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Ham rock arches nat park

PostPosted: Wed Mar 07, 2012 3:36 pm
by DSunwall
I believe the high point is actually something different, maybe Harkonnen-castle as shown on mountain project. Ham rock actually looks like a ham, see the yazhang link below and the qsl link.

http://mountainproject.com/v/harkonnen-castle/105716997
http://yazhangphotography.smugmug.com/L ... 66&k=knksp
http://www.summitpost.org/ham-rock/509817
http://www.qsl.net/noarc/hamrock.htm
http://www.bigstockphoto.com/image-6071 ... tional-par

Re: Ham rock arches nat park

PostPosted: Thu Mar 08, 2012 11:53 am
by John Kirk
On the map the circle with a dot in it is the location marker of the intended featuretype of pillars. GNIS also places the name exactly where the summit (and circle with dot) is. There is pretty widespread occurrence of rock climbers ignoring existing names (GNIS named features) and inventing their own. Interesting to see the only known ascent is 5.10 - rating makes sense if you've been there though...

Re: Ham rock arches nat park

PostPosted: Thu Mar 08, 2012 12:02 pm
by DSunwall
John Kirk wrote:On the map the circle with a dot in it is the location marker of the intended featuretype of pillars. GNIS also places the name exactly where the summit (and circle with dot) is. There is pretty widespread occurrence of rock climbers ignoring existing names (GNIS named features) and inventing their own. Interesting to see the only known ascent is 5.10 - rating makes sense if you've been there though...


in this case its obvious GNIS has it wrong.