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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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