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Originally Posted by Petrarch's Love

Blue--It must be amazing to do rock climbing in Yosemite. I've never done it before, and not sure I have the upper body strength to try, but that must be the ultimate place to do it. Ever tried your hand at El Cap?

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You should try it sometime. Unlike climbing in an indoor gym, upper body strength is not an issue at all until the higher grades. It's very fun, especially at Yosemite. In fact, feel free to PM me, if you want, the next time you go to Yosemite and if I'm still around I'd be happy to "show you the ropes". I haven't tried El Cap yet.

Here's a picture of me climbing a route called Crescent Arch on Daff Dome, which is in Tuolumne Meadows (also a part of Yosemite National Park):
http://i92.photobucket.com/albums/l1...tim/meonca.jpg

:eek2: Ack!! Blue, what if you fall? I know I'm getting to be a real pansy in my old age, but I know what even a little fall might do one's bones.

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Originally Posted by Virgil

I just don't remember the name. It was maybe 13 or 14 years ago. My wife and I went down the canyon with the Bright Angel Ranch mule ride down. Oh wait we stayed at the Bright Angel. That must be right there too. Camped over night at the river (Phantom Ranch) and mule ride back up the next day. Here's a little something on the mule ride:

http://www.grandcanyon.com/gcnmule.html
And this one has a real good write up of the experience:
http://www.opentravelinfo.com/north_...e_exper ience

I have some great pictures, only this was before digital cameras. Canyon looks completely different as you go up and down and from the bottom.

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Yes, the Bright Angel is practically right next door. The mule ride must have been amazing. I really wanted to try something like that, since I was so curious to see the base of the Canyon, but I only had a brief night before pushing on to Chicago.

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You should try it sometime. Unlike climbing in an indoor gym, upper body strength is not an issue at all until the higher grades. It's very fun, especially at Yosemite. In fact, feel free to PM me, if you want, the next time you go to Yosemite and if I'm still around I'd be happy to "show you the ropes". I haven't tried El Cap yet.

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Hey, I may just take you up on that, though it'll probably be until next summer before I'm up that way again. About how high up are you in the pic. of the Tuolumne climb?

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Originally Posted by Virgil

:eek2: Ack!! Blue, what if you fall?

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That's what the rope is for! :)

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I know I'm getting to be a real pansy in my old age, but I know what even a little fall might do one's bones.

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You're right about short falls potentially leading to injury. There are some routes on which the climber needs to be very confident about his ability to climb without falling, and there are some routes on which falls are no big deal. The one in the picture is relatively safe.

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Originally Posted by Petrarch's Love

Hey, I may just take you up on that, though it'll probably be until next summer before I'm up that way again. About how high up are you in the pic. of the Tuolumne climb?

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Great, that will give me time to brush up on Milton :). In that picture, I'm probably about 500 ft (150 m) up.

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Originally Posted by bluevictim

That's what the rope is for! :)You're right about short falls potentially leading to injury.

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Yeah, but larger falls might lead to death. :lol: ;)

Hi petrarch, wow, you have a spirit of adventure wanting to mountain/rock climb. Good for you. Just hold those ropes tightly. My son actually went mountain biking with his club in Sedona. He has gotten really fit and loves it. Poor Virgil cringes when I talk about it, and being a mom, I sometimes do worry, so I don't think too much of the danger or I would go crazy. His website has 3 sets of pictures available that other bikers took. If you want to see them go to Jersey Action Riders and click on photos and the first 3 are of Sedona. Sean told me he has not gotten his in yet. He usually takes tons of shots and is quite good. Someone asked him if he was a professional once when he was sorting his pictures out on his laptop. He took about 3 cameras with him so the photos should be fantastic. I can't wait to see them.
Right now he is preoccuppied with his latest thought on becoming a first time father. I am going to be a grandmother! I am so excited.

With all these great photos, I will have to dig up a few I took in college that I particularly like around Philadelphia, B/W shots using a large negative camera so detail is sharp, and I developed them myself. I also have some I took of the sea-stakes and awesome beach (Rialto) in Washington state on the Olympic Pennisula I particularly love. I can scan them, since I had some blown up at the time to frame. Only had a Cannon Sureshot, but that camera took great photos. Sad to say it died awhile back. Now I just use my digital. That, too is older now but a Oympus and takes half decent photos.

Virgil my aunt took that mull ride down in the canyon. Now that sounds really hazzardous. I can't imagine whimp you doing it. Was it cool? My aunt liked it but thought it was pretty dangerous. I guess you were young then and not stodgy yet...haha

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Originally Posted by Janine

Virgil my aunt took that mull ride down in the canyon. Now that sounds really hazzardous. I can't imagine whimp you doing it. Was it cool? My aunt liked it but thought it was pretty dangerous. I guess you were young then and not stodgy yet...haha

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It was a great ride. Their claim was that no one ever died or fell over. But the mules were literally walking the edge of the ledge and all you could see is six thousand feet down. Plus they had a wobble in thier gait so you were oscilating from side to side. :eek2: I do highly recommend it.

