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thebravecowboy

climber
Apr 14, 2014 - 01:02am PT
my pockets are full of fresh mature sand today, and i know i'm happy. that may be the CO plateau's finest powders speaking, though.

thebravecowboy

climber
Apr 14, 2014 - 01:38am PT
in short, yes.

i'd love to sample your wares Dipers - NZ alpine? if you ever make it to the Plateau i would love to show you my perspective. sedimentary rocks, tectonic stability, etc.

Off White

climber
Tenino, WA
Apr 14, 2014 - 12:18pm PT
It's choss season again! Here's a few shots from Friday's outing to Vail, the one in Washington, not Colorado. It's a new FRAC area, a nice addition to SW Washington's sparse climbing offerings.











MisterE

climber
Apr 14, 2014 - 12:23pm PT
Off, VBW3? ;)
Off White

climber
Tenino, WA
Apr 14, 2014 - 12:43pm PT
No E, it's pretty soft on the old BushWack scale; no poison oak and we used a pair of pruners to take a couple of inconvenient bushes down a peg, at least for this season. There's a few spots of mosscapades, and an unpleasant dirty start to one pitch, but the routes are not half bad. New stuff requires a Master Gardener certification though, we need an army of energizer bunnies to realize the potential of the area, which features a number of other untouched crags.
Reilly

Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
Apr 14, 2014 - 01:00pm PT
'Mosscapades', indeed! Used to drive by what you so cavalierly call 'crags' BITD and I
believe I am unanimous in asserting that I never once casted a sideways glance at that 'stuff'.
But you are to be commended for getting out on yer weekends away from the nuthouse!
mouse from merced

Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
May 16, 2014 - 02:46pm PT
This set goes out to MisterE and Chossed, the Maid.

I spent several years in SoCal. I'm not just a local Yosemite climber. The Ventura area was my home base in the eighties. I got over to the Valley quite a lot and liked it more than the climbing in the Sespe.When I think of Box Canyon, I'm reminded of how much water it took to erode the rock which formed the sediment and came to be the Chatsworth Choss as we know it.

Too bad that dam didn't work out, boys: It's a nice hang for the geese on their yearly migration, though. Honk!

Jim Shirley photographs here, even if my name is on them. I scanned his slides.
He lived in Box Canyon much of his life (he's over in Simi Valley now) and had "chossed the best old times" by inviting friends to accompany him on his efforts to get to know the routology of the area. I was one. Tony Bird was another. Maureen (pictured) was another. The rest were probably RCS members, as was he for a time.

These hillsides are burned over regularly and flocks of wild goats have grazed here for decades, unmolested by the residents, some of whom are cool satanists, the ex-wives of celebrities, and other SoCal types, but no Hare Krishnas.

The famous "Movie Ranch" is around here, above the old abandoned reservoir. [Click to View YouTube Video]We must have climbed some of these "natural sets" in our wandering about out there, but mostly hung about just in the steeper cliff areas on its periphery. Nice views from up there.

They were trad and top-rope routes, not bouldering, that we sought out. Jim bouldered some in his back yard, but did more trail running in his spare time.
mucci

Trad climber
The pitch of Bagalaar above you
May 16, 2014 - 02:54pm PT
Good choss right there Mouse.
mouse from merced

Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
May 16, 2014 - 04:21pm PT
My local choss on the county line.
mouse from merced

Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
May 23, 2014 - 11:27am PT
Photos taken while conducting a safety meeting with Mig Bike and Sandra and crew at Facelift.

Once we were safely wasted, we all thought, "Such a waste."
Sierra Ledge Rat

Mountain climber
Old and Broken Down in Appalachia
Jun 3, 2014 - 09:52am PT
My brother just found some old photos of a serious choss route we did back in the 1990s, the south face of Cabezon Peak in New Mexico. At the time, we were both living in Albuquerque. Looks like we accidentally followed the same line as the 1974 ascent by the UNM Mountaineering Club.

Volcanic plugs are a bit chossy by nature, but the final death pitch (5.7x) was on vertical ash conglomerate. My brother trailed a rope when he led the final death pitch, but there was no one watching the other end of the rope. There was no belay at the bottom and no protection on the pitch. We huddled under small overhangs and tried to stay out the avalanche of rocks that he was sending down from the ash.

The summit was a steep scree slope without any solid rocks for a belay. My brother made a useless scree bollard for a belay anchor, and gave us a psychological top rope, which we didn't realize until we, too, reached the summit.

MisterE

climber
Jun 24, 2014 - 07:12am PT
Convict Lake choss bump!



Git sum.
Sierra Ledge Rat

Mountain climber
Old and Broken Down in Appalachia
Jun 24, 2014 - 11:57pm PT
Ah, Laurel Mountain... I love heading up onto that face and wandering around. Quite a geology lesson.
pyro

Big Wall climber
Calabasas
Jun 25, 2014 - 09:40pm PT
have been able to hang off this Pinnacle out in Malibu!
hence "Malibu pinnacle"!

total! choss!
ß Î Ø T Ç H

Boulder climber
extraordinaire
Jun 25, 2014 - 10:22pm PT
Anybody here been up or down the gulley (indicated) on the left?
Don Paul

Big Wall climber
Aurora Colorado
Jul 3, 2014 - 04:37pm PT
Mega Boulders at Lincoln Lake, CO





NutAgain!

Trad climber
South Pasadena, CA
Jul 3, 2014 - 07:33pm PT
Don Paul

Big Wall climber
Aurora Colorado
Jul 10, 2014 - 07:13pm PT
OK I guess bouldering is bouldering. Here's another choss pile I was scoping out around Glacier Gorge, RMNP Colorado.

MisterE

climber
Jul 10, 2014 - 08:14pm PT
Major, horrifying Choss:

dave729

Trad climber
Western America
Jul 10, 2014 - 09:19pm PT
kind of solid looking choss there MisterE? ^^^
Maybe its pre-choss?
In need of a million years more weathering?
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