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Toronto Canada
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Topic Author's Original Post - Mar 14, 2009 - 12:04pm PT
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Hi folks! I have keyboard in hand and would like to throw out a question to you. I need some background on an article I'm writing;
specifically on rock faces that are prone to crumbling and therefore considered off limits. Here's the scenario ...
my young adventurer(a recreational wall climber) tries to solo up a facing that he finds himself stranded on. Two veterans of the sport eventually rescue him from above.
Here's the question. Where in the US of A can you find that kind of condition amongst hills that are legitimate climbing terrain?
Thank you in advance. Richard
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Toronto Canada
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Topic Author's Reply - Mar 14, 2009 - 12:23pm PT
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Thank you
Anything like that in the Ozarks by any chance?
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Bullwinkle
Boulder climber
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Mar 14, 2009 - 12:26pm PT
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what surfer-boy said. . .Joshua Tree.
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CAMNOTCLIMB
Trad climber
novato ca
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Mar 14, 2009 - 12:27pm PT
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PNM is a classic
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Chaz
Trad climber
Boss Angeles
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Mar 14, 2009 - 12:42pm PT
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Shitty "rock" you're looking for?
Here you go.
This place makes Joshua Tree look like Yosemite Granite.
And the trains run through here more or less constantly (except when you're trying to get a picture of one, not one train in two hours on the western track in the foreground)
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Toronto Canada
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Topic Author's Reply - Mar 14, 2009 - 12:49pm PT
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To whomcannotclimb ... I can't seem to find anything on Google using the letters PNM.
If you guys climb as fast as you write replies ...
Well- I appreciate your input. I'll drop back and collect the offerings later. Thanks again.
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nature
climber
Tucson, AZ
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Mar 14, 2009 - 02:00pm PT
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if we climbed as fast as we reply we wouldn't be here....
we'd be out swapping leads with Ammon....
or just out climbing period.
LOL!
Good luck with your story. let us know what it is and where we can read it when the time comes.
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bluering
Trad climber
Santa Clara, Ca.
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Mar 14, 2009 - 02:46pm PT
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Pinnacles, the chosspile capital of the world!!!!
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T Moses
Trad climber
Paso Robles
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Mar 14, 2009 - 02:48pm PT
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Pinnacles:
Some call it an addiction. Some call it an affliction.
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Chaz
Trad climber
Boss Angeles
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Mar 14, 2009 - 02:54pm PT
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TimidTopRope,
That's Mormon Rocks, east of Devil's Punchbowl.
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climbrunride
Trad climber
Durango, CO
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Mar 14, 2009 - 03:08pm PT
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specifically on rock faces that are prone to crumbling
How about Glacier Point Apron?
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Patrick Sawyer
climber
Originally California now Ireland
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Mar 14, 2009 - 04:30pm PT
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Pinnacles, the chosspile capital of the world!!!!
Jeez Bluey, another thing I agree with you. This is getting worrying. ;-)
You do not fall in the Pinnacles otherwise, you might as well be sliding your asss down a cheese grater.
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bluering
Trad climber
Santa Clara, Ca.
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Mar 14, 2009 - 04:39pm PT
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Geez, Paddy, pretty soon me and you will be tongue-kissing each other....
Try and get THAT image out of your head, bwhaahahhaah!!!!!!!
sorry.
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noshoesnoshirt
climber
dangling off a wind turbine in a town near you
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Mar 14, 2009 - 05:21pm PT
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"Anything like that in the Ozarks by any chance? "
Sure. Tons of chosspiles in Missouri.
For Arkansas N. side of Mt. Magazine sux. Loose stuff at Haw Creek. Maybe Pinnacle Mt. in Little Rock. http://www.arkansasstateparks.com/pinnaclemountain/
Realistically, you can find loose shite anywhere there is rock. Just look for the stuff people aren't climbing.
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David Knopp
Trad climber
CA
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Mar 14, 2009 - 08:05pm PT
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i spent all fall climbing @ Pinnacles and i thinks your characterizations are a bit harsh. i found some great rock there. oh, but i did say the Alabamas had bullet hard stone...
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Fletcher
Trad climber
here to eternity
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Mar 14, 2009 - 08:27pm PT
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Nice photos of Mormon Rocks, chaz. Used to drive through there a lot when my mother-in-law had a property out in Phelan. Lot's of cowboy pics filmed there.
Eric
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Reilly
Mountain climber
Monrovia, CA
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Mar 14, 2009 - 08:46pm PT
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Garden of the Gods?
Seems like I saw choss at Hueco too.
Plenty of choss on a grand scale in the Sandias.
Tons of scenic choss on the Oregon and Washington coast.
I found an absolutely ancient ring pin on something at Nehalem, OR (about '74) which piqued my imagination.
Mega choss along Yakima and Naches river valleys in Wahsington. Tatoosh Range opposite Rainier without equal.
Choss should have claimed the 13 yr old me and my 8 yr old bros above Desert Hot Springs with Granny's clothes line BITD.
Ex-Choss addict, clean for lo these many years
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Tom
Big Wall climber
San Luis Obispo CA
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Mar 14, 2009 - 09:27pm PT
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Pinnacles National Monument
A breccia choss pile that crumbles at the touch.
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pip the dog
Mountain climber
planet dogboy
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Mar 14, 2009 - 09:53pm PT
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anything that is not glacier washed granite is crap.
the pinnacles and the 'garden of the gods' are especially crap.
but then, what would i know -- I'm a Climber not a Writer...
^,,^
EDIT: J-tree is choss? bwaaahaaahaaahaaa. you Californicators don't know what choss is (unless you've been to PNM) Tami is right (though don't tell her i said so) -- anything within a 2 hour drive of Cranmore is crap!
As my buddy Al on the .wreck forever reminded us -- "the CA (as in Canada, morons) Front Range -- where the ice is _way_ more solid than the rock."
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