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mountain lover
Trad climber
camino, ca
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Topic Author's Original Post - Aug 19, 2014 - 06:58am PT
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This Volkswagon sized block came down at Lovers Leap sometime after August 1. It was not there that day but it was when I was there last week. It is at the base of East Buttress, left side, right on approach trail to the Main Wall. A sober reminder of mountains changing nature and hazards.
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mooser
Trad climber
seattle
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Aug 19, 2014 - 07:41am PT
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You'd feel that! Yikes!
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BuddhaStalin
climber
Truckee, CA
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Aug 19, 2014 - 07:55am PT
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Nobody gives the leap credit for what a choss pile it can be. Careful...
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Mtnmun
Trad climber
Top of the Mountain Mun
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Aug 19, 2014 - 09:38am PT
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We came back from climbing one day to find a toaster size rock in our camp. Now if you find one in your pack, it was not caused by rock fall.
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Moof
Big Wall climber
Orygun
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Aug 19, 2014 - 11:20am PT
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If you find 3 or 4 in your pack at the end of the season, you need to check your pack more often, Petch.
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JEleazarian
Trad climber
Fresno CA
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Aug 19, 2014 - 11:22am PT
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Yikes! I've been there! Has anyone determined whether this changed any routes?
John
Edit: For example, when the Rat's Tooth fell off years ago.
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Branscomb
Trad climber
Lander, WY
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Aug 19, 2014 - 01:37pm PT
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How that pesky talus is formed...Hmmmmm...would have liked to seen that, but not from an immediate perspective.
Well, things go on...you just hope your animal time frame and the time frame of geology don't suddenly converge, outside of the comparatively tame dancing over stone we like to do.
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apogee
climber
Technically expert, safe belayer, can lead if easy
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Aug 19, 2014 - 01:42pm PT
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"This Volkswagon sized block..."
Somebody needs to start a thread about analogies created between a given rock and their size equivalence to various objects. Could be funny!
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Ghost
climber
A long way from where I started
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Aug 19, 2014 - 01:44pm PT
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You'd feel that!
Only for about one microsecond...
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Norwegian
Trad climber
dancin on the tip of god's middle finger
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Aug 19, 2014 - 01:46pm PT
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you are mistaken,
that block has been there
for a couple of months.
it broke free from the buttress uphill about
about 100 yards.
no routes incurred any damage.
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