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Yosemite has the most impressive and accessible granite big walls in the world. The rock is amazing. And because of that, it's been the mecca for climbing in the U.S. - and the world to a large degree - for all of climbing history. It's the place to test yourself against the historic routes of the past.

~Alex Honnold

Topics: Accessible Against Amazing Because Been Big Climbing Degree Granite Historic History Impressive Large Mecca Most Past Place Rock Routes Test Walls World Yosemite Yourself

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At the crux of Half Dome, at the very top of the wall, imagine, like, a smooth wall of rock - a nearly vertical granite slap with tiny ripples for your hands and feet. And so you're really trusting the rubber on your shoes to stick to these ripples.

~Alex Honnold

Topics: Dome Feet Granite Half Hands Imagine Like Nearly Really Ripples Rock Rubber Shoes Slap Smooth Stick Tiny Top Trusting Vertical Very Wall You Your

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Sometimes, if you wander long enough out-of-doors, you look up and find yourself in a suddenly devastating place: on a glittering slab of granite, say, hanging a thousand feet above a mountain lake.

~Anthony Doerr

Topics: Above Devastating Enough Feet Find Glittering Granite Hanging Lake Long Look Mountain Place Say Sometimes Suddenly Thousand Up Wander You Yourself

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Western Australia is covered by granite, the largest single piece of Achaean rock that still lies on the surface of the, of, of the Earth, that's 2.5 to 2.9 billion years old. It's one of the most ancient and intact bits of the Earth's crust.

~Antony Gormley

Topics: Ancient Australia Billion Bits Covered Crust Earth Granite Intact Largest Lies Most Old Piece Rock Single Still Surface Western Years

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Deadwood lies at the northern tip of the Black Hills, where the land is ancient and rubbed smooth by time. The Black Hills are more rugged at their southern extremity, where bare granite forms pinnacles and spires.

~Clive Sinclair

Topics: Ancient Bare Black Deadwood Extremity Forms Granite Hills Land Lies More Northern Rugged Smooth Southern Time Tip Where

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The toughest trail I ever ran was the Escarpment in the Catskills of New York State. This was an 18-mile race through Rip Van Winkle country, routed through boulder fields, across angular juttings of granite and along a path with an unrelenting barrage of roots, rocks and mud, all of it hidden under slick leaves and dangling nettles.

~Don Kardong

Topics: Across Along Boulder Country Ever Fields Granite Hidden Leaves Mud New New York Path Race Ran Rip Rocks Roots Slick State Through Toughest Trail Van York

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There's big granite walls up toward the Argentine border, but the weather's serious, and a lot of the rock is mossy and wet.

~Douglas Tompkins

Topics: Big Border Granite Lot Rock Serious Toward Up Walls Weather Wet

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There are lighter colors of granite and I like to break the rules.

~Douglas Wilson

Topics: Break Colors Granite Lighter Like Rules

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The jargon of sculptors is beyond me. I do not know precisely why I admire a green granite female, apparently pregnant monster with one eye going around a square corner.

~Ezra Pound

Topics: Admire Apparently Around Beyond Corner Eye Female Going Granite Green Jargon Know Me Monster Precisely Pregnant Square Why

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I got a granite chin.

~Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

Topics: Chin Got Granite

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