As to what can happen to a human body from an impact. Ponder this. While in a car you are surrounded with steel frame, shatterproof glass, safety crumple features, strapped in with a safety belt, and have an air bag to cushion in a crash. And people still die. What do you have on a motorcycle or while skiing, or while climbing? What will the results of an impact to your body be? The human body wasn't made to absorb those things. I guess I'm too much of an engineer.

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Originally Posted by Petrarch's Love

Manolia--Glad you enjoyed the pics. So do you study geology and that's why you were looking at all these big rocks for your dissertation?

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No i am a civil engineer and rocks are part of my work (mainly when it comes to foundations). But i have a passion for geology and my dissertation was on geology and had little to do with engineering ;)

I woke up this morning to the wind howling and the air hot and dry. I knew That a fire was going on, or a fire was going to start with those conditions. So this afternoon, I started smelling smoke and then later on the sky turned completely orange. There are seven fires around where I live, and there are hurricane-level winds. This is the single worst fire condition I've ever seen! Flakes of ash burn your eyes when you step outside and you are nearly choked to death when you try to breath. I took these risks to go outside and TAKE PICTURES!

Right outside my house. Hills are in the backround, but you can barely see them.
http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/a...c/DSCF0850.jpg

The red-orange dot is the sun. The bright specks are flakes of ash.
http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/a...c/DSCF0852.jpg

It looks like the apocolypse!!! Everything looks so ominous.

Yikes Lily! Hope you are safe with the fires and the winds. Hope things dont get out of control.

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Originally Posted by Niamh

Yikes Lily! Hope you are safe with the fires and the winds. Hope things dont get out of control.

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I hope so, too! :( Mom says we might just leave and go north if it stays like this tomorrow because it's so bad.

One time there was a brush fire in my own town and I saw it from my school. That's as close as I've ever seen a brush fire get close to our house, but the air quality wasn't nearly as poor as this. I've never seen anything like this before.

Please stay safe Lily. How far do you live from Malibu?

Wow Lily. I just got similar pics from a frend in California. I hope you all will take care of yourselves, and please be careful.

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Originally Posted by Virgil

Please stay safe Lily. How far do you live from Malibu?

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I live about 40 minutes north of Malibu.

I'm fine. I think things are getting more under control. I've been looking outside and I can actually see the sky now, and they've stopped televising the fire. Thank you for all your concern. That was one of the weirdest things I've ever seen.

Wow, Lily my folks were just telling me how bad the fires and winds are out there. Your pictures are eerie looking. I hope you and your family are able to stay safe.

HAs it died down? Think you ahould still head north as a precaution.

Lily Adams, thanks for sharing those pictures; they look crazy. I think this has been the worst fire season in Southern California in a long time. Some of my folks have had trouble sleeping because the wind has been so violent. I hope your family is not in the fire's path.

It was crazy!

Yeah, it's been hard to breathe and my eyes get all watery sometimes, but I'm fine. I'm healthy, so I can take it.

I seriously doubt any fires will come near my house, since I live in such an urban area. The closest fire is 20 miles away, but really, we're fine. I don't live in the hills, the firefighters are taking care of it, and there aren't really any canyons in my town that would cause any wind vectors or things like that that could worsen the fire.

My close friend

I took this after our lecture on political science. I love how oblivious he seems to the fact that he has a pen in his nose...

A girl in class

This photo I like, because I've not manipulated it to look like that, the light setting and the movement caused the white background, contra the blury dark of her face.

Lily Adams, I'm glad that you and your folks are ok.

Chava, I love that picture of your friend with a pen in his nose. It looks like he is enjoying himself.

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Originally Posted by bluevictim

You should try it sometime. Unlike climbing in an indoor gym, upper body strength is not an issue at all until the higher grades. It's very fun, especially at Yosemite. In fact, feel free to PM me, if you want, the next time you go to Yosemite and if I'm still around I'd be happy to "show you the ropes". I haven't tried El Cap yet.

Here's a picture of me climbing a route called Crescent Arch on Daff Dome, which is in Tuolumne Meadows (also a part of Yosemite National Park):
http://i92.photobucket.com/albums/l1...tim/meonca.jpg

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you've been to Yosemite?! i just love that place!

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Originally Posted by Shurtugal

you've been to Yosemite?! i just love that place!

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It's impossible not to! :) Just a few pages back in this thread there are a bunch of pictures from Yosemite. If you have some pictures from there that you'd like to share, I for one would love to see them, and I think a lot of others here would, too.

i know we have some, just got to find them and find out how to put them on here...

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Originally Posted by Shurtugal

i know we have some, just got to find them and find out how to put them on here...

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If your pictures are prints, you'll need access to a scanner to convert them to .jpg files. Here is a thread about how to post .jpg files.

