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"Diving Board" just off route...

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"Diving Board" just off route to climber's left, midway up Venusian Blind. SuperTopo mentions you should not step on this. Perhaps that was obvious already?

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Diggler

How the hell is that thing there like that?!!

Voted 10/10

I don't get it- is part of it stuck in the cliff?? Thanks for sharing.

Posted Aug 15, 2005 12:07 pm


	Tom Kenney	Re: How the hell is that thing there like that?!!
	Voted 10/10	Static electricity! :P
		Posted Aug 15, 2005 1:20 pm


	Eric O	Re: How the hell is that thing there like that?!!
	Hasn't voted	It's hard to see, on the right side, but the end of it that's not in the air is sitting in an alcove, and other rocks are piled on that hidden end of it. Just enough to keep it there, not enough counterweight to keep it there if you stood on it! Maybe the diving board was formerly standing vertically filling the same alcove, and something made it tilt out, then luckily some other pieces happened to be on its tail at the time to keep it from falling all the way out and down the cliff.
		Posted Aug 16, 2005 11:50 am


	brenta	Re: How the hell is that thing there like that?!!
	Voted 10/10	How large is the "diving board?"
		Posted Aug 20, 2005 2:50 am


	Eric O	Re: How the hell is that thing there like that?!!
	Hasn't voted	If I remember right, it sticks out about 30 inches? It probably has about 12 additional inches (out of sight in the photo) where other rocks are piled on it as a counterweight.
		Posted Aug 23, 2005 4:09 am