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Minerals
Social climber
The Deli
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Mar 27, 2018 - 09:48pm PT
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Thanks for sharing your photos, Ney. Nice blog. I am envious of the great views that you get to see, and you take great photos of those views.
Fun thread, Yos. Your first photo of the sea of peaks is neat – shows how extensive that part of the Sierra is. Mr. Crowley on the left and the edge of The Convict on the right.
Rick, your Mono Vining shot shows the older and younger glacial moraines on the East Side really well – nice. Grant Lake too.
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Rick A
climber
Boulder, Colorado
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Mar 28, 2018 - 06:14am PT
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A little off topic, but still of climbing interest, from farther afield:
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PinkTaco
Mountain climber
Utah
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Mar 28, 2018 - 05:37pm PT
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Ney, oh man you little guys don't really bug me. Lots of friends and family into it. It's really the big boys making the constant racket.
Seano, I agree 100%, helicopters are the worst. The Grand Canyon is an absolute joke, I can't believe they are allowed at all.
Another place that is a real disappointment is Sedona, AZ. There are so many helicopters there, it is just too bad people don't seem to value quiet as a resource. I can't believe that property owners there let that one go through the Sedona city council. I for one would never invest there simply because of that racket. (even if the routes were less studly!)
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Ney Grant
Trad climber
Pollock Pines
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Mar 28, 2018 - 08:30pm PT
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Yeah, I don't understand why the helicopters get such a break in the grand canyon. If I do an overfly, it has to be at 14,500 feet and I can't fly parallel - I have to fly specific patterns that cross the canyon at a 90 degree angle. It seems to be a good compromise that minimizes us gnats.
But sightseeing copters get to fly as low as 9,500 feet and there are about 100 of them to one of us. At least the rules separate us because I'd hate to have to worry about running into those guys.
BTW, my dad was a Navy pilot and he use to open the doors so the crew could sit at the door as they flew down the canyon well below the rim. That must have been a hell of a ride, though a bit loud for anyone below...
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seano
Mountain climber
none
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Mar 28, 2018 - 08:49pm PT
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Ney, I don't mind a few little props -- I actually enjoy seeing them wandering through the mountains. I've flown in a Cessna 152 a couple of times, and cruising along at 10,000 feet in a lawnmower with a gas tank doubling as a wing was an incredible experience. I got to take photos like this: http://www.drdirtbag.com/2015/07/22/aerial-north-cascades/
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yosguns
climber
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Topic Author's Reply - Mar 28, 2018 - 09:23pm PT
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Dug up a few more of Castleton on a SFO-DEN flight last May.
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micronut
Trad climber
Fresno/Clovis, ca
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Mar 28, 2018 - 10:32pm PT
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Nice shots Yos.
Last summer on a random flight from Los Angeles back to Fresno I got a nice view of the Castle Rock Spire area out the right side of our little Brasília turboprop. Kind of crummy photos but it really shows the spires off nicely from a unique vantage. Not an often traveled area.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Mar 29, 2018 - 03:45am PT
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I have a friend named Jack who, in the early 70s, wanted to get his pilot's license so we could go fly over the Sierra and play "Bradford Washburn." We both got married and went separate ways. What a shame.
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Vitaliy M.
Mountain climber
San Francisco
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Mar 31, 2018 - 10:24pm PT
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Whitney and Gardiner from a few days ago.
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Radish
Trad climber
SeKi, California
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Its cheating really to be able to see it all from the Heli ! This was one of the Palisades peaks?? Not sure which one now as we were going round and round and up and down in a strong wind on a search from last year. Maybe someone will known which peak..Thunderbolt?? There's someone on top even.
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rottingjohnny
Sport climber
Sands Motel , Las Vegas
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No summit boulder...Can't be Thunderbolt...
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seano
Mountain climber
none
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That's Sill in the background, so probably Middle Pal or Disappointment in the foreground.
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limpingcrab
Trad climber
the middle of CA
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Couple low quality shots from a SAR last year. Unique views of Kings Canyon and the Moro/Castle area.
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glenrayj
Trad climber
sausalito ca
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Super fun to see this thread. Made me finally sign up to share a few of my favorites - also from a smaller plane at lower altitudes. Weather dependent, I'll always try to take a route over some part of the Sierra's that I love if I'm crossing
Here are a few from a recent trip up the east side and across over Mammoth, then down the Valley on the way to KDVO (Gnoss) in Novato.
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micronut
Trad climber
Fresno/Clovis, ca
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Gorgeous shots Glenrayj!!!! Glad you signed up. Super cool thread.
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hooblie
climber
from out where the anecdotes roam
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see how those typos just disappear when you take your time?
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donini
Trad climber
Ouray, Colorado
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We need to make that area a no fly zone so we don't get contrails in our photos.
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le_bruce
climber
Oakland, CA
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Killer pics on this thread, thanks all.
glenrayj, the light in this pic is unreal. what a shot
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