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survival
Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
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Topic Author's Original Post - Jan 5, 2017 - 08:37am PT
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We're all inspired by giant peaks, incredible ridges, steep big walls, and soaring pinnacles.
But I think I'm not alone in my love of more humble stone features. Anyone? Beuhler?
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survival
Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
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Topic Author's Reply - Jan 5, 2017 - 08:42am PT
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This is the kind of thread I expect to draw Mouse and DMT into at least!
Maybe even Sesh Lord Jefe if he can take a picture of something besides giant boulders!
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drljefe
climber
El Presidio San Augustin del Tucson
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Sorry Bruce.
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thebravecowboy
climber
The Good Places
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my first boulder, prior to any formal technical climbing, was an 8m diameter rounded glacial erratic in a central MI forest. The big granite Candy Rock was at the edge of rolling fallow fields woth no development in sight. A fine place for my father to induce affinity for the rock, after the dastardly act of moving us away from the Alabama
Hills. I dig the lone small fieldstone.
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Fritz
Social climber
Choss Creek, ID
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One of the joys of our rocky 5-acre ranchette is the thousands of humble basalt field stones, although I'll admit to elevating some above their original humble beginnings.
Up our "crick" the humble stones are abundant.
Harley (the cat) keeps track of the rest of the humble field stones.
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hooblie
climber
from out where the anecdotes roam
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clode
Trad climber
portland, or
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Bouldering wall literally right outside my tent, Chimney Lake, Eagle Cap Wilderness.
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Darwin
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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I like the thread. I can still picture the first rocks that poke up from the grass lands just East of Oakdale (I think) on the drive from the Bay Area to the Valley. I think there are similar ones on 140 and down east of Clovis, too. I always thought of the Barrow Downs in the Fellowship of the Ring, give the Valley fog that can occur there.
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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hey there say, survival...
wow, i really love these... thanks for sharing...
*neat puppy pillow, happygirrrl... :)
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hooblie
climber
from out where the anecdotes roam
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this chunk called me in, it had a story that slowly unfolded.serious scars, and a kind of solitude but with signs of resistance.this remnant almost made me jump. a bygone battle, over what?taking stock of the bigger picture ... an excavation site, the scene of a clash near old route 66. relinquished iron at the foot of the stalwart, sharing a donor site and a settlement, nine decades inbut the real story runs way deeper than that
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hooblie
climber
from out where the anecdotes roam
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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NOT humble field stones. Possibly among the world's top field stone models, these beauties grace
the north side of Hwy 140 just outside the picturesque and sleepy hamlet of Catheys Valley.
[Click to View YouTube Video]
Let's be clear about true field stones.
First, though, I'd like to say that in my opinion, WC Fields had stones as big as any man. Did you see the stunts? My god!
Also, not all stones found in fields are field stones. You may have your opinion, but mine is based on observation in the field(s) of field stones and cobbles, which are commonly found in the same places.
The difference is night and day...cobbles are rounded and smoothed, while field stones, good for building, are angular and roughly-shaped. Both may have lichens or moss attached.
Cobbles are used by folks here in the valley, where they are abundant, especially out in the dredge tailings by Snelling and Merced Falls; but frankly, the style is not appealing--all that cement that is used is not beautiful, it's a waste. It just looks tacky. All those plant borders and porches and facings...tsk-tsk, you shoulda used brick.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Humble ain't a werd in Texas, hombre!
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Cragar
climber
MSLA - MT
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Tombstone topography sure is coo. Dingus seems to take quite a bit of notice of his surroundings and I think has posted pics of other tombstone zones..? Like the fields a bit further north than Mariposa..
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Cragar
climber
MSLA - MT
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awesome!!! keep 'em coming, por favor! I like the mix of digger(foothill) pines, scrub oak, melty columnar and some moss!
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hooblie
climber
from out where the anecdotes roam
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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There's a spot I like to go here in the center of town: the courtyard of the El Cap Hotel on Main and M.
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