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MH2

climber

Topic Author's Reply - Feb 24, 2009 - 11:07pm PT

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

Reilly

Mountain climber

Monrovia, CA

Feb 24, 2009 - 11:33pm PT

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

MH2

climber

Topic Author's Reply - Feb 25, 2009 - 02:49am PT

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:

Chiloe

Trad climber

Lee, NH

Mar 21, 2009 - 08:48pm PT

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.

east side underground

Trad climber

Hilton crk,ca

Mar 21, 2009 - 08:53pm PT

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!

Mighty Hiker

Social climber

Vancouver, B.C.

Mar 21, 2009 - 08:55pm PT

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.

MH2

climber

Topic Author's Reply - Mar 22, 2009 - 12:11am PT

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:

Chiloe

Trad climber

Lee, NH

Mar 22, 2009 - 10:39am PT

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.

MH2

climber

Topic Author's Reply - Mar 22, 2009 - 11:27am PT

Chiloe

Trad climber

Lee, NH

Mar 22, 2009 - 11:39am PT

The Octopus Who Knows That His Good Luck Has Run Out.

Chiloe

Trad climber

Lee, NH

Mar 23, 2009 - 05:08pm PT

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.

Chiloe

Trad climber

Lee, NH

Mar 23, 2009 - 07:15pm PT

Chiloe

Trad climber

Lee, NH

Mar 23, 2009 - 07:32pm PT

MH2

climber

Topic Author's Reply - Mar 24, 2009 - 04:10am PT

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.

Chiloe

Trad climber

Lee, NH

Mar 24, 2009 - 10:26am PT

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."