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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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Dec 23, 2009 - 12:29am PT
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And amazingly professional!
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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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Dec 23, 2009 - 01:04am PT
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There's that Cleo now!
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tuolumne_tradster
Trad climber
Leading Edge of North American Plate
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Dec 23, 2009 - 01:08am PT
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Well done!
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Mighty Hiker
climber
Vancouver, B.C.
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Dec 23, 2009 - 01:11am PT
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It turns out that it wasn't shown on the Canadian version of the History Channel, at least not tonight. I checked their website, and it's not on anytime soon. Rats! Well, maybe when the DVD comes out.
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mark miller
Social climber
Reno
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Dec 23, 2009 - 01:19am PT
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Looking Good in the Neighborhood Bro....Good job.
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pc
climber
East of Seattle
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Dec 23, 2009 - 02:15am PT
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Really well done! I enjoyed that.
pc
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Levy
Big Wall climber
So Cal
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Dec 23, 2009 - 03:05am PT
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That was informative & enjoyable. Great shots of Yosemite & nice aerial shots too.
Well done Bryan & Cleo!
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tuolumne_tradster
Trad climber
Leading Edge of North American Plate
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Dec 23, 2009 - 03:44am PT
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I thought the conceptual model that Greg Stock presented for the rise of the eastern Sierras was interesting but I'm not sure I followed the reasoning completely. My understanding is that the thickness of earth's crust and the elevation of the continents can generally be explained using the Airy-Heiskanen model of isostatic equilibrium (i.e., the earth's crust floats on a more dense mantle like icebergs in water). Generally the crust is thickest under continents (30 to 40 km; the thickest crust is under the Himalayas) and thin under the oceans (10 to 20 km) where it is made mostly of dense basalt rather than lighter granite. According to this model the mass of the crust, no matter where you are on the planet, is roughly equal. If the crust under the eastern Sierras thins or delaminates from the denser mantle as Greg presented, according to the A-H model, for it to rise it would have to be replaced with much less dense material somehow to satisfy the mass balance.
Obviously the eastern Sierras is a geologically complex region and as climbers we reap the benefit of this. Some have theorized that the eastern Sierra escarpment is the true boundary between the Pacific and North American plates, not the San Andreas Fault. So the crust in this region does not fit the A-H model (i.e, it is out of isostatic equilibrium...???).
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BASE104
climber
An Oil Field
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Dec 23, 2009 - 04:19am PT
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Way to go Bryan! I really enjoyed all of the science talk. I already knew some of it, but I learned new stuff, and the stuff I had already learned was explained clearly.
The wax trick was really cool. And you were really good at explaining things. VERY professional. I thought I would see someone on a motorcycle toting a .50 BMG. I learned a lot of neat stuff. Then again, I humbly admit yet again being a little poor at the ig/met side of things. In your absence here, I have had to explain cooling and grain size a few times.
Now come to my world. It is yet again 3:00am and I am cranking out data on carbonate cycles in Kansas. Not quite as sexy as Yosemite, for sure. Stratigraphy will turn your brain to mush. I am weeks behind and will never catch up it seems.
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klk
Trad climber
cali
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Dec 23, 2009 - 11:34am PT
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nice job on-camera by each of the st regulars. it's harder than it looks folks- "ums," "wells," and "f*#k you" don't play well on camera, and when you tighten up a bit to make yourself speak more formally, it's easy to screw up something different. all three of the st folks did a great job.
i thought that the crew/director did a good job of setting up shots for dramatic effect, too. plenty of hero shots of rock boy/girl smoothing it out on rough or exposed ground.
but please, can we kill whoever pulled together the soundtrack and voiceover? it sounded like a low-ball version of "america's most wanted."
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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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Dec 23, 2009 - 11:38am PT
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I'm definitely saving up the wax 'n sand trick for my next classroom.
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Chaz
Trad climber
greater Boss Angeles area
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Dec 23, 2009 - 11:40am PT
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It's a back-countrty Lava Lamp.
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xtrmecat
Big Wall climber
Kalispell, Montanagonia
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Dec 23, 2009 - 11:44am PT
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Nice job all. Enjoyed it big time. My wife was a little bored, not a climber, but couldn't walk away the next hour, on the Rockies, she's a hiker/photo nut. Great show, well done, and I got lots of questions answered too. Thanks.
Bob
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Wade Icey
Trad climber
www.alohashirtrescue.com
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Dec 23, 2009 - 11:47am PT
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"When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.." DR H.S. Thompson
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scrappy
Gym climber
california
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Dec 23, 2009 - 12:23pm PT
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I agree! I think Bryan did take a shower for filming. Lol:)
Hey Bryan! I like your wax demo.
That was a really good show!
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TGT
Social climber
So Cal
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Dec 23, 2009 - 12:31pm PT
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Quite good!
They saved the best part for last.
The pre/post add recap got tiring, but that would work well in the classroom.
I wish they'd used the time to delve a little deeper into the Block snapping sierra uplift mechanism.
That produced a "huh?" moment. It kind of left it seeming to be conjecture.
Not as clear a supporting explanation as the other segments.
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Phil_B
Social climber
Hercules, CA
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Dec 23, 2009 - 12:33pm PT
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We had a very fun viewing party at my place last night and skyped Cleo in from Vermont where she was wrapping Xmas presents.
Very fun. Our drinking game word was dome, which caused one friend to have to spend the night!
I recognized the phrase "exfoliation causes the formation of domes" in there too. That's the one that Cleo wouldn't say on camera. They got the narrator to say it instead.
All in all, I think it was a very good show. I too loved the demos that Minerals and gstock had.
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tuolumne_tradster
Trad climber
Leading Edge of North American Plate
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Dec 23, 2009 - 01:05pm PT
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Cleo...Thanks again for the references. Your seismic monitoring network is really interesting. Let me know if you publish any of your work..I'm curious about the sensitivity of your instruments? what frequency your geophones are tuned to? what kind of noise (vehicle traffic?)filtering? have you ever detected a rock fall that was not otherwise reported? how you distinguish a rock fall event from a nearby low magnitude earthquake?
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scuffy b
climber
Whuttiz that Monstrosicos Inferno?
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Dec 23, 2009 - 10:52pm PT
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I really enjoyed the show, though some of the narrative was sort of
breathless. They made it sound like the terminal moraine near El Cap
was something postulated but only just found after decades ofdiligent
searching. Well, that's TV.
I did cringe, Minerals, over the bulldozing glacier.
I guess the idea of rocks being transported in and on the glacier for
long distances and times, thendeposited at a stable terminus is just too
time-consuming a propostion for a short show.
Congratulations, all, and thanks.
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