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Dingus Milktoast
Gym climber
And every fool knows, a dog needs a home, and...
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Topic Author's Original Post - Sep 27, 2011 - 05:30pm PT
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Took a little airplane ride this morning. Chanced to fly over the southern Wind River range, got a look right down on... oh hell, take a look for yourself:
Actually dozed off for a spell but when I peeked out the winder looky what I saw!
Northern Winds, from the south west.
I knew it was gonna be good.
Holy shit!
Can you find Pingora in this photo?
A little closer look? I wanted to shake the man next to me, make him look and ask him... do you know? DO YOU KNOW????
I can see Steeple Peak poking up in this photo, as well as Haystack. This is High-Lowe Country.
Something else, eh?
I was happy to see em this way, and sorry too. Sad to see them fade into the background.
Here's the leading edge of Wyoming oil and gas country....
Then the big lonely of eastern Wyoming. The anticlines photograph better in winter. But then, what's this round bit of forest rising out of the northern prairies?
And pray tell, what are THOSE?
Hmmm, down there, slightly left of center, do you see a lone chopper?
In all that, all THAT, the act of chopping one stinking bolt reverberated for 2000 miles.
Say goodbye to the Black Hills too.
Then a glimpse of the northern edge of the Badland, stretching to the south beneath the airplane's belly.
But these are the real badlands if you nawmean?
And then bing bang boom.... here I am
On a port, on a LAKE, in the middle of the continent.
See ya!
DMT
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eKat
Trad climber
BITD3
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Sep 27, 2011 - 05:34pm PT
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WOW. . .
TFPU!
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mike m
Trad climber
black hills
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Sep 27, 2011 - 05:37pm PT
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DMT nice shots. I think I saw my house. What are you doing over yonder?
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Ezra Ellis
Trad climber
WA, & NC & Idaho
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Sep 27, 2011 - 05:45pm PT
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Dingus, thought I could make out pingora and wolfs head?
TFPU!!
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Ron Anderson
Trad climber
USA Carson city Nev.
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Sep 27, 2011 - 05:49pm PT
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tanx for the TRIP Ding!...
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steveA
Trad climber
bedford,massachusetts
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Sep 27, 2011 - 06:37pm PT
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Thanks for the Pics. Love the Winds!
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thaDood
Mountain climber
PortaLedga OnzaKaleefa
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Sep 27, 2011 - 07:02pm PT
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I always wondered what the WRR looked like from elevation. Thanks for posting.
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TomCochrane
Trad climber
Santa Cruz Mountains and Monterey Bay
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Sep 27, 2011 - 07:49pm PT
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when we were filming the range at low altitude a few days ago there was a big forest fire between Mt Temple and Big Sandy Meadow with the smoke blowing up into the northern part of the range and the fringe of the southern part of the range
flight home today
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johnboy
Trad climber
Can't get here from there
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Sep 27, 2011 - 07:53pm PT
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Sure can see the magnitude of the beetle bark infestation from your shot.
Honk the next time ya fly over and I'll wave.
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dirtbag
climber
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Sep 27, