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Jan. 2003
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[ Post a Comment ]| Scott | Now that's cool! | | 
Voted 10/10 | cool picture | | Posted Nov 25, 2003 4:44 pm |
| rpc | Amazing Shot! | | 
Voted 10/10 | What ARE we looking at? | | Posted Nov 25, 2003 5:38 pm |
 | | desainme | Re: Amazing Shot! | | 
Voted 10/10 | I think they are inclined slabs of snow and they are called Neve Penitents- Snow prayerful souls i guess- I never heard of em much except around this mountain. | | Posted Nov 25, 2003 5:55 pm |
| | Drazil | Re: Amazing Shot! | | 
Hasn't voted | That's right - Pennitentes. At this point we were leaving Base Camp and carrying up to Camp I. Interesting formations caused by a combination of the heat of the sun at high altitude and the wind on the snowfield. They are tough to manouver especially for a not so tall person like myself wih a full pack, wider than myself! :-) | | Posted Nov 25, 2003 6:17 pm |
| | Diego Sahagún | Just a little thing | | 
Voted 5/10 | The Spanish name is "penitentes", wich is the plural of "penitente" | | Posted Nov 25, 2003 6:33 pm |
| | Drazil | Re: Just a little thing | |
Hasn't voted | Thanks for the correction. :-) | | Posted Nov 25, 2003 6:48 pm |
| | Diego Sahagún | Re: Just a little thing | |
Voted 5/10 | No problem Drazil. For you and all the SP'ers: please ask me when you have any doubt with the Spanish, I could help you | | Posted Nov 25, 2003 8:24 pm |
| | Drazil | Re: Amazing Shot! | |
Hasn't voted | Thanks.
We found it better to go through them rather that going around. On both sides of them the scree was very loose and quite steep. We attempted a few hundred feet of that and it was exhausting! Had to kick in with the front of my hard shells to keep from sliding back. | | Posted Nov 28, 2003 7:43 pm |
| | Drazil | Re: Just a little thing | |
Hasn't voted | Will take you up on that , thanks for offering
Liz | | Posted Nov 28, 2003 7:44 pm |
| | Drazil | Re: Amazing Shot! | |
Hasn't voted | Thanks Dean. Interesting aren't they?! The ones in the photos are not the tallest ones we encountered on Aconcagua either. I have more photos however did not want to post too many ... | | Posted Jan 3, 2004 3:14 pm |
| Aaron Johnson | FAST MELT! | | 
Hasn't voted | We're talking rapid melting forces here. Very impressive! | | Posted Nov 29, 2003 9:52 am |
| merrill | I guess | | 
Voted 10/10 | that's the mountain for awesome penitentes.
Merrill | | Posted May 24, 2010 9:47 pm |
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