More like a digital, lilting piece of shit designed to be played on a loop through stadium speakers to mentally drive a perp from a hostage stand-off situation.
great book, nice n' short too - read that right around the time my daughter nearly died of complications of hte swine-flu, sorta set my shit in its proper perspective - i never knew the dust bowl was so lethal to babies - the account of starved horses eating fenceposts protruding from dust mounds was memorable as well
I grew up just uphill (foothills of the Temblor Range) from the southern San Joaquin valley of CA. As a kid I endured two, maybe three serious dust storms. Friends and family of mine experienced valley fever, which is pretty obnoxious and tenacious. I seem to have developed a tendency toward bronchitis resulting from a cold that my doc says may be attributed to growing up where I did.
The Worst Hard Times A telling of the cause and effect of a decades long suffer-fest in the dust bowl of middle America.
Unbroken Another suffer-fest, caused by, and at the hands of the Japanese, endured by Olympian Louis Lamperini
Mother Tongue Bryson's book about the curiosity and complexity of the english language.
and I am currently working on A Splintered History of Wood. I'm on the chapter dedicated to half a dozen master woodworkers who happen to be blind.
We found a great grow spot on the way through the woods between the crags.
On the descent from the first crag, I could see the summit of the holey one. It almost looked like an anchor with tat was hanging over the big cave face.
I went with a friend to climb a route he put up on a sandstone crag near the Swauk Campground off of 97. From the top of the crag, we could see another crag, so we took a short walk and came upon this. We circumnavigated the crag and found good quality rock and aesthetic lines on every aspect.
There was a deep, tunnel-like cave to lookers left of this view that hissed at us.
We left immediately.
Fred says, "(The South Face) is about 330 ft. high, above "Pineapple Pass" (est. 5280'), the small notch between the south face and the two southern pinnacles."
-CAG-Columbia River to Stevens Pass, 1st Edition, Pg 162
There is a large glacial erratic on the north end of Martha Lake Airport Park, (just north of Martha Lake) off of of 146th St SW between Meadow Rd and Cascadian Way. It is to the east of the skatepark.