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jonnyrig
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Topic Author's Reply - Aug 20, 2017 - 11:16am PT
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Oh I am not Brutus of Wyde
And I can't climb the wide cracks with pride
For my jams are too narrow
And my technique is terrible
If I said that I could them I've lied!
Spent the morning up by Sunny Delight in Carson. Went up next to it on the silent partner, got shut down on the wide. It will go, i just lack the requisite confidence or technique. If you do it, it will take a #6. I wound have pushed it if I had two with me; but not on a single, not alone on rope solo. Still had fun trying. Some of the rock does not inspire confidence.
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hooblie
climber
from out where the anecdotes roam
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Aug 28, 2017 - 07:48am PT
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Oldfattradguy2
Trad climber
Here and there
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The selenites have burned, almost the whole range. I am working the fire,
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jonnyrig
climber
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Topic Author's Reply - Oct 15, 2017 - 08:31am PT
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STFU and go somewhere.
GTFO. DO something.
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hooblie
climber
from out where the anecdotes roam
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donini
Trad climber
Ouray, Colorado
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Mungeclimber
Trad climber
Nothing creative to say
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Elsewhere obscure...
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BigB
Trad climber
Red Rock
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donini, that's in Nevada?!?
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splitclimber
climber
Sonoma County
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Dam it Munge. I know where that is. :)
some obscure Nevada granite from New Years weekend.
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Urizen
Ice climber
Berkeley, CA
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^ Looks like a place not far from Tonopah.
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Blakey
Trad climber
Sierra Vista
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chainsaw
Trad climber
CA
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This is a better pic of one of the Smokey Valley spots. Closer examination at the right time of morning, 830 am in winter shadow reveals that the mountain is actually Cheech Buttress and Chong wall! Sorry the enlargement is blurry.
Nevada has been good for other things too. These are dumpster dives from an old forge about a hundred years since it burned down.
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TLP
climber
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E. central Nevada, limestone. Very solid. That's quite a big roof up there. Total height of cliff 160-200'?
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Fritz
Social climber
Choss Creek, ID
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Apr 23, 2018 - 08:21pm PT
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I escaped S. Idaho & drove down to the Tonopah area to visit old mining towns, old mines, & hopefully get some exercise hiking around looking for collectable minerals.
Day 1, I drove dirt roads down from HWY 50 to the not quite ghost town of Belmont, found some garnets & about 1000 mud puddles along the way & on my late afternoon way from Belmont to the not-quite ghost town of Manhatan, I noticed some interesting spires on the northern horizon.
I eschewed starting cocktail hour at my beloved Hotel Mizpah in Tonopah, & just for you folks, did another 10 miles of more dirt road driving.
When I get home, I'll post some details, but you can drive your Audi right to these 200' tall granite crags.
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TWP
Trad climber
Mancos, CO & Bend, OR
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Apr 23, 2018 - 08:34pm PT
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Yes Fritz. Post details. I often have to drive from Oregon to Arizona and can route myself many different ways through Nevada in search of obscurities ... like these domes/cliffs you've just posted.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Apr 23, 2018 - 08:43pm PT
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Fritz, yer use of ‘tower’ rather begs the issue, but there is potential there,
especially if you get benighted in Area 51!
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thebravecowboy
climber
The Good Places
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Apr 23, 2018 - 09:05pm PT
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I dig it Fritz.
2700' vertical, 20++ mi from pavement
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Fritz
Social climber
Choss Creek, ID
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Apr 23, 2018 - 09:05pm PT
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Yes Reilly, perhaps tower is an over-statement, but after another great day of hiking obscure mines in the Tonopah area, and dinner & a little Cline red wine, "crag" just did not seem to describe the "mushrooms of granite."
I did do a brief internet search under the heading of rock climbs near Belmont & found zero that applied to this area that is about 5 miles west of Belmont,
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