What am I seeing?
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That be Hallet's Peak. Routes all over that thing. Petit Grepon is across from it on the right. |
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That's Hallet's peak. There are several routes up it, most are on MP. |
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Glenn Schuler wrote:That be Hallet's Peak. Routes all over that thing. Petit Grepon is across from it on the right.That's not Petit Grepon, The Petit is in a different valley, by Sky Pond. That's Flattop. |
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That's Longs Peak. If you look closely you can see the Casual Route. There are no other established routes except for the Casual Route. |
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Paul-B wrote: That's not Petit Grepon, The Petit is in a different valley, by Sky Pond. That's Flattop.My feeble mind remembers the Petit being somewhat across from Hallets - old age is a bitch. My bad, carry on. |
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Glenn Schuler wrote: My feeble mind remembers the Petit being somewhat across from Hallets - old age is a bitch. My bad, carry on.Its tricky. Last time I was up there, I had a brief thought that i was looking at the petit. There are several rock formations on flattop that, from a distance, look similar to the petit. Here is a pic of that face of flat top. Several granite finger that I could see resembling the petit. mountainproject.com/v/10580… |
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Petit is on the left and Long's is on the right. Casual Route isn't the only one, Scenic Cruise goes up the left side of Long's too. |
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Paul-B wrote: Its tricky. Last time I was up there, I had a brief thought that i was looking at the petit. There are several rock formations on flattop that, from a distance, look similar to the petit. Here is a pic of that face of flat top. Several granite finger that I could see resembling the petit. mountainproject.com/v/10580…I remember seeing the sun come up as we were doing one of those Hallett routes, the morning sun catching those towers across the valley is an amazing sight. |
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Hallet is indeed a beautiful granite face. I've done the Culp-Bossier route. It was great. |
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There used to be an amazing 5.7 on Hallets: Northcut-Carter (a 50 Classics Climb), but the first two pitches fell off. |
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Paul-B wrote:That's Hallet's peak. There are several routes up it, most are on MP. mountainproject.com/v/halle… Curious as to why you didn't just look at a map of dream lake and figure out what mountain that is? Not try to be a jerk, just seems like the obvious thing to me.To look at a map honestly didn't cross my mind. Also, I prefer to get info from people who have been there, live there, and know, so that when I do grab a map I'll have a better idea what I'm looking at. |
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C. Archibald wrote:Hallet is indeed a beautiful granite face. I've done the Culp-Bossier route. It was great.Hallett is gneiss and schist not granite. |
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VRP wrote: Hallett is gneiss and schist not granite.The petite is in another glacier valley and I think that is Flattop. Gneiss and schist are metamorphosed granite. Old geology joke: " You don't know Schist." |
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First Track Jack wrote: Gneiss and schist are metamorphosed granite.Correction: Most gneisses are metamorphosed "granitoids", but schists are most often metamorphosed sedimentary or volcanic rocks. |
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Hi Tommy, you are correct. I was being a little more layman about it |
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First Track Jack wrote:Hi Tommy, you are correct. I was being a little more layman about itAfter I commented, I wandered onto your page and notice you are also a geologist. So please excuse my pedantic comment - I hate to lecture to another geologist about the basics! |
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No worries, Thanks for keeping me straight Tom, give me a shout if you're ever down here. |