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Jay Wood
Trad climber
Land of God-less fools
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Topic Author's Original Post - May 23, 2011 - 07:57pm PT
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Well, a big chunk of it fell off!
Turning Point, Side Kick, Tiger's Paw, and the first pitch of Plumkin appear to be history.
There is massive devastation, and giant boulders rolled up to 800' down the talus slope.
Seen from leaning tower.
Ed H.'s pics from a year ago:
http://www.supertopo.com/climbers-forum/1141991/Last-Resort-Cliff-photo
Get out there and tick those routes, because they won't last forever!
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scuffy b
climber
dissected alluvial deposits, late Pleistocene
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May 23, 2011 - 08:07pm PT
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Looks like some serious mayhem
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Ed Hartouni
Trad climber
Livermore, CA
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May 23, 2011 - 10:45pm PT
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yes a big piece fell down around January-February 2011
here is the "before" picture of that section of the cliff:
and the "after" picture:
the first pitch of Plumkin and the climbs Turning Point, Side Kick, and Tiger Paw are gone.
It looks like roughly 40 m by 40 m by 4 meters of rock slid off...
The blocks up higher around the belay of the climb Side Kick may still be unstable... be careful over there...
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Captain...or Skully
climber
or some such
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May 24, 2011 - 12:04am PT
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Indeed. That's a lotta rocks.
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M. Volland
Trad climber
Grand Canyon
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May 24, 2011 - 12:36am PT
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I had plans to climb Plumkin last time I was in the Valley, but they fell through. Was actually trying to get those plans back together for my next trip there in a few weeks. Too bad, that's one cliff I've never climbed at.
Does it look like plumkin is still climable, once the area stablizes?
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kev
climber
A pile of dirt.
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May 24, 2011 - 12:50am PT
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Haha - guess the secrets out now. That happened MONTHS ago - very early this year...Wondered when someone else would venture up! Took out a couple of routes/starts too!
kev
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Ed Hartouni
Trad climber
Livermore, CA
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May 24, 2011 - 12:58am PT
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at the top of the new arch there is a block at the upper left (as you look at the photos) that is defined by the horizontal fault where the rest of the face fell out, and the horizontal fault on the left side of the slide... you can see it in the photo...
Who knows why that block stayed up there where the rest of it fell out.
As I understand it, the brown rock scar indicates that water had been back there, where did that come from? we'll see with time... and where else is it going?
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kev
climber
A pile of dirt.
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May 24, 2011 - 01:02am PT
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Ed,
Who knows how long that's gonna stay. Did you get close? When we were up there we saw a lot of potential belayer slayers. The leaves were still green on the downed trees....
kev
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k-man
Gym climber
SCruz
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May 24, 2011 - 01:08am PT
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^^^^^ Hahahahahaha
I did Turning Point once, boy was that a funky climb.
Reminds me of climbing Mickey's Beach Crack with Belizzi once. He was swearing "Gosh this thing feels harder than it used to. I could get good stacks, but now it feels all rattly..." The thing fell of a week later.
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Ed Hartouni
Trad climber
Livermore, CA
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May 24, 2011 - 01:10am PT
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kev - we traversed the face right under the rock fall and had a good look at it, but I was impressed after comparing the "before" and "after" photos...
Plenty of rock to climb elsewhere in the Valley, I'd let it settle a bit more before "sacking up" to do the corner crack...
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kev
climber
A pile of dirt.
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May 24, 2011 - 01:12am PT
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It's also the death blocks in the corner that need to come off...
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Jay Wood
Trad climber
Land of God-less fools
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Topic Author's Reply - May 24, 2011 - 03:30am PT
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We looked at No Falls Wall, and Black Sunday.
Mossy, and those old leepers were not confidence-inspiring.
Have these things had a second ascent?
B&B looked good- is that the way to the upper tier now?
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kev
climber
A pile of dirt.
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May 24, 2011 - 03:04pm PT
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Ed,
You must have posted as I was typing - missed your reply.
Yup you're right plenty of other rock out there - no need to do anything crazy...
kev
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em kn0t
Trad climber
isle of wyde
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May 24, 2011 - 04:13pm PT
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Reminds me of climbing Mickey's Beach Crack with Belizzi once. He was swearing "Gosh this thing feels harder than it used to. I could get good stacks, but now it feels all rattly..." The thing fell of a week later.
AHAH! That Bellizi must be an animal to have trundled the Beach Crack.
silly me ... all these years I've believed the urban legend that it got washed off by a big storm.
;-)
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