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Captain...or Skully
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Jan 25, 2013 - 01:13am PT
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Gentle. Um, not so much. We tend to thrash.
It does get more solid when it's frozen.
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Tarbuster
climber
right here, right now
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Jan 25, 2013 - 01:19am PT
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... Because choss is SEXY and chicks dig it!
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MisterE
Social climber
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Jan 25, 2013 - 01:21am PT
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Hardly Visible: Who knew? And within 50 miles of one of the temperate rain-forests of the world...will wonders never cease?
CHOOSE THE CHOSS.
AVOID THE CROWDS.
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Hardly Visible
Social climber
Llatikcuf WA
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Jan 25, 2013 - 01:35am PT
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Roy,
Yer partner might be too much of a distraction for me, prolly too much time on the boobs thread... But I'll see your choss and raise you by a couple of alpine seafloor scrapings.
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wstmrnclmr
Trad climber
Bolinas, CA
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Jan 25, 2013 - 04:24am PT
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Mount Morrison. A partner of mine wanted to climb the Northeast Buttress. It looks beautiful from a distance but everyone I talked to who's climbed it (and they are few) said it's the scariest death climb they've ever been on. My friend Mark Wagner got on it and said it was one of the worst experiences of his life but that I needed to do it because the suffering would be an experience unequaled in all of climbing. He said leading it was like climbing hundreds of feet of giant broken dishes. But leading it was the safest way up because the belayer was the one risking life and limb as rockfall was a certainty. He climbed the crux and refused to go further as it looked grim above so he and his partner down climbed the route and bailed. Rapping was not an option.
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cowpoke
climber
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Jan 25, 2013 - 07:30am PT
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hi quality choss just a 15 minute stroll from the parking lot.
Some of my most satisfying and some of my most terrifying moments were on choss, with the former being in the Snowies of Wyo (above) and Norwegian choss and the latter being on that chimney approach to Broadway on Long's (uggh, falling rocks = bad).
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AP
Trad climber
Calgary
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Jan 25, 2013 - 10:02am PT
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Here is some good mixed choss from one of the masters, Raphael Slawinski.
Hard mixed choss and NO bolts.
http://vimeo.com/21932853
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RP3
Big Wall climber
El Portal/Chapel Hill
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Jan 25, 2013 - 10:24am PT
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This thread is fantastic!
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Roughster
Sport climber
Vacaville, CA
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Jan 25, 2013 - 10:35am PT
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Some fine NorCal Kitty Litter choss!
Tarbuster: I can't stop looking at your 1st choss picture. Was that painted on? That shirt is simply defying the laws of fabric... :)
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Tarbuster
climber
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Jan 25, 2013 - 11:41am PT
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Was that painted on? Yes ... Handpainted with finger paints of course.
Mount Morrison!
No doubt the poster child of the whole thread.
Quote by Vern Clevenger: "Mount Morrison, [all it would take is] ... one well-placed cherry bomb ..."
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Adamame
climber
Santa Cruz
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Jan 25, 2013 - 11:41am PT
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My favorite choss "The Hand".
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Tarbuster
climber
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Jan 25, 2013 - 11:46am PT
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How bout 'thum Eastern Bloc kids whats climbs frozen vertical grass with ice tools!
Then there's the San Juan Mountains of southwestern Colorado. 10,000 mi.² of choss:
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justthemaid
climber
Jim Henson's Basement
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Jan 25, 2013 - 12:06pm PT
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All this talk of choss is making me pine for Texas Canyon.
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ydpl8s
Trad climber
Santa Monica, California
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Jan 25, 2013 - 12:13pm PT
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The San Juans, oh yeah, been there, done lots of that, at least 2 or 3 in that last picture.
Here's another choss meister from that general area.
The infamous Chossmaster Bob Dickerson (of Gunnison fame) once told me (paraphrasing) "you just need to keep moving, if the hold falls off right after you leave it, well you were just helping Mother Nature's physical erosion a little bit"
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Tarbuster
climber
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Jan 25, 2013 - 12:19pm PT
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Cripes, at this stage of the game my entire BODY is choss.
... And it is neither powerful nor compelling. Ha!
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Tarbuster
climber
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Jan 25, 2013 - 12:24pm PT
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I've been by that thing YDS, on the "shortcut" from Ouray to Gunnison. It has a history as you know.
There is even more venerable choss to be ogled along the way. (See below).
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Tarbuster
climber
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Jan 25, 2013 - 01:45pm PT
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I think that chunky tower is called Chimney Rock? (Or is that the thing near Pagosa Springs) or both ...
Further along the dirt road heading toward Gunnison from Ouray one comes to Silver Jack Reservoir to encounter these magnificent conglomerate towers:
Similar stuff visible from Highway 50 bordering the northern shores of Curecanti reservoir.
Where ground-up (in both senses of the phrase) kitty litter lovin' hard mens and wymins go to die!
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ydpl8s
Trad climber
Santa Monica, California
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Jan 25, 2013 - 02:10pm PT
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Yeah, that's Chimney Rock, we got there driving up the road from Cimmaron after directions from Jimmy Newberry. It's right near Turret Ridge and not too far from Coxcomb.
Here's another pic from that general area looking towards the giant choss Uncompahgre, from the top of Wetterhorn (which actually has some good rock on it). This pic was taken in the Fall of 72, the guy in the orange wind breaker is co-author of one of the Colorado mountain guides (can't remember the name of it) Gary Kocsis.
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nutjob
Sport climber
Almost to Hollywood, Baby!
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Jan 25, 2013 - 02:11pm PT
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From Munge's home territory...
Actually more solid than it looks (mostly):
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nutjob
Sport climber
Almost to Hollywood, Baby!
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Jan 25, 2013 - 02:15pm PT
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Somewhere near Highway 395... maybe en route to Bode from Mono Lake?
Buildering choss:
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