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Climbers ascend in one of two ways: along the long, gradual ridges leading to the summit or straight up the 65-degree slipface.
James M. Clash: Dune Climbing on the Dark Continent James M. Clash 2010
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Climbers ascend in one of two ways: along the long, gradual ridges leading to the summit or straight up the 65-degree slipface.
James M. Clash: Dune Climbing on the Dark Continent James M. Clash 2010
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The crest builds until the mass of grains go tumbling down the lee slope, the slipface.
The Wall Jeff Long 2005
Gammerstang commented on the word slipface
the lee side of a dune where the slope approximates the angle of rest of loose sand that is generally about 33 degrees.
July 6, 2018