Posted on Sep 28, 2017
Slab in deadly Yosemite rockfall was 'size of an apartment building'
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You keep hammering pitons into the rock face and something has to eventually let go!
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Sgt Wayne Wood
look at half-dome... and what used to be Glacier Point. Hot & cold & freeze & thaw does more than pitons ever could. when i heard of the first rock-fall i thought it might be the the Texas Flake, but it's on the wrong side.
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SFC Jim Ruether
I know you are right about freeze and thaw Pvt Wood but everything contributes and those rock faces have been scaling off for centuries!
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