Obscure Rock from Nevada and Elsewhere

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jonnyrig

climber
Topic Author's Reply - Aug 20, 2017 - 11:16am PT
Oh I am not Brutus of Wyde
And I can't climb the wide cracks with pride
For my jams are too narrow
And my technique is terrible
If I said that I could them I've lied!

Spent the morning up by Sunny Delight in Carson. Went up next to it on the silent partner, got shut down on the wide. It will go, i just lack the requisite confidence or technique. If you do it, it will take a #6. I wound have pushed it if I had two with me; but not on a single, not alone on rope solo. Still had fun trying. Some of the rock does not inspire confidence.
hooblie

climber
from out where the anecdotes roam
Aug 28, 2017 - 07:48am PT
Oldfattradguy2

Trad climber
Here and there
Sep 3, 2017 - 08:31am PT
The selenites have burned, almost the whole range. I am working the fire,
jonnyrig

climber
Topic Author's Reply - Oct 15, 2017 - 08:31am PT
STFU and go somewhere.
GTFO. DO something.
hooblie

climber
from out where the anecdotes roam
Dec 5, 2017 - 07:28am PT
thebravecowboy

climber
The Good Places
Dec 5, 2017 - 07:53am PT
basalt?
donini

Trad climber
Ouray, Colorado
Dec 5, 2017 - 07:55am PT
Mungeclimber

Trad climber
Nothing creative to say
Dec 5, 2017 - 08:31am PT
Elsewhere obscure...

BigB

Trad climber
Red Rock
Dec 5, 2017 - 08:36am PT
donini, that's in Nevada?!?
Belltron

Trad climber
Reno
Feb 5, 2018 - 07:58am PT
splitclimber

climber
Sonoma County
Feb 5, 2018 - 11:17am PT
Dam it Munge. I know where that is. :)

some obscure Nevada granite from New Years weekend.


Urizen

Ice climber
Berkeley, CA
Feb 5, 2018 - 11:45am PT
^ Looks like a place not far from Tonopah.
Blakey

Trad climber
Sierra Vista
Feb 5, 2018 - 02:50pm PT
chainsaw

Trad climber
CA
Feb 6, 2018 - 08:57pm PT

This is a better pic of one of the Smokey Valley spots. Closer examination at the right time of morning, 830 am in winter shadow reveals that the mountain is actually Cheech Buttress and Chong wall! Sorry the enlargement is blurry.


Nevada has been good for other things too. These are dumpster dives from an old forge about a hundred years since it burned down.

TLP

climber
Feb 6, 2018 - 09:28pm PT
E. central Nevada, limestone. Very solid. That's quite a big roof up there. Total height of cliff 160-200'?
Fritz

Social climber
Choss Creek, ID
Apr 23, 2018 - 08:21pm PT
I escaped S. Idaho & drove down to the Tonopah area to visit old mining towns, old mines, & hopefully get some exercise hiking around looking for collectable minerals.

Day 1, I drove dirt roads down from HWY 50 to the not quite ghost town of Belmont, found some garnets & about 1000 mud puddles along the way & on my late afternoon way from Belmont to the not-quite ghost town of Manhatan, I noticed some interesting spires on the northern horizon.

I eschewed starting cocktail hour at my beloved Hotel Mizpah in Tonopah, & just for you folks, did another 10 miles of more dirt road driving.

When I get home, I'll post some details, but you can drive your Audi right to these 200' tall granite crags.






TWP

Trad climber
Mancos, CO & Bend, OR
Apr 23, 2018 - 08:34pm PT
Yes Fritz. Post details. I often have to drive from Oregon to Arizona and can route myself many different ways through Nevada in search of obscurities ... like these domes/cliffs you've just posted.
Reilly

Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
Apr 23, 2018 - 08:43pm PT
Fritz, yer use of ‘tower’ rather begs the issue, but there is potential there,
especially if you get benighted in Area 51!
thebravecowboy

climber
The Good Places
Apr 23, 2018 - 09:05pm PT
I dig it Fritz.






2700' vertical, 20++ mi from pavement
Fritz

Social climber
Choss Creek, ID
Apr 23, 2018 - 09:05pm PT
Yes Reilly, perhaps tower is an over-statement, but after another great day of hiking obscure mines in the Tonopah area, and dinner & a little Cline red wine, "crag" just did not seem to describe the "mushrooms of granite."

I did do a brief internet search under the heading of rock climbs near Belmont & found zero that applied to this area that is about 5 miles west of Belmont,


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