large rockfall in CCC today

As we were leaving capitalist today there was a very large and continuous(3+ minutes) rockfall just west up the creek from the crag. You couldnt see it from the crag but the sound was pretty intense. I can't help but to wonder if this falls freeze thaw cycles are going to be worse than usual with the above average rainfall this year.

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As a rock mechanics geologist I think it's a remarkably good question, and one I have wondered about myself.

Give Greg D a break, he isn't a troll. He is just still angry about someone bootying his clothes at Turkey Rock a couple weeks ago.

ChefMattThaner wrote:Give Greg D a break, he isn't a troll. He is just still angry about someone bootying his clothes at Turkey Rock a couple weeks ago.

Was it a jacket? My wife and I found one at Turkey Perch a week ago...and we were the only people there. We left it there.

Well....glad to see there are still friendly people on MP!

ChefMattThaner wrote:I can't help but to wonder if this falls freeze thaw cycles are going to be worse than usual with the above average rainfall this year.

No doubt it will. Everything is still saturated or close to it. When the September rains stopped, every water fall in CCC was flowing BIG. All that water has worked its way into cracks and fissures, and with freeze thaw, things got a little loose. Simple weathering and erosion from Geo 101.

Greg... You're a real jerk, I hope I don't ever meet you.

Tom Fralich wrote: Was it a jacket? My wife and I found one at Turkey Perch a week ago...and we were the only people there. We left it there.

lol I'm almost positive it was at turkey perch, but you should PM Greg D, all i know is it was a puffy jacket and a black pattagucci shirt.

Matt, my apologies. Sometimes I take my sarcasm a little too far. I was quite grumpy yesterday. Thanks for being a good sport.

No worries Greg, my OP was kind of a DUH! question. I guess instead of asking "if" I should have asked "how drastically" and was truly kindve wondering if other climbers out there were taking steps to avoid such hazards. Personally I haven't climbed up in Boulder canyon since it reopened for this reason, although not sure if I'm really being any safer in CCC.

I was on Playin Hook (creekside crag) with a few friend last week and a block the size of a small fridge came off about 50 yards down and left from the P1 anchors. It happened right when the day was warming up after a cold night. We were thinking the same thing as Matt, but I'd be surprised if it's a persistent effect from the rains. With such hap-hazard phenomena it's hard to be very scientific about it :)