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Chicken Skinner
Trad climber
Yosemite
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Topic Author's Original Post - Jan 7, 2013 - 10:31pm PT
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Looks like one to me.
Scary!
Ken
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Salamanizer
Trad climber
The land of Fruits & Nuts!
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Just think, you could do the First and Last accent!
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Chicken Skinner
Trad climber
Yosemite
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Topic Author's Reply - Jan 7, 2013 - 11:07pm PT
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Intriguing isn't it? It is all yours Salamanizer. Really nice shot Snowhazed.
Ken
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Salamanizer
Trad climber
The land of Fruits & Nuts!
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Oh dude!!!
I've been on both ends of that photo... Yikes!
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ß Î Ø T Ç H
Boulder climber
bouldering
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Scary!
Even the tree died of fright.
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Wayno
Big Wall climber
Seattle, WA
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I think I just shart myself.
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TomCochrane
Trad climber
Santa Cruz Mountains and Monterey Bay
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the Gong Flake that fell off from Lower Cathedral Rock after Kor and I climbed the second ascent and Eric Beck and Bridwell did the third ascent...not to mention the pile of rocks that Layton knocked down on me in the chimney behind the flake
and the El Cap Tree Direct route that fell off after Sacherer and i climbed the third (?) ascent (Erick Beck also made a subsequent ascent before it fell off)
and The Gendarme at Seneca that fell down a week or two after our ascent
and the Robbins/Taylor route on Middle Teton that fell off
and the car-sized block that fell down near me from the top of the Grand Teton North Face
and the house-sized boulder that fell down the Middle Teton West Face
and the large boulder that started rolling downhill from my weight as I started climbing up it while soloing Pigeon Spire in the Bugaboos...Margaret Young and Jim Richardson had a ringside seat from Bugaboo Spire as I managed to scramble over the top of the rolling boulder, which then went crashing on down to the glacier
and the loose flake that blocked Kim Schmitz and me from the FA of the route just left of the Steck/Salathe
and the big rappel block that Kim Schmitz and i pulled off the first pitch of Rixon's South Face Route
and the car-sized block pulled off past me by Joe Faint's belay anchors, while catching my 100+ plus lead fall on Tepee's Pillar East Face
and the several tons of rocks that fell down past Claire Mearnz and me while sitting atop Dolt Tower in 1985
and the big rock fall down the Grand Teton North Face that chased Julie Tull and me running off down the upper glacier
and the December avalanche that scoured the North Face of Mt Temple in the Wind Rivers during the night following Margaret Young, Jim Richardson and i escaping it
oh, and there was this frozen waterfall in Connecticut that fell down while I was about a pitch up it soloing in the middle of the night...managed to leap from the falling ice onto a snow covered ledge off to the side
and this other frozen waterfall in the Delaware Gap, that melted and fell off not long after John Mattox and I made it to the summit
you may post to the religion thread any speculations as to why i am still alive
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Sierra Ledge Rat
Mountain climber
Old and Broken Down in Appalachia
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Did anyone else besides me have issues with death blocks directly above Camp 4 on the Nose? Between Camp 4 and the base of the Great Roof?
Seems to me that black diorite had a lot of loose blocks. I used half of my runners tying off blocks to protect my belayer, and I was afraid to put in any protection for fear of dislodging something!
That was ~30 years ago, maybe all the loose stuff has been trundled.
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couchmaster
climber
pdx
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Didn't one of Werners entire FA climbs fall off the wall and dissappear? I forget the name, above Mirror Lake?
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Salamanizer speaks truly.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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This one is BIG! But, luckily, off route.
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JEleazarian
Trad climber
Fresno CA
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Wow, Tom. I just made a mental note: Do not attempt to climb a route after Tom does!
I think the El Cap Tree Direct route's disappearance is the one that truly surprised me. We had a refrigerator-sized block come crashing between us on the A4 traverse pitch on Koko Continuation, but the rockfall possibilities on that face were well known. Despite the talus field and lack of vegetaion under the SE face of El Cap, I never expected to lose, in essence, the whole route!
I still miss the Rotten Log on the Arches and the "Killer Death Flake" above the Hog Trough on Overhang Bypass.
John
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Melissa
Gym climber
berkeley, ca
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For all the talk of the death block in the Monster ow, I'm surprised no one else was freaked out by these guys poised over the Alcove. At lease by the time we saw them, our bacon was behind them. I would have loved to have moved them, but without being able to trundle them, I worried that I might make matters worse. If they sat there that long...
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nutjob
Gym climber
Berkeley, CA
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I don't know about the killer death flake on hog trough, but about a pitch up there is a VW-bug sized boulder that leaned out about a foot when le_bruce stemmed onto it a few years ago. And somewhere in no-man's land between Return to Stone Age and Overhang Bypass there is a stack of three rocks that you must climb over and they all teeter back and forth as you climb them... definitely pull-down-not-out climbing style there.
Tom Cochrane, even if you were a cat you've used up your lives!
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JEleazarian
Trad climber
Fresno CA
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Nutjob, I think that VW-sized block was what I was referring to as the killer death flake. When I said "above the Hog Trough," I was meaning on the next pitch.
I last did the route while it was there in 1976, so my memory of it faded a bit. I just remember an easy fifth class move or two. I did the route again in 2000, with the block gone, and the move was in the 5.10 range for me (my partner thought it was reachy 5.8, but I couldn't make the reach, so it was much harder for me).
John
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Hey, Tom Cochrane is a rabbit's foot. Whaddya mean UNlucky?
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