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Batrock
Trad climber
Burbank
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Jun 27, 2017 - 07:51pm PT
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Tom, I can probably do either I'm pretty free since I retired and always up for climbing.
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chainsaw
Trad climber
CA
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Jun 27, 2017 - 10:17pm PT
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There's two dome areas on the West side of Big Smokey Valley that boast 1800 foot walls, ranging from slab to overhanging. Huge potential. A geologist told me that its quarzite similar to Tuolomne. Cleanly cut pluton chopped in half by glaciation. I will be scouting it for possibilities this next spring. I have a house about 30 min away. Top out is about 10,000 ft elevation. Difficult approach.
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chainsaw
Trad climber
CA
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Jun 27, 2017 - 10:29pm PT
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chainsaw
Trad climber
CA
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Jun 27, 2017 - 10:31pm PT
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chainsaw
Trad climber
CA
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Jun 27, 2017 - 10:32pm PT
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chainsaw
Trad climber
CA
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Jun 27, 2017 - 10:33pm PT
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Actually there are three whole areas with a total of about twenty giant features
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chainsaw
Trad climber
CA
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Jun 27, 2017 - 10:35pm PT
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Actually probably 8500 ft elevation top out. 12000 ft peaks in the area
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Salamanizer
Trad climber
The land of Fruits & Nuts!
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Jun 28, 2017 - 12:39am PT
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I'd be game to check those out with you Chainsaw. I'm currently located in Susanville. A short drive (for me) away.
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rick sumner
Trad climber
reno, nevada/ wasilla alaska
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Jun 28, 2017 - 06:33am PT
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There is a hidden 50 year history of climbing out there Chainsaw. In the undeveloped camp at the mountains base is a 2x12 nailed to a tree just next to a crude picnic table. On that weathered slab of wood are etchings of a few lines up the largest feature. Those who have done limited climbing development out there have been tight lipped. It would be interesting to hear their stories.
Also of interest is a nearby Indian burial ground and abundant signs of prehistoric activities. I should also mention that from the climbing camp is clearly visible, at night and in moonlit conditions, a perfect visage of an Indian in full headdress traced
onto the overhanging face of the largest front formation. Mushrooms help in identification of this feature, but is unnecessary with a little imagination.
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Ney Grant
Trad climber
Pollock Pines
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Jun 28, 2017 - 10:56am PT
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Are we talking about this place again:
If so, Salamanizer and Chainsaw, PM if you head out that way, I may have something useful for you.
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Nick Danger
Ice climber
Arvada, CO
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Jun 28, 2017 - 11:38am PT
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Could not resist weighing in here with some of my favorite places. All three photos are places I have worked and hope to return to in a non-working scenario where I can indulge in a little alpinism and gratuitous rock climbing.
First photo is of a range that looks like a miniature version of the Tetons but is in south-central Nevada. There are vertical walls here many hundreds of feet high. These rocks are composed of densely welded rhyolitic ash-flow tuff, some of it is manky and some of it is bullet-proof.
This densely welded ash-flow tuff in central Nevada is called "The Wall" on USGS topos, is several miles long, several hundred feet high, and is columner-jointed like Devils Tower. Much of this rock is superb for rock climbing.
These granite knobs have attracted local dirt bikers because of all of the cool dirt roads around them, but I have no idea if local rock climbers have ever visited them. Again, I have been here many times for work but never the freedom to bring my rock shoes and check them out (corporate safety concerns on a work site).
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Nick Danger
Ice climber
Arvada, CO
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Jun 28, 2017 - 11:43am PT
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Not to be secretive, the first photo is the Hot Creek Range about 75 to 80 miles east of Tonopah. The second photo is Palisade Mesa in the same vicinity. Third photo is in the Sand Spring Range about 30 miles east of Fallon. Have at it, guys and gals.
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Ney Grant
Trad climber
Pollock Pines
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Jun 28, 2017 - 11:49am PT
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Ah - you posted before I asked the question - not Lava Beds.
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Spider Savage
Mountain climber
The shaggy fringe of Los Angeles
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Near Great Basin National Park. A random find.
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looks easy from here
climber
Ben Lomond, CA
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Jul 17, 2017 - 01:10pm PT
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Snooping Nick Danger's bluff posted above I came across this Castle Rock about 5 miles south of the junction of 6 and 375.
I don't expect it's going to make in near the top of my to-do list any time soon, but does anyone know if there's anything on any of those buttresses? And are they any good, or rotten junk?
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Nick Danger
Ice climber
Arvada, CO
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Jul 17, 2017 - 01:28pm PT
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Looks Easy, I recognize that, I've been there on a project for the Air Force about 10 or 12 years ago. That is in the northern part of the Kawich Range. These spires, and others very much like them near by are the remains of some volcanic vents related to the eruption of the Kawich Tuff, a very thick, densely welded tuff of impressive regional extent. These towers are composed of vitric (glassy) and devitrified rhyolite. I was really hoping to find good climbable rock when I checked them out, but it is very frightening choss. If you can make a route go on this stuff you are a much braver climber than I am. While these towers are on public land, if you go much farther south or west from this location you will find yourself trespassing onto the U.S. Air Forces' Nevada Test and Training Range, which is a place where it is not good to be caught trespassing.
cheers
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looks easy from here
climber
Ben Lomond, CA
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Jul 17, 2017 - 01:37pm PT
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Wow, thanks for all that. Death choss + bombs, eh? Sound like I can definitively move them into the "not worth the drive" file.
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Nick Danger
Ice climber
Arvada, CO
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Jul 17, 2017 - 01:39pm PT
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Not all volcanic rock in south-central Nevada is scary choss. The pictures posted below are from the western end of Hot Creek Canyon. The Hot Creek Canyon is this very lovely oasis within the Hot Creek Range. Although I have yet to put any routes up this stuff, the rock actually looks pretty good, with good cracks. Also, I really love the Hot Creek Range.
I would love to hear from anyone who might ever go to these places.
Cheers
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jonnyrig
climber
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Topic Author's Reply - Jul 17, 2017 - 04:25pm PT
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If I ever get time, I would like to explore further into Nevada. I've seen good stuff on nearly every trip across the state, at least what looks good from a distance. But at below zero temps on an elk hunt, the opportunity to climb just never seems to really present itself.
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