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Fritz
Trad climber
Choss Creek, ID
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Topic Author's Original Post - Apr 7, 2014 - 09:59pm PT
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Geology in Action at our Ranchette in Choss Creek!
12' tall Cat Rock fell over and rolled down to the spring creek sometime in the last couple days. We always thought it was bedrock, and we used to boulder on it.
We last stood on top of it two weeks ago.
What's next?
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mhay
climber
Bishop, CA
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What's next?
Start getting those first ascents.
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fluffy
Trad climber
Colorado
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choss creek huh
sorry for your loss :-/
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RyanD
climber
Squamish
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FA time.
For the second time.
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Ghost
climber
A long way from where I started
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Start getting those first ascents.
But if it's now upside down, won't those be first descents?
This is very confusing.
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ruppell
climber
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I'm with Ghost on this. Is the down climb now an up climb?
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Elcapinyoazz
Social climber
Joshua Tree
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Figure out which side has the most/best lines, get the prybar, come-a-long, and a long piece of timber, flip that sucker how you want it. Then haul about 200 bags of concrete over there, dig out the foundation, pour the 'crete, wrangle her into place and voila!
Or just find another place to boulder?
There are a couple routes I've done where years later the entire thing fell down or pitches of it fell off. Geologic time huh? Not that comforting!
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NutAgain!
Trad climber
South Pasadena, CA
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Well, can you just rappel to the top now?
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speelyei
Trad climber
Mohave County Arizona
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WWTWSD?
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Fritz, ya dummy, it is clearly a case of Sasquatch Just Gotta Have Fun!
Look for the video soon!
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Fritz
Trad climber
Choss Creek, ID
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Topic Author's Reply - Apr 7, 2014 - 10:18pm PT
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Thank you all for your helpfull suggestions! I think I need more wine to fully embrace some of them.
This area was heavily affected by the glacial-era Lake Bonneville flood, when the lake that occupied most of Northern Utah and much of NE Nevada emptied down the Snake River flood plain. The flood did toss rocks like ours around. It is just hard to think about something that big once being an alluvial pebble.
However the new SE Ridge looks easy, if the pebble stays put.
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mechrist
Gym climber
South of Heaven
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yer gonna
Hey, that looks like some pretty serious tufa deposits on one side. Too big to be caliche rind no? How close to the ancient shoreline is/was it? An elevation would give me a rough idea.
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mike m
Trad climber
black hills
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Most precarious boulder ever climbed?
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mojede
Trad climber
Butte, America
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Looks like it would work for a dry-tooling practice boulder in it's current shape...
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jgill
Boulder climber
Colorado
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Is that all you have to climb on?
Take up golf.
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NutAgain!
Trad climber
South Pasadena, CA
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So do you do it as-is with an R/X rating for potential of getting rolled over, or do you cement the base in place, and get the added bonus of customizing the starting foot-chips and maybe even putting some threaded holes in there to change out the starting holds?
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Edge
Trad climber
Boulder, CO
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A rolling stone is worth two in the bush.
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Lorenzo
Trad climber
Oregon
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Down climbing just got easier.
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KP Ariza
climber
SCC
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LOL jgill !! ^^^
Xactly.....
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ruppell
climber
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Is that all you have to climb on?
Take up golf.
Quote of the month award for sure. Considering the source I'll nominate it for quote of the year.
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