Gordons Hangover: is the crack bigger now??

Curiuos if anyone else has noticed this. After pulling over the final roof on Gordon's Hangover last Monday, I noticed that the crack was thin hand, where I swear it used to be fingers. I seem to recall placing either a small TCU but no bigger than a #1 friend to protect the move (placement of gear being over the edge and past the roof).

I wonder if the freeze/thaw of this season has widened the crack? Also wonder if the whole flake forming the right side of the route is destined for the same fate as Old Reliable, Catalyst, the first pitch of the Great White Icicle, etc.

Speaking of which, anyone know if Nuke the Whales fell off too? Right side of the last pitch on the Pentapitch Buttress has spalled off, in case anyone hadn't noticed...(right above the ledge above the belay on Sasquatch).

Amazing! That nature is a mother...

Might be prudent for folks playing around on the thinner, flake-like formations in LCC especially to be cautious about the possibility that our wide ranging freeze/thaw temperature swings may have loosened things up a tad.

Watch yer topknots!

Hey Brian...are you sure that's new?

I swear I saw what looked like a fresh scar over there last summer.

By the way...we still need to hook-up sometime...I have a blue ice black gold packet for you.

Heard something about a loose block above the bulge,  last week when we were starting up Touch Up.  They had wanted to trundle it but couldn't because there were people at the base. This was same day as El Cap rockfall was reported so flake on Touch-Up was kinda spooky.  

Also on FB Utah Climbers group there was a report recently about rockfall in the Green A gulley.  "So, it's unclear to my group and I, what exactly happened... but right before dark last night, a massive boulder fell from the top of Green A gully. The result was totally awe inspiring and terrifying. The loudest explosion I had ever heard upon its impact, and shrapnel pelting everything in the gully. I'm so glad no one was injured or killed. Was anybody in here up at After the Fall or around that area, that knows what happened?"   Not sure if this was reported on here.   Careful out there!

Brian and Andrew... Please don't confuse us with antiquated cam sizes.

I think it has gotten bigger, but it has been slowly progressing over the lat 10 years.  

Although, your hands and fingers might have gotten smaller due to your domestication as well.

PT

Tom Hore wrote:

Brian and Andrew... Please don't confuse us with antiquated cam sizes.

Dudes...my original post is antiquated...10 years ago!

That whole big flake thing is gonna spall off someday...

Can't wait til it eats a gold camalot and turns into a locker hand jam so I don't have to flail around every time I pull the bulge...

That whole area is full of detached monsters which are welded in place until they aren't. What about the massive flake you mantle and traverse on for the last few moves of Touch Up? Or the giant arrow-head block to the right of the Gordon's undercling flake, just to the right of the G Direct seam? That one is directly in the rappel line and seems to be perched on its bottom end which about 6" wide. Hopefully it doesn't skewer anyone if it comes off. Unless it's the fat GreenA squirrel of course...

Last I climbed it (last fall) I placed a BD .75 right after the last crux bulge. Would be a bummer if that thing came down. 

Rob T wrote:

We need to send tennismouse up there to clean that stuff up ala Meat Puppets. 

We’ll lose some classics, but maybe we’ll regain some face climbing in the area   

Be it with a leaf blower or just with his heft, he will clean the route of any potential looseness. 

I get worried when he asks to borrow my 6 foot prybar. 

Good then we can call it Gordon's Fellover.

Besides "Fourth and Inches" is the latest rage for a warm up these days.

Tom Hore wrote:

Besides "Fourth and Inches" is the latest rage for a warm up these days.

I'm stealing this for my next Schoolroom rap area route. 

Nuke the Whales did have some rock fall, although it wasn't recent. To start the crux, you used to be able to shuffle your feet along a nice clean crack, now that's gone.