Someone forwarded this one to me today; pretty wild. Apparently it came from MP.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSLVhNl ... e=youtu.be" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
I could see that happening in the Elks.
ROCK!!!
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Qui est sauvage! Rocher en effet!!
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Yowza!!!!!
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Reminds me of this animation:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Pnqp5n9pgE" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Pnqp5n9pgE" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
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Or,
Where talus comes from.
Aye carumba!
Where talus comes from.
Aye carumba!
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The thread title reminded me of the Sifl and Olly show theme song.peakphool wrote:Reminds me of this animation:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Pnqp5n9pgE" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Its got ELECTROLYTES!
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Looks like YouTube has another video of that same rockfall but from another perspective:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cv6bpxUkq2Y" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Impressive.
Remember Half Dome?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cv6bpxUkq2Y" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Impressive.
Remember Half Dome?
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YOU think it was crazy? Imagine if you were in one of the buildings at the bottom of the slope... (Watch that second video again...)
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Missouri Mountain on 8/11/2012; we barely had time to grab the camera. One of the rocks was car-sized:


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How did they know to have their cameras ready and rolling? Snippet from a longer film planned to catch something else?
Mtnman200, I can almost smell that sulfur-esque odor of smashing granite. Amazing how quick and far the scent can reach, like around the next gully for even a small rock. Can smell it when crushing rock for CFI work but it doesn't carry far (hand hammer) but the distance it does of a rock hitting something falling down a gully conjures up joule magnitudes based on scent dispersion.
Above video links changed to in-line viewing:
and animation
Mtnman200, I can almost smell that sulfur-esque odor of smashing granite. Amazing how quick and far the scent can reach, like around the next gully for even a small rock. Can smell it when crushing rock for CFI work but it doesn't carry far (hand hammer) but the distance it does of a rock hitting something falling down a gully conjures up joule magnitudes based on scent dispersion.
Above video links changed to in-line viewing:
and animation
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