| April 16th, 2005 - Joe... | [ Sizes: Orig | Med | Small | Thumb ] |
April 16th, 2005 - Joe staying well away from the edge of Cedar Ridge. It makes me sick seeing this image, since I know that our route took us over the very highest point of that cornice just minutes before the section that I was on collapsed, resulting in a 1,000 ft fall.
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[ Post a Comment ]| rpc | beautiful shot | | 
Voted 10/10 | excellent! | | Posted Apr 18, 2005 12:11 pm |
 | | Dean | Re: beautiful shot | | 
Voted 10/10 | Ditto, and A+ on all the pics. Great series. | | Posted Apr 18, 2005 1:30 pm |
| | PellucidWombat | Re: beautiful shot | | 
Hasn't voted | Thanks! It was a gorgeous day - definitely worth going back up there. | | Posted Apr 20, 2005 12:16 am |
| | PellucidWombat | Re: beautiful shot | |
Hasn't voted | Thanks - I was amazed at how varied the cornices were on this climb - each one was a little different, and they ranged in form from the multi-headed leviathans to artsy abstract blocks hung in space. Creep in the snow gave some of the cornices 'elephant' trunks! | | Posted Apr 20, 2005 12:17 am |
| bc44caesar | Is this where it happened? | | 
Voted 10/10 | Is the right side of the picture where the cornice broke? Also, congratulations on making it up the route safely this time! | | Posted Apr 19, 2005 10:49 pm |
| | PellucidWombat | Re: Is this where it happened? | |
Hasn't voted | Thankfully no! To the right is a 50-100 ft vertical cliff. The accident happened about 100 feet behind where this photo was taken. In fact, the fracture line initiated where this cliff ended! | | Posted Apr 20, 2005 12:15 am |
| | bc44caesar | Re: Is this where it happened? | |
Voted 10/10 | ah, ok. Very nice set of pictures too! | | Posted Apr 20, 2005 10:12 am |
| | Joseph Bullough | Re: Is this where it happened? | | 
Hasn't voted | Mark, I don't think that is correct. When you took this photo of me I had just taken this photo looking back up the ridge. The cornice broke in the crescent shaped area between where I took the photo and where Glenn is standing (you are just out of the photo on the right, about to take my photo). When the cornice cracked it started right between my feet, and I was just exiting off the corniced hump in the ridge which appears in your photo. | | Posted Apr 20, 2005 10:57 am |
| | PellucidWombat | Re: Is this where it happened? | |
Hasn't voted | ahh, thanks for the correction. I knew this hump was right afterword, but I had forgotten that it was that close! | | Posted Apr 20, 2005 1:14 pm |
| JodyLangford | Wow! | | 
Voted 10/10 | What a great TR to accompany this photo! That is an incredible story! | | Posted May 9, 2005 12:48 am |
| | PellucidWombat | Re: Wow! | |
Hasn't voted | Thanks! It definitely was worth a return trip to see the area! | | Posted May 9, 2005 10:09 am |
| mtn_pika | Amazing shot! | | 
Voted 10/10 | What an adrenaline rush! | | Posted Aug 4, 2006 11:50 pm |
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