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Chaz
Trad climber
So. Cal.
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Topic Author's Original Post - Nov 28, 2008 - 10:59pm PT
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I got these shots using a kite to lift the camera. Friday, 11-28, around noon.
My other kite stuff is here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/30901290@N03/
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happiegrrrl
Trad climber
New York, NY
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Nov 28, 2008 - 11:53pm PT
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cool to see the formations from this perspective!
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brett
climber
oregon
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Nov 29, 2008 - 12:38am PT
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The road is on the wrong side of Intersection Rock?!
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WBraun
climber
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Nov 29, 2008 - 01:49am PT
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Thanks Chaz, I always love your aerial shots.
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Mighty Hiker
Social climber
Vancouver, B.C.
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Nov 29, 2008 - 02:20am PT
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Thanks, Chaz - I like the new perspectives you bring on our little rocks. And your charming low-tech methods just add to the delight.
Luckily, the military stopped doing low overflights out of Edwards over Joshua Tree, when it was made a national park. A lot of us over the years were more than startled by a fighter popping up a few hundred metres overhead, afterburners on. You'd have to worry about catching a F-18 with your string, too. :-)
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The Alpine
Big Wall climber
Tampa, FL
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Nov 29, 2008 - 10:55am PT
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Sweet Chaz! I'd really like to see a shot of your kite rig setup....
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Grant Meisenholder
Trad climber
CA
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Nov 29, 2008 - 02:54pm PT
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The road is on the wrong side of Intersection Rock?!
Haven't been there in a while, eh? It's all new and improved!
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brett
climber
oregon
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What year did they do that? I think I can see where the road used to be.
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Gunksgoer
Trad climber
nj
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From the top of intersection rock you can see EXACTLY where the old road used to be, it really shows how slow the restoration process is in the desert.
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bluering
Trad climber
Santa Clara, Ca.
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Those 2 white vans (3rd and 4th pics) are my buddies in site#10.
Cool pics!
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Jaybro
Social climber
wuz real!
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Scuffy's green pathfinder, is at shadows edge, I think.
yeah the road thing is Weird, Brett. I guess it was last year when I went there after a maybe 10 yr gap, felt completely disoriented. Like being in a remodeled house, or the Phx highway system.
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Chris2
Trad climber
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Very cool photo's. Hate to see all that damn pavement.
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scuffy b
climber
On the dock in the dark
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6th from the left, in the Intersection Rock parking, just
below the forked Joshua Tree.
Jaybro and I are over in the Waterchute area.
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looking sketchy there...
Social climber
Latitute 33
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I'm pretty sure that the road changes (from Trash Can Rock to Hidden Valley CG and out to Barker Dam) were completed in 2004. And changes from Love Nest to Sheep Pass were completed in 2006.
BTW: Nice shots!
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Chaz
Trad climber
So. Cal.
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Topic Author's Reply - Dec 5, 2008 - 05:36pm PT
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Here's what was left of the old road in April ('08):
And last week (different angle, different camera, different season, different light, but same general area):
Looks like decent progress so far.
I've been in and out of there dozens of times since the big pave-over, and the maze of new access roads still confuses me. And I have aerial photos to help navigate.
Bluering, these your pals?:
I just like this one. This is getting toward what I was trying to get that day (besides the broadside shots of Double Cross), I was looking for a shot of both faces of Old Woman from above looking along the knife-edge.
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bluering
Trad climber
Santa Clara, Ca.
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Chaz, yep, that's C-Dog and Barkus' vans in the upper-right. It looks like the slackers are standing in camp too.
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C-dog
Trad climber
Bay Area
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Yes, 'tis true. And if memory serves, we were still discussing with astonishment the way that 5yr old girl knocked out that 5.8 in Echo Cove that afternoon for her first climb. (What's the one right of 'The Sound of One Shoe Tapping?) No fear, I'd have to call her style the "ratchet-wrench tadpole tap dance"
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Barcus
Trad climber
San Luis Obispo, Ca.
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Too effin sweet!
Awsome shots and I was standin down there, watchin your kite while it was shootin us!
The Westy in #10.
Thanks for sharin!
Barcus
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