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Jim E
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Mountain Road
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Aug 25, 2008 - 05:12pm PT
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Kiruna
I think it was about 1AM.
A whole lot nicer than this place.
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Chiloe
Trad climber
Lee, NH
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Topic Author's Reply - Aug 25, 2008 - 05:27pm PT
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Hah, I remember that chair! Or maybe one just like it, somewhere else.
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Chiloe
Trad climber
Lee, NH
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Topic Author's Reply - Aug 26, 2008 - 05:58am PT
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Around midnight last night, Rasmus and I walked home after a social evening in town.
This mountain (Sermitsiaq) stood out in silhouette across the fjord. An orange quarter-moon
was rising to its left, appearing at the same height as the summit. To the right a bright
curtain of northern lights rose from the water to cross the whole sky.
I sat out in the cold wind for a while, watching from a ledge on the cliff behind Per's house.
Quite the scene to take in.
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GOclimb
Trad climber
Boston, MA
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Aug 28, 2008 - 02:57pm PT
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Cool. Sounds very beautiful and serene...
GO
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east side underground
Trad climber
crowley ca
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Aug 28, 2008 - 03:02pm PT
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went to Greenland in 1986, worked a NSL research project on the ice flows @ 87 degrees north. A amazingly beautiful experince
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drgonzo
Trad climber
east bay, CA
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Aug 28, 2008 - 03:05pm PT
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Wait another 20 years and there'll be a Club Med there...
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Chiloe
Trad climber
Lee, NH
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Topic Author's Reply - Aug 28, 2008 - 07:14pm PT
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Wait another 20 years and there'll be a Club Med there...
Stephen Schneider, lead author on several IPCC reports, gave a talk in Nuuk a few days ago.
He was a guest of the Inuit Circumpolar Conference. A translator worked mightly through
the hour and a half lecture, rendering phrases like "probability density function" into
Greenlandic. My friend said he was doing a good job.
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Chiloe
Trad climber
Lee, NH
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Topic Author's Reply - Aug 28, 2008 - 08:07pm PT
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Urban Greenland:
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Chiloe
Trad climber
Lee, NH
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Topic Author's Reply - Aug 28, 2008 - 08:10pm PT
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snakefoot
climber
cali
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Aug 28, 2008 - 09:03pm PT
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wow.... looks like gov housing, waiting for raydog to chirp in about 2 pac...
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Chiloe
Trad climber
Lee, NH
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Topic Author's Reply - Oct 23, 2008 - 05:03pm PT
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Yesterday something completely different,
BOS --> IAD --> PEK
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Chiloe
Trad climber
Lee, NH
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Topic Author's Reply - Oct 23, 2008 - 08:51pm PT
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In 1949, I am told, Mao declared the founding of the People's Republic of China from
this Ming Dynasty gate (Tian'an Men, overlooking Tiananmen Square).
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Ed Hartouni
Trad climber
Livermore, CA
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Oct 24, 2008 - 12:56am PT
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carrier? I'd have thought BOS -> ORD -> PEK, but I'd have to look at the "great circle" routes...
IAD seems like my front room somtimes... do they have the tram in yet?
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Delhi Dog
Trad climber
Good Question...
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Oct 24, 2008 - 06:45am PT
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Ya, cool stuff!
I've flown over Greenland many times, and its such an amazing view from 30+K ft.
It's neat to see the up close shots.
I'm off to Ladakh, India tomorrow, will post a couple pics when I get back.
Cheers,
DD
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Chiloe
Trad climber
Lee, NH
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Topic Author's Reply - Oct 24, 2008 - 08:08am PT
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Ed:
carrier? I'd have thought BOS -> ORD -> PEK, but I'd have to look at the "great circle" routes...
Nonstop on a UAL triple-7 from IAD, up over the Arctic Ocean ... a mere 14 hours (ugh) to PEK.
Gonna take a shorter hop on Air China this Sunday.
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Chiloe
Trad climber
Lee, NH
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Topic Author's Reply - Oct 24, 2008 - 06:02pm PT
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Delhi Dog, I like your photos, look forward to some showing what you see in Ladakh.
How does one get there there?
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Chiloe
Trad climber
Lee, NH
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Topic Author's Reply - Oct 24, 2008 - 06:40pm PT
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Riley, answering your call-of-the-wild, here's another Greenland shot. This one's from Illulissat, a bit farther north.
The farthest north place that I've ever been was about 76 degrees. I bet Anders can guess where.
But this morning I'm a long way from Greenland.
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Chiloe
Trad climber
Lee, NH
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Topic Author's Reply - Oct 25, 2008 - 07:53am PT
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Windy but clear up at Badaling today. A few other folks on the trail.
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Chiloe
Trad climber
Lee, NH
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Topic Author's Reply - Oct 26, 2008 - 05:40am PT
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More airports today,
PEK --> DLC
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Michael Hjorth
Trad climber
Copenhagen, Denmark
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Oct 26, 2008 - 11:51am PT
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Hi Chiloe,
Completely overlooked this Greenlandic tread!
Embarrasing, especially because we should have had a reunion with some Swedish rockclimbing upon your return from Greenland.
Unfortunately family obligations (and a 10 year wedding anniversary...!) prevented that.
But good to see Sermitsiaq again. There is a nice scramble on the ridge between the two summits (which I unfortunately haven't done).
Allow a slight treaddrift:
The Icefjord at Ilulissat (some 500 km further north) is VERY popular with al kinds of politicians coming to see the exact point where the Icecap is melting (sic!). So someone put up a webcam with 24 hours lapse. If not to watch the ice melting, but you can see the icebergs passing northwards (at least these days with strong southwesterly wind) past the town of Ilulissat.
http://sermitsiaq.gl/icecam/?lang=EN
Regards
Michael
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