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survival
Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
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Topic Author's Original Post - Jun 11, 2013 - 03:42pm PT
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Where's My passport?
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survival
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Terrapin Station
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Topic Author's Reply - Jun 11, 2013 - 03:55pm PT
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Dang, you're good. It's in the park, Serra dos Orgaos, one hour from the city apparently. Finger Of God, I love that name!
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Brandon-
climber
The Granite State.
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Jun 11, 2013 - 04:11pm PT
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Geoguesser is a fun way to kill time for sure.
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survival
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Terrapin Station
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Topic Author's Reply - Jun 11, 2013 - 05:10pm PT
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Penis of Gawd?
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Snowmassguy
Trad climber
Calirado
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Jun 11, 2013 - 05:13pm PT
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Will I get in trouble if I post some rocks that look like BEWBS? Heck.... That might deserve its own tread.
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Ghost
climber
A long way from where I started
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Jun 11, 2013 - 05:40pm PT
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I've posted this before, but most of you probably haven't seen it...
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Brandon-
climber
The Granite State.
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Jun 11, 2013 - 06:02pm PT
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I honestly have no idea where that uhm, tower, is.
China is my best guess.
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survival
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Terrapin Station
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Topic Author's Reply - Jun 11, 2013 - 06:09pm PT
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I'm gonna say Greece, cuz it looks like the ones the little monasteries are built on.
Ghost, that does look like some good granite, but maybe doesn't have that much in common with El Cap. You need to get out of Washington more.....HA!!!
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Brandon-
climber
The Granite State.
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Jun 11, 2013 - 06:13pm PT
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It does look like conglomerate.
Bueller?
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survival
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Terrapin Station
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Topic Author's Reply - Jun 11, 2013 - 06:30pm PT
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Is google image search cheating? Uh, I think so. Guessing is more fun than knowing, IMO.
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Brandon-
climber
The Granite State.
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Jun 11, 2013 - 06:37pm PT
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Totally.
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survival
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Terrapin Station
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Topic Author's Reply - Jun 11, 2013 - 06:48pm PT
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Ghost
climber
A long way from where I started
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Jun 11, 2013 - 09:00pm PT
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I don't know where that is Bruce, but wherever it is, it looks like a dinosaur backed up to the edge and had really bad diarrhea.
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RyanD
climber
Squamish
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Jun 11, 2013 - 09:32pm PT
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Ghosts is zekes wall in the cascades I'd bet. I only say that cuz he's always goin on about the place & all the virgin lines.
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Bowser
Social climber
Durango CO
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Jun 11, 2013 - 09:42pm PT
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Oplopanax
Mountain climber
The Deep Woods
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Jun 11, 2013 - 10:26pm PT
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Sierra Ledge Rat
Mountain climber
Old and Broken Down in Appalachia
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Jun 11, 2013 - 11:26pm PT
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Here's a few
A. Should be easy
B.
C. Summit plateau
D. Summit shot
E. Looks and smells like Yosemite
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Spider Savage
Mountain climber
The shaggy fringe of Los Angeles
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Jun 11, 2013 - 11:28pm PT
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survival
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Terrapin Station
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Topic Author's Reply - Jun 11, 2013 - 11:29pm PT
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Bowser, yours looks like a little cliff I had to myself in Eastern Oregon as a kid! That's a bit bigger than the one I "discovered", after the Indians and a few lonely wranglers of course....
SierraLR, is your first one Muralla Grande?
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Gagner
climber
Boulder
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Jun 11, 2013 - 11:30pm PT
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FRUMY
Trad climber
SHERMAN OAKS,CA
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Jun 11, 2013 - 11:33pm PT
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No one will ever get this one.but it is great to have tea on top, in the late evening with a full moon.
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Batrock
Trad climber
Burbank
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Jun 11, 2013 - 11:40pm PT
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pud
climber
Sportbikeville & Yucca brevifolia
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Jun 11, 2013 - 11:48pm PT
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Ghost
climber
A long way from where I started
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Jun 11, 2013 - 11:49pm PT
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So many rocks. So little time.
Hard to grasp the scale from this photo, but the wall is over 4,000 ft bottom to top. (Not counting the cap)
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Sierra Ledge Rat
Mountain climber
Old and Broken Down in Appalachia
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Jun 12, 2013 - 12:04am PT
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^^^ Lemme guess, it's in the Great White North on an island
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Jun 12, 2013 - 12:44am PT
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I'm not sure whether this has been climbed yet although many have eyed it.
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ß Î Ø T Ç H
climber
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Jun 12, 2013 - 12:55am PT
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QITNL's photo I always wondered about this crag. I'd like to think it hasn't been grid bolted yet.
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i'm gumby dammit
Sport climber
da ow
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Jun 12, 2013 - 01:34am PT
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Pud, those are both awesome pictures. First one reminds me of the joke about the guy who lost his car keys...
