Yeah, but larger falls might lead to death.Originally Posted by bluevictim
That's what the rope is for!You're right about short falls potentially leading to injury.
Yeah, but larger falls might lead to death.That's what the rope is for!
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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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Chapter 7, The Little Prince ~ Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
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.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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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
Through the darkness of future past
the magician longs to see
one chance out between two worlds
'Fire walk with me.'
Twin Peaks
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.
The red-orange dot is the sun. The bright specks are flakes of ash.
It looks like the apocolypse!!! Everything looks so ominous.
Last edited by Lily Adams; 10-21-2007 at 08:04 PM.
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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.
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Please stay safe Lily. How far do you live from Malibu?
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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.
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.
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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.
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HAs it died down? Think you ahould still head north as a precaution.
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W.B.Yeats
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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.
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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.
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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.
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