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HighDesertDJ
Trad climber
Arid-zona
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Oct 13, 2008 - 01:40pm PT
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It's really a tragedy that our most beloved rock faces have fallen into such disrepair. The NPS needs more maintenance funding than ever! Call your congressman!
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Mighty Hiker
Social climber
Vancouver, B.C.
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Oct 13, 2008 - 01:43pm PT
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The new CCC - Civilian Climbing Corps - will need to do something about it.
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Scared Silly
Trad climber
UT
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Oct 13, 2008 - 01:53pm PT
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I see two scars growing. Must be an infection. Either that someone is pick at HD's scabs.
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SteveW
Trad climber
The state of confusion
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Oct 13, 2008 - 01:57pm PT
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Blame that da#n Fatty. The Emporer has no clothes!
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SteveW
Trad climber
The state of confusion
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Oct 13, 2008 - 02:15pm PT
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Anders
We know it's Fatty. He's always up to know good.
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Chris2
Trad climber
The Gunks to Joshua Tree
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Oct 13, 2008 - 02:22pm PT
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It seems a little matching paint could take care of the problem.
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SteveW
Trad climber
The state of confusion
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Oct 13, 2008 - 02:28pm PT
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Like when they filmed 'Sierra', in the '70's?
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gstock
climber
Yosemite Valley
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Oct 13, 2008 - 04:52pm PT
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Neat photos. The scar shown in the center of the photo is actually the product of several relatively small rockfalls over several years. The larger July 2006 rockfall occurred from the upper right corner of the photos, along the right side of the arching flake (near the trees). Interestingly, most of these failures occurred during the summer months, without recognizable triggering mechanisms.
Greg Stock
Park Geologist
(209) 379-1420
greg_stock@nps.gov
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Double D
climber
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Oct 13, 2008 - 04:54pm PT
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That's a great before and after. The linked TR from those on the wall is cool too. I assume that the slabs approach is fine now?
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CF
climber
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Topic Author's Reply - Oct 13, 2008 - 05:02pm PT
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We called it the Grateful Dead Dancing Indian as it looks like a indian with a feather in his hat, facing left, left arm out stretched, with a arrow bag on his back doing the Grateful Dead bear dance move.
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Minerals
Social climber
The Deli
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Oct 13, 2008 - 05:41pm PT
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Good stuff, Chris!
Yeah, the scar on the lower left (Kali Yuga area) has been growing as well.
Looks like an arching corner has formed in the middle of the larger scar, with a thin pillar at its base. Who’s gonna bag the FA? Ya can’t say that the rock ain’t clean…
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Crimpergirl
Social climber
Boulder, Colorado!
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Oct 13, 2008 - 05:48pm PT
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I think the scar looks like Sasquatch. Cool photos.
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Patrick Sawyer
climber
Originally California now Ireland
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Oct 13, 2008 - 06:29pm PT
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Will somebody please tell that Gawd Gal to quit fooling with Mother Nature, Gaia is getting pissed off.
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noshoesnoshirt
climber
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Oct 13, 2008 - 07:31pm PT
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edit: First photo looks like a man with a sack of laundry on his back riding a sheepdog, or alternately, a man about to whack a sheepdog over the head with said sack of laundry.
Second photo def Sasquatch
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johnboy
Trad climber
Can't get here from there
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Oct 13, 2008 - 07:42pm PT
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eh, a little duct tape and bailing wire....good as new.
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survival
Big Wall climber
A Token of My Extreme
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Oct 13, 2008 - 10:44pm PT
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It looks to me as if that big ass water streak + freeze/thaw is to blame.....
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