Bouldering 120 (before they haul the boulder away)

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Mungeclimber

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Nothing creative to say

Topic Author's Original Post - Oct 18, 2016 - 09:04am PT

Gilroy

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Bolderado

Oct 18, 2016 - 09:11am PT

Pothole (w/sit start) V3

Mungeclimber

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Topic Author's Reply - Oct 18, 2016 - 09:23am PT

Assphalt Scraper Traverse - V1 (V6 sideways reverse dyno)

clockclimb

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Orem, Utah

Oct 18, 2016 - 09:25am PT

smashed car holds are off

Escopeta

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Idaho

Oct 18, 2016 - 09:25am PT

Looks like the camper had no problem sending.

hossjulia

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Carson City, NV

Oct 18, 2016 - 09:49am PT

Did someone drive through the unlocked gate? That gate is unlocked a lot for easy CalTrans access. Doesn't really make it OK to do that though.

My guess is those boulders are season closing for 120. Road damage under them is probable. New road bed too.

We had a boulder this size come down when we had our trucks above it one winter TPR was open. Luckily it stayed intact and rolled over just enough to
allow us by. However, it dug a trench all the way across and through the road, cutting it in two. It stayed that way until spring.

Reilly

Mountain climber

The Other Monrovia- CA

Oct 18, 2016 - 10:14am PT

The removal of boulders is part the national policing initiative based on the 'Broken Windows' theorem. BITD, this was used as the excuse to rid the Icicle Creek near Leavenworth, WA of the fabled Face Climbing boulder on the pretext that the road needed widening for safety reasons. In reality the road needed widening so heavy equipment could get up there to build McMansions and druve out the undesirables. Don't let this happen, Dirtbags!

Mungeclimber

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Topic Author's Reply - Oct 18, 2016 - 10:39am PT

hossjulia, not to worry about "that"... No one unauthorized was taking that pic. It's from Cal Trans.

Did someone drive through the unlocked gate? That gate is unlocked a lot for easy CalTrans access. Doesn't really make it OK to do that though.

But I'd hike up there in a heartbeat if I lived there to send the ephemera.

Edge

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Betwixt and Between Nederland & Boulder, CO

Oct 18, 2016 - 11:22am PT

That's a stellar paint job on the center lines.

Maybe check under the boulder for what's left of an inebriated guy pushing a spray cart?

Splater

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Grey Matter

Oct 18, 2016 - 12:20pm PT

Why isn't this part of the trundling thread?

Mungeclimber

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Topic Author's Reply - Oct 19, 2016 - 05:33pm PT

THEY BLEW THE SH!T OUT OF THOSE!!!

https://www.facebook.com/Caltrans-District-9-178603062220478/

F10

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Bishop

Oct 19, 2016 - 06:01pm PT

hossjulia, did this boulder have a name ?

I remember you telling me a lot of the precarious looking boulders had been given names waiting for their eventual plummet on to the 120

Mungeclimber

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Topic Author's Reply - Oct 19, 2016 - 06:25pm PT

With the size of those blasts, I bet it dumped more rock down the hill. lol

hossjulia

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Carson City, NV

Oct 19, 2016 - 08:44pm PT

The only hanger I knew the name of was the monkey's butt, don't know if it's still there or not.

Glad CalTrans got to have some fun with those.

I should be headed over 120 next week, glad they are planning on opening it again, maybe tomorrow?

(Going to visit Hen-nifer Lynne)

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ne'er–do–well

Oct 19, 2016 - 08:55pm PT

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Lynne Leichtfuss

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Will know soon

Oct 20, 2016 - 08:57am PT

Julia, wish I could join you. Give them my hugs and howdy's, please. In a few months I'll be in Carson Valley :)

I haven't see Monkey's Butt for a couple of seasons and really looked for it. Only thing I can figure is it slid into an unrecognizable position or it too became pebbles. Cheers, L.