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Fritz
Trad climber
Choss Creek, ID
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Topic Author's Original Post - Dec 1, 2012 - 11:53pm PT
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My apologies if this has been previously posted, but I did search the forum under likely topics.
This youtube video had a HUGE-CHUNK of a mountain-top falling away.
Sunnybeaches! (I thought!)
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zBrown
Ice climber
chingadero de chula vista
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Hey Fritz - I couldn't click on it, so I made it a little easier - impressive rock fall.
[Click to View YouTube Video]
EDIT:
The syntax looks like this {youtube=y33STLSFjkE} but replace the {} with []
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Fritz
Trad climber
Choss Creek, ID
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Topic Author's Reply - Dec 1, 2012 - 11:58pm PT
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Thanks ZBrown! I'm still suffering with the embedding instructions!
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Fritz
Trad climber
Choss Creek, ID
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Topic Author's Reply - Dec 2, 2012 - 12:10am PT
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Let me be the first to explain the common theme of these videos!
If you go off to climb in the mountains.
Yere gonna die!
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Vitaliy M.
Mountain climber
San Francisco
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So what if there was someone's line up there and not it fell off. Can someone else go climb it and claim a FA? lol
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Fletcher
Trad climber
The rock doesn't care what I think
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Wow!
Eric
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SCseagoat
Trad climber
Santa Cruz
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Oh my
Susan
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SteveW
Trad climber
The state of confusion
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Let's hope nobody was below them. . .
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philo
Trad climber
Somewhere halfway over the rainbow
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OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM
GGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG
Amazing that they were there with vidcam focused on the mountain at the time of those mass wastings.
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cintune
climber
Midvale School for the Gifted
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Damn trundlers.
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kaholatingtong
Trad climber
Nevada City
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wow. the sheer power of nature can be fascinating to watch in action.
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10b4me
Boulder climber
member since 2002
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That rockfall on Rainier was impressive.
I wonder what side of the mountin that was on?
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Branscomb
Trad climber
Lander, WY
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I've seen that vid of the Rainier avalanche on U tube...they said it was part of the Nisqually Cleaver that collapsed...wow.
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Gene
climber
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That's why I always wear my helmet in the hills.
g
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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What, Mt Rainier has bad rock?
Almost bought a farm in that same spot as the Nisqually vid except it was
a serac collapse. Nobody in their right mind climbs there.
Come to think of it I think I still have some booty from two guys who did
buy the farm right there* in a rockfall. We found their high camp long after
the fact; like 8 months as I recall so we didn't feel guilty cleaning up
the mountain.
*Fuhrer Finger
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TwistedCrank
climber
Dingleberry Gulch, Ideeho
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Mass wasting. It's a beautiful thing.
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philo
Trad climber
Somewhere halfway over the rainbow
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MASS WASTING, like when the Altar-boy accidentally switches the communion wafers for blotter acid (tastes the same after all) and the whole congregation goes on a communal trip?
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McHale's Navy
Trad climber
Panorama City, California & living in Seattle
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Nice video there and through this thread!
Back in the early 70s me and some buddies were rapping off a climb across from Elephant Rock. I was in the middle of a rappel and heard a crack of sound like thunder & lightning.....I figured that's what it since the clouds were low and it was misting, but I happened to turn around to see a huge ceiling (at least small house size) in mid-air coming off the Elephant. Earlier that day we had been looking at the clean scars from the earlier rockfall, imagining climbing around the new ceiling. This one washed a wall of water up from the Merced and over the hwy and brought debris back down and closed the road.
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nutjob
Gym climber
Berkeley, CA
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Gene, LOL!!!
Maybe if name is etched into plastic of helmet, it will be decipherable in a few centuries when the helmet is the only remains found ;)
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moacman
Trad climber
Montuckyian Via Canada Eh!
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Recent geology is so cool...Thanx for sharing........
Stevo
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mechrist
Gym climber
South of Heaven
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This is an awesome thread.
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harryhotdog
Social climber
north vancouver, B.C.
