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Domingo
Trad climber
El Portal, CA
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Feb 22, 2008 - 06:24pm PT
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That's pretty interesting. Does anyone have a picture of that part of Elephant Rock before the slide? The "before" shot on the site doesn't show it.
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WBraun
climber
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Feb 22, 2008 - 06:35pm PT
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So where the arrows point is the left side of the crack that used to be there.
Jardine and I went there to clean that crack. He did the FA of it but I thought the route sucked so I left and did not do it.
I never knew what he called it.
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nutjob
Trad climber
San Jose, CA
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Feb 23, 2008 - 03:04pm PT
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Way cool. Amazing reactions and presence of mind to get the camera ready and shoot it! And sweet that you have a camera that can fire off that fast.
In 2005 last week of June, I witnessed a HUGE rockfall off the face of halfdome at 5am (was waking up from an unplanned bivy somewhere east and above the North Dome Gulley). I thought it was a fighter plane screaming through the valley below the level of the rim, and was up in time to watch the rock mass still free falling before it devastated the slabs approach. Anyone approaching then would have absolutely died. It had to be at least 100 high section of rock, quite possibly larger. Hard to judge the scale of things on that massive wall, but it was definitely bigger than boot flake appears to be on El Cap (I've never been up close so can't say how big it is). And it wasn't just a single big chunk coming off, it was sort of a rain of rock tumbling down, like it was already shattered on the wall when it came off. It filled the valley I could see from that vantage point with rock dust, from east of Washington Column to Glacier Apron.
And I don't think I got a picture... but maybe of the dust cloud, and hey that reminds me I need to get the pictures from my buddy because they're not in my collection. I may have more hat pics in there.
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deuce4
climber
Hobart, Australia
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Feb 23, 2008 - 04:15pm PT
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I remember seeing the aftermath when the piece to the right fell off. When was that, Werner, 1986 or so? That was a really big one.
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Clint Cummins
Trad climber
SF Bay area, CA
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Jan 26, 2014 - 04:05pm PT
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So where the arrows point is the left side of the crack that used to be there.
Jardine and I went there to clean that crack. He did the FA of it but I thought the route sucked so I left and did not do it.
I never knew what he called it. It was called Duflickus.
From
http://www.rayjardine.com/adventures/Climbing/climbing_log/index.htm
1979-04-12 Yosemite Clean Duflickus, on Elephant Rock Bill Critchlow 100 p/u, blder
1979-04-16 Yosemite Clean and attempt Duflickus Bill Critchlow bldr, 100 p/u. S.B.
1979-04-21 Yosemite Duflickus 5.11 Bill Critchlow 1st ascent. R. side Elephant Rock. 60 p/u
1979-12-31 Yosemite Duflickus falls off, making a horriffic rockslide!
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BASE104
Social climber
An Oil Field
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Jan 26, 2014 - 04:14pm PT
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A new route beckons.
Seriously, those are great photos.
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