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Reilly

Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
Mar 4, 2014 - 01:42am PT
How a propos, on a different day I almost lost a leg to a death block
within view of the one Clint describes.
survival

Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
Mar 4, 2014 - 01:46am PT
Some of 'em are big!
But this one is safely tucked away in the mountains of Nevada.
dave729

Trad climber
Western America
Mar 4, 2014 - 01:55am PT
This kind of thread gives me the chills. Like rifle shots getting
closer and closer the boulder fell into view, does one more wall shaking
ricochet and spins by showering gravel and dust.
NutAgain!

Trad climber
South Pasadena, CA
Mar 4, 2014 - 02:50am PT
That big pillar that marks the junction of Hawkman's Escape and Ramblin' Rose is another one... it's even a waypoint on the Meyers/Reid topo. The thing is about 20-30 feet tall, and groans and rocks back and forth when the wind comes up and you're chimneying behind it.

Plus a bump with a pic from the no-man's land between Return to Stone Age and Hog Trough on Lower Cathedral Rock:

No pics of the business from below, but it was similar to this stuff but vertical. Actually I think le_bruce is pulling over the topmost of 3 vertically stacked blocks about the same size rocking back and forth.
Bad Climber

climber
Mar 4, 2014 - 09:03am PT
Then, of course, there was that big loose flake on the pendulum pitch on NW Face of Half Dome. Scared us pretty good. Does anyone know the story of how it came off? I always imagined some doofus yarding it off with some stoopid laybacking.

BAd
hellcyon

climber
Mar 4, 2014 - 09:19am PT
clinker

Trad climber
Santa Cruz, California
Mar 4, 2014 - 09:43am PT
Yes, overhang bypass has a reachy move now 5.9? where the flake-pillar was on the pith after the hog trough. Gabe Carrillo, who we call the Yeti, because he is big, very strong and resembles one, shifted the thing while two of us were right below. I went back up with my brother 2 years later and it was gone. Update the topo, the 5.4 section is now a lot harder.
Roger Brown

climber
Oceano, California
Mar 4, 2014 - 10:17am PT
Above the trail over from the top of the brush field to the start of Snake Dike.




John Duffield

Mountain climber
New York
Mar 4, 2014 - 12:02pm PT
Main Trail out of Devils Tombstone

lucaskrajnik

Trad climber
Anchorage, AK
Mar 4, 2014 - 12:47pm PT
This is an awesome thread!
Unfortunately some of the worst ones I never hung around long enough to get a picture.
Repelling Royal tower come to mind.
mongrel

Trad climber
Truckee, CA
Mar 4, 2014 - 02:32pm PT
Not on a climb, but a choice clip of a boulder relocating: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uOJfcTZME0U

Thud!
chill

climber
between the flat part and the blue wobbly thing
Mar 4, 2014 - 02:41pm PT
No one has mentioned the Mother of All Death Blocks. (Pic stolen from Interweb)
LEG

climber
Mar 4, 2014 - 03:57pm PT
Near the top of Better with Bacon, I believe :-)
johntp

Trad climber
socal
Mar 4, 2014 - 09:25pm PT
No one has mentioned the Mother of All Death Blocks. (Pic stolen from Interweb)


I was wondering when boot flake would come up. It's all fun and games until they come down.
eagle

Trad climber
new paltz, ny
Mar 5, 2014 - 04:21pm PT
THERE IS ONE ON THE MAIN CLIFF AT POCO MOONSHINE IN THE ADIRONDACS THAT IS THE SIZE OF 3 GRAYHOUND BUSSES. IT'S IS JUST HANGING THERE, IT'S NOT SITTING ON A LEDGE. WORD IS SOME OF THE LOCALS TRIED TO TOPPLE USING JACKS AND CROW BARS AND ELBO GREASE. I BELIEVE IT IS STILL THERE TO THIS DAY
climber007

Trad climber
San Jose, CA
Mar 5, 2014 - 05:45pm PT
death block on the Nose.. moved about 4 inches on me last year on a NIAP run when my partner inadvertently stepped on it while setting off from the belay

mucci

Trad climber
The pitch of Bagalaar above you
Mar 5, 2014 - 06:06pm PT
You can't take that piece of the JENGA tower out!!!

Or you will LOSE!
kev

climber
A pile of dirt.
Mar 5, 2014 - 06:30pm PT
Anyone got a picture of the jigsaw puzzle pieces on Phantom Pinnacle?
docsavage

Trad climber
Albuquerque, NM
Mar 6, 2014 - 01:40pm PT
Knock down them hoodoos! F**k the Park Service, you're saving lives ... Boy Scout lives!
clinker

Trad climber
Santa Cruz, California
Mar 14, 2014 - 05:30pm PT
Way to go Charles! The death block is in the area where the King Swing finishes. I think the one up higher is gone (trundled).
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