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Chiloe
Trad climber
Lee, NH
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Topic Author's Reply - Jan 7, 2008 - 04:43pm PT
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avatar formerly known as wootles
Hey, I almost missed that. Clueless about your cave picture, though.
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Willoughby
Social climber
Truckee, CA
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I've been getting into sea kayaking a bit over the last few years, and Whitey's always in the back of my mind. Those South African fish are used to much smaller prey, but in California, they hunt BIG elephant seals. I spent five fall seasons on Southeast Farallon Island (off San Francisco), working for the Point Reyes Bird Observatory, and studying the white sharks was a big part of the gig. They're definitely inquisitive critters, but I don't think I'd be too quick to pet one on the nose like that. One thing's for certain, they can make short work out of an elephant seal (and yes, it's that red; they have super oxygen-rich blood).
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Jim E
climber
Mountain Road
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"We're gonna' need a bigger boat"
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Jim E
climber
Mountain Road
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"avatar formerly known as wootles
Hey, I almost missed that. Clueless about your cave picture, though."
Wootles, the avatar, died this past fall in a case of acute taco poisoning. Plus the namesake has fallen out of favor with M and is now languishing at the bottom of a heap of other discarded plush toys.
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Chiloe
Trad climber
Lee, NH
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Topic Author's Reply - Jan 7, 2008 - 08:36pm PT
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Hah! Well, you might have some thoughts for the classic NH thread.
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Tomcat
Trad climber
Chatham N.H.
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Chiloe,is dat dino print from da Potash Road?
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Bryan
climber
colorado
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Jim
I believe thats Preludes wall Mt. Arapiles.
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mojede
Trad climber
Butte, America
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TKings, who's taking flight in the Gally ?
Zat Pat ?
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TKingsbury
Trad climber
MT
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'tis Pat, on Scraps...winging onto an equalized blue/black alien and green C3...
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Jim E
climber
Mountain Road
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"I believe thats Preludes wall Mt. Arapiles."
Good one, Bryan!
I have to confess I don't know the name of the exact location but that it is indeed at Arapiles. I stumbled upon the little guy while out exploring on a rest day. The year was 1989. I've always wondered what the story behind the statue is. Any idea?
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Minerals
Social climber
The Deli
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Jan 11, 2008 - 11:13pm PT
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KA-BOOM!!!
Bomb disposal(?), Army Munitions Depot, just south of Hawthorne, Nevada.
(I was hanging out a few months ago and all of a sudden… Felt that one from a ways away… Pretty cool…)
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Jaybro
Social climber
The West
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Jan 11, 2008 - 11:25pm PT
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Interesting, minerals I didn't take pictures, but one time, maybe twenty odd years ago me and my buddy and'cid drove by there and saw a similar show (east of there actually, near were the weird bunkers are) ground explosions and ones from airplanes (missiles I guess)
way trippy.
ex Wootie- lehman cave?
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Minerals
Social climber
The Deli
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Jan 12, 2008 - 12:43am PT
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Yeah, Jaybro. It’s fun to hang out in the middle of “nowhere” Nevada… That boom above was cool but not NEARLY as cool as last January… An F-22 Raptor ripped past me as I sat in my truck on a dirt road one evening on the NE side of Nellis… He must have been cruising the highway at low altitude and picked up my truck on radar (etc.) because by the time I heard him, he was cranking a hard left turn and was “on it”!! KA-BOOM!!! He broke the sound barrier, which sounded (and felt) like a bomb went off behind my truck. The roar of (relatively quiet) jet engines filled the air and the Raptor quickly turned into a black dot that soon disappeared over the ridge. I love that kind of stuff! BAD ASS!!!
Photo found here:
http://www.electronicaviation.com/articles/Military/140
More:
http://home.pon.net/hunnicutt/images/F22.jpg
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Minerals
Social climber
The Deli
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Jan 12, 2008 - 12:53am PT
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Here are a few pics of the Independence and Big Pine fires in early July of 2007. The fires started the previous night during a barrage of lightning strikes. Several cars burned up at the Baxter Pass trailhead.
Independence fires:
Big Pine smoke plumes:
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Chiloe
Trad climber
Lee, NH
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Topic Author's Reply - Jan 12, 2008 - 10:08am PT
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Chiloe,is dat dino print from da Potash Road?
Why yes it is, good eye. That was before they put a fence around the dinosaur prints and nearby petroglyphs.
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Chiloe
Trad climber
Lee, NH
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Topic Author's Reply - Jan 13, 2008 - 11:37am PT
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A relic of wars gone by:
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