Here's a Google Maps topo of the Grand Canyon. I can't post it here because it's too big–had to dumb down the Momotombo map above to avoid the wrath of the Size Police.
Rode the mules down years ago…takes all day to get there, you stay at a little camp at the bottom, and then another day to get back. I got very sore from all the saddle time. But what a beautiful place it is.
I love topography. A good chunk of ecology depends on geography, which you would think would be obvious, but not always.
Pre-GPS Represent!! Give me a map and a compass, and I can get large groups of people, or myself alone, lost and nearly killed as well as anyone.
Sam: I still didn’t know – if you want to use the word ‘important’ – if he was at the time; I didn’t know that. I’d barely heard of his name even after playing with him at Newport! ‘They want you to play with Bob Dylan.’ ‘Who?’
Also Clark AFB and Subic Bay Naval Station got covered in ash. Presciently the War Oligarchs had anticipated just such a possibility and poured zillions into Diego Garcia.
There were "natives" living there. They had to leave. Course of empire and all that…
A Park Service ranger I know tickets people with GPS for driving in closed areas. If you don't have GPS, you don't know exactly where the boundary is, so you get a pass. Within reason. He's kind of a dick.
Fortunately, I was always too sensible/much of a pussy to go off piste – but there are always so many stories about people getting lost, even up on Grouse Mountain. And all you really need to do there is find a safe descent and you'll hit North Van…. if you go in the right direction, anyway. 😉
That said, the Grouse Grind in summer is probably far more dangerous for people's health. So many heart attacks. :/
On the Nat Geo [ r.i.p.] Special they had video at Clark , I think it was, and the best line before they evac'd "Put some jelly in your pockets , 'cause we're gonna be toast."
Of course, some people actually were.
Those types deserve what's coming to them. Thing is out in the desert southwest, there's a lot of old double-tracks that have been in use for 150+ years, some with telephone or telegraph lines beside them, that the BLM and/or NPS, in their infinite wisdom, have declared "wilderness". Without signage, how are you supposed to know? Most of us respect the wilderness. If you're following tire tracks, they were probably left by that asshole ranger.
Pyush Jindal does not approve of this meddling with the primal forces of nature.
You mean 'the force of GOD'!
Pulsating lava fountains!!!!!!!!!!
They should just wait on the digging and maybe they'll have a new oceanic canal.
Pretty sure I saw this on Las Vegas Blvd.
Strombolian activity makes it sound like the eruption would be made of meat and cheese.
I thought the Strombolians were from the Gamma Quadrant
Here's a Google Maps topo of the Grand Canyon. I can't post it here because it's too big–had to dumb down the Momotombo map above to avoid the wrath of the Size Police.
|https://www.google.com/maps/@36.0987783,-112.1072…|
And look at this mosaic:
|https://www.google.com/maps/@36.0710081,-112.0286…|
Such great accidental beauty!
Sorry, sometimes my cartographilia just has to be exhibited.
I've never been. Maybe this winter would be a good time to rectify that oversight.
Rode the mules down years ago…takes all day to get there, you stay at a little camp at the bottom, and then another day to get back. I got very sore from all the saddle time. But what a beautiful place it is.
I love topography. A good chunk of ecology depends on geography, which you would think would be obvious, but not always.
Pre-GPS Represent!! Give me a map and a compass, and I can get large groups of people, or myself alone, lost and nearly killed as well as anyone.
You would be the best Patagonia tour guide ever. (seriously)
I was, in Patagonia , Az.
Where did Sam go?
Sam: I still didn’t know – if you want to use the word ‘important’ – if he was at the time; I didn’t know that. I’d barely heard of his name even after playing with him at Newport! ‘They want you to play with Bob Dylan.’ ‘Who?’
This one blew about 650 years ago about 80 miles north of here:
<img src="http://volcanoes.usgs.gov/vsc/images/image_mngr/100-199/img196.jpg"</img>
Also Clark AFB and Subic Bay Naval Station got covered in ash. Presciently the War Oligarchs had anticipated just such a possibility and poured zillions into Diego Garcia.
There were "natives" living there. They had to leave. Course of empire and all that…
All I remember is to find a safe spot, preferably in a clearing or somewhere visible, and stay put.
Oh, and if you fall and get stuck in an avalanche or snowdrift, spit, so you know which way is up.
But the best thing of all is to tell people where you're going and how long for, before you set off….hey, I actually remember quite a few things!
A Park Service ranger I know tickets people with GPS for driving in closed areas. If you don't have GPS, you don't know exactly where the boundary is, so you get a pass. Within reason. He's kind of a dick.
You replied before I could edit with [moar info.]
Fortunately, I was always too sensible/much of a pussy to go off piste – but there are always so many stories about people getting lost, even up on Grouse Mountain. And all you really need to do there is find a safe descent and you'll hit North Van…. if you go in the right direction, anyway. 😉
That said, the Grouse Grind in summer is probably far more dangerous for people's health. So many heart attacks. :/
On the Nat Geo [ r.i.p.] Special they had video at Clark , I think it was, and the best line before they evac'd "Put some jelly in your pockets , 'cause we're gonna be toast."
Of course, some people actually were.
Those types deserve what's coming to them. Thing is out in the desert southwest, there's a lot of old double-tracks that have been in use for 150+ years, some with telephone or telegraph lines beside them, that the BLM and/or NPS, in their infinite wisdom, have declared "wilderness". Without signage, how are you supposed to know? Most of us respect the wilderness. If you're following tire tracks, they were probably left by that asshole ranger.
For this, I blame Feinstein.