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1. ROCKS_030524_23.JPG: The rock climbers love this place. While I was in Snowbird, I saw a sign for "Caution: Falling Rock." Someone had written "Climbers" under the last word.
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Wikipedia Description: City of Rocks
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The City of Rocks or, more formally, the Silent City of Rocks is a U.S. National Reserve and state park two miles north of the Idaho south central Idaho border. It is widely known for its excellent sport climbing.

The rock formations in the area are granitic batholith. Some of the rock is over 2.5 billion years old. The Twin Sisters is a prominent rock grouping in the reserve.

The City of Rocks is a popular rock climbing area, with most routes being sport climbs. In the 1980's, it was home to some of the most difficult routes in the USA, mostly developed by Idaho climber Tony Yaniro. The sport climbers in the region refer to the area as simply 'The City'.

The California Trail passed through what is now the City of Rocks. Wagons trains of the 1840s and 1850s left the Raft River valley and travelled through the area and over Granite Pass into Nevada. The names or initials of emigrants written in axle grease are still visible on Register Rock. Ruts from wagon wheels also can be seen in some of the rocks.

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"We encamped at the city of the rocks, a noted place from the granite rocks rising abruptly out of the ground," wrote James Wilkins in 1849. "They are in a romantic valley clustered together, which gives them the appearance of a city." Wilkins was among the first wagon travelers to fix the name City of Rocks to what looked like "a dismantled, rock-built city of the Stone Age." California Trail pioneers were leaving civilization as they knew it in the East for new lives in the West. Some wrote their names in axle grease on rock faces, and their signatures can be seen today. No doubt thirsty on this northern edge of the Great Basin Desert, one emigrant saw the distant rocks in August like "water thrown up into the air from numerous artificial hydrants." Beginning in 1843, City of Rocks was a landmark for emigrants on the California Trail and Salt Lake Alternate Trail and later on freight rout ...More...
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2003 photos: Trips this year: Three-week trip this year out west, mostly in Utah. Equipment this year: I decided my Epson digital camera wasn't quite enough for what I wanted. Since I already had Compact Flash chips for it, I had to find another camera which used CF chips. That brought me to buy the Fujifilm S602 Zoom in March 2003. A great digital camera, I used it exclusively for an entire year. Number of photos taken this year: 68,000.
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