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The Alpine
Big Wall climber
Tampa, FL
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Topic Author's Original Post - Dec 6, 2007 - 01:30pm PT
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Who's got pictures of those east side routes?
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Indianclimber
climber
Las Vegas
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Not much to climb on the one at Valley of Fire
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Spencer Adkisson
Trad climber
Reno, NV
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Yeah, there is an Elephant rock on the North Coast, Humboldt County too. Stellar routes.
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The Alpine
Big Wall climber
Tampa, FL
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Topic Author's Reply - Dec 11, 2007 - 12:05pm PT
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Elephant Rock in yos peeps. The east side of that thing looks to have some amazing lines.
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The Alpine
Big Wall climber
Tampa, FL
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Topic Author's Reply - Dec 11, 2007 - 09:54pm PT
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Clint?
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Clint Cummins
Trad climber
SF Bay area, CA
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Dec 11, 2007 - 10:54pm PT
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The best I could do would be to scan in some photos from Climbing Magazine of Kurt Smith on some of those north / NE side routes from 1988 like Keeper of the Flame, or Killing Yourself to Life. Are those the ones you meant?
KS posts here, but I don't think he posts many photos. I could be wrong though - he put up some on the "Hero Shots" thread.
The only stuff I have done myself on Elephant Rock is a few trips up Hot Line (A0 version) and some TRing on Killer Pillar.
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The Alpine
Big Wall climber
Tampa, FL
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Topic Author's Reply - Dec 12, 2007 - 09:44am PT
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Which climbing mag was that?
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Clint Cummins
Trad climber
SF Bay area, CA
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Dec 12, 2007 - 02:32pm PT
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Climbing #112, p.11. Photo of Kurt Smith on the FA of Killing Yourself to Live, by Todd Gordon. Complete with zebra lycra and knee brace.
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marty(r)
climber
beneath the valley of ultravegans
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Dec 12, 2007 - 02:41pm PT
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Back when the Reagan was fighting commies and Tab was winning the cola wars, Wide World of Sports or the Guinness show rigged a tyrolean between Elephant Rock and Elephant Graveyard under the guidance of one J. Long. Charles Cole did the deed. Maybe Largo can post up some recollections? I'm sure all were paid handsomely (NOT!) for the effort.
Mussy, Tar, Leroy, Jaybro, Werner--any stories???
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The Alpine
Big Wall climber
Tampa, FL
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Topic Author's Reply - Dec 16, 2007 - 10:50am PT
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Think you can motivate and scan that mag Clint?
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Chiloe
Trad climber
Lee, NH
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Dec 16, 2007 - 11:57am PT
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Which Elephant Rock?
Yosemite?
City of Rocks?
Valley of Fire, NV?
Missouri?
other?
There's an Elephant Rock at Crawford Notch in New Hampshire, another at Smugglers Notch in Vermont, too. Both offer good climbing, at rather different levels of adventure.
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Jaybro
Social climber
The West
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Dec 16, 2007 - 02:37pm PT
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Who has climbed all those elephant rocks? Anyone?
I've hit the one in;
the valley,
City of Rocks,
and seen the one in Valley of boreal
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Tarbuster
climber
right here, right now
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Dec 16, 2007 - 08:01pm PT
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Elephant Rock, Yos:
I helped Dimitri Barton put up (down) Killer Pillar, on the West Side.
Went up Hotline with Kim Carrigan in '80: we went across the crux on our feet, not fingers, using some rurp scar sidepulls.
Pink Dreams to Fatal mistake a couple times; first time out with Kevin "Gong Show" Leary. That's a sweet route.
Plumbline & Trundling Juan still on my list, right after my re-juve.
Sorry, no pics, but one day, Don Peterson (more name dropping) of Tis-Sa-Ack fame, may oblige me to scan some of his early/mid 70's stuff, Hotline among them.
No Marty, I was absent for the Tyrolean.
