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thebravecowboy
Social climber
Colorado Plateau
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Dec 26, 2013 - 02:07am PT
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is this a tower or is it knott?
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jonnyrig
Trad climber
formerly known as hillrat
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Dec 26, 2013 - 02:17am PT
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I duno. Can you walk up the other side? Looks pretty damn good. You sure find some high quality stuff out that way.
2nd crag, at center left below.
I really need to bring binoculars so I can get better shots.
This is the little crag I mentioned in Your Carson Valley Report thread. It's up off Kings Canyon.
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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Dec 26, 2013 - 02:34am PT
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hey there say, johnnyrig...
nice thread, hope more pics are added, too!
i really LIKE that one from thebravecowboy...
very nice shot, too...
and i really like that kings canyon crag!
thanks guys!
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thebravecowboy
Social climber
Colorado Plateau
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Dec 26, 2013 - 03:05am PT
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no you can knott walk up the back side. finish either chimney visible above and you must complete a beauteous doubly triply exposed navajo sandstone slab to the virgin summit.
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thebravecowboy
Social climber
Colorado Plateau
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Dec 26, 2013 - 03:22am PT
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what do you mean?
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thebravecowboy
Social climber
Colorado Plateau
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Dec 26, 2013 - 03:35am PT
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oh, yeah, those things
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jonnyrig
Trad climber
formerly known as hillrat
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Dec 26, 2013 - 08:41am PT
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See, now that's just cool. We don't get that kind of freestanding tower around here. Neither do I live in Tahoe, like Gumby. So I'm out 4x4ing through the desert, hunting chukar, elk, fishing and poking around the old mines and ghost towns.
If I can just learn how to climb this junk volcanic flakey biscuit crap, you guys might get a trip report out of me. And a few new top-rope-able routes in the 5.3-5.7 sorta range. 4x4 required ha ha ha.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Dec 26, 2013 - 09:28am PT
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nice thread, hope more pics are added, too!--neebee
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speelyei
Trad climber
Mohave County Arizona
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Dec 26, 2013 - 09:36am PT
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Speelyei choss fest from AZ. I could bury this thread. I like finding the mines and stuff almost as much as I like finding the rocks.
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speelyei
Trad climber
Mohave County Arizona
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Dec 26, 2013 - 09:41am PT
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More Mohave County obscurities:
Frankly, I'm afraid of this
top: where's waldo?
L: glass Jergen's bottle (solo on the high lonesome?)
C: todays goal
R: .41 cal rimfire, stamped H: Henry rimfire circa 1890
DOC Mine
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jonnyrig
Trad climber
formerly known as hillrat
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Dec 26, 2013 - 10:28am PT
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Rockhounding? Lots of that! Found a few rattlers, but left them alone. Old mines abound. Never can tell really what they were after at the random places, but there are some good references.
Mouse, have you climbed there? Looks like an incredible place.
Sometimes its hard to leave these places, but work is a necessity. So i take a picture or two and file it away in the category of places-to-go-back. Someday. Some go with the category of if-i-was-braver, like wanting to go underground.
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speelyei
Trad climber
Mohave County Arizona
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Dec 26, 2013 - 11:11am PT
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I'm right there with you, J-rig.
Lots of these spires, walls, and summits are best appreciated through binoculars. It wasn't that the past generations didn't find them, they knew better than to fool with them.
The old mines are such a cornucopia of danger, I tread lightly. I've walked back in a few, but mostly I just poke around the outside and look at the old buildings. There's so many ways to buy the farm around these f'ing things, it's not even funny.
What part of NV are you in?
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Dapper Dan
Trad climber
Menlo Park
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Dec 26, 2013 - 11:22am PT
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Eye of the needle in Death Valley , specifically this formation is on the Echo Canyon trail ...
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jonnyrig
Trad climber
formerly known as hillrat
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Dec 26, 2013 - 11:58am PT
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That looks like a giant arch!
Im in Carson city. I think mostly the potential for bad gas keeps me out of the mines, followed by cave-ins.
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Dapper Dan
Trad climber
Menlo Park
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Dec 26, 2013 - 04:51pm PT
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Yea I guess that's why land managers put up giant gates like this to keep people from their own stupidity .
I still went in past this gate about 100 feet into this mine , but quickly turned around .
There are so many open mines and shafts out there though , impossible to bar them ... I love mines .
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speelyei
Trad climber
Mohave County Arizona
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Dec 26, 2013 - 07:52pm PT
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Not too long ago, some girls were killed while out riding quads with their family near here. An old shaft from the early 1900's had been partially covered by time and debris, and wasn't significant enough to be on any maps.
Periodically explosives of various makes and vintages will show up at the Sheriff's Office or Police Department. People will find det cord, blasting caps, sometimes old sweaty dynamite...
I have walked back a couple adits (horizontal tunnels), and one had a shaft in the floor that went way down. Most mines around here are big shafts that go down hundreds of feet. Some have been surrounded with wire, some barred over, a few are wide open.
May 7, 1910
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speelyei
Trad climber
Mohave County Arizona
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Dec 26, 2013 - 08:23pm PT
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Dapper Dan
Trad climber
Menlo Park
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Dec 26, 2013 - 08:31pm PT
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I have to admit , I always thought it would be cool to rappel into some deep and scary shaft .
So what is the danger ? Is it lack of circulating oxygen down in the shaft? Is it poisonous gasses down in there ? Then why weren't old time miners killed by being in there back in the day?
How safe are horizontal shafts to walk round in ?
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thebravecowboy
Social climber
Colorado Plateau
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Dec 26, 2013 - 08:44pm PT
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John Shaft?
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Let us know!