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hosh
Oct 3, 2007, 5:03 AM
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My wife found this on the internet. I would like to see if any of this choss is climbable!
http://englishrussia.com/?p=1503
Russia anyone?
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armsrforclimbing
Oct 3, 2007, 5:06 AM
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Am I a chump? I clicked the link and got some pop ups. Very elaborate ruse.
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fearlessclimber
Oct 3, 2007, 5:08 AM
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Sweet! looks like rock from devils tower, i want to freakin go, but the cracks there look really thin.
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hosh
Oct 3, 2007, 5:31 AM
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No no, no pop ups, I gave a real link... Sorry it didn't work for you, eh?
hosh.
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moose_droppings
Oct 3, 2007, 5:56 AM
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No problem with the link for me.
Their was a thread I believe here on rc.com about that type of rock formation. People were posting up pics of rock like that from all over the globe.
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camhead
Oct 3, 2007, 5:58 AM
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wow, looks like columner basalt, similar to Devil's Postpile or Devils Tower.
Where is that exactly?
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el_layclimber
Oct 3, 2007, 2:45 PM
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Absolutely gorgeous. Someone needs to grid bolt that whole area so that it will be safe.
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xtremst80
Oct 3, 2007, 2:53 PM
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Very nice. Reminds me of devils tower.
(This post was edited by xtremst80 on Oct 3, 2007, 2:54 PM)
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keegan540
Oct 3, 2007, 2:59 PM
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I second that, also, the bolts should be OSHA orange so you don't miss them when shooting your climbing video from a helicopter. Maybe I could bolt my name into the wall!
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jmvc
Oct 3, 2007, 3:49 PM
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There is an Island off scotland with that kind of rock formation, I forget it's name...
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tallnik
Oct 3, 2007, 4:07 PM
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Columnar Basalt... looks solid, although lacking scale it's hard to tell the size of gear it'll take.
Nik
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mumas
Oct 3, 2007, 4:14 PM
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I visited that place in Kuril islands about 8 years ago (I was 17 then). At that time we were hiking around volcanos and visiting nice places. So I did not climb these rocks, however, I tried to get up approx. 3 meters to take a photo. As far as I remember, some "towers" are quite loose.
The place is really nice and there are almost no people in the island (there is a fishers' village and some military guys). I think now it is nearly impossible to get there, because it is the border island.
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Valarc
Oct 3, 2007, 4:16 PM
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The type of rock formation is referred to as a columnar joint
http://en.wikipedia.org/.../Joint_%28geology%29, and it usually occurs in basalt, but can be found in other rock types as well.
I just saw a really fascinating colloquium a few weeks ago that demonstrated a theory for the mechanism for the formation of these things, and it was quite awesome. Some famous example are devil's tower and devil's postpile, already mentioned, as well as giant's causeway in ireland.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giant%27s_Causeway
Obviously, some of this stuff is climbable, as has been shown with devil's tower, but I'd love to see more examples of climbable columnar rock.
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epoch
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Oct 3, 2007, 4:19 PM
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I frequented an area 2 hours south of Tokyo during the time I lived there. Five shoreline miles of Columnar Basalt. It had everything from thin tips to sexy wide cracks, all uniform in shape. I miss that area.
It'll bring another perspective to your crack resume.
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epoch
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Oct 3, 2007, 4:21 PM
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[On a side note: What is the climbing situation at Devil's Postpile?]
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qwert
Oct 11, 2007, 7:10 PM
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Awsome. that place looks so cool.
but the text on the site is crap.
"many visitors who come here from different parts of Russia doubt this and call them man made, probably belonging to some unknown people who lived here in prehistoric times. Some new-agers even suppose that this structures were used by some technologically advanced civilization that existed on the Earth at the age before the Bible flood."
this is columnar lava, most likely basalt or related stuff like nephelinite.
it is very impressive how the orientation of the collumns changes at some spots, from horizontal to vertical, within a few meter (first photo).
the collumns (and so the cracks between them) are always paralell to the direction the heat got lost.
if they are vertical, the heat escaped to the side, so the lava was in a funnel when it cooled. if they are horizontal the heat escaped upwards, so it was the top of a funnel, or a funnel that reached the surface.
so no superfragicalistic new age cultures there, but still a beatifull looking place.
who wants to join me on a trip? (you have to provide the money )
qwert
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dingus
Oct 11, 2007, 7:32 PM
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Thanks for posting that.
DMT
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ryanb
Oct 11, 2007, 8:03 PM
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Valarc wrote: Obviously, some of this stuff is climbable, as has been shown with devil's tower, but I'd love to see more examples of climbable columnar rock.
Lots of climbable columnar basalt in washington and oregon. Vantage/Frenchman Coulee, the Tieton River Gorge in Eastern Washington, Beacon Rock Near Portland, the lower Gorge at Smith Rocks and Trout creek Central Oregon are all well developed areas. Lots more potential too.
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ClusterFock
Oct 12, 2007, 10:40 AM
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Holy crap that reminds me of the Antrim Coast in Northern Ireland. Fucking awesome. Well, except the Giant's Causeway in NI is made up of hexigon shaped pillars, but more or less the same.
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8flood8
Oct 12, 2007, 11:25 AM
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well...those aren't pebbles at the base....
looks pretty chossy.
also looks like that place that that czech guy, here on rc.com, was begging people to come and "bolt my country." i'm sure some of it is not choss, but... how quickly would you accelerate to the ground getting dragged by a 10 foot extruded column of rock?
....although, i am also the one who always thinks the blasted out roadside rocks look fun to climb also...
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