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Matterhorn at sunset from my bivy site.
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[ Post a Comment ]| Dean | This one gets better..... | | 
Voted 10/10 | ....every time I look at it. Nice. That was a great bivy spot you had. | | Posted Mar 24, 2004 10:17 pm |
 | | Brian Jenkins | Re: This one gets better..... | | 
Hasn't voted | Thanks! I had a great time out there. Can't wait to go back this Fall. | | Posted Mar 25, 2004 12:40 am |
| calebEOC | What a cliff ! | | 
Voted 10/10 | Is that the largest vertical drop in Oregon? Cant believe I didnt notice this image before. | | Posted Jun 13, 2006 2:27 am |
| | Brian Jenkins | Re: What a cliff ! | |
Hasn't voted | That I could not tell you for sure. I had heard that statement before but not sure if the north face of Hood would compete or if that would be considered a cliff. I know of one guy who climbed this face of the Matterhorn a few years ago via a thread on cascadeclimbers. | | Posted Jun 13, 2006 7:45 pm |
| donhaller3 | Best color shot of Matterhorn | | 
Voted 10/10 | Did you ever find out about the highest cliff issue? | | Posted May 17, 2007 8:32 pm |
| | Brian Jenkins | Re: Best color shot of Matterhorn | |
Hasn't voted | No, sorry. I have not heard anything about this since. I have seen reports about the rock quality and that the limestone is supposedly so soft, it can be damaged by just a hard bootkick. So, I don't think a lot of climbing goes on there to bring much notice to it. It sure is an impressive rock wall to see. | | Posted May 18, 2007 11:26 am |
| | donhaller3 | Re: Best color shot of Matterhorn | |
Voted 10/10 | The limestone seems to vary from very solid rotten clinkery stuff you can step through. On slopes it seems to vary unpredictably. The harder, relatively solid stuff (on Sac, at least) tends to break of in fairly regular flat chunks that can slide easily on each other. There seems to be a lot of small high speed rock coming off the steeper limestone around Thorp Creek. It's hard to imagine it being fun dealing with those conditions for two or three thousand nearly vertical feet.
Whatever the highest cliff may be (and how about some of the Great Basin scarps), this one looms largest in my memories.
Again, the relief, or modeling, of the features in your photo is outstanding and the color is sweetly intense and naturally subdued (ie not saturated to postcard hues in Photoshop). | | Posted May 19, 2007 12:53 am |
| SFMountaineer | great | | 
Voted 10/10 | bivy sites like this are what I look for | | Posted Jun 9, 2009 12:23 am |
| | Brian Jenkins | Re: great | |
Hasn't voted | Yeah, it was quite the spot. Heading back there in a couple months for a week trip. Hope to find some more like that one.
Thanks,
Brian | | Posted Jun 9, 2009 12:58 am |
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