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The greywacke rock in the Mt Cook area of NZ is truly some of the most unstable rock I have ever encountered. It consists of a combination of hard grey sandstone and darker coloured mudstone (argillite). These generally form alternating sequences with the sandstone being predominant, and together the sandstone and mudstone are often referred to jointly as "greywacke".
This has been posted already also but it's unbelievable.
http://www.3news.co.nz/RAW-VIDEO-Landslide-at-Mt-Cook/tabid/309/articleID/284690/Default.aspx
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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hey there say, all...
oh my... (think susan said that too)... :O
i love the rocks and mts... dont' like rock slided of course, but
seeig them on film, is really powerful stuff to make you think
how such a huge mt, can, and is--so precarious in many ways...
cna't do youtube, or some of this, i'd like to see...
though--not the ones with folks in the midst of it-- :O
it just is really something the way these rocks set loose and move...
:O
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Six feet below ground,
witness the last avalanche/rockfall
that you'll ever see.
--Lily Rocketts
God loves gravity,
especially. His rainbows
recall mankind's fall.
--T. Rundle
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Fletcher
Trad climber
The great state of advaita
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That's it! I've had it with this planet... the whole freakin' place is falling apart! I'm outa here!
Yes, this is a great thread. From a distance.... big distance in space and time!
Batshit crazy stuff!
Eric
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bluering
Trad climber
Santa Clara, CA
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Apr 27, 2013 - 04:28am PT
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Whoa...
Mother Nature dictates the conditions. And she can be pissy sometimes!
Good videos.
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Fletcher
Trad climber
The great state of advaita
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Apr 27, 2013 - 12:28pm PT
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Big momma avalanche bump... see my previous post.
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lars johansen
Trad climber
San Francisco, CA
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Apr 27, 2013 - 01:01pm PT
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Great share. I get kind of sweaty palms when I see that kind of thing now.
lj
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phylp
Trad climber
Millbrae, CA
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Apr 27, 2013 - 02:29pm PT
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All beautiful and terrifying at the same time!
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Sierra Ledge Rat
Mountain climber
Old and Broken Down in Appalachia
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Apr 27, 2013 - 04:31pm PT
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Apr 27, 2013 - 08:57pm PT
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Biotch, you goon, that was a rockfly! ;-)
It was so crazy to be playing futbol at Green Lake and watching that mushroom cloud go straight up to 40,000' and then have the jet stream bend it 90 degrees to the east.
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Sierra Ledge Rat
Mountain climber
Old and Broken Down in Appalachia
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Apr 27, 2013 - 09:18pm PT
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Who here has climbed that huge block that made up the first couple of pitches of the East Face of Bugaboo Spire before it fell away?
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Fletcher
Trad climber
The great state of advaita
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Apr 28, 2013 - 12:10am PT
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That Cornwall drop into the sea was pretty amazing.
Eric
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TomCochrane
Trad climber
Cascade Mountains and Monterey Bay
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Oct 17, 2017 - 12:52am PT
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Krakatoa volcano in 1883 propelled eleven cubic miles of rock into the upper atmosphere, covering 70% of the planet with dust clouds, turning the sky red, and producing tsunamis over 150 feet high. And yes it was photographed. It is still very active and growing in height about 15 feet each year.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MrEIT66oPqU
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Clint Cummins
Trad climber
SF Bay area, CA
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Oct 17, 2017 - 04:26am PT
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There are even bigger ones, the farther back you go....
Some of the familiar / large ones:
1991 VEI-6 Pinatubo 10 km^3 ejecta
1980 VEI-5 St. Helens 1 km^3
1883 VEI-6 Krakatoa 25 km^3 36,000 deaths mostly from tsunamis
1815 VEI-7 Tambora 160 km^3 71,000+ deaths "The Year without Summer"
-1610 VEI-6/7 Santorini 60 km^3 "Minoan eruption"
-5677 VEI-7 Mazama 100 km^3 "Crater Lake, Oregon"
-24500 VEI-8 Taupo 1170 km^3 "Oranui eruption"
-630000 VEI-8 Yellowstone 1000 km^3 "Lava Creek Tuff"
-765000 VEI-7 Long Valley 100? km^3 "Bishop Tuff"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_known_large_volcanic_eruptions
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