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rick sumner
Trad climber
reno, nevada/ wasilla alaska
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Oct 25, 2014 - 03:22pm PT
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a little chunk that was previously unclimbed in the NV wilds, many more out there
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Mark Force
Trad climber
Cave Creek, AZ
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Oct 25, 2014 - 06:30pm PT
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oh, yeah!
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tuolumne_tradster
Trad climber
Leading Edge of North American Plate
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Oct 25, 2014 - 07:21pm PT
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This granite is a long way from home...Bodega Head
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Flip Flop
Trad climber
Truckee, CA
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Oct 26, 2014 - 12:08am PT
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Wow Tuolumne_tradster that Swiss stuff is fantastic. That peak on the left in the fourth shot is a uniquely striking piece of rock.
I found some quality Granite in Switzerland at Grimsel Pass at a place called Eldorado. It's googleable.
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tuolumne_tradster
Trad climber
Leading Edge of North American Plate
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Oct 26, 2014 - 01:39am PT
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Flip Flop: The peak on the left is the Punta Pioda. The spire next to it is the Ago di Scoiora. They are located in the Bregalia Range near the Piz Badile and the town of Vicosoprano.
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SteveW
Trad climber
The state of confusion
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Oct 26, 2014 - 08:57am PT
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Be sure not to take it for granite!
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yanqui
climber
Balcarce, Argentina
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Oct 26, 2014 - 11:12am PT
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On top of that snow-patched hill on the other side of the lake is an area known as "El Frey" and it is one of the premier granite climbing areas in South America.
Close up the rock formations look like this
and this
and that
Here's what it looks like when you're hiking up to do a climb
The routes are short by Yosemite standards: the biggest formations are maybe five to six hundred feet high (around seven pitches for the longest routes). However the granite is generally of excellent quality (as are most of the routes) and the new guide has around 500 existing climbs.
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Chiloe
Trad climber
Lee, NH
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Oct 26, 2014 - 11:12am PT
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I found some quality Granite in Switzerland at Grimsel Pass at a place called Eldorado.
We visited Grimsel Pass briefly this summer. Only time for one route (9 pitches) but that was great fun and I'd love to go back.
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Todd Eastman
climber
Bellingham, WA
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Oct 26, 2014 - 11:35am PT
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Chiloe, Grimsel Pass looks a bit like Cannon.
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tuolumne_tradster
Trad climber
Leading Edge of North American Plate
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Oct 26, 2014 - 12:24pm PT
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Early Tertiary Tonalitic Granite of the Piz Badile
Badile Nordkante (Photo Bill McConachie)
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Chiloe
Trad climber
Lee, NH
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Oct 27, 2014 - 09:36am PT
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Chiloe, Grimsel Pass looks a bit like Cannon.
Not the same sense that whole pitches might soon exfoliate off, but the area we climbed looked like a bad place to be in a storm -- lots of debris on the upper mountain that could get washed down the slabs.
It was pretty cool climbing all day above that green glacier silt lake, with higher peaks around.
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Sierra Ledge Rat
Mountain climber
Old and Broken Down in Appalachia
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Oct 27, 2014 - 09:42am PT
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The most recent far-away climbing on granite that I've done was in Soeul, South Korea.
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fgw
climber
portland, or
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Oct 27, 2014 - 02:07pm PT
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Crackless granites of Madagascar:
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Sierra Ledge Rat
Mountain climber
Old and Broken Down in Appalachia
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Oct 27, 2014 - 02:20pm PT
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^^^^
Wow
Sure that's not Water Cracks on Lembert Dome?
Me thinks yer pulling my leg
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Gnome Ofthe Diabase
climber
Out Of Bed
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Oct 27, 2014 - 03:44pm PT
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bump
thanks . again awsome !!!
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ydpl8s
Trad climber
Santa Monica, California
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Oct 28, 2014 - 10:34am PT
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Pusan, Korea (1977)
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Mungeclimber
Trad climber
Nothing creative to say
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Oct 28, 2014 - 10:41am PT
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nice pics from Pusan.
Rick, nice pic from the NV.
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Ghost
climber
A long way from where I started
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Oct 28, 2014 - 01:38pm PT
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I've heard there is granite in Canada
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RP3
Big Wall climber
Twain Harte
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Nov 14, 2014 - 11:26am PT
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I'm not sure I buy that GSA Today article. It is an interesting idea, but the authors presented NO data regarding fracture density and simply said "TFCs (tabular fracture clusters) are more abundant in certain areas". I would have loved to have seen data regarding their orientation and abundance. They claim that the fractures "probably" exist under the alluvium of Tuolumne Meadows without backing that up with any evidence. The article seemed to be to be a whole lot of arm waving. I'm surprised that it made it into GSAT.
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