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jstuhlman

bagpipe wanker
Dec 3, 2009
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Cackalacka du Nord
I hit Sherando most often because it is just so damn close. I love that place. Climb up some steep ass buff and narrow switchbacks to the top of the mountain. Two great options down. Has a bit of everything, some great flow section, some fast as fuck technical sections, some butt puckering sections and one NOPE section.

Over in harrisonburg the trails at massanutten are fantastic. A little farther west and you have the GWNF, mecca IMO. We really should do a Monkey Fest here. http://www.stokesvillelodge.com/
if you make it up the last part of the climb...#heroworship. i've made it up to the last part, but never all the way. is the long rock garden before all the switchbacks still there? can still remember the sense of pride the first time i cleaned it.
 

Westy

the teste
Nov 22, 2002
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Sleazattle
if you make it up the last part of the climb...#heroworship. i've made it up to the last part, but never all the way. is the long rock garden before all the switchbacks still there? can still remember the sense of pride the first time i cleaned it.
Yep that rock garden is still there.

Never made it all the way up the switchbacks, came close, restarted after a spin out.
 

jdcamb

Tool Time!
Feb 17, 2002
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8,767
Nowhere Man!
I don't think pPesqueeb works on Boats. Unless he also gets blamed boat mishaps and not just aviation mishaps. I am OK with that. I wasn't informed of the new Protocol....
 

Pesqueeb

bicycle in airplane hangar
Feb 2, 2007
41,801
19,117
Riding the baggage carousel.
Paging @Pesqueeb to the....ummmm...boat. Pesqueeb to the boat please.


"How long have you worked here, not including tomorrow?"

I don't think pPesqueeb works on Boats. Unless he also gets blamed boat mishaps and not just aviation mishaps. I am OK with that. I wasn't informed of the new Protocol....
It was in the weekly courtesy phone meeting, were you not paying attention?




Oh.........That's right. Never mind.
 

jdcamb

Tool Time!
Feb 17, 2002
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Nowhere Man!



The rocks in this gully oppose each other in a gentle arc to form this circ. Nobody can explain why as Glaciation didn't occur this far south as far as anyone knows.
 
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eric strt6

Resident Curmudgeon
Sep 8, 2001
24,360
15,113
directly above the center of the earth




Shortly after 2 p.m., the driver of a black BMW was going southbound on I-280 when the metal beam fell off of the back of a nearby truck and went through the windshield, said Cpt. Christopher Salcido, a San Jose Fire spokesman.

The driver pulled over to the right of the road, and escaped with only a slight scratch.

“Had the person been a little more to the right, it would have impaled him,” Salcido said. “It looks like he not so much dodged a bullet, but dodged a large beam of metal.”
 

mandown

Poopdeck Repost
Jun 1, 2004
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Transylvania 90210




Shortly after 2 p.m., the driver of a black BMW was going southbound on I-280 when the metal beam fell off of the back of a nearby truck and went through the windshield, said Cpt. Christopher Salcido, a San Jose Fire spokesman.

The driver pulled over to the right of the road, and escaped with only a slight scratch.

“Had the person been a little more to the right, it would have impaled him,” Salcido said. “It looks like he not so much dodged a bullet, but dodged a large beam of metal.”

there's your problem
 

JohnE

filthy rascist
May 13, 2005
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Front Range, dude...




Shortly after 2 p.m., the driver of a black BMW was going southbound on I-280 when the metal beam fell off of the back of a nearby truck and went through the windshield, said Cpt. Christopher Salcido, a San Jose Fire spokesman.

The driver pulled over to the right of the road, and escaped with only a slight scratch.

“Had the person been a little more to the right, it would have impaled him,” Salcido said. “It looks like he not so much dodged a bullet, but dodged a large beam of metal.”
You know what the difference between a BMW and a porcupine is?

The pricks on the porcupine are on the outside...
 

eric strt6

Resident Curmudgeon
Sep 8, 2001
24,360
15,113
directly above the center of the earth




Shortly after 2 p.m., the driver of a black BMW was going southbound on I-280 when the metal beam fell off of the back of a nearby truck and went through the windshield, said Cpt. Christopher Salcido, a San Jose Fire spokesman.

The driver pulled over to the right of the road, and escaped with only a slight scratch.

“Had the person been a little more to the right, it would have impaled him,” Salcido said. “It looks like he not so much dodged a bullet, but dodged a large beam of metal.”
Spare parts for Stoney:rofl::rofl:
 

Pesqueeb

bicycle in airplane hangar
Feb 2, 2007
41,801
19,117
Riding the baggage carousel.




Shortly after 2 p.m., the driver of a black BMW was going southbound on I-280 when the metal beam fell off of the back of a nearby truck and went through the windshield, said Cpt. Christopher Salcido, a San Jose Fire spokesman.

The driver pulled over to the right of the road, and escaped with only a slight scratch.

“Had the person been a little more to the right, it would have impaled him,” Salcido said. “It looks like he not so much dodged a bullet, but dodged a large beam of metal.”

///Metal.
 

gsweet

Monkey
Dec 20, 2001
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4
Minnesota

The rocks in this gully oppose each other in a gentle arc to form this circ. Nobody can explain why as Glaciation didn't occur this far south as far as anyone knows.
Just going to hazard a guess here, but on the limited photo, looks like foliation runs parallel to the "cirque" depression, making this a small syncline...
 

jdcamb

Tool Time!
Feb 17, 2002
20,046
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Nowhere Man!
Just going to hazard a guess here, but on the limited photo, looks like foliation runs parallel to the "cirque" depression, making this a small syncline...
If you expand the pic and look to the left you can see a suspension bridge that spans a canyon. The banded layers of granite and pylite are exposed on both sides of the circ and not because of erosion or rebound as would be the case in the Appalachins to the north. Thrusting would explain one side of the lift and the foliation that may result. But that wouldn't likely occur in such close proximity to the exposed rocks closest to the canyon. Granite and Basalt generally doesn't fold in such symmetry at or near the exposed surface. The Blue Ridge Thrust belt is 150 miles to the North West. The canyon was formed by erosion from a exposed fault.


The arc of exposed rocks are opposing each other upward not downward as represented here. Grandfather Mountain NC for reference.
 

canadmos

Cake Tease
May 29, 2011
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Canaderp
You rode the short monster on regular trails? :shocked:
No choice :( Other bike doesn't have working brakes. Its not that bad, hike and coast to the top and then fly down.

Though, I do think you can go much faster on a normal trail bike. It was a little unnerving at times flying down the single track with those wide bars... :busted: