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800 viewsRhododendron Minus . Only seen in the Dennis Cove and Linville Gorge areas around here that I know of.
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801 viewsOnce down the rope I can check out the cliffs to my right
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838 viewsBase of the cliffs at the bottom of the rope
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816 viewsLooking back up beside the crack that I had just descended down
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765 viewsThe pine tree root protruding out of the crack
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818 viewsGoing left from the rope landing point, I found a VERY narrow ledge that I followed a long ways around the side of the cliffs. It is about 60 feet down from the top and there is about a 70 to 80 foot vertical drop below it where you would hit ground that is far from anything called level.
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905 viewsCliff side as seen from the cool ledge I found
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815 viewsLooking up at Tyler who is back at the top of the crack. He was the first one down and back before any of the rest of us went down but, he eventually came back down again to join John and I to continue much farther down to explore the cliffs more thoroughly
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813 viewsMaking my way along the ledge
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908 viewsFollowing the narrow ledge
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861 viewsHere you can see part of the ledge as I followed it on around
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807 viewsThis we called Fornication Point and is the landing zone at the bottom of the rope
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834 viewsThis we called Fornication Point and is the landing zone at the bottom of the rope
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758 viewsCliff side along the ledge
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844 viewsLooking up at one point along the ledge
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816 viewsAnother view looking back at John from the ledge
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869 viewsLooking back towards the main spine (from the ledge) you can see John Forbes below if you look close !
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829 viewsBig Pond Mtn as seen over the point
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852 viewsContinuing along the ledge
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794 viewsLooking up at the top of the Rhino Cliff
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917 viewsContinuing along the ledge
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835 viewsMy view looking back at Fornication Point (where the bottom of the crack and rope is) as seen from the ledge I was exploring
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735 viewsLooking up at the left part of the cliff tops from my puckering ledge perch
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859 viewsCliff side view from along the ledge
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