[a dense loner]

Fantastic, one of the best things I've seen for a long time

[fatneck]

I knew this would happen sooner or later... I agree with Lee... 

[Huffy]

Brilliant!

Fantastic, one of the best things I've seen for a long time

[ghisino]

I like the concept and video a lot but at the same time i'm slightly disapponted that it perpetuates a common misrepresentation that gneiss and granite are the same thing...

normally i wouldn't care too much but last year i attended a short "rock climbing geology" held by a strong french girl for us wannabe climbing instructors...and she said : "Gneiss...[blah blah bla]...very interesting but i've never heard of any climbing on such rock, so it must all be choss!"
That is when it starts being disappointing (maybe the disappointing thing is that the class wasn't held by a geologist)


btw, how many here are aware that:

1-Ticino is all gneiss
2-Some features like the waves on the Molonk boulder can't be mistaken for granite. That's a signature of the metamorphic process.
3-although gneiss is often "messed up granite", some of it isn't...eg cresciano should be "messed up" sand or sandstone (Paragneiss)...

[andy_e]

Thanks ghisino, I get sick of people saying granite when it's not! I thought a lot of the stuff in switzerland was blueschist/greenschist/eclogite though? Maybe that's just Magic Wood.

[Nibile]

Jesus Christ, you two are killing all the poetry. Next time I see my girl I'll tell her "You've got very beautiful mammary glands". Thanks.

[andy_e]

Gniess Earth has a better ring to it. Anyway, you don't go around calling climbing football, or calling apples oranges. They're two completely different things.

[SA Chris]

"Gneiss...[blah blah bla]...very interesting but i've never heard of any climbing on such rock, so it must all be choss!"

Mmmmmmmm, choss.

[Fiend]

Entertaining video, well done, but I'm still not a fan of granite climbing despite the strong aesthetics. Maybe a Sandstone Earth next?

[AndyR]

I like the concept and video a lot but at the same time i'm slightly disapponted that it perpetuates a common misrepresentation that gneiss and granite are the same thing...

normally i wouldn't care too much but last year i attended a short "rock climbing geology" held by a strong french girl for us wannabe climbing instructors...and she said : "Gneiss...[blah blah bla]...very interesting but i've never heard of any climbing on such rock, so it must all be choss!"
That is when it starts being disappointing (maybe the disappointing thing is that the class wasn't held by a geologist)


btw, how many here are aware that:

1-Ticino is all gneiss
2-Some features like the waves on the Molonk boulder can't be mistaken for granite. That's a signature of the metamorphic process.
3-although gneiss is often "messed up granite", some of it isn't...eg cresciano should be "messed up" sand or sandstone (Paragneiss)...

Man, I'm with you there - especially when most of the rocks called granite are actually tonalite and granodiorites...

[andy_e]

Well, next you'll be telling us the Dolomites aren't made of limestone...

[tomtom]

Fucking hell, Geology pedants...

[Jim]

Who invited Buzz Killington and his chums?

2 good thing in this thread:
another decent free video from LT11
a positive comment from Lee

some people are never happy!

[Jaspersharpe]

I presumed it was JB on Dense's login despite the fact that I know they haven't lived in the same house for years so this would be very unlikely.

[Moo]

Come on lay off lee a little, imagine how annoyed you would be if the sides of your head were squeezing on your brain that hard all the time.

[Nibile]

Am I the only grumpy bastard that couldn't make it through the first three minutes?
I skipped forward a few times and not one single bit I watched drew my attention.
Where's my Splinter dvd, now?

[SA Chris]

And now dense is logging in as Nibile.

[GCW]

Jesus Christ, you two are killing all the poetry. Next time I see my girl I'll tell her "You've got very beautiful mammary glands". Thanks.

Let me get my hands
On your mammary glands
And let me get your head
On the conjugal bed
I say, I say, I say

[a dense loner]

I knew nibs wouldn't like it, no brutal display of power. Just good climbing to chilled music and a good dickie attenborough impression. No outlet for nibs' strong caffeine addiction 
The yin and yang nibs

[Nibile]

 

[masonwoods101]

  good concept.... Might catch on

[mrjonathanr]

A (French) pal of mine once planned to create a guide to the Best Boulangeries of France with location and times, range, star specials, prices etc - crag-by-crag.

A brilliant idea, from one who was a true expert in the field. Shame he never got round to it. Too busy climbing I'm afraid.

[masonwoods101]

Had to google boulangeries... But that does sound like a good idea... Another idea for English climbing films would be to show a problem followed by directions to the nearest good pub..... I'm gonna gonna do that.... 

[AndyR]

I knew nibs wouldn't like it, no brutal display of power. Just good climbing to chilled music and a good dickie attenborough impression. No outlet for nibs' strong caffeine addiction 
The yin and yang nibs

Dickie Attenborough?

[a dense loner]

Quite right andy i meant david I just started with the 'd' and then continued with whatever was in my hand at the time