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yeah bloody flapper, like i said, lots of the rocks in the columbia mountains, are also crystalline basement rocks. case in point, the Monashee Gneiss, has been dated thru U-Pb detrital zircons as over 2.1 Ga making it one of the oldest rox in canada outside the central core of the canadian shield. the rocky mountains, consist of the sedimentary cover of the columbias, which was thrust inland due to compression caused by the docking of Quesnellia. i cant remember when. then crustal Extension pulled western BC back west, and exposed the deep rock of the columbia core to the surface. this might correspond to the laramide orogeny. any ways, quesnellia (the interior plateau) and points west of the okanagan, are as you say, accreted micro terranes. NOW as to the various geographic names. this is the Canadian conventions. from smallest to largest: peak or mountain, range, Ranges, Mountains. thus you have for instance, Skihist Mountain is a summit of the Cantilever Range, which is one range of the Lillooet Ranges, which is one of several ranges which make up the Coast Mountains. in the columbia mts, peiople tend to refer to the individual ranges ie selkirks, puurcells. nobody but geologists ever refers to the pacific ranges, or the lillooet ranges, of the southern coast mountains. however they tend to be quite distinct. the lillooet ranges contain a bunch of microterranes geologically identical to the north cascdes, but separated from them by the fraser-yalakom fault (straight creek fault in usa) along which up to 600km of transverse motion has occurred since the mesozoic, i believe. this is why you find little chunks of the shuksan terrane up by gold bridge..... the in the pacific ranges only a few remnants of the older sed/metamorphic rox exist. the geology is dominated by the coast plutonic complex., the largest contiguous exposed granite body in the world, which extends from fraser river to near skagway AK. only one very recent pluton (25 Ma) sutures together the coast mts and cascades and it is found in the hunter creek-ruby creek area of the fraser canyon. nice rock too. anyways blah blah blah rocks

if you are on the summit and still dont think you are high enough there are herbal remedies to help with that.

I read an expose of a guy who corresponded with a "girl" for a long time and it turned out the "girl" was a guy in prison when he went to meet "her"

but most important of all, work on your syntax, grammar, punctuation etc before you submit it, instead of hoping an editor will do it for you. Cause editors do not like to work!!

If they were, Barry Blanchard would have poached all your first ascents, perkins.

Where are these Chicsc Hott????

hey that chick on the left ain't half bad what about the one on the right with the black raincoat and glasses. you guy probably have matching raincoats - YOU STALKER PERVO!!! oh yeah, lest this thread get off topic, GO ERDEN GO!!! look out for cougars!

Classic Crack at 8-Mile Midway Godzilla, City Park at Index White Lightning at Peshastin some bolted crack at North Bend

Oops. you better delete that info about the VIMFF then!!!!

I think I can make 8800 or 9000 by the 11th

I dont like the term Columbia Mountains, cause it reminds me of Kokanee beer commercials, but it is technically correct.

its almost my 2 year anniversary of 1st post on this stupid board

OK here is the straight dope from someone with a Geography M.Sc namely myself: Perkins is wrong, snoboy is right, concerning the CANADIAN mountains. According to Canadian terminology, the Rockies end at the Rocky Mountain trench. This fault zone demarcates a prominent boundary between thrust-faulted sedimentary rocks in the Rockies, and older exposed crystalline basement rocks in the Columbias. If Canadian geographic definition of the Rockies was applied to the American western mountains, the "Rockies" would end somewhere in Montana. The Colorado Rockies are geologically similar to the Selkirks, Purcells etc - except that instead of Rad Peaks they are 4000m scree piles. weest of the Columbia Trench, the Columbia Mountains are found including Selkirks, Purcells, Monashees, Valhallas, Cariboo Mts. etc. Then the Interior Plateau, then the Cascades (as far north as Spences' Bridge) then the Coast MOUNTAINS. The Coast RANGE is a bunch of shitty little hills in Oregon, California and Alaska. On Vancouver Island are found the Insular Mountains. Tourist guidebooks like to call the Columbia Mts "The Rockies" cause otherwise no one buys the picture book to take home to Tokyo or Dresden or wherever.

the new climbing mag was pretty good, except for 10 pages of recycling disguised as the Golden Piton awatrds. why the hell do they goive a golden puiton to siomeone who wins for competition climbing anyways. dude wont even know what it is "Is zis ze neu Petzl self-belay device, HAWH??"

I just think it's really funny. I don't have much new to say about the whole thing, but, come on now, "Donna TopStep"? It too funny! And I noticed in the related Dana's Dreadful Direct, many a post has been deleted. hmmm.. Change your mind? (I know I have!) And since I mentioned it... Dana's Dreadful Direct Restored Personally, I think it's better than the "Muir on Sunday..." And if this whole thing needs to be moved into spray, I say go at it. Remember, it's funny. Who is this Dana, it's DAN's dreadful direct.

i dunno why they dont have pogies on there. send em an email!

But smoke free now that Muffy quit

Actually a good title for this whole thread would be Invading Orcs Seige Deeping Wall

there are rockies climbs called Waite For Spring, and Icy BC? Deeping Wall, is a pun on Weeping Wall and I believe, a reference to the wall around Helm's Deep in the Lord of the Rings. Ask Don or Garry, they named it! Carl's Berg, is the only other one Im aware of that is similar to a Rockies name and it is cause it so much like Carlsberg Column, and it was 1st climbed by Carl Austrom so the name is doubly fitting!

Arcteryx makes a gear loop which will attach to any harness made of webbing or to a pack with a webbing hipbelt. you can buy them in pairs of 2 at MEC for like $2.50 CDN. i accessorized my Serratus Genie with a pair of these - course i got the loops for free when i worked at arcteryx.

deeping wall. weeping wall is 600km east of marble canyon

If you go right to www.serratus.com, are you telling me you can't view it? That IS weird, if its the case! As for why you have to register to view Bivouac.com, its mainly for the Recommendation feature. If you dont want your info gathered, make up fake info, and use a disposable email address. However, if you ever plan to contribute anything it is better to register using your real name, so people know who to thank. The system is set up, so that anyone who registers can insert route descriptions, photos, and trip reports, and to discourage anonymous browsing. The idea being, that you will think it is such a great site, you will want to contribute to it. Personally, I think its grown to be one of the better mountaineering sites on the web, and props to Robin Tivy, who set it up, and Fred Touche, who basically works there for free, cause Robin can't afford to pay him. The geographical database system, is highly effective at filtering out spray, so the site is 100% about content, but not as effective a diversion when you are bored at work and want to talk shit. But hey that is one of the function of cascadeclimbers.com so to Jon and Timmay too!!!!

pshaw i got better ones now.

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i bet a picture of amber comes back