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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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bump
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MH2
climber
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Topic Author's Reply - Mar 31, 2009 - 06:55pm PT
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The desert outside Vegas was dry. Vancouver is not.
Up the Grind
Through the forest primeval
The Traverse
Cold salt water
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mooser
Trad climber
seattle
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Mar 31, 2009 - 07:05pm PT
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MH2
climber
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Topic Author's Reply - Apr 1, 2009 - 01:42am PT
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The tail end of March 2009
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MH2
climber
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Topic Author's Reply - Apr 14, 2009 - 04:40am PT
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Through the forest primeval, bearded in moss
One of my traverse buddies, "Tetra" (G)natha(n) Da(l)e
Scoping the runout
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Chiloe
Trad climber
Lee, NH
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May 20, 2009 - 09:43am PT
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I hear they might make an honest man out of me
Good to sea.
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MH2
climber
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Topic Author's Reply - Jun 4, 2009 - 04:16pm PT
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The distant figure of a man on the rocks over the water attracted notice. He would take a few steps and then pause as though unsure what to do next.
A woman's faint voice floated over the water to him.
The man's attention was elsewhere. The voice entered his ears but sat in his brain a few seconds before it was understood.
"Are you scared?"
The man considered the question and gave the right answer: "Yes."
He wasn't scared of his photographic subject:
He was a little scared of the subject of the last few minutes:
He was mostly scared of the spiders.
Those and the crazy world that fractures one's mind into easily conquered divisions.
But the line between climbing and swimming is simple, friendly, and familiar.
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duncan
Trad climber
London, UK
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Aug 16, 2009 - 04:04am PT
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My “Hail Mary” for contributing to a political thread.
Shining sea, slight return...trip to the north Cornish and Devon coast.
Port Quin. Chocolate box cuteness.
Approach to Doyden Castle, "Built about 1830 by local bon-viveur Samuel Symons to entertain friends to nights of feasting, drinking and gambling." You can now rent it for short breaks (feasting, drinking and gambling not compulsory, as far as I’m aware).
Doyden Point climbing, Mun on a pleasant VS (5.7).
After a day's sea-cliff climbing there is only one possible diner
The parish church of St Nectan, Stoke. “The cathedral of north Devon”.
Approaching Lower Sharpnose Point. The British Government is listening but the cows don't seem too bothered. This site does not appear on any official UK maps, a ludicrous charade that continues despite it showing beautifully on Google...
The crags in this area are made of Culm, a soft sedimentary rock that forms striking cliff architecture. Some of the crags are tottering death choss (which doesn't stop people climbing them of course) but Lower Sharpnose is as solid as Culm gets. The cliff is formed of three disconcertingly slender vertical fins of harder rock that have resisted erosion … so far. A unique feature that also has very fine climbing in the 5.8-5.12 range.
Andy on 'Last Laugh' E2 (about 5.10).
Fi on 'Last Laugh' E2.
Andy on 'Pacemaker' E5 (about 5.12a).
This coast has a large tidal range (picture taken from a similar point to that of Andy on Last Laugh).
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MH2
climber
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Topic Author's Reply - Aug 17, 2009 - 03:53pm PT
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Thanks, duncan.
Sites that do not appear on maps are appropriate for this thread.
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