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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Mar 31, 2014 - 05:56pm PT
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Steve, I was gonna say the Shroud looks kinda thin on the lower half.
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Marlow
Sport climber
OSLO
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Topic Author's Reply - Jun 5, 2014 - 12:46pm PT
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A sullen, glowering bulk, the Grandes Jorasses' North Face stands, silent guardian of the Franco-Italian frontier. Leviathan among giants, unspeakably beautiful, seductive, sadistic. Erupting from the Leschaux glacier like some subterranean deity...
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Marlow
Sport climber
OSLO
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Topic Author's Reply - Jun 5, 2014 - 12:51pm PT
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Duet for alpinists by Robert Cordery-Cotter in Mountain 134, 1990.
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BASE104
Social climber
An Oil Field
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It is nice to revisit an old thread about climbing.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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I've been told I'm a big ass but never une grande jorasse.
Que est-ce que c'est?
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Marlow
Sport climber
OSLO
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Topic Author's Reply - Jul 2, 2014 - 12:59pm PT
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Big ass or Badass...
Jorasses is said to mean rocks, from the word "joux", meaning rock.
Grandes Jorasses - Big Rocks... and there's also the Petit Rock...
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ms55401
Trad climber
minneapolis, mn
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of the three classic north faces, I wonder how much traffic each gets? I bet the Grandes Jorasses is probably third.
that guidebook looks cool. I hope it's not "super" a la SuperTopo but rather "not overly vague"
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Marlow
Sport climber
OSLO
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Topic Author's Reply - Jul 4, 2014 - 12:30pm PT
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ms55401
The topo has got a lot of beta if that's what you're searching for. It's written in both English and French. Here's an example - a part of The Walker Spur topo:
Carlos
Thanks for posting the photo of The Little Rocks. ^^^
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Jul 21, 2014 - 12:16pm PT
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of the three classic north faces, I wonder how much traffic each gets? I bet the Grandes Jorasses is probably third.
I have a wad of cash that says it sees more traffic than the other two combined, by far.
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Marlow
Sport climber
OSLO
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Topic Author's Reply - Sep 12, 2014 - 03:33pm PT
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Fort.
Thanks for the post. The linked explanation is unclear.
Here's a quite detailed French explanation of the word Jorasses and similar forms:
M.L. Gauchat (Bull, du glass, des patois de la Suisse romande, 1904, 14) a fait remarquer qu'a la forme jura, jures, de Cesar et de Pline, s'oppose, des le v siecle, une racine jur ou jor d'ou: jora, latinise au moyen age: jure, joria, juria, d'ou le savoyard joraz (Habere-Lullin), jorra (Le Pratz), joura (Sallanches, Samoens), jeure, jour (Chamonix), joux; patois jou.
Bellajoux, Jourplaine (de jora plana), Joux verte sont des composes, Jorasses, Jourailles, Jorat, des derives. Or, joux designe toujours en Haute-Savoie une foret de montagne; quand il s'agit d'une foret de sapins, on la gratifie souvent de joux noire; une joux verte designerait sans doute un bois a fayards.
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Kalimon
Social climber
Ridgway, CO
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Sep 12, 2014 - 06:45pm PT
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Great thread Marlow! Thank you.
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Marlow
Sport climber
OSLO
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Topic Author's Reply - Oct 10, 2014 - 11:07am PT
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Chamonix: Panorama pris de la Flegere
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Gnome Ofthe Diabase
climber
Out Of Bed
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Oct 10, 2014 - 11:15am PT
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Man this is the stuff that makes dreams and also age seem unfair
Hurha hurha
the super in this site
all kinds of climbing
is here in plain sight
did you get that I think this is awesome !!
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