dcr
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Registered: February 2004
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The cliffs on the southern face of Whiteface Mt are the most challenging cliffs in the Belknap Range and are used with some frequency by rockclimbers who are looking for a challenge. Their hardware can be seen pounded into the face of the cliffs in a number of places. The only other mountain in the range that is sometimes used by rockclimbers is Straightback Mt, whose cliffs are also near-vertical but are less rugged and not quite so tall. You can see here that over the millennia huge masses of the rock face have been wedged off the cliff by the forces of weathering and have collected at the base of the cliffs into a huge pile of immense boulders. Trees grow up between them and make them hard to see, but enough leaves have come off in this fall scene to make it possible to make out some of them.
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