EISPIRATEN

This reminds me of the fires in 1968/69 that preceded major flooding in 1969.

Apparently I took a pic of the sign too, which says flood control and water conservation. There’s a smattering of buildings nearby, for some purpose or other it is for flood control. There is an office and storage building at the dam and three homes for the dam operators along with some shops and c...

HikeUp wrote: ↑Is that dam a power producer or just flood control?

Flood control.

I hope they get it under control. Hats off to those that fight fire, especially in mountains.

RIP Christian Bourlette, my condolences to his wife and friends.

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The, "Capped oil well?" is a rain and snow gage.

All mushrooms are edible, some only once.

Disclaimer: Never eat any mushroom you find outside the supermarket, unless you are an expert on mushrooms.

All mushrooms are edible, some only once.

Disclaimer: Never eat any mushroom you find outside the supermarket.

...and maybe even the Oak Island treasure. No, they still won't find the Oak Island treasure. ? Probably not. ? I honestly think someone already found the treasure. My top suspect would be the cabbage farmers that ended up the richest man in the province, I just cannot believe cabbage was that popu...

HikeUp wrote: ↑Just think of how many caves/mines will be exposed when all of the pesky ice melts!

Along with Atlantis, alien spaceships and maybe even the Oak Island treasure.

I know this will probably make me a pariah here, but I think it's bullshit that miners can drag all their crap into the canyons and then just leave it there when their claim has played out or it becomes inconvenient to remove it. In any other context, that would not be tolerated. It certainly would...

That center ridge on the tire looks like an implement tire, usually used on the front of a tractor.

A successful hunt! Thank you for sharing and allowing me a vicarious trip to memorable location.

Sean wrote:Neat. Was that in spring?

April of 2010 and there were recent rains where we were staying Buckhannon, WV.

We visited the falls in 2010 and the flow was a little higher.

Buggy?

A truck bumper in Rockport, Texas. After moving to Bay City, Texas, less than two hours away from Rockport, I can never complain about bugs in other places.

The day it rained P-40 Tomahawks: https://www.youtube.com/embed/wXSQjp24mq4 The first part of the video covers several crash sites in the Sierras then the story of rebuilding a P-40 Warhawk. "The saga of the 57th Pursuit Group and the airmen that were lost during accelerated training that was n...

HikeUp wrote: I know quite a few small skinny people that eat thousands of calories a day and are essentially inert, but gain no weight. Dubious study, or at least dubious inference of the meaning of the results.

I do too, I hate every one of them too... Just kidding. ?

I recall an article in a health/exercise magazine that Sumo wrestlers eat the most calories a day and competitive cyclists, e.g., Tour De France riders, were not far behind. "Average stages require between 4,000 and 6,000 kcal. Grueling mountain stages demand calorie burns of 7,000 kcal or more...

Years ago I took that road to an old trail that dropped into Roberts Canyon. The trail was shown on older US Forest Service maps, but had disappeared long before so I bushwhacked down the slope into Robert's canyon. It took a lot longer than I thought it would and I lost about three years of life wh...

It is seldom seen because the road is typically closed, but there have been slides below the canyon road such that the road just ends in a drop off and a shear rock face. In those cases a bulldozer operator drives over the edge and "surfs" the nearly verticle slide to the bottom, sometime ...

Before the big plant was built there was only a small one for icing down fishing boats. My Father and some investors bought a closed ice plant in the US and moved it to La Paz. It was a very large construction job for the sleepy town. I still remember the tart smell curing concrete in the slab for t...

What ride! If you ever get all the way to La Paz check out the local ice plant, my Father built it back in the 1950's.

Girl Hiker I agree! Having spent many years living in and enjoying the San Gabriels but now living in South Carolina, I can still enjoy them vicariously through this forum and your posts.

The real "treasure" finders are the rental outfits supplying equipment for a never ending search.

Reminds me of the crosses on Oak Island. Another Oak Island devotee! My wife is addicted to that TV show. The most annoying thing is comment voice, .e.g., "(Anything found) could it be a Templar (Anything found)?" They can make a single weeks work into an entire season of TV shows.?

"JeffH wrote:Any idea what this is for? I saw another higher up with a couple of shovels and aluminum motorcycle-type ramp."

Looks like a launching ramp for hang gliders.

An epic ride! As for Camp Williams coffee, I've had it early in the morning from a pot that was made the night before and kept heated until morning. I prefer plain black coffee, but after a night of wading the East and West forks to measure the stream flow during a heavy rainstorm that included show...