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Todd Gordon

Trad climber

Joshua Tree, Cal

Dec 11, 2008 - 11:12am PT

Top photo;...Dream of White Horses, Wales.....on or near my 21st birthday.......bottom pic is not REALLY the ocean....it's in Minnesoda N. Shore, above Deluth, Lake Superior..............

Chiloe

Trad climber

Lee, NH

Dec 11, 2008 - 11:24am PT

Perswig, Flat Rock (I should have written Flatrock) is a local crag, a few miles
up the coast from St. John's. Here's a page with how-to-get-there beta.
http://www.infonet.st-johns.nf.ca/eecc/flatrock.html

I just visited for one day; I'm sure Newfoundland climbers could fill you in on
the routes. The last of my photos is below. I think this is on what the EECC
page calls the "Big Wall" section of the cliff.

Some other photos are on Rockclimbing.com.

Petch

Gym climber

Lover's Leap

Dec 11, 2008 - 11:28am PT

The best Cali has to offer.

Seductive Mermaid 10c
Footsteps rock

duncan

Trad climber

London, UK

Dec 11, 2008 - 11:59am PT

Todd, you've got your Dream reversed.

(not my photo)

We'll allow Lake Michigan as your lakes are probably bigger than our seas!

crunch

Social climber

Dec 11, 2008 - 12:22pm PT

Dream on. Another picture form a previous lifetime. Ogmore, in south Wales, is steep, frightening and the tides go up and down by twenty feet or so, twice a day.

On this day, I made the mistake of letting my friend Howard lead. You can see him, in red, belaying at the top of the cliff. And that's me, just above the waves. Pic from about 1978 I think.

Edit: Actually both figures are almost impossible to see, sorry. Let's try this:

Chiloe

Trad climber

Lee, NH

Dec 11, 2008 - 12:27pm PT

Petch, is that Mickey's Beach? How do the newer Cali seaside areas compare?

Crunch's last picture, in which I can't make out the alleged climbers, reminds me
of a definition I read somewhere that said true seacliff climbing had to take
account of conditions on the sea. The British cliffs really exemplify that idea
(no doubt it was a British definition).

duncan

Trad climber

London, UK

Dec 11, 2008 - 12:46pm PT

Skeleton Ridge, Isle of Wight.

The best line in England? It's chalk but fairly hard as chalk goes, so climbs with rock gear rather than ice tools.

It's a great day out, someone into the softer desert sandstones would enjoy it a lot.

The last few feet of the top pitch, close enough to start grand-standing.

Chiloe

Trad climber

Lee, NH

Dec 11, 2008 - 12:52pm PT

Wow, what are the logistics of Skeleton Ridge? You got more photos?

MH2

climber

Topic Author's Reply - Dec 12, 2008 - 12:27am PT

Life by the sea is one of the themes in a tentative queue I had in mind before starting, so yes there is life in this theme, and that theme within the other theme has been greenlit by what could have been an eagle over the Parson and the whales surfacing at Flatrock. And the mention of spider.

As long as there is potentially shining water under the cliff I don't think it matters whether the water is sea or not. The body of water I climb near is either a strait or an inlet depending on which direction you are looking in.

duncan

Trad climber

London, UK

Dec 12, 2008 - 04:15am PT

Chiloe,

No more photos I’m afraid.

Ian Parnell has some good ones here:
http://www.ianparnell.com/Html/Gallery%20Pro.htm
and here:
http://lightbox.alpineexposures.com/rock-climbing/page/3/

Trip report:
http://www.sandrock.org.uk/Articles/skeletonridge.htm

There is an account of the first ascent by Mick Fowler in Alpinist 25.

Getting on the route involves abseiling 250’ or so down the grassy slope to the beach you can see in the top photo in post 139, to the right of the ridge as you look at it. Then it’s a sea-level traverse to the tip of the ridge, assuming you got the tides right and the waves are not that big. Some dampness is inevitable. Once you’re on the ridge there are five or six pitches of mostly very straight-forward Alpine 5.4-5.6. There are a couple of harder sections and, satisfyingly, the final tower is the crux. Or it was when we did it five years ago, the nature of the route is that large chunks fall off from time-to-time so it could all be different now!

MH2

climber

Topic Author's Reply - Dec 15, 2008 - 03:58am PT

Another seaside theme is the people who go there. A large gallery of eminent persons may eventually appear but for now consider this mild-mannered architect (foreground) who is at present between 82 and 83 degrees S on route to visit the frozen sturgeon at Amundsen Scott.

Meanwhile, back at the forest primeval,

Another non-climber user. These are rare.

Then there is the swimmer. He visits quite often. I’ve spoken to him and he has a job and all, he just likes the quiet and solitude.

MH2

climber

Topic Author's Reply - Dec 19, 2008 - 03:02pm PT

Down to the sea in ships, and boats, and other craft

but first establishing that pictures were taken climbing

MH2

climber

Topic Author's Reply - Dec 19, 2008 - 05:04pm PT

Vancouver sends about 3 cruise ships a day up to Alaska. At least on Fridays. In the summer.

A few take a wrong turn.

MH2

climber

Topic Author's Reply - Dec 19, 2008 - 06:16pm PT

Some boaters don't go as far as Alaska looking for a good time.

They are usually quite friendly to climbers.

MH2

climber

Topic Author's Reply - Dec 26, 2008 - 11:58pm PT

shouldering once more the burden of a too extensive image catalog from a climbing area of indeterminate extent and place

Other Craft

MH2

climber

Topic Author's Reply - Dec 27, 2008 - 12:02am PT

Other Other Craft

where some of the money goes and maybe comes from

my hovercraft is full of eels

where did this come from?

low on the human marine food chain, a log salvage operator