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Sierra Ledge Rat
Mountain climber
Old and Broken Down in Appalachia
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Sep 27, 2012 - 05:45pm PT
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For me it was the Wadi Rum, Jordan, this past March 2012
Jordanians are very friendly, kind and generous. It's their neighbors that you gotta worry about.
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the Fet
climber
Tu-Tok-A-Nu-La
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Sep 27, 2012 - 05:57pm PT
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Long Dong. (Dragon Cave) in Taiwan.
Not my photos:
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Guangzhou
Trad climber
Asia, Indonesia, East Java
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Sep 27, 2012 - 10:54pm PT
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Jordan and Morocco are two places I am dying to visit and climb.
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MH2
climber
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Sep 28, 2012 - 12:12am PT
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That would be Blouberg in South Africa. We had no useful information. It's big but we had more trouble finding it than we did getting up and down it. This is on the way there:
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Fat Dad
Trad climber
Los Angeles, CA
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Sep 28, 2012 - 01:00am PT
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The Jordanians are very friendly and open towards Westerners, despite how really Islamic that country is, particularly when compared to some of their neighbors. Likely a legacy of King Hussein and King Abdullah. I need to go back not just to check out Wadi Rum, but to explore more of the fantastic canyons in Petra, visit the Dead Sea, check out some fortresses from the Crusades and visit the Roman ruins of Jerash.
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Scole
Trad climber
Joshua Tree
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Sep 28, 2012 - 01:37am PT
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Coupla new towers on the edge of the Sahara a three hr camel ride s.e. of Fes al Bali, Morocco
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Sierra Ledge Rat
Mountain climber
Old and Broken Down in Appalachia
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Sep 28, 2012 - 01:58am PT
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...but to explore more of the fantastic canyons in Petra, visit the Dead Sea, check out some fortresses from the Crusades and visit the Roman ruins of Jerash...
The 5,000-year old Bronze-age city of Jawa, on the Syrian border
The 7,000-year old black basalt Castle Burqu (Qasr Burqu), one of the most remote castles of the Roman empire
Miles and miles of unclimbed walls in the Wadi Rum...
Caves in the vast lava fields of Jordan, Syria and Saudia Arabia (from the 15th International Symposium on Vulcanospeleology in March 2012)
And the Jordanian food is delicious, healthy and wholesome.
Jordan is a great place to travel.
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Fletcher
Trad climber
Fumbling towards stone
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Sep 28, 2012 - 02:41am PT
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A bunch of places in Hong Kong, but Tung Lung Island is probably the most obscure. Only way to get there was on a ferry that looks like a barge that's going to sink soon and was tied up at some random dog-eared pier near Tai Koo Shing. $20 HKD though for a deal (about US $2.75). And I think that was round trip!
Then you get to the island, which has not much on it. Remote and out there feeling but some nice routes.
Eric
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Guangzhou
Trad climber
Asia, Indonesia, East Java
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Sep 28, 2012 - 02:47am PT
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Tung Lung island is nice, but I always felt more remote climbing the Basalt cracks at Waterfall rock. Especially on Saturdays and Sundays.
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Brandon-
climber
The Granite State.
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Topic Author's Reply - Sep 28, 2012 - 11:02am PT
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Radical, drop me a line if you pull the trigger on a Jordan trip. Timing is everything, if the timing is right, I'll let you be my ropegun. :)
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fgw
climber
portland, or
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Sep 28, 2012 - 12:03pm PT
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Tsaranoro in Madagascar...local climber atop a 5c pitch. Apparently they have no issues soloing up to 6a+ (rumor is...harder too)
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FinnMaCoul
Trad climber
Green Mountains, Vermont
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Sep 28, 2012 - 12:43pm PT
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Tahune Face, Frenchman's Cap, Franklin-Gordon Wild Rivers National Park, Tasmania. Felt like being on the edge of the world.
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Branscomb
Trad climber
Lander, WY
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Sep 28, 2012 - 12:48pm PT
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Two of us made an attempt on the Harvard Route on Mt. St. Elias one time in the 80s. We were the only people on the mountain that year. I think that is the wildest place I've ever been.
When we were flown out, had to go out one at a time because the snow field was so soft. I was flown out first down to Icy Bay and dropped off while he went back to pick up my partner before the snow got too soft. He called a friend of his to fly down from Cape Yagataga and ferry me into Yakutat, but the fog rolled in and he couldn't land. Spent some time on that beach listening to the ice bergs clinking away. Probably the only person for hundreds of miles along that coast.
I think Wrangall-St. Elias is maybe the wildest place left in North America. There are a lot of peaks out there that have never been climbed to this day because of their remote nature.
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Jan
Mountain climber
Okinawa, Japan
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Sep 28, 2012 - 02:02pm PT
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The most remote place I've been is Menlung La Pass on the border between Nepal and Tibet. It lies on the north side of the Rolwaling Valley, east of Gauri Shankar, and is very heavily crevassed. The day we were there we had problems with a thin 2 inch crust above deep powder. To keep from sinking up to our waists, we had to crawl like crabs the last few hundred feet.
When we got to the top, we spotted a Chinese border patrol igloo down the other side, so we took photos quickly and descended back down toward the Nepal side. If something had gone wrong, the Rolwaling Sherpas would have come looking for us after a day or so and could have drug us down to an altitude where a helicopter could fly. That would have required a runner going to the nearest Nepalese checkpost 2 days away whose radio may or may not have been working. Fortunately we had no mishaps.
