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WBraun
climber
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Sep 19, 2017 - 08:22am PT
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Quit crying like girls,
The rockfall didn't do sh!t on your precious little rock.
You people are such wankers ....
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Ed Hartouni
Trad climber
Livermore, CA
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Sep 19, 2017 - 08:31am PT
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Nobody on this forum climbs anymore
speak for yourself...
...I'll try to get some comparison together in the next couple of weeks...
I don't know where the idea that rock fall doesn't happen came from, it is happening all the time. Anyone whose spent real time in the Valley is aware of the changes that are occurring.
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Mr_T
Trad climber
Northern California
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Sep 19, 2017 - 09:00am PT
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The description of this sounds like there's a ton of crap up on the wall at Thanksgiving ledge. That ton of crap would be poised to fall down on a climber. So for those of us who did give the route a go in 2015 and were hoping to go back this fall/next spring, it's a bit concerning.
Is this Rixon's-Pinnacle/Koko Ledge-like rock fall (keep out) or is it run-of-the-mill Middle Cathedral (happens all the time)? I don't recall 2' of new talus periodically appearing at the base of MCR.
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couchmaster
climber
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Sep 19, 2017 - 02:43pm PT
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Wbraun quote: "Quit crying like girls,
The rockfall didn't do sh!t on your precious little rock.
You people are such wankers .... "
Haha! ^^ Too funny Werner. ^^ Meantime get yer ass off the net and over there to get some photo shots of the rockfall up will ya? Hopefully this gives folks some alternative ideas to work on till we see photos.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Sep 19, 2017 - 05:18pm PT
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Can't we dramatize it like fake news for the candy eaters?
In the parlance of geology, gnarly is a fairly recent term, but is gaining acceptance, especially among Millennials.
Lithomorphic ecdysis has claim to be one of the fastest-growing branches of geology, also, according to this article I saw in Rock and Eyes magazine.
National Lithographic says the same in one of their recent issues, if I'm not mistaken, which has happened, believe it or not. (And the time that it did, the sh!t really came down.)
But things move very slowly in geologic time, so just give it a rest and mellow out and there will be a Stock Report soon, surely.
Oh, and America thanks YOU, Dingus, for the metaphor!
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Sep 19, 2017 - 05:27pm PT
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You Valley prancers need to get into some real mountains more often where it's news if there isn't rockfall. :-/
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Sep 19, 2017 - 05:31pm PT
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Reilly, you have THE BEST ROCKFALL PICTURE OF ALL TIME. You know the one.
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Inner City
Trad climber
Portland, OR
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Sep 19, 2017 - 06:02pm PT
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R2Driffic
That was hilarious!
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Petch
Gym climber
knapsack crack
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Sep 19, 2017 - 09:11pm PT
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Quit crying like girls,
No sexism here
Doesn't sound like a yogi to me
Love
Proud father of a Girl
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ec
climber
ca
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Sep 20, 2017 - 06:46am PT
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erik griffith
Trad climber
Sacramento, CA
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Sep 20, 2017 - 08:54am PT
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Climbed route day after rockfall. (Yes I know, yrr gonna die. Aren't well all)
Just wanted to give everyone a heads up. All anchors and route are still intact and unharmed by the rock fall. Climbers left of the wall was completely peppered and the gully itself seems pretty unstable. Sounds of silt and granite shifting all day below us. We found the huge block that had stopped on Thanksgiving ledge and made the easy 4th class traverse a little trickier to navigate. The feeling of being over there was definitely one of high caution and felt like we entered no man's land. I'd be careful going over there, and probably won't be treading on that side for some time. The route still goes and didn't seem to have any damage besides dusty holds. For how stable the big rock clinging on thx giving ledge, I have no idea.. could be there for the next 1000 years or 10 days. Thankfully it stayed put as we climbed under, on, and around it.
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gstock
climber
Yosemite Valley
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Sep 20, 2017 - 04:25pm PT
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limpingcrab
Trad climber
the middle of CA
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Sep 20, 2017 - 05:27pm PT
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That's what I was waiting for, Greg Stock rocks!
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Sep 20, 2017 - 05:44pm PT
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That doesn't look like a lot of cubic footage in comparison to all the lamentations.
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aldude
climber
Monument Manor
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Sep 20, 2017 - 05:58pm PT
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Cool....missed Allied Forces !
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skcreidc
Social climber
SD, CA
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Sep 20, 2017 - 06:05pm PT
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Thank you GStock! Looks pretty normal. Still glad nobody got hurt.
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john hansen
climber
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Sep 20, 2017 - 07:47pm PT
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Greg Stock, thanks for the photos. Can you give us any idea how this compares (cubic meters or?) with some other falls?
Maybe the Half Dome one on Reg Route,,,
The "two feet of new talus makes me curious, hard to see the scale in your photos but does look fairly small.
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gstock
climber
Yosemite Valley
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Sep 21, 2017 - 09:37am PT
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From the photos I posted above, I estimate the volume of this rockfall at about 40-50 cubic meters, or roughly 130 tons. Volume-wise, that's a bit more than a Sprinter van. That is certainly large enough to create a lot of debris at the base, but it's not big by Yosemite standards. For comparison, the July 2015 rockfall from the Northwest Face of Half Dome was about 45 times larger at 1,800 cubic meters.
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Clint Cummins
Trad climber
SF Bay area, CA
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Sep 21, 2017 - 01:18pm PT
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Thanks, Greg!
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erik griffith
Gym climber
Yosemite National park
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Sep 21, 2017 - 01:26pm PT
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Wow! Awesome photos. Half of that rock is just sitting on Thanksgiving ledge at the start of the final 5.6 pitch. We climbed around it and slightly on top of it for a couple moves. Seems like it's going to be hanging out there for a while. The Yosemite landscape is definitely an ever changing one.
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