[#]SilentSunday
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Signal
There are 90 peaks named "Signal" in the United States according to Peakbagger (114 according to the USGS's wonderful GNISsearch tool), and 24 named "Signal Peak" (29 according to GNIS); this is the one near Saint George, Utah. I had meant to climb it several times on my travels, as it has over 4000 feet of prominence, but only now got around to doing so. From Navajo Mountain, I drove through Page and Kanab, then turned back sout
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[#]Utah
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Navajo
[From October 2024. -- ed.]
Navajo Mountain is one of several large mounds in the greater Four Corners area, prominent though not particularly interesting from a climbing or aesthetic perspective. Some sources online claim it is sacred and requires permission to climb, but given that there is a road to a cluster of signal towers on top, I don't consider the additional desecration of an occasional peakbagger very significant. It
https://drdirtbag.com/2025/01/25/navajo/
[#]Utah
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Some thoughts on academic success, with broader applicability: "Daily deep work keeps the black dog away, for there is nothing worse for mood than the sense that one is not progressing. And it can spiral in a bad way: the more you feel you are not progressing, the worse you feel; the worse you feel the more your hours become non-deep junk; and the more exhausted you are by non-deep junk hours, the less you progress."
https://sternaparadisaea.net/2025/01/25/just-one-thing/
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An etiquette question from someone with two ears and one mouth: how do you choose what to post and boost here? I try hard to keep it to mountain-related things, because that's the instance I'm on, and it's generally positive. I also enjoy reading about some tech stuff, and masochistically "enjoy" some US politics, because that's where I live. I don't want to inflict those things on my followers, becase I try to be a decent human.
In the old days, you would post to different Usenet channels. Do you create a bunch of different usernames and somehow merge them into a single feed?
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A screenshot of the modern internet. I assume money flows in some direction here.
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Near the summit of Nevado de Famatina (a.k.a. Cerro General Manuel Belgrano), Argentina, January 2020. The non-frozen lake is at almost 6000m. The valley below is about 4500m lower than the summit. There is an old British ore tram from the town of Chilecito to around 4500m on the peak.
[#]MountainMonday
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Happy New Year! What did you do with your Christmas break? Eric Gilbertson climbed and surveyed Colombia's new highpoint (due to glacial melting since 1939): https://www.countryhighpoints.com/pico-bolivar-colombia-highpoint/
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For #MountainMonday, some scenes from the high Andes around this time of year, near Cerro los Olivares. Penitentes are snow/ice features formed by differential sublimation. They start with small variations in the surface, which are reinforced as the peaks better radiate heat, and the valleys focus sunlight. They are made larger by thin, dry air and intense sun, so the high Andes close to the equator are one of the best places to see them.
I saw some taller than a person later in this trip. These were no more than knee-high, but still challenging to cross. On the right, note the typical poor choices for travel: unstable scree, short penitentes, and bare glacial ice.
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[#]SilentSunday
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A White Christmas: fresh snow on White Mountain, California.
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Continuing on yesterday's theme, a couple scenes from a merry Christmas in the southern hemisphere (2019). It's a very different occasion during early summer in the desert of the High Andes.
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For a belated #MountainMonday, here is the natural lifecycle of a vicuña on Cerro Mercedario (6720m), the eighth-highest mountain in the Andes. Like most of the high Andes, it is extremely dry, with only a handful of glaciers and permanent snowfields, usually covered in penitentes. The peak is a straightforward walk on a use trail through scree, though it is about a 5000m climb from town.
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Left: Sunrise on the southwest side of Aconcagua from Nevado Juncal, Chile, December 2019. Right: High camp on Juncal. #MountainMonday
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Mount Scowden from the middle of frozen Lundy Lake. #MountainMonday
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Baboquivari in southern Arizona, December 2014. First ascent by Professor RH Forbes and Lorenzo Montoya, 1898, by a route now rated 5.4. #MountainMonday
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Trampas Valley, northern New Mexico. #MountainMonday
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Spot fires in the Horseshoe Fire, near Lone Pine.
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Trinity, Vestal, and Arrow Peaks in the San Juans of Colorado. A #FridayFold cut different ways yields very different routes on the three peaks.
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Mount Russell in the Sierra Nevada, late November of a dry year. #MountainMonday
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