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scuffy b
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Eastern Salinia
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I've often wondered about Sachse Monument, and looked at it a lot.
My guess would be a bit chossier, ledgier and less steep than you'd want,
but probably pretty nice anyway. Maybe some short sections of Class 5
with lots of easier wandering.
There's climbing to do around there, but everything turns out to be
smaller than you think.
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HighTraverse
Trad climber
Bay Area
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cool stuff
did you climb it?
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FRUMY
Trad climber
SHERMAN OAKS,CA
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even though the gouge of despair is closer to the road i believe its more remote. being far from the road does not make something more remote. there are places in Angeles National Forest that are more remote & less traveled than you might think. hiking into white divide is great either from the north or south.
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Banquo
Trad climber
Morgan Hill, CA (Mo' Hill)
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Topic Author's Reply - Oct 9, 2010 - 06:57pm PT
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did you climb it? No, I had hoped to try a traverse of the whole thing but being alone and there being thunderstorms I decided to leave it for another day.
even though the gouge of despair is closer to the road i believe its more remote. Yeah, these things are hard to define. Where is the hardest place in California to get to? Tough one.
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Cool stuff, I had suspected someone had worked this out. Did you find a detailed map of California or how did you work the spot out? I can't find a decent map by searching the web.
There is national map here:
http://www.fort.usgs.gov/products/publications/21426/21426.pdf
But the resolution is to low to learn much. The GIS data it is based on is here:
http://rmgsc.cr.usgs.gov/trip/data/
I am not familiar with GIS software but I did manage to open up the California files. Sadly, I don't know enough about this stuff to get much detail but the image I got is sort of interesting.
I managed to see this with an open source program found here:
http://qgis.org/
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