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zBrown
Ice climber
Brujò de la Playa
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Why Barack? Why not? Never have written to a politician, let alone a Pres.
Relief (not the comic kind) clear and simple. "There must be some way outa here" said Ginsberg to Zimmerman (talking amongst themselves, an old Hebrew tradition).
We're asking for executive action.
“While Congress decides what it's going to do, I will keep doing whatever I can without Congress to help responsible young people pay off their loans,"
-President Barack Obama (May 31, 2013)
Dear Mr. Obama:
Please do not overlook responsible people who are not young in your endeavors to help with student loan burden relief.
Why is The Bull in on it? Good ol' guy that he is, he's quite racist and doesn't think it will do any good. Hoping to prove him wrong.
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zBrown
Ice climber
Brujò de la Playa
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Badger-wise I saw it coming, not clearly enough to lay some money down. Good thing though I would have taken the under on the over/under, which was 131.
You might say, The Badgers rebounded (34-22 and 12-6 offensive) from last year's loss.
Picking The Badges to go all the way. Which I favor at least until Mike changes his name officially to Chevy and buys one.
Not the one he has, a real one from Cuba. Point West young man, but go South.
Mind you, they're not bad when done up right, just not real Chevys.
Hiding in plane site?
WWII Lockheed Burbank factory.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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That ham I got from Grocery Outlet for yesterday's Easter Feaster was excellent. The mashed taters were too runny at first, but I let them set and they rebounded nicely.
I found no multitude to feed yesterday, however. I did invite Rapper Rudy from the fifth floor for a ham sandwich, which he gladly accepted "to go."
Sometimes he will come down when he feels like one of the Lonely Boys and sits quietly watching me edit pictures. The duded is a genuine "flake," though. He's a bit "spun" from too much fun with amphetamines of different flavors. Gnome what I mean? Not referring to our Gnome Ofthe Thousand Faces, none of which is his REAL ACTUAL SELF. You are a sweetheart, my friend, in comparison.
At his worst, Rudy is incomprehensible. He's still a good person.
Speaking of this type, IT WAS MY PLEASURE to speak on the phone with the loveable rSin yesterday. He called me in the middle of the day. He wanted to hear another climbing story of mine--he wasn't doing anything with his family, so I think he was lonely, too.
[Click to View YouTube Video]I was not lonely, therefore, with Rudy visiting a shorty spelly--he brought two other fellows down with him who were visiting who he thought I'd like to meet--Simon and Josh--who were REALLY SPUN!
So consequently, they were not interested in my offer of a tasty ham sandwich--their loss, and none of my own. And I don't care if I ever see them again, frankly.
Man, I mean Jesus Lord, thank you for the experience. It serves to remind me that I once had that habit but somehow was able to let it move on (with your help, I guess, though I never asked for it) when I moved in here into Middle Earth. I did that awful crap for nearly two years after my sweetie passed, but only inter-mittenly (as they say at the North Pole elven workshops) but it's way in the past.
This Lonely Boys video--when my bass-playing friend from the fourth floor, Joel, was living in the Tioga, suffering the partial loss of his abilities to play music like he once upon a time could but couldn't because of THREE STROKES (the three-stroke law) he gave me a CD which contained the story of this family band from Texas. They learned their cumbio from their padre and developed their style after a while.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Lonely_Boys
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Their fans include myself and my friend Joel, who had a fourth stroke, a minor one, but it made him reliant on others, so he had to move out and lives now in Atwater with a companion. I really miss old Joel, the solid Giants fan, a fine singer and musician in his time, playing like nine instruments including the flute.
What really saddened me was a stupid set-to we had over Scrabble, which I taught him to play using the dictionary because his memory was troubled. After that, he never spoke to me again. I have talked to Rudy, who used to own the bar which preceded The Partisan bar, and was a jazz and blues venue which didn't make him enough money to keep it going to his satisfaction. Rudy is a great jazz drummer and he played many gigs in Joel's company with another local talent on guitar, a music teacher at Merced College, John.
Rudy said he would relay a message from me, but I declined. Joel doesn't need any shocks to his system and Rudy understood that I was strictly concerned with our buddy's welfare.
It's funny how folks come into my life and then split. Nothing's permanent, really, it seems. But I'm good with that. I don't control my life, you see. It belongs to the one who made me, that special guy that neebee relies on, too.