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Michelle
Trad climber
the f*#king peninsula.
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Sep 28, 2012 - 04:55pm PT
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real climbing? lol, Franklin Mts State Park . not real climbing? the freaking training towers in the Army. no photos. sorry
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KabalaArch
Trad climber
Starlite, California
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Sep 28, 2012 - 05:43pm PT
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The old rock quarry on Crystal Springs Road in San Mateo while I was sophomore in high school. Bet that 'remote' site has never been popular!
Sawyer Cyn Rd?
100 mgs damnitol, Bruce! We at Mills thought we were alone. Learned to rap off of the newly built N. Crystal Springs Reservoir Bridge, whilst bike-hiking to our Secret Beach, N of usgs LM “Poppy Point.” Ever ride that old flume between Andreas and N Crystal?
You must have gone to Aragon, all of which SMUSD H.S.'s were constructed to the same template, including the asbestos siding.
That said, I scored for about the coolest summer job a school kid could ask for: Watershed Worker for the County and City of SF Water Dept. My tasks consisted of: motoring the Dept's Limnologists out onto all of the Reservoirs, conducting dissolved O2 lab tests, Secki Disk Transparency studies, and what have you.
Ever been to the small and obscure Stone Dam, in the Half Moon Bay drainage, Bruce? Or out bluestoning @ Pilarcitos, where the most active branch of the San Andreas telegraphs out to meet the ocean at Devil's Slide? I scored for a key to all of the watershed locks, and, with a '63 MG Midget, I had no intention of hiking any of those killer roads!
SF maintains a cool Chalet up at Hetch Hetchy, with a twin inboard Mercury yacht. What with a plankton bloom coming out of The City's faucet, got to attend to some forensic limnology, from the inlet of HH, to Priest Regulating Reservoir, to Moccasin Re-regulating – the bloom was occurring in the backwash of the Power Plant spillway, we found.
Little known factoid – Moccasin Ck traverses Moccasin Res in a pipeline to the fishery below the reservoir dam, so as not to contaminate SF's water with gold rush era taling outwash.
However the case may be made, I cannot honestly say I've wayfared furthest afield.
But, I am one of 6 who have established the present World's Ultima Thule – I have journeyed to the northernmost land mass yet discovered, just a few minutes S of 84N latitude. Damnest hard place to get to, you've lucky to jump off of Svalbard B4 the DPI bumps you off your chartered Twin Otter.
That's about 350 miles south of the Geographical North Pole, sort of like walking from Mammoth to LA, if our pavement were to be comprised of finger-rafted pack ice, with a rather complex and humbling surface drainage pattern, which did so give pause to Peary, and to Nansen adrift in his Fram, and now so characteristic of what shall become, in our children's lifetime, the “Polar Mediterranean” presciently foreseen in the 1920's. Google “Esquire Mag” for the scoop. ; p
BTW, I've never climbed at the damn Cookie, neither; I got scared off, or too much body English trans: Work, that is. Sorry, face/friction/cash only. Let's go and ketchup.
cu und3r th3 m9t s0n
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philo
Trad climber
Somewhere halfway over the rainbow
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Sep 28, 2012 - 05:57pm PT
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I was climbing...
This flung far...
Does that count or did I misunderstand the question?
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wbw
Trad climber
'cross the great divide
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Sep 28, 2012 - 11:30pm PT
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I've carried my ice gear all over the place on big walks and not found ice, but I think dragging it all the way to Mt. Kenya was the farthest. Went to climb the Window Route, only to find out there was not ice formed. I did get a good afternoon of high quality ice bouldering on a glacier, with a large crowd of Kenyan porters watching me like they'd never seen anything like it. Also got to do a rock route on Mt. Kenya which was pretty cool. Being high on the peak and looking out on the horizon and seeing Kilimanjaro seemed pretty far flung.
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Ghost
climber
A long way from where I started
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Sep 28, 2012 - 11:48pm PT
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Difficult Access: Mt Sir Francis Drake in BC - Ghost was on this one. Mostly c'os of the dodgy flight out.....
Ms. Knight, if I recall correctly, access was cake. Twenty minutes in a helicopter. Getting out again was a little tougher -- I think I fell head-first into a hole in the forest and you laughed at the way my legs were waving around above ground level -- but not really too bad until we hit tidewater. It was that last little bit across the channel where we thought we were going to die that was... Hmmmm... "difficult" is not quite the right word. Maybe terrifying? Be interesting to hear Mr. Foweraker's memories of that trip. Or to get Mr. Serl to chime in.
But yeah, I agree that while the BC Coast Range is not that far from civilization if you measure distance in miles, it's seriously remote if you eschew helicopters.
As for me, I haven't been to the Himalaya, or Antarctica, but but I sure as Hell felt a long way from home when being stalked by a Polar Bear on Baffin Island. Ryan and I saw a few things no one else had seen before, and there weren't nobody comin' to save our asses if we broke a leg up there back then.
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Guangzhou
Trad climber
Asia, Indonesia, East Java
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Sep 28, 2012 - 11:52pm PT
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What a great thread. So many of you going to so many places. Getting wanderlust just reading it.
Eman
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