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TomCochrane
Trad climber
Santa Cruz Mountains and Monterey Bay
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Jun 12, 2013 - 01:55am PT
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Chinchen
climber
Way out there....
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Jun 12, 2013 - 02:17am PT
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SLR, your first one could be Rowell Rocks.
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Sierra Ledge Rat
Mountain climber
Old and Broken Down in Appalachia
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Jun 12, 2013 - 06:43am PT
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My mystery rocks (see post above):
A. The Shield, Sandia Mountains, New Mexcio
B. The fall color tells you that it's a famous eastern climbing rock
C. Iceland
D. Check my trip reports
E. Looks and smells like Yosemite but it's on the other side of the Pacific Ocean
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survival
Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
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Topic Author's Reply - Jun 12, 2013 - 09:55am PT
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I knew it was the Shield, that's why I said Muralla Grande!
Meanwhile, in Mexico...
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Todd Gordon
Trad climber
Joshua Tree, Cal
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Jun 12, 2013 - 10:37am PT
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Where is this?....
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Todd Eastman
climber
Bellingham, WA
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Jun 12, 2013 - 10:39am PT
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Rat, B looks like Seneca-North Peak...
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survival
Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
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Topic Author's Reply - Jun 12, 2013 - 12:15pm PT
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Rat, nobody said D. is Jordan yet?
I lived in the M.E. but never got to Jordan, DAMN!
DMT, I'll hit that crag with you, but I don't know about that Black Hole....
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guido
Trad climber
Santa Cruz/New Zealand/South Pacific
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Jun 12, 2013 - 12:19pm PT
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Sierra Ledge Rat
Mountain climber
Old and Broken Down in Appalachia
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Jun 12, 2013 - 04:50pm PT
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A. The Shield, Sandia Mountains, New Mexcio
B. Seneca Rocks, West Virginia
C. Mt. Ejsa, Iceland (right outside of Reykjavik)
D. Summit of Jebel Khazali, Wadi Rum, Jordan
E. Bukhansan, Seoul, South Korea
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survival
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Terrapin Station
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Topic Author's Reply - Jun 12, 2013 - 05:13pm PT
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Wow Guido!
Ummm, I'm gonna say New Zealand! No idea where.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Jun 12, 2013 - 06:37pm PT
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Tahiti or thereabouts. But that ain't really rock.
I'm not sure if it even qualifies as choss.
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limpingcrab
Trad climber
the middle of CA
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Jun 12, 2013 - 06:51pm PT
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This should be easy
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wilbeer
Mountain climber
honeoye falls,ny.greeneck alleghenys
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Jun 12, 2013 - 07:12pm PT
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slr,b.is seneca rocks looking east,the rock is awesome,quartzite.
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guido
Trad climber
Santa Cruz/New Zealand/South Pacific
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Jun 12, 2013 - 09:16pm PT
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Reilly you are close but about 1000 miles to the west and the rock on the first photo is pretty good, certainly not choss and the spires have been climbed by a french team and it is a long approach no matter how you look at it. Approach varies between 17-24 days.
Toss the choss and grab a vahine.
Iles Marquises.
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Sierra Ledge Rat
Mountain climber
Old and Broken Down in Appalachia
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Jun 12, 2013 - 11:10pm PT
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Awesome quartzite? It's slick as ice when wet!
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wilbeer
Mountain climber
honeoye falls,ny.greeneck alleghenys
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Jun 12, 2013 - 11:15pm PT
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Or if anything green is on it. ha .
Last time there i got bit by a large horned toad,thing had a tude,glad i was seconding.
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Ghost
climber
A long way from where I started
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Jun 12, 2013 - 11:28pm PT
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Iles Marquises.
Is that the place where some climbers found strange bugs? Something thought to be extinct?
There was a thread here about that a year or two ago...
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ydpl8s
Trad climber
Santa Monica, California
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Jun 13, 2013 - 02:57pm PT
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Mine is a question, I visited Smith Rocks in 1978 and me and a buddy were bouldering around on this face. I'm sure that someone knows where/what this is (I don't). Sorry for the old crappy slide this was scanned from.
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survival
Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
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Topic Author's Reply - Jun 13, 2013 - 04:31pm PT
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WidePlates, it looks like the base of Parking Lot, or "Picnic Lunch" wall, but kinda hard to tell from the photo.
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Oplopanax
Mountain climber
The Deep Woods
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Jun 13, 2013 - 05:20pm PT
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Survival's is Cappadocia, right?
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Ksolem
Trad climber
Monrovia, California
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Jun 13, 2013 - 05:34pm PT
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This might be easy, or not...
Toe to top in about 7 pitches, depending.
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survival
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Terrapin Station
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Topic Author's Reply - Jun 13, 2013 - 08:04pm PT
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Survival's is Cappadocia, right?
Ding ding ding!!!
Wait, were you talking about Turkey, or Armenia?
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Jun 14, 2013 - 04:12am PT
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Darwin
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Jun 15, 2013 - 11:24am PT
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This is in the USA, and the answer is on Supertopo
A couple pages back Ghost; was that Zekes Wall?
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Sierra Ledge Rat
Mountain climber
Old and Broken Down in Appalachia
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Jun 15, 2013 - 12:28pm PT
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^^^^
Throw us a scap, continental USA?
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Darwin
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Jun 15, 2013 - 03:29pm PT
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Not in the lower 48.
And the flora rhumes with ... ...not much, maybe if Rocky mis-pronounced thunder.
OK, here's a view that the locals might be more likely to recognize:
The first photo was taken on one of the ridges off to the left.
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RyanD
climber
Squamish
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Jun 15, 2013 - 05:37pm PT
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I think I've seen lockers mystery stone somewhere before......
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Jun 15, 2013 - 06:40pm PT
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Ksolem, that looks like and sounds like Charlotte Dome, depending.
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Gene
climber
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Jun 15, 2013 - 07:05pm PT
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Ksolem,
Methinks it's one of The Balls.
Hi Mouse!
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bvb
Social climber
flagstaff arizona
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Jun 15, 2013 - 07:06pm PT
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I was gonna guess Wamello? Too lazy to get up and grab my 1973 Ascent. Plus that'd be cheating.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Jun 15, 2013 - 07:49pm PT
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I thought Locker is a mystery stone?
Boy, and I thought I knew Alaska. So where on the frozen tundra, not Lambeau, are those?
Nobody commented on my mystery towers or were they too easy?
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Ksolem
Trad climber
Monrovia, California
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Jun 15, 2013 - 07:56pm PT
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None of the above. Y'all have the right state though.
edit: Here's a clue. A lot of folks on this forum have seen this crag from a distance. Very few have been up close and personal with it though.
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survival
Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
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Topic Author's Reply - Jun 15, 2013 - 08:11pm PT
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Darwin, it looks like Granite Tors outside of Fairbanks!
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tooth
Trad climber
B.C.
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Jun 15, 2013 - 11:52pm PT
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Anyone here know where this is?
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Darwin
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Jun 16, 2013 - 12:32am PT
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Is the above Tietons, WA, like Crack House?
Survival; so close that I have give it to you. Have you been to the Tors? This is near Mt Prindle, same general direction from Fairbanks (NNE), and they are very similar formations as the Tors, but they are maybe 50 miles apart.
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survival
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Topic Author's Reply - Jun 16, 2013 - 06:43am PT
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Thanks Darwin, but no, in all my 30 years in Alaska, I never made it there. I just saw quite a few photos from a good climbing friend who was stationed in Fairbanks.
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MisterE
Social climber
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Jun 16, 2013 - 07:41am PT
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Tooth: Trout Creek Oregon.
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tooth
Trad climber
B.C.
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Jun 16, 2013 - 09:43am PT
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It is Aberdeen Columns, in Vernon BC, near Skaha.
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MisterE
Social climber
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Jun 16, 2013 - 12:00pm PT
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Cool - never heard of basalt columns up there, but I love Skaha!
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Jun 16, 2013 - 01:55pm PT
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It's not Starr King, too high angle.
The weird peak to the left is...just weird.
Of course it's in California, it's kinda intuitive, having lived here this long.
Hi, Gene! I heard on the vine you were down here in Merced the other day when I was up in Yosemite.
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Ksolem
Trad climber
Monrovia, California
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Jun 16, 2013 - 02:03pm PT
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Same rock, different view. This ought to be easier...
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survival
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Terrapin Station
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Topic Author's Reply - Jun 16, 2013 - 02:57pm PT
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Nice!
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Ksolem
Trad climber
Monrovia, California
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Jun 16, 2013 - 04:10pm PT
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DMT, Nope.
Lotsa people see this one, but they're on another mission when they do. It's bigger than it looks, and the approach is no big deal.
I can't make it any easier than this:
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limpingcrab
Trad climber
the middle of CA
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I'll play Kris. That thar's Hermit Spire. I'm one of those people who looks at it but hasn't climbed it and I need to remedy that. Great shot by the way.
I'm guessing you're very familiar with my post around #50
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Brandon-
climber
The Granite State.
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I've shown this before, and I'm sure some of you have been there, but it's a cool piece of stone.
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Dapper Dan
Trad climber
Menlo Park
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Wow I see a face in that rock...
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Mungeclimber
Trad climber
Nothing creative to say
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Is that Hermit spire thingy out past Obelisk?
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Ksolem
Trad climber
Monrovia, California
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LimgCrag wins it. Hermit Spire, seen to the north across Freeman Creek Drainage and the Spectacular Freeman Grove of giant Sequoias by countless Needles climber from the approach trail.
Not anywhere near the Obelisk, you might be thinking of Kettle Dome?
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Brandon-
climber
The Granite State.
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Wow I see a face in that rock...
Me too!
Any guesses?
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