Trip Report
Madagascar
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Monday October 3, 2011 5:11pm
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fgw
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About the Author
fgw is a trad climber from portland, or. |
Comments
Brandon-
climber
The Granite State.
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Nice!
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le_bruce
climber
Oakland, CA
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Off the beaten path, well done, thanks for sharing.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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So cool! That place is so beeyootiful! Did ya feel like a lump of
dead meat compared to the lemurs? :-)
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Mike Bolte
Trad climber
Planet Earth
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wow! sounds like a fabulous trip!
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Studly
Trad climber
WA
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Really cool climbing photos and TR. I've heard its a challenging place to visit.
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Ezra Ellis
Trad climber
North wet, and Da souf
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Fantastic TR and pics, love the animals, and the furry ones too!
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Jan
Mountain climber
Colorado & Nepal
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Beautiful photos. Truly a unique place.
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survival
Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
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Super super cool!!
Thanks for taking me along!
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bluering
Trad climber
Santa Clara, CA
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Wild, man.....looks like good stone too. Is that granite?
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tahoe523
Trad climber
Station Wagon, USA
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Karambony Pillar and the Lemurs!
These are amazing photos. Something tells me that your NC trip provided some prep for the bold and slabby Madagascar. :-)
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nita
Social climber
chica de chico, I don't claim to be a daisy.
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Beautiful rock, beautiful landscapes, very cool light, and colors...Thanks for the TR*
Did you get a chance to hear any local music...Some purdy music in Madagascar. I wish i could remember the name of the band i used to like..They had some instruments that were made from bicycle parts, i think it was part of a bicycle chain.
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Dr.Sprock
Boulder climber
I'm James Brown, Bi-atch!
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you are so lucky
leurs are so rare
went to the sf museumwith my freibd zen right before he died from booze,
he was so infatuatd with lemures
we went to the sf zoo
hey have lemurs there,
they al start talkin at the same time, so cool
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jaaan
Trad climber
Chamonix, France
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Interesting you should caption a photo:
*Climbing the amazing water-carved features on pitch 4 of La Croix Du Sud (Sept. 2011).*
I have first hand experience of that water carving... In November 1999 a big storm hit us as we were rapping down off this route. It was so intense that the face was more like a river in spate with the water breaking half way up my shins. Great photos - they bring back the memories. Thanks
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handsome B
Gym climber
SL,UT
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Great photos of an amazing place
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fgw
climber
portland, or
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Author's Reply
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Oct 4, 2011 - 11:07am PT
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All, thank you for the very nice comments, esp on my first tr attempt here!
To answer the questions above,
1. the rock is granite & at least the easier stuff that we got on had less slab type terrain & more edges & nubbins (like red rocks or even smith). I wish we could climb 7b grade to really go to town there.
2. there's a place to stay (2 or 3 in fact) with the closest & the one we used called Camp Catta (great website). tents, tent shelters & cabins. Also a cafeteria (great cooking!) & bar. the other camps got less than favorable reviews from a couple climbers we talked to ("cheaper but kind of dead")
3. the log book in camp catta claimed Ondra had FFA (Oct. 2010 I think) of Tough Enough with all pitches led onsight.
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Mungeclimber
Trad climber
Nothing creative to say
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it seems that place was so exotic just a couple years ago, and now it seems reachable. just my narrow perspective at the moment.
thx for the pics and lemurs
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JMC
climber
the land of milk and honey
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Thank you so much for putting the show together and sharing - stellar pics, has me tallying my frequent flyer miles and vacation days.
Between this and Brad's Tooth Rock story, it's one of the best days on supertopo.
(and a rallying cry to leave the wasteland of Houston!)
Aloha,
John
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