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Clint Cummins
Trad climber
SF Bay area, CA
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Dec 16, 2007 - 08:25pm PT
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photo by Todd Gordon
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Caveman
climber
Cumberland Plateau
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Dec 16, 2007 - 11:25pm PT
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"Wide World of Sports or the Guinness show rigged a tyrolean between Elephant Rock and Elephant Graveyard under the guidance of one J. Long."
Just curious, what kind of distance are you talking about? caveman
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The Alpine
Big Wall climber
Tampa, FL
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Topic Author's Reply - Dec 17, 2007 - 01:10pm PT
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Thanks Clint! Wow, thats some outfit Kurt has on there.
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the kid
Trad climber
fayetteville, wv
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Dec 17, 2007 - 07:26pm PT
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man those are some cool tights!!!!
knee braces sucks though...
those were some fun routes i did with tucker tech, dave schultz and ken ariza...
ks
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squatch
Boulder climber
santa cruz, CA
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Apr 28, 2010 - 11:29pm PT
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anybody else find the bolts on most of the Killer Pillar routes to be a litle out of wack? like in the wrong places fairly often?
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hoipolloi
climber
A friends backyard with the neighbors wifi
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Apr 28, 2010 - 11:38pm PT
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I found the bolts on Fun Terminal to be pretty wierd, climbing around the left side and all the bolts are 2-2.5 feet around the right side. 100th Monkey was fine, one bolt a bit too far right, but nothing bad.
Damn though, Fun Terminal was HARD...kicked my ass good!
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msiddens
Trad climber
Mountain View
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Apr 29, 2010 - 02:58pm PT
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That shot of Ed B was always a damn cool shot.
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kev
climber
A pile of dirt.
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Apr 29, 2010 - 03:48pm PT
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Wow it looks featured in spots by the top through binoculars but until I saw that photo I had no idea....
Thanks Walleye!
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Mittens
climber
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Apr 29, 2010 - 04:44pm PT
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Bucket Brigade= the sh#t.
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cultureshock
Trad climber
Mountain View
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Jun 14, 2013 - 12:08pm PT
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Here is a cool Mikey Schaefer photo of Keeper of the Flame.
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Jennie
Trad climber
Elk Creek, Idaho
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Jun 14, 2013 - 07:26pm PT
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Hey! Idaho has more than one elephant...
This volcanic plug 25 miles northeast of Idaho Falls has one pitch sport routes up to 5.13. Its by an RV campground which is can be crowded on holiday weekends. Must check in with land owner
This definitely isn't a journey's end. But if one happens to be in the area for fishing the Snake River, swimming at Heise Hot Springs...
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Jennie
Trad climber
Elk Creek, Idaho
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Jun 14, 2013 - 09:00pm PT
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Wow! The elephant at The City grew some ivory...
:-)
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Peter Haan
Trad climber
Santa Cruz, CA
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Jun 14, 2013 - 09:38pm PT
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good one Cosmic.
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Ed Hartouni
Trad climber
Livermore, CA
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Jun 15, 2013 - 01:07am PT
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all on film... reminds me that I have to go out and shot it soon... lighting is problematic...
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looks easy from here
climber
Ben Lomond, CA
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Jun 16, 2013 - 01:26am PT
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It's not as big as some of those others, but Pinnacles NP has an Elephant Rock as well.
The Regular Route up the back is only 5.6, but it's one of my favorites in the park: it offers a lot of variety in a single pitch with an amazing view from the top and is a great route for a new climber to follow.
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chill
climber
between the flat part and the blue wobbly thing
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Jun 16, 2013 - 01:32am PT
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Its not a rock, its a perch, but still an Elephant.
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Kalimon
Social climber
Ridgway, CO
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Jul 21, 2017 - 11:51pm PT
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11d = warmup . . . not!
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Clint Cummins
Trad climber
SF Bay area, CA
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Jul 22, 2017 - 12:35am PT
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Since photobucket is no longer displaying old photos for free, I've uploaded this to the supertopo photo storage.
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Captain...or Skully
climber
Boise, ID
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Jul 22, 2017 - 05:57am PT
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There's an obscure big wall route on the Elephant.
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