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Title: Rock Balancing
Post by: Sandman on March 25, 2005, 01:36:54 PM

I saw this on Fark... http://www.rock-on-rock-on.com/index.html


Does anyone around here do this?

Title: Rock Balancing
Post by: TheDudeDVant on March 25, 2005, 01:39:00 PM

I find stacking greasy BBs to be more fun.. 8)

Title: Rock Balancing
Post by: Lizking on March 25, 2005, 03:55:10 PM

I do it, but I call it making hoodoos.  Great fun at the river:

(http://www.lizking.com/friohoodoo.jpg)

Title: Re: Rock Balancing
Post by: Jackal1 on March 25, 2005, 08:46:15 PM

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Originally posted by Sandman
I saw this on Fark... http://www.rock-on-rock-on.com/index.html

Did you notice that big tube of super glue in the guys backpack? :D

Title: Rock Balancing
Post by: Sixpence on March 25, 2005, 09:12:21 PM

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Originally posted by Lizking
I do it, but I call it making hoodoos.  Great fun at the river:

(http://www.lizking.com/friohoodoo.jpg)

Wow, those rocks look almost round, like the beach

Title: Rock Balancing
Post by: Lizking on March 25, 2005, 09:22:36 PM

They are soft limestone, tumbled through the Hill country.  I have found about a dozen perfectly round ones.  They get trapped in  hole in the streambed and rotate for years.  Lots of arrowheads and fossils, too.

Title: Rock Balancing
Post by: Lizking on March 25, 2005, 09:25:01 PM

Just as fun is making wiers in the stream to create tube shoots, "hot-tubs" and fish traps.  This took the 10 of us 2 days to build (not working very hard, of course).

(http://www.lizking.com/frioapan.jpg)

Title: Rock Balancing
Post by: Holden McGroin on March 25, 2005, 09:29:41 PM

Thought it was bs, then I found this: bowling ball stacking (http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/content_pages/video.asp?videoid=100247)

Title: Rock Balancing
Post by: Masherbrum on March 26, 2005, 12:48:32 AM

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Originally posted by Lizking
I do it, but I call it making hoodoos.  Great fun at the river:

(http://www.lizking.com/friohoodoo.jpg)

Can you still hear your old hounddog barking? :)

Karaya

Title: Rock Balancing
Post by: Jackal1 on March 26, 2005, 07:34:36 AM

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Originally posted by Masherbrum
Can you still hear your old hounddog barking? :)

Karaya

chasin` down a hoodoo there      :D

Title: Rock Balancing
Post by: Monk on March 26, 2005, 08:38:52 AM

This one has them all beat.
Balancing Rock (http://members.skyweb.net/~channy/BalanceRock.html)

(http://members.skyweb.net/~channy/THEbalance.GIF)