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rumbling noise Mt Arapiles |
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7-Dec-2009 12:41:38 PM
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We woke up to a rather loud rumbling noise in the early hours of Sat morning in the pines. My 3 year old kid and I thought it was a some bins being moved about and went back to sleep..However, talk was that a huge boulder fell from near the top of the cliff to the left of the Organ pipes and wiped out a few trees on the way down.
I didnt get a chance to check it out, anyone else have any more details or pictures ?
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7-Dec-2009 1:58:34 PM
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I heard it also. It lasted long enough for me to think 'its too dam early' and then decide to open my tent and stick my head out. Seemed like a lot of other people had the same idea. Did not see it personally, but i heard it stopped by the base of the Atriade.
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7-Dec-2009 3:09:06 PM
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'twas a rock coming down the gully.
about a metre across, too big for munchkins to be dislocating.
Goes to show the place isn't as stable as we all take for granite.
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7-Dec-2009 4:59:29 PM
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On 7/12/2009 kayakerSteve wrote:
>Goes to show the place isn't as stable as we all take for granite.
I agree, Arapiles is the worst granite climbing destination i've ever been to.
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7-Dec-2009 5:08:53 PM
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I am waiting for evanbb to enlighten me as to how similar it is to the Booroomba 'quartzite experience', though it is all a matter of cooling as to crystal size!
;P
How does the wayward boulder compare to grit?
;-)
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7-Dec-2009 5:23:35 PM
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If everyone could please stay off my new projects on the "rolling boulder" and also the new projects on the wall it came from.
I will tie a red ribbon around the boulder to signify it is a project so please stay off.
Thankyou. ; )
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7-Dec-2009 5:37:28 PM
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We would only be impressed if you got the unrepeatable FA on the still rolling bolder.
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7-Dec-2009 6:26:04 PM
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On 7/12/2009 egosan wrote:
>We would only be impressed if you got the unrepeatable FA on the still
>rolling bolder.
How much bolder does one have to be to get that kind of first ascent on a boulder?
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8-Dec-2009 7:12:00 AM
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On 7/12/2009 IdratherbeclimbingM9 wrote:
>How does the wayward boulder compare to grit?
>;-)
the routes on the boulder are a touch longer....
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8-Dec-2009 9:22:48 AM
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Better a smash than a squash.....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HCy5laNb1IQ
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8-Dec-2009 9:43:30 AM
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Where's the pictures people???
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8-Dec-2009 1:34:10 PM
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On 8/12/2009 nmonteith wrote:
>Where's the pictures people???
It's a boulder rolling down a gully and you want pictures?!?
Why don't you get a life and look at porn like the rest of us do!
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8-Dec-2009 1:41:58 PM
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I saw a girl rush into the path of a very large tufa that was tumbling through the Grande Grotta in Kalymnos... for the purpose of rescuing her backpack that may otherwise have been crushed. From this I conclude that there are indeed people about who would stop to take a photo of a boulder rolling down a gully. So where is this person? :-)
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8-Dec-2009 3:15:21 PM
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On 8/12/2009 climbingjac wrote:
> So where is this person? :-)
Under the boulder?
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8-Dec-2009 3:41:31 PM
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Their flat?
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8-Dec-2009 4:03:53 PM
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On 8/12/2009 ajfclark wrote:
>Their flat?
They certainly aren't too sharp!
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8-Dec-2009 4:18:45 PM
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On 8/12/2009 ajfclark wrote:
>Their flat?
You mean they're home where they live there in their flat?
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8-Dec-2009 4:24:00 PM
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On 8/12/2009 hero wrote:
>On 8/12/2009 ajfclark wrote:
>>Their flat?
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>You mean they're home where they live there in their flat?
I was trying to be punny. Where are the people who take photos of boulders? Their/they're flat.
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8-Dec-2009 4:37:45 PM
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Is this who you are looking for??
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8-Dec-2009 4:49:44 PM
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On 8/12/2009 hero wrote:
>You mean they're home where they live there in their flat?
Did they pass a cheap car with crook suspension to get there?
(*exit stage left, ~> Stugang enters @ stage right)?
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