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scottpedition
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Topic Author's Original Post - Feb 14, 2010 - 09:16pm PT
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Snow is melting, the sun is shining, and wildlife is stirring all around the valley.
We started last night with hints of fire in Horsetail Falls and Valentine's red on Sentinel Rock.
I let my sweetheart sleep in this morning while I headed over for few bolt ladder laps on the LeConte boulder. Yowzers; winter has been cruel, and snowboarding with the kids did little to keep those legs in shape. Time to start working some one-legged squats or something.
After lunch, focused switched to Valentine's Day proper, cruising 'round the valley with my sweetie. A little over 19 years ago, we spent a week here, snowed in, on our honeymoon. Today, we ended up at the bridge, and hiked from there up Old Big Oak Flat road.
We even passed a familiar looking van along the way...
Scott
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enjoimx
Big Wall climber
SLO Cal
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Feb 14, 2010 - 09:21pm PT
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Beautiful pictures. Lucky guy.
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Captain...or Skully
Social climber
شقوق واس
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Feb 14, 2010 - 09:27pm PT
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Indeed. Makin' me jones for the place, as if I wasn't already.
'Gracias.
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Peter Haan
Trad climber
San Francisco, CA
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Feb 14, 2010 - 09:30pm PT
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Thanks Scott, some nice photos too!
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ryankelly
Trad climber
sonora
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Feb 15, 2010 - 12:44am PT
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Lovely photos. Was a perfect day in the Valley!
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Ed Hartouni
Trad climber
Livermore, CA
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Feb 15, 2010 - 01:25am PT
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I just got back! I'll post some photos too...
...the van was awesome with it's new wheels/tires... probably scared a bunch of drivers passing them on the way out.
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scottpedition
climber
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Topic Author's Reply - Feb 15, 2010 - 02:44am PT
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Yeah, it sure is nice having clear, dry roads. Sounds like those new tires made it that much
better.
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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Feb 15, 2010 - 03:31am PT
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hey there scott... say, i had the same word come to mind:
lovely photos...
very nice stuff, thanks for the share...
:)
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scottpedition
climber
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Topic Author's Reply - Feb 15, 2010 - 11:37am PT
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Great photos Ed. Is that first one from up towards the spires? And the second near Manure Pile? There were 40+ people hanging out taking photos along Southside the night before.
You caught a wonderful view of Horsetail Fall. By late afternoon, I was thinking it wasn't going to light up due to the incoming cloud cover. Glad to see that I was wrong.
Thanks all for the nice comments; it looks like another wonderful day today. It's great when we get a burst of spring weather in what otherwise seemed like the middle of winter.
Scott
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Ed Hartouni
Trad climber
Livermore, CA
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Feb 15, 2010 - 11:56am PT
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The first photo was taken from the slopes east of the Spires, basically walking up from the Meadows Bridge, across South Side Dr. and finding the first creek bed. The snow's not too bad and you can basically walk on the ground once you get off the flats (though there are icy spots along the way 11S0269005, 4177567, 1296m).
I was with a crowd on the South Side Drive just on the bend of the Merced river (the one west of Yellow Pines, 11S0270055, 4178811) ... it wasn't that red because of the cloud cover,
but Photoshop is your friend....
I'll probably be back sometime this next week and then the following week. Requiring both the astronomical occurrence, the Sun setting with the proper altitude and azimuth with respect to El Capitan's Nose, and a red sunset, with the right atmospheric and meteorologic conditions, makes appreciating Galen's image all the more.
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Srbphoto
Trad climber
Kennewick wa
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Feb 15, 2010 - 11:58am PT
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I hate both of you!
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Mark Hudon
Trad climber
Hood River, OR
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Feb 15, 2010 - 12:01pm PT
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Yeah, you guys are pissing me off!
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SteveW
Trad climber
The state of confusion
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Feb 15, 2010 - 12:09pm PT
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Nice photos, both of you!
Love the reflection one, Scott, and
your waterfall on the Captain is awesome, Ed!!!!
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HighTraverse
Trad climber
Bay Area
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Feb 15, 2010 - 12:10pm PT
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One of the more interesting El Cap photos I've seen for showing up the features right of the nose. Great shadows.
My skis still think it's their time of year so I won't be back in the valley for a few more weeks. Thanks for all the pics.
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Dirka
Trad climber
SF
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Feb 15, 2010 - 01:41pm PT
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Bump for pics!
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Carolyn C
Trad climber
the long, long trailer
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Feb 15, 2010 - 02:11pm PT
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As much time as I have spent there, I am still amazed at the beauty and magnificence of the place...like I am seeing it for the first time, and can't believe what I am seeing. Thanks for the photos.
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scottpedition
climber
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Topic Author's Reply - Feb 15, 2010 - 02:55pm PT
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Thanks for the background Ed; that's a great idea to apply the analysis you've done for Moon over Half Dome to Horsetail.
While we're busy pissing people off, here's a couple more with those morning shadows showing the relief. I have a couple of others I like even better than these two, but I haven't had a chance to pull them off the camera yet...
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Ed Hartouni
Trad climber
Livermore, CA
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Feb 15, 2010 - 03:44pm PT
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I'll post an analysis of the "Rowell Fire Fall" shot at the end of Feb, after I do a few more shoots up there...
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