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L
climber
A chartreuse glider in an azure blue sky...
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Topic Author's Original Post - Oct 14, 2007 - 11:48am PT
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It starts with a scenic lift up several thousand feet that fools you into thinking this is going to be a breeze...
Not far from where the lift deposits you, you get to walk the plank...Arrgh, matey...and the real fun begins.
There are a few places where...well...it looks like prayers are mandatory...
And a few blind hairpin turns where swearing and/or crying is excused...perhaps even encouraged.
Then of course there's that whole passing thing. Who gets the outside lane is usually a matter of size...as in Might Makes Right.
One of the more exciting aspects of this superhighway to the heavens...
Probably can't do this leg of it with a Starbucks cup in your hand...
This is what the trail looks like on a slow day. On a crowded day, hikers just grab the beltloops of the person in front of them and depend on the gravitational force of the Congo line to keep them safe.
And at last--the summit! Where you can get a healthy Coke and fries to refresh yourself...before the death-defying butt-slide back down.
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Tarbuster
climber
right here, right now
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Oct 14, 2007 - 12:43pm PT
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Neato!
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Chiloe
Trad climber
Lee, NH
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Oct 14, 2007 - 12:47pm PT
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Are the padlocks to foil pranksters (Hah-hah!) or a structural link in the chains?
Doesn't look like they've bought into that scaredy-cat self-belay-on-via-ferratta technology.
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Zander
Trad climber
Berkeley
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Oct 14, 2007 - 03:17pm PT
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Cool!
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Hardman Knott
Gym climber
Muir Woods National Monument, Mill Valley, Ca
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Oct 14, 2007 - 03:44pm PT
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How often does someone fall off?
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jstan
climber
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Oct 14, 2007 - 04:36pm PT
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This topic has made several trips around the net. Don't try
to pull it up from Russian sites. When I tried, something
was definitely trying to work my computer over.
The padlocks are sold to people using this Via Ferrata and
they leave them permanently attached to the chains like
one would leave a prayer flag or a memento to one's having
been there. Takes a saw to get them off.
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Duke-
Trad climber
SF, aka: Dirkastan
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Oct 14, 2007 - 11:33pm PT
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What an interesting place. Nice TR.
-Dirka
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Lost Arrow
Trad climber
The North Ridge of the San Fernando
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Oct 14, 2007 - 11:39pm PT
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I plan to go do those cables next summer on my way to the Gobi Dessert to see the great solar total eclipise in Mongolia.
Aug 1, 2008.
Anyone want to go to Mongolia with me.
Lost Arrow
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L
climber
A chartreuse glider in an azure blue sky...
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Topic Author's Reply - Oct 15, 2007 - 12:44pm PT
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Matthew,
No, I haven't done the thing...but I'm thinking I would like to! (Or climb somewhere in that area at least.) The beauty of those mountains over there, sans bolted boards, chaines, etc. is very enticing.
Stzzo--Coke-n-fries on a mountaintop = Chinese technology (I haven't the foggiest!)
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davidji
Social climber
CA
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Oct 15, 2007 - 01:41pm PT
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Thanks L! I'd seen some of the pix before, but it was good with your narration.
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M3(mad moderate mtnr)
Mountain climber
Sac'to, CA
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Oct 16, 2007 - 12:38am PT
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Nice, Laura!
And Lost Arrow, I'd be intrigued to go to Mongolia w/ yea! I'm angling to participate in a Burn Conference (I'm a burn RN in Sac'to, CA) in Beijing just before the Olympics (08/08/08). I spent some time in Beijing, and returned there twice in the past year.
The locks -- as my Chinese friends say -- are placed by couples to "lock" their love/relationship. HuaShan is one of the five sacred peaks in Taoism, and is in a fine mountain range which divides traditional South China from the North. The QingLing Mountain Range's high peak -- TaiBaiShan ("stores Snow Mountain") -- is just over 14,000', and sweet granite. I got arrested trying to hike the Taoist trail of temples up it in 1987! It was a cool trip!!!
Tasha dele(k).
M3
(Z Pancake Man)
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Donny... the OHHH!- Riginal
Sport climber
A Deluxe Apartment in the Sky
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Oct 16, 2007 - 12:47am PT
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Ahh yes...the infamous Flume Trail. One of my favorite rides.
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goatboy smellz
climber
Nederland
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I wonder how they get the concrete up there.
Shifou Mountain in Hunan Province
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Those pics are from China's OSHA, right?
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tolman_paul
Trad climber
Anchorage, AK
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It's a sad commentary that in our "free" country, something like that could never be built, yet in "opressed" China, no problem.
People still get killed in OSHA facilities, and work safely in "dangerous" places.
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Brandon-
climber
The Granite State.
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Reminds me of my visit to El Chorro. Very similar walkway, only the one in China looks safer.
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Daphne
Trad climber
Mill Valley, CA
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I miss L
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Brandon-
climber
The Granite State.
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Whatever happened to L? I jump into and out of ST, so some things get missed.
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Dirka
Trad climber
SF
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Awesomeeeee~!!
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