you laughed at the way my legs were waving around above ground level -- but not really too bad until we hit tidewater. It was that last little bit across the channel where we thought we were going to die that was... Hmmmm... "difficult" is not quite the right word. Maybe terrifying? Be interesting to hear Mr. Foweraker's memories of that trip. Or to get Mr. Serl to chime in.
But yeah, I agree that while the BC Coast Range is not that far from civilization if you measure distance in miles, it's seriously remote if you eschew helicopters.
As for me, I haven't been to the Himalaya, or Antarctica, but but I sure as Hell felt a long way from home when being stalked by a Polar Bear on Baffin Island. Ryan and I saw a few things no one else had seen before, and there weren't nobody comin' to save our asses if we broke a leg up there back then.
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Guangzhou
Trad climber
Asia, Indonesia, East Java
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Sep 28, 2012 - 11:52pm PT
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What a great thread. So many of you going to so many places. Getting wanderlust just reading it.
Eman
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Vitaliy M.
Mountain climber
San Francisco
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Sep 30, 2012 - 10:47pm PT
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Not Morocco... Wadi Rum, Jordan. Spent over six seasons on and off climbing and FAing some of the most incredible 6-18 pitch routes on this planet.
And the Locals... oh they are the best!
give us a bit more spray, the chief. maybe a few photos at least?
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Leaving Dodge City and the largest continental glacier.
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Ghost
climber
A long way from where I started
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And that would be the undercarriage of exactly what kind of air craft?
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Good one, Skully! :-)
Ghost, no check for you this week, I gave the cogent clue.
But without resorting to the intardnet any Afghan of a certain age would
recognize it in an instant. And for many it was their last instant.
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Todd Gordon
Trad climber
Joshua Tree, Cal
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Pakistan
Cz. Rep.
Australia
Scotland
Peru
Equador
Alaska
Canada
France
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John Duffield
Mountain climber
New York
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local climbers
ha ha Good One!
The locals go at it in Morocco
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kpinwalla2
Social climber
WA
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Here:
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Bouldery granite outcrops on the northern margin of the Peshawar Basin, Pakistan.
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Don Paul
Big Wall climber
Colombia, South America
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Olympus Mons, WITHOUT supplemental O2.
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Brandon-
climber
The Granite State.
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Topic Author's Reply - Oct 1, 2012 - 12:40pm PT
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Yeah Reily, the Todra Gorge in Morocco would be a kick ass precursor to a visit to Jordan.
I'm guessing the shoulder seasons, spring and autumn, would be the best times to visit.
Maybe next April?
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Don Paul
Big Wall climber
Colombia, South America
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Fritz
Trad climber
Choss Creek, ID
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Great photos & stories everyone!
Reilly! I do believe that flying machine was one of your favorite ways to get around "The Stans."
A transport version of this Russian Mi24 Hind?
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