MisterMo

Wow, that IS fast. Super photos!

Not nearly as well defined as yours but pretty wu-wu all the same. Taken on the Persis/Index traverse late in the last century.

Wow. Global warming. Summer '75, maybe in July, I forget:

So I was thinking about all of this & as always trying to decide if I should start filtering my water after many, many years of not doing so & the hygiene thing comes up: If responsible people don't crap down by the stream, how and where, exactly, are people washing their hands or otherwise preventing that mode of transmission of bugs?

Over the bank in pieces...giant day-glo smiley face and all. I suppose you could still wank over the chunks...

Too bad they shot that monster erratic at the new Cadman Pit across the way. You could have rolled it up to your digs & gotten rich. One could perhaps be grateful that the current owner is at least amenable to private uses at all. Many are the private landowners who are putting up gates and keep out signs in response to real or imagined fears of one bugaboo or another.

The fortress is half the trick. The other half is to see to it that Foghorn, Leghorn, and the rest of the flock are safely inside every night of the year.

The problem being that if you got what they want, especially poultry, there aren't enough bullets of any caliber in existence to permanently solve your problem. You got to use that large-brain cavity & outsmart the little fuckas. As is said of coyotes: when the last human is laid to rest there will be a raccoon present to piss on the grave.

BUMP...on general principle

I perceive that most objections to logging seem to focus on the "supply" side of the question, e.g. "this, that, or the other patch of woods should not be logged". Few objections continue to suggest which patch of timber should instead be logged, or, alternatively how the demand for wood products could be reduced by an equivalent number of board feet. That said, it's Manke's wood and current economics probably dictate that it come down. Regarding the road, it's been more or less passable as far as the mine since way back when. If you propose that it be maintained I'd be curious who you think should do that at whose expense. And what would you propose for the mobs of ORV'rs? Are they included in using that road or not? What is the landowner's strong reason to assumethe expense (and in 2006 America, the liability) of any of this. Why don't they just cut their trees, pull the culverts, berm it off, and go away?

The comment was attributed to Steve Roper, who, by some accounts, also retrieved the victim's jawbone and unwisely displayed it in the lodge coffee shop.

That's sort of what I was wondering about since the info I'd found on the bug seemed focused on food contamination, although water was listed as a source too.

Link Yuck. Just curious, how are you certain of where you picked it up?

Cool. I've never seen the higher stuff; I guess it was built & avalanches tore it out. The stuff at the base of the slope doesn't melt out every year. There was a quite serious proposal to mine just south of LB Gap in the 60's but that ore was to go out to the middle fork via a contraption called a "Gyro Cart". In your original post your unnamed lake is, I'm pretty sure, "Pea Soup Lake" in Lynch Draw. Your other lake foto is either Rebecca or Rowena.

Great fotos, beautiful area....maybe funner earlier in the summer with more snow and less talus. FYI there is a trail from the willow thicketed flat at the head of Necklace Valley to lowest La Bohn Lake. Ascend talus just right of the waterfall to its high point, thence up and left on trails past the upper cascades...comes out right at the outlet. Pretty much hands-in-pockets except for maybe grabbing a tree now and then. In this fashion you don't have to haul your axe and crampons 9 miles for that one steep snow bit. I'm curious; I've never heard of an ore tram to La Bohn Gap but a mine tram grip at the 5 mile ford, and various wire rope and mechanical detritus at the base of the final slope suggest that someone tried rather seriously to build one.

Starting to ripen but yet short of greatness. From now to Labor day will be the shit. FYI you might not to eat the ones along the RR tracks (like at LTW) unless you want your kids to be born with flippers or something....

This needs to bump back up to the top for a day or so. I've always thought Hagan/Blum, at least as viewed from the north, is one of the prettiest little groups of peaks around. My fantasy here is that someone will post an approach that isn't too horrible. Nobody's ever said anything nice about coming up from Baker River.

Y'know, I once had the opportunity for an 365 day all-expenses-paid tour of that little country, courtesy of the US gov'ment no less, and came to pretty much the same conclusion.

I feel your pain, having just got off a 5 day trip with about 6 pounds of camera stuff. Many were the moments that a couple of cans of Fosters would have been more welcome. I've seen Polarizer tricks/workarounds for Photoshop published but have never horsed around with them myself.

Sounds like the Sky-kos to me. But for the food and the language it should be just like home

On a digi SLR I use a UV always to protect the front element and a circular polarizer when the light is right for it. I don't know about filters on P&S cameras; my P&S has no provision for such. Photoshop has a number of filter effects with which I have very little experience.

Thank you. Or maybe, after spending a good chunk of my life turning such things into rubble...and in the process sending a few thousand tons of rebar to the scrap yard...they are not. Maybe. Or maybe the pictures are just some shit somebody concocted too.

32 tons...a 330 Cat. Oink.

First off that's no 8 ton excavator. I can't make out the model number but just looking it appears to be closer a 315-320 Cat sized machine. Second, the visible rebar doesn't look like inch and a half to me. Since I call BS on the word problem part I guess I call BS on the photos as well.