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Scott

Scott - May 2, 2014 10:48 am - Voted 10/10

Nice page

Nice first page. The mountain is definitely on the list and I'd like to climb it someday (I'd like to see the pumice formations up there).

matthias.pabst

matthias.pabst - May 2, 2014 9:09 pm - Hasn't voted

Re: Nice page

Thanks for the kind words Scott! It seemed to me that most formations are made of more solid rocks than pumice. There quite a few small pumice rocks around though

Scott

Scott - May 3, 2014 9:25 pm - Voted 10/10

Re: Nice page

It seemed to me that most formations are made of more solid rocks than pumice.

Interesting.

It may be on a slightly different route. Here's a quote from John Biggar's book:

"From the Vegas del Blancquillo climb by the W or SW slopes on snow and scree to the summit. 7-8h. Lots of bizarre white white pumice makes this a very interesting ascent".

It might only be in one location, so maybe it's easy to miss.

Anyway, great page.

matthias.pabst

matthias.pabst - May 4, 2014 6:44 pm - Hasn't voted

Re: Nice page

I took the same route following the path that was for a long time pretty well visible. There was a lot of pumice around, but not big formations but small rocks of the size of a fist maybe. Most of the scree/sand was very white so maybe Biggar was referring to that? Just sent you a PM with a link to more pictures.

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