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tolman_paul
Trad climber
Anchorage, AK
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Feb 17, 2009 - 12:24pm PT
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Tami,
A friend took that picture, so I don't know how the flies were. I do know that mosquitos really don't bother me, but I hate those @&#!!! flies and no see ems with a passion.
I did take our boat to the bay just on the other side of that formation, and the bugs on July 4th were annoying but not intolerable. I'd imagine August would be the magic month for bugginess.
Hopefully I'll get a chance to climb this thing this summer.
and looking closer at the important bit
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richross
Trad climber
gunks,ny
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Feb 24, 2009 - 05:19pm PT
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Boating around Camden, Maine 1985.
Geoff Ohland at the wheel.
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perswig
climber
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Feb 24, 2009 - 06:03pm PT
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Looks like Wayfarer Marine in the background.
Local ME boating/climbing tie-in: The Getchells were in on FAs of hard ice climbs in the Camden area and also produced a number of books on building and maintaining outboard runabouts and cruisers.
Dale
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MH2
climber
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Topic Author's Reply - Feb 24, 2009 - 11:07pm PT
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For surf and the Country of the Pointed Firs
For our friend who climbs ice by the water
And for the handy uses of octuplets
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Reilly
Mountain climber
Monrovia, CA
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Feb 24, 2009 - 11:33pm PT
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MH2,
Please translate: "The rock seems to be mirroring reflective caustics from the sea."
You must be some kind of anthropologist or something of that ilk that uses coded messages to throw off the enemy.
Simple Reilly
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MH2
climber
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Topic Author's Reply - Feb 25, 2009 - 02:49am PT
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Not an anthropologist, just a guy who when he tries to say stuff shoots himself in the foot a lot.
Caustics is a word from the Word of the Day thread. It has more than one meaning, but I think it is used to describe
a certain kind of light pattern caused by refraction(bending) and/or reflection.
Two examples:
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Chiloe
Trad climber
Lee, NH
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Mar 21, 2009 - 08:48pm PT
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Jim Estabrook kindly shared this fine photo. I thought of posting it to the "Climbing with daughters"
thread, but in mood it seems more fitting here.
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east side underground
Trad climber
Hilton crk,ca
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Mar 21, 2009 - 08:53pm PT
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MH2- thanks for the photo of the "green room", I needed that! If you never have visited (the green room ) it's a special place!
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Mighty Hiker
Social climber
Vancouver, B.C.
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Mar 21, 2009 - 08:55pm PT
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I'd swear that in that last photo, the person was IN the sea, not just BY the sea. But then it may be part of the territory. I've seen some good plunges off the traverse, and tides and waves are always a concern.
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MH2
climber
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Topic Author's Reply - Mar 22, 2009 - 12:11am PT
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Ah, the green room. Such a still, quiet phrase for an everchanging place. The mind holds the moment, though.
By the sea, above the sea, under/in the sea, as long as it looks good. I think it was a Chiloe under-sea thread where a dentist posted up some great creature pictures.
But we can have it both ways here, Mighty Hiker:
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Chiloe
Trad climber
Lee, NH
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Mar 22, 2009 - 10:39am PT
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But we can have it both ways here, Mighty Hiker:
Indeed, the same daughter diving the Rhone wreck above appeared earlier upthread
as a young seacliff climber.
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MH2
climber
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Topic Author's Reply - Mar 22, 2009 - 11:27am PT
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Chiloe
Trad climber
Lee, NH
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Mar 22, 2009 - 11:39am PT
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The Octopus Who Knows That His Good Luck Has Run Out.
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Chiloe
Trad climber
Lee, NH
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Mar 23, 2009 - 05:08pm PT
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A friend living near Trondheim, Norway, wrote recently to ask whether I thought that
these fjord cliffs might hold any attraction for climbers. The apparent potential for
deep-water traversing reminds me of the traverse we've seen so much of, upthread.
But I think these might be unclimbed.
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Chiloe
Trad climber
Lee, NH
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Mar 23, 2009 - 07:15pm PT
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Chiloe
Trad climber
Lee, NH
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Mar 23, 2009 - 07:32pm PT
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MH2
climber
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Topic Author's Reply - Mar 24, 2009 - 04:10am PT
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It looks worth looking into. I think I would do a dive, first. I'm wondering if a flying saucer DUI bounced off that wall into the water. Or maybe Anders has a story about a Norse God battle-axe, though the gash has a recent feel to it.
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Chiloe
Trad climber
Lee, NH
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Mar 24, 2009 - 10:26am PT
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So I referred MH2's speculation to Oddmund, and he accounts for the white section as follows:
"I believe the white spot is either some calsium leaking out from the cliff or the excrements
from large birds, or a combination.. Perhaps the overhang is attractive for birds. We went
quite close and the white stuff was hard as a rock. And we saw no cliffs sticking out for the
next ten meters under the surface. Ebb-tide difference is about 3 meters."
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SteveW
Trad climber
The state of confusion
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Mar 29, 2009 - 08:17pm PT
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