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mouse from merced
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The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Jul 22, 2017 - 01:08am PT
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Way Kay.
She probably dated.
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i-b-goB
Social climber
Wise Acres
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Jul 22, 2017 - 07:19am PT
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PhilG
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The Circuit, Tonasket WA
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Jul 22, 2017 - 08:24am PT
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That last picture is great. I can smell the canvas of the tents!
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mouse from merced
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The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Jul 22, 2017 - 09:02am PT
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This is not posted on ST anywhere else that I can find. Mather is one of the white hats, as they say.
[Click to View YouTube Video]The story is told that one day in 1915 Stephen Mather walked into the office of [Interior] Secretary Lane and expressed indignation over the way things were run in Sequoia and Yosemite.
"Steve," said Lane, "if you don't like the way those parks are run, you can run them yourself."
"Mr. Secretary, I accept the job," was Mather's rejoinder.
The genial Secretary of the Interior showed him into a little office and said, "There's your desk, Steve; now go to work." With that Lane went out and closed the door, but presently opened it and said, "By the way, Steve, I forgot to ask what your politics are."
With such brief preliminaries did Stephen T. Mather assume director ship of the national parks. He served through the presidential administrations of Wilson, Harding, and Coolidge, but the matter of his politics was never inquired into by any party.
Stephen Mather was born on the Fourth of July, 1867, in San Francisco.
[And so, by the way, Happy Birthday, old man!]
His ancestry traces back to Richard Mather, a Massachussetts clergyman of the days of the Pilgrim Fathers. Stephen T. Mather was not a scion of wealth. As a young man, he made his way through college by selling books. He graduated from the University of California in 1887 and for several years was a newspaper reporter. Thereafter, he entered the employ of the Pacific Coast Borax Company and was identified with the trade name, "Twenty Mule Team Borax," that became well known around the world.
For ten years he engaged in the production of profits for his employers and then organized his own company. It was in borax that he built up his business success and accumulated the fortune which "he later shared so generously with the nation through his investments in scenic beauty from which the people received the dividends."
--Source, "One Hundred Years in Yosemite" by Carl Parcher Russell, Ch. 11
http://www.yosemite.ca.us/library/one_hundred_years_in_yosemite/one_hundred_years_in_yosemite.pdf
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Oct 26, 2017 - 04:26am PT
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Tarbuster
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Topic Author's Reply - Oct 26, 2017 - 09:51am PT
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Good call on the Mather story, Sir Mouse!
I thought there was something in Yosemite named after him.
A point of interest perhaps?
Then there's this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Mather_(Alaska);
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Go-B, I like the ice-skating picture just up thread!
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mouse from merced
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The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Oct 26, 2017 - 10:12am PT
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Tarbuster, there's Camp Mather just outside the park boundary, fun place for families. It originated as part of the Hetch Hetchy project, with Birch Lake as a log pond for the mill used to produce lumber for O'Shauhnessy Dam.
The Rim fire burned the surrounding forest but the firefighters saved the camp.
They used to hold the Strawberry Bluegrass Festival here years back.
Evergreen Lodge was the cool local bar back in the early eighties, too, with the occasional band once in a while every so often sometimes.
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Tarbuster
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Topic Author's Reply - Oct 26, 2017 - 10:20am PT
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10 four, site of the Strawberry Bluegrass!
Who among us cannot relate to that guy sitting in the chair under the sun on the porch!
What a nice place to have a wee dram. Or a pipe load. Or the company of a fair lass and a ... Oh nevermind.
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throwpie
Trad climber
Berkeley
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Oct 26, 2017 - 03:24pm PT
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Badger Pass and my mom during the war
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throwpie
Trad climber
Berkeley
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Oct 26, 2017 - 03:26pm PT
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mom again
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Tarbuster
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Topic Author's Reply - Oct 26, 2017 - 04:09pm PT
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Badger Pass and my mom during the war
I gather that phrase, the war still means World War II?
Those are some nice vintage shots. Looks like some happy days for mom!
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throwpie
Trad climber
Berkeley
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Oct 26, 2017 - 04:21pm PT
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World War II yes. My dad was a flight instructor at Merced field, now Castle. He was an officer so a badger pass weekend was something he could get away with. I would imagine that was quite a perk during the war.
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throwpie
Trad climber
Berkeley
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Oct 26, 2017 - 04:30pm PT
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throwpie
Trad climber
Berkeley
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Oct 26, 2017 - 04:45pm PT
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Not the 30s but this is from maybe 1952. I was a dirty feral campground child for much of my youth. Well, most of my life
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throwpie
Trad climber
Berkeley
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Oct 26, 2017 - 04:47pm PT
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Giddyup
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throwpie
Trad climber
Berkeley
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Oct 26, 2017 - 05:06pm PT
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Dad in El Portal
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justthemaid
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Jim Henson's Basement
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Oct 31, 2017 - 07:36am PT
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Anyone know who these two ladies are? I've always been curious. I'm guessing no sticky rubber on those heels. I have it labeled "Mirriam" but have no memory of where I got the pic.
Just discovered Anne Brigmans photography. Pretty bold for a turn-of-the-century woman to be exploring the Sierra Nevada and shooting nudes.
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Tarbuster
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Topic Author's Reply - Oct 31, 2017 - 08:01am PT
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JTM!
Excellent offerings.
Will be interesting to see if anyone can ID that first shot.
Those two really are pulling some full-fledged moves!
And the second one, by Anne Brigman, (with all due respect to Dean) ... that is a stone nude for the ages.
Two more Brigman photos:
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Oct 31, 2017 - 10:48am PT
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Skip, the only Mirriam the memory banks yield is Miriam O. Underhill, famous for her "manless climbing."
Pix of her are all of her in men's clothing, however. Mysterious ladies, there. Maybe from an article on MOU? I can't find it.
Tarbuster, these classically-posed shots are fine...if you don't have
THE REAL THING!
SO WHY NOT GET IT?
http://www.stonenudes.com/
THEN YOU'LL HAVE IT.
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Tarbuster
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Topic Author's Reply - Oct 31, 2017 - 04:01pm PT
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Found it!
Lucy Smith and Pauline Ranken climbing the Salisbury Crags in 1908.[1]
The Ladies' Scottish Climbing Club was founded by Jane Inglis Clark, her daughter Mabel, and Lucy Smith at a boulder near Lix Toll, Perthshire in 1908. It now has about 120 members and is the oldest active climbing club exclusively for women. The club has sent numerous expeditions abroad and made the first all-woman climb of a major peak in the Himalayas.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ladies'_Scottish_Climbing_Club
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