I have a few old metolius colonettes, and have an idea for a long route of these end to end...pinches the whole way - sort of an "inverted" crack. wondering if anyone is still making them (besides metolius)
thanks!
Who is still making colonettes?
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Rock Candy has some, actually a whole series.
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Franklin has two under their "Giants" page on the website.
Nicros has one simply called "Tufa".
http://www.nicros.com/products.cfm?CatID=19Posted 2 years ago # -
Oh yeah, I forgot...
Atomik makes one pictured in the link below from the '09 SCS Youth Nats, but I'm not sure if you can actually order it. I believe it is a tweak of another feature they make.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mplutah/3815454389/Posted 2 years ago # -
Nicros makes one and Climb-it makes one but it might be more like a tufa. Actually whats the difference between a tufa and a colonette?
http://nicros.com/productPics/large/tufaone.jpg
http://www.climbit.com/store/pc/viewPrd.asp?idcategory=10&idproduct=207Posted 2 years ago # -
good point - maybe tufa is the "in vogue" word with all the action the past couple years in spain and the deep water soloing thing going on, etc. and colonette is what we called them "in the old days?"
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Never hear the term "colonette" before, only tufa.
Looking up the terms in the dictionaries:
Colonette refers to a man-made architectural element.
Tufa refers to sedimentary rock formations.I'll stick with tufa. :-P
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Colonette is the french term for the feature, not the type of rock. Spanish and italian is quite similair.
Tufa is the term for the rock type and in Eglisch often also refers to the feature itself.
As most colonettes are in france / spain should we use the local noun?
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Here in Portugal, we call tufa to large formations, and colonette to smaller ones, but probably it means the same thing
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