Your Route Names are 0wn3d!

[klenke]

Well, I never thought about it before...

But I did find this:

butte, in geology

"an isolated hill with steep sides and a flat top, resulting from the more rapid erosion of the surrounding areas. Buttes are characteristic of the plains of the W United States. See mesa."

 

So a butte is always a peak but a peak is not always a butte.

[Dru]

typically but not always buttes are volcanic and mesas are sedimentary

[iain]

well I know of one place called "rock mesa" in the Three Sisters that is volcanic, but is the shape of a typical mesa. But I would agree that a mesa is a erosional feature.

[layton]

Jordop and I should cash in on Carlos Rossi Memorial Spire

[DPS]

Steering the thread back to the original topic I am reminded of a certain well known and prolific route developer who self published a number of guidebooks. Another guide book author published the same routes in his own guide book.

 

The first guide book author threatened to take action for plagerism of his book. The second author claimed he visited the area, spoke with the locals, climbed the routes and merely reported the information he had gleaned first hand.

 

The catch is, some of the routes existed only in the first guidebook! The route developer/author had not installed the bolts, but knew he would eventually so he published the routes before he developed them.

[glacier]

All your route names are belong to us!

 

prepare to make your belay-

someone set us up the toprope

 

zig!

 

[pope]

 

[Lambone]

[pope]

Ahhhh.....no doubt a reference to the famous Ferrari route on Fiat pinnacle.

[tomtom]

Shit, they named Big Dick Peak after me.

 

Lawyer Peak, Big Dick Peak: it's all the same.

[slothrop]

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[ScottP]

It seems to me there is a company called Red Ledge that shares its name with a key passage on the Ptarmigan Traverse.

Hmmm...coincidence?

[Drederek]

Like the routes on the 'Thumb' by clem's holler????