Happy Birthday!
- retired jerry
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no picture - doesn't count
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Here's my latest find. Who can identify the setting? There's a prominent landmark in the picture.
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that's what I'm talking about, balloon trash
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Looks like the gully immediately east of ROA Arch. Did you use the balloon to slide back down, or perhaps as a "crash pad" to exit the gully's scrambly finish?Chip Down wrote:Here's my latest find. Who can identify the setting? There's a prominent landmark in the picture.
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That's a good guess, Ben (especially considering the first pic here [note: Chip, it's not the question mark.]). I don't think you can get a full view of the Ridge of America arch from down in there though? So maybe he's up on the hillside to the east (a "viewpoint" off the trail?) in this pic from when we were there with EP:acorn woodpecker wrote:Looks like the gully immediately east of ROA Arch. Did you use the balloon to slide back down, or perhaps as a "crash pad" to exit the gully's scrambly finish?Chip Down wrote:Here's my latest find. Who can identify the setting? There's a prominent landmark in the picture.
I'll bet he inflated the balloon and used it to fly back down to the car!
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Jerry, 1:17, not bad!
The woodpecker is right, gully just east of the Return of Adversity. No need for a crash pad, plenty of snow.
Bosterson: You may have misinterpreted my intent on that other pic. I wasn't trying to identify the Regulation of Antithesis arch, I was trying to identify where I ended up after that, as I worked my way higher and east-ish. And regarding your remark that I inflated the balloon to fly back down, I guess you're suggesting I'm full of hot air?
The woodpecker is right, gully just east of the Return of Adversity. No need for a crash pad, plenty of snow.
Bosterson: You may have misinterpreted my intent on that other pic. I wasn't trying to identify the Regulation of Antithesis arch, I was trying to identify where I ended up after that, as I worked my way higher and east-ish. And regarding your remark that I inflated the balloon to fly back down, I guess you're suggesting I'm full of hot air?
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Chip Down wrote: Bosterson: You may have misinterpreted my intent on that other pic. I wasn't trying to identify the Regulation of Antithesis arch, I was trying to identify where I ended up after that, as I worked my way higher and east-ish.
I didn't think you were; I don't recall being able to see the arch from down in that gully when we went up it (but this was a few years ago, though now I vaguely recollect that you are practically under the thing and can see it from up near the little 12 ft chimney back to the trail), so I guessed maybe you were higher up on the hillside to the east. But that hillside is even further west than the arrow in the other pic, let alone the question mark (which is one of my favorite places over there). Presumably you kept going up the Rickets or Atherosclerosis ridge.
I wasn't, but that's a good idea!And regarding your remark that I inflated the balloon to fly back down, I guess you're suggesting I'm full of hot air?
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What a fun discussion! I'm going to post a real TR later. From the top of the "little 12' chimney back to the trail" I was shocked...I didn't know the trail was right there, and didn't expect that the top of the chimney forms a saddle. Yes, from there I continued up the Romano or Asiago ridge, to Satan's Spine, then off route to explore. Details in TR to follow. I want to hear more about Bosterson's favorite spot!
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Okay Bosterson (or anybody else), see if you can ID the snowy spine sticking above the forested ridge. And yeah, I kinda staged the pic; the balloon was actually on the ground about 20' away. Found this yesterday, and it was one of many fun finds of man-made stuff.
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to go along with the dog poo sacks?