Here's yet another flower picture...I seem to be taking a lot of those lately but they're such cooperative and beautiful subjects I can't seem to help myself.

What strikes me about this picture is that when you look at the individual petals you can see so many imperfections, discolorations and bruises, the petals seem so vulnerable and delicate, yet there it stood in the beginning of November in North Dakota, not a hospitable time or place for delicate flowers. And inspite of those imperfections, the over all impression is one of beauty, it's the kind of thing that makes you think deep thoughts. ;)

http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a3...l/P1030855.jpg

idril thats such a beautiful flower!

Idril, that's a very beautiful picture, made richer with your reflective comments.

Idril, the photo is stunning -- you have quite a talent for capturing flowers!

Also, I wanted to say to Lily that her pictures are awesome and I am sincerely glad that the fires have ended and life is getting back to normal. What a scare!

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Originally Posted by kiz_paws

Also, I wanted to say to Lily that her pictures are awesome and I am sincerely glad that the fires have ended and life is getting back to normal. What a scare!

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:nod: I think we are all in agreement with that.

I took a million pictures while in California of late, so here is just a few to share (my faves):

http://i151.photobucket.com/albums/s...urfSMALLER.jpg ........ http://i151.photobucket.com/albums/s...allversion.jpg


http://i151.photobucket.com/albums/s...nado800pxl.jpg

The beach scenes are from an area called Coronado, and the walkway was taken at the San Diego Animal Park/Sanctuary.

Kiz paws, those are gorgeous photos. You've got a talent for framing them well. I especially like the beach pics. Gives me a sense of being on the shore.

Idril, I love that photograph of the flower, and I agree with you that the best part about it is the way it shows the imperfections without detracting from the beauty of the flower. Little imperfections like that are something I often admire in nature, but find it's very hard to capture well on film. Beautifully done.

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Originally Posted by Petrarch's Love

Kiz paws, those are gorgeous photos. You've got a talent for framing them well. I especially like the beach pics. Gives me a sense of being on the shore.

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Thank you! :)

As soon as Idril found out that I'm back I noted a request for more pictures... And who am I to say no? Here goes:

http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o...G/DSC03370.jpg
A (massive) stainless steel visent bull in Avesta, Sweden.

http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o127/ClaesG/Frog.jpg
A tiny frog resting in my hand.

http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o...G/DSC03162.jpg
Glass art, on display in Varberg, Sweden, this summer.

http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o...G/DSC03223.jpg
Freshly cracked flintstones (the flint is inside) in Varberg, Sweden, 2007.

http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o...G/DSC03222.jpg
A razor sharp piece of flint from the stones in the previous picture.

/Claes

Fantastic, Claes! My favorite would be the tiny frog. :thumbs_up

Kiz those pics are amazing!

Claes! Welcome Back! Havent seen you around in Months! And once again, amazing pics!
Flint...My all time favourite rock! I thought for a minute there that it was actually chert, which is the same as flint, but black.

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Originally Posted by ClaesGefvenberg

As soon as Idril found out that I'm back I noted a request for more pictures... And who am I to say no? Here goes:
/Claes

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Welcome back Claes. I was thinking about you at tmes. I'm glad you're not gone for good. Yes I understand work load. I'm facing it too. Hopefully some day you'll have more time. Glad you're still around.

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Originally Posted by ClaesGefvenberg

As soon as Idril found out that I'm back I noted a request for more pictures... And who am I to say no? Here goes:

/Claes

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Yeah!! I missed your pictures, Claes. That glass art is quite stunning as is the calf. It's so good to have you back again. ;)

kiz_paws, I love those beach pictures. The beaches near San Diego are very beautiful! I hope you had a good time down there.

ClaesGefvenberg, thanks for posting those pictures! That glass art looks very impressive.

Thank you all for the welcome back.:thumbs_up

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Originally Posted by Niamh

I thought for a minute there that it was actually chert, which is the same as flint, but black.

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You may very well be right. It felt like flint and behaved like flint, so I gave it no further thought in spite of the colour.

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Originally Posted by bluevictim

ClaesGefvenberg, thanks for posting those pictures! That glass art looks very impressive.

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It is... even more so in real life :)

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Originally Posted by kiz_paws

Fantastic, Claes! My favorite would be the tiny frog. :thumbs_up

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I have a treat for you, then. See below:

http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o...G/DSC03260.jpg
Straight from the forest, this summer.

http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o...G/DSC00930.jpg
More "forest fruit"

http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o...G/DSC03295.jpg
Wire mesh art: Salamanders.

http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o...G/DSC03301.jpg
More wire mesh art.

http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o...G/DSC03655.jpg
Another little frog, but this one should not be handled. It's highly poisonous.

http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o...G/DSC03658.jpg
Another frog, just as poisonous as the first one.

http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o...G/DSC03662.jpg
another angle....


/Claes