I took a panorama of the Trapps and Nears back in 2007. This past weekend I got a shot from the same vantage of the area left of Madame G's. The picture was taken from miles away, so the quality isn't perfect. Still, you can clearly see the section of rock which came tumbling down last October. Thought people might be interested.

http://www.jeffdeutsch.com/albums/20090501/8.html

Really interesting!

Cool! Thanks for sharing!

GO

That's pretty wild. You really can't grasp the scope of the rockfall until you see a photo like this.

Well done...

I wonder if the Preserve would like a copy of those. It would be interesting to monitor the coloration changes to the freshly exposed rock as it is subject to the air. I don't think of the ridge as a high air pollution area but that is certainly a large factor in the changes to many rock faces.

So I'm guessing that's the Madame G's buttress on the right? If so, what route was the rockfall on?

Basically, above and a little left of the upper part of Chimango*, but splattering into Peregrin and onto P1 of Hawk.

[*: I don't have a more recent guide than the black Dick handy at the moment. In that guide, there's a large section between The Womb Step and Chimango that shows no routes - that may well have changed in the past 10 years.]

I agree that it would be interesting. My panorama probably doesn't have the quality required to do serious monitoring. And image color is dependent on camera sensors, time of day, atmospheric conditions, etc. Though I think I have enough information to measure the change in tone relative to a nearby point. Perhaps someone could generate a very high resolution image like was done for El Cap (I don't have a link handy, but I'm sure you can google it).

The newly exposed rock appears to be similar in hue to Madame G's buttress, Airy Aria, and lots of other rock that I think of as being particularly orange.