I have a growing circle of friends, thanks to Supertupo, and only a few "close" ones on Facebook. I spend little time on FB, but check up on neebee and Gypsy when I'm in the neighborhood.
zBrown, sorry if this personal history goes against your own "program."
Moving on, since it was Easter yeaterdy and since eggs play such a huge role in it, I'm glad to have found this gem, thanks to Mrs. Gonzalez of Texas.
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That's two videos on this page which neebee's FB page has supplied for us. And that deserves my thanks and some recognition for your fine musical sense. So, thanks to the Say There Hey Kid, not to be confused with Willie Mays. :0)
neebee will never understand that reference to the Giant's own Giant without looking it up on Wikipedia, of course.
Say hey what?
A wonderful dawn today here in Merced town, home to Bobcats from UCM. Not a wildcat in sight, except for old Rooftop Roofus who came out after the brief rainstorm and missed this prize bluejay who showed up just after he left.
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[Click to View YouTube Video]Here's to Wendy Winters! Splendid lass.
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Gnome Ofthe Diabase
climber
Out Of Bed
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I like it when I find these two for one mix and compare. . .
[Click to View YouTube Video]As if any one will listen to what we claim to have not consumed to the point of damage , 'cause when we see the damaged we see that but for the grace. . .
Besides you scare me with tales of random Chimney systems. . . .
Another way to climb a crack :
stay outside but climb the crack,
not always but often,
the best way to fight your way up
is not to fight
but . Lay it back
committing in a more deadly way of going in that It is Your run out and you have the wide gear of the modern Crack climber.
I know you've held these Boat Anchors, they really change the whole game; when you bump climb between two # 5 Camelot's. Some times, you get into rhythm and leave the top piece and fire a section , then drop back to retrieve the piece, only to fall or struggle on the top-roped next try to return to to the high point,
so resorting to old school (and on the top rope)
the ability to float the wide to the side was,
blow on the finger nails of an up-turned fist. and say , "ho yeah I meant to do that",
the Lay back is not efficient, when you compare it to
the rhythm that bumping two or three cams up the wide slot, head and everything, stuck straight in (almost) and fudge-budging cams up . . . right at waist level is a new type, psedo aide, /hybridstyle.
and i see it will start to be a much less valued arrow in the quiver.
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The turn that takes people away from me is often on a dime also. Some times, time heals, or time intervenes . then a random meeting, strained but 'nice' and that has been the end, go figure?
My having gone all white picket fence is a confirmation of a cold spot in hell!!?
and two Kids too!!
Well the devils sledding down the hills of bonz and ash.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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The Fashionista has spoken.
What color is taupe?
Not very stumilating...in fact rather "blah."
The new fashion color for this spring in the Valley.
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Gnome Ofthe Diabase
climber
Out Of Bed
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"Homer’s Nose, “Dance of Topo-Usho”. In August Dave Ohst, John Tuttle and I climbed this exceptional route that ascends the great cleft (chimney) that splits the south face of Homer’s Nose. Start fifty feet right of an obvious water streak—the Black Tongue—and follow flakes diagonally up and right to a ledge running below the huge overhanging bulge. Traverse left on this to a short leaning corner and belay just above on a small sloping shelf (F10). Pitch 2: Follow a thin crack straight up (Al) to a short blank section. Use hooks (A3) to gain the crack above (3-4 inches), and follow this (F9) to a small belay stance on the left (1 bolt). Pitch 3: Traverse left ten feet to another bolt and follow the obvious off-width and chimney above (F9+) to a huge belay ledge. The last pitch is easy and obvious, ending in a large cave near the top. (NCCSIII, F10, A3)."
Richard 'Dick' Leversee
Dance-of-Topo-Usha :
Where the above came from, http://publications.americanalpineclub.org/articles/12198117601/North-America-United-States-CaliforniaSierra-Nevada-Homers-Nose-Dance-of-Topo-Usha
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feralfae
Boulder climber
in the midst of a metaphysical mystery
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I dunno, Gnome. Those sort of look the way I think a deep-space spice worm would look, dancing in the deep powered by star energy.
You managed to get some real sense of energy into the twisted coils, bravo!
feralfae
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zBrown
Ice climber
Brujò de la Playa
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As long as it's not snowing.
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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hey there say, mouse... and all...
say, taupe looks very nice, when you add colors, to it...
:)
you know like when you plant pretty little flowers all along cement pathways... :)
or set potted flowers out-and-about, on it... :)
https://images.search.yahoo.com/yhs/search;_ylt=A0LEVjwAhCNVfDsAojknnIlQ;_ylu=X3oDMTB0b2ZrZmU3BHNlYwNzYwRjb2xvA2JmMQR2dGlkA1lIUzAwMl8x?_adv_prop=image&va=flowers+on+cement&hspart=mozilla&hsimp=yhs-001
say, did i help? :)
wow--from the FRENCH NOUN, meaning 'mole' ...
hmmm, well, we DO have 'mousey brown' ...
Taupe (pronunciation: /ˈtoʊp/ TOHP) is a dark tan color in-between brown and gray. The word derives from the French noun taupe meaning "mole". The name originally referred only to the average color of the French mole, but beginning in the 1940s, its usage expanded to encompass a wider range of shades.
Taupe is a vague color term which may refer to almost any grayish-brown or brownish-gray, but true taupe is difficult to pinpoint as brown or gray.
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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hey there say, zbrown...
as to the 'benefits' ... well, ALSO, NOT:
when you have cats... :)
anyone that has cats, will know why, :))
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zBrown
Ice climber
Brujò de la Playa
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^you don't make the kitties sleep outside?? :}
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Gnome Ofthe Diabase
climber
Out Of Bed
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F F ,
Don't encourage me,as I am thinking of rocks,and what to do Post or keep quiet? thank you and I liked this too , it looks like legs, ?? , It was an aside from the norm, and reaching out to (Norm3)?,.? A pin like that, gets iced over almost every year,
The cracked Pouding-stone,walls were a perfect match for the soft ring angle pins .
here are other things to do instead of ruin a secret spot,
http://www.supertopo.com/climbers-forum/2605590/Youtube
and
http://www.johnokner.com
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Moles can't be trusted. Everyone knows that."Octopussy" is a short story by Ian Fleming and the title of the thirteenth James Bond film made by EON Productions, as well as a character in the film.
The film is the sixth to star Roger Moore as the British Secret Service agent, Commander James Bond.
It is also the second film Moore has done with Swedish actress Maud Adams, the first being 1974's The Man with the Golden Gun.
Produced by Albert R. Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson, it was released in 1983, the same year as the release of the unofficial James Bond film Never Say Never Again by screenwriter and Thunderball film-rights owner Kevin McClory.
The film is loosely based upon the Fleming short stories "Octopussy" and "The Property of a Lady", both of which were published in the collection Octopussy and The Living Daylights.
Sunrise was at @ 6:45, and hour ago.
It's raining, it's pouring, the old man wasn't snoring an hour ago.
Taupe was one of the standard "muted" fabric colors of The North Face backpacking tents, used on the flooring and the flysheet.
That is one gnarly old ring piton, Gnome! Quite a museum piece.
On this date, April 7, 1805, Beethoven conducted his "Eroica" Symphony in its premiere.
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Gnome Ofthe Diabase
climber
Out Of Bed
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I got yer'Taupe right here and Taupe Is dope`
"Homer’s Nose, “Dance of Topo-Usho”. In August Dave Ohst, John Tuttle and I climbed this exceptional route that ascends the great cleft (chimney) that splits the south face of Homer’s Nose. Start fifty feet right of an obvious water streak—the Black Tongue—and follow flakes diagonally up and right to a ledge running below the huge overhanging bulge. Traverse left on this to a short leaning corner and belay just above on a small sloping shelf (F10). Pitch 2: Follow a thin crack straight up (Al) to a short blank section. Use hooks (A3) to gain the crack above (3-4 inches), and follow this (F9) to a small belay stance on the left (1 bolt). Pitch 3: Traverse left ten feet to another bolt and follow the obvious off-width and chimney above (F9+) to a huge belay ledge. The last pitch is easy and obvious, ending in a large cave near the top. (NCCSIII, F10, A3)."
Richard 'Dick' Leversee
Dance-of-Topo-Usha :
Where the above came from, http://publications.americanalpineclub.org/articles/12198117601/North-America-United-States-CaliforniaSierra-Nevada-Homers-Nose-Dance-of-Topo-Usha
`Just a blatant grab from the thread of the same name ...
And Another Blatant Grab for use in a way Amazing Wren
An Amazing WrenchNo Wren][Click to View YouTube Video]`
[Click to View YouTube Video]I wil be back. . .Is it Boston or Chicago?
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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At least you're blatant, Gnome.
Although the control of content posted to the forum is deleted if it is offensive, it says nothing over in the sidebar about wrong gnomenclature.
Otherwise, treewise and birdwise I'd have got the boot long ago!
http://www.journal.forces.gc.ca/vo9/no2/10-plows-eng.asp
A beer in the hand is worth two in my bushy beard, Timid TopRope. Thanks for stopping in to visit.
[Click to View YouTube Video]Lovely nita, etc....
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Need climbing content, guys.
Say, hey up there!
G'night, Gnome.
G'night, Grampa.
G'night, John.
--Walton's Mountain.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Apr 10, 2015 - 02:47am PT
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I am a lonesome cowboy
With no way to get around.
My faithful horse has died,
He's buried in the ground.
In searching for music from Sweetheart of the Rodeo this a.m.--my all-time favorite country set--I came across Wilf Carter.
The Byrds included a version of 'Blue Canadian Rockies' on their wonderful 1968 LP.
It was also recorded long before that by Montana Slim.
Montana Slim - Blue Canadian Rockies
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n90KkM2XVHw
Wilf (Wilfred Arthur Charles) Carter. Singer-songwriter, guitarist, b Port Hilford, on the Atlantic coast of Nova Scotia, 18 Dec 1904, d Scottsdale, Arizona, 5 Dec 1996. Inspired by a touring Swiss yodeller, Carter began to sing as a boy.
After working as a lumberjack he went to Alberta in the early 1920s and became a cowboy, but also entertained at dances and performed for tourist parties travelling in the Rockies.
He made his radio debut on CFCN, Calgary, in 1930 and was later heard locally on CFAC, and nationally on the CRBC. About 1932 he recorded for RCA Victor in Montreal; his first 78, comprising his songs 'My Swiss Moonlight Lullaby' (which featured a yodelling style now influenced by the US singer Jimmie Rodgers) and 'The Capture of Albert Johnson,' was popular - indeed, the first hit record by a Canadian country performer.
Many of Carter's early songs were published by Thompson between ca 1933 and 1949 in several volumes individually titled Cowboy Songs, More Cowboy Songs, New Cowboy Songs, etc.
In 1935 Carter went to New York, where, as Montana Slim, he was host until 1937 for a CBS radio country music show. He then returned to Canada (purchasing a ranch near Calgary) and was heard on CBC radio.
Before 1940, however, he had two other US radio shows, on the CBS and NBC networks. An automobile accident in 1940 left him inactive for nine years; his popularity was sustained by the periodic release of new recordings.
In 1949 Carter resumed live performance with tours in Canada and the USA. In 1950 he attracted 70,000 people during a week at the CNE Bandshell, Toronto. For several years he performed with his daughters Sheila and Carol; his early tours also introduced such country artists as the Rhythm Pals and Orval Prophet to audiences across Canada.
Although his popularity began to wane in the 1960s in the face of the changing styles in country music, Carter continued to tour in Canada and performed regularly on CBC TV's 'Tommy Hunter Show,' and at the Calgary Stempede, of which he was the Grand Marshall in 1979. As well, his song 'Have a Nice Day' was a modest Canadian hit in 1976.
Carter appeared in 1981 in western Canada with his contemporary Hank Snow. In 1991 at age 86, he undertook his last tour (aptly titled 'The Last Round-up Tour'), performing in Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Ontario, and Manitoba.
Carter had more than 40 original and compilation LPs released by RCA and its Camden and Pickwick lines, including several theme albums - eg, Nuggets of the Golden West (Camden CAL-840), Christmas in Canada (Camden CAL-889), Songs of the Rail and Range (Camden CAL-2208), Songs of Australia (Camden CAS-2362), Wilf Carter sings Jimmie Rogers (Pickwick CAL-2300), and the gospel Let's Go Back to the Bible (Pickwick CAL-814). In 1983 he re-recorded many of his most popular songs for Fifty Gold Years (RCA KXL2-5020). Carter recordings have also been issued or reissued by Apex, Decca, MCA, Starday (USA), Bear Family (Germany), and other labels.
Carter was known for his simple, straightforward singing and guitar style.
He wrote several hundred songs, many as much in the folk ballad tradition (eg, 'The Capture of Albert Johnson' and 'The Fate of the Old Strawberry Roan') as in a country vein, although he was known for his many songs with cowboy, hobo, and prairie imagery (eg, the popular 'There's a Love Knot in My Lariat').
Carter's versions of 'Blue Canadian Rockies' and 'You Are My Sunshine' were also popular. He enjoyed an international reputation as far afield as Australia, where he once toured.
Carter has been acknowledged as the father of country music in Canada,
a distinction based on his prominence as Canada's first country star, on his influence on Canadian performers, and on the assistance he gave to the careers of others. If the distinction does not belong solely to Carter, he shares it only with Hank Snow.
Carter was inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Association Hall of Fame in 1971, the Canadian Country Music Association Hall of Honour in 1984, the Juno Awards Hall of Fame in 1985, the Canadian Country Music Hall of Fame in 1989, and the Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2007. The video documentary The Last Round-up: The Wilf Carter Story (Telefilm Canada, 2000) explored the country star's career.
Writings
The Yodelling Cowboy (Toronto 1961)
http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/wilf-carter-emc/
Sweetheart of the Rodeo 1968
http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLD5DAF26413C87739
It was the one record along with Buffalo Springfield's first LP which I played the most.
Sharing middle-night wakefulness. Thinking of nothing in particular.
I ain't tryin' to start no trouble, pard.
I just been thinkin' how life's gettin' hard.
I got one old pickup sittin' in the yard.
I got a new Toyota ain't goin' nowhere.
And neither one runs.
And I'm out of funds.
The sub-frame's rotted and the paint is all spotty.
I been livin' like a Christian, I ain't been naughty.
(More verses, please, folks...let's make it a tribal effort.)
It's your chance to become a Nashville legend.
Post a few or just one will do.
Cuz it doesn't take much.
I guess I just wrote my first country song.
I'd like to have some music from my pal Rong.
I know you're able but I ain't known it long.
Or I could look to Chico.
I'm still savorin' that beer we had last Friday, Timid TopRope. Thanks for stoppin' by.
Reminds me of hot-air balloons waitin' to lift off out in the desert, but still tethered to the ground till daylight.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Apr 10, 2015 - 05:59am PT
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Centennials only happen every hundred years.
I visited it on March 25 but could only gloss over it because they were nearing closing time. Photography is not allowed in the museum, but I surreptitously took a few, but they are a bit blurry and I really needed to use a tripod to do them justice.
The ones which I did take are of Yosemite.I know nothing about this Death Valley Dodge. Maybe they were selling bogus cemetery plots.
Tourons from Merced city and county because the population was only a few thousand. Probably some farm families, but that's spec.
The dam is for the production of lumber, specifically, but there may have been a small electrical power generator here. Otherwise, the water backed behind the dam was used as a storage pond for trees coming down from the south side of the Merced Canyon, mostly Yellow pines, which were awaiting the attention of the sawyers.
"In 1910, the Yosemite Lumber Company was formed and purchased 10,000 acres of timber on the south side of the Merced River opposite El Portal. Access to that timber was accomplished by the construction of a bridge over the river and an "incline" up the mountain toward the timber."
http://www.yosemitevalleyrr.com/prototype/history
In the photograph above, the dam is spilling the entire flow of the river. There are now two dams right above it, both operated by the irrigation district.
Between the two they control the river's flow and so the old dam never spills any water but what goes through the old gate where the generator probably sat, if there was one in fact. The old spillway is on the south side of the river and these folks are ambling about on a small peninsula of rock which juts out just below the gate.
In addition, an even earlier dam is located a few miles further downstream, built by the irrigation district to divert water into the Main Canal and thence to Lake Yosemite, a holding pond which is only filled by the opening of the irrigation season.
It's a bit weird that Gnome posted the Skaters' Watz up thread. This pond which the hockey players are using is probably not alwasy frozen, and I'm not sure where it was located, except I think it must have been on the south side of the Valley in the shade of Glacier Point.Puck hockey, it's too violent. Give me NFL or give me death? Hardly.
Hours at the museum are W-S, 1 to 4 p.m. and it's located at N Street and 21st Street in the County Courthouse Park/Veterans' Memorial.
This exhibit about the PPIE runs until July 19. It's loaded with old photography and Sarah and staff have done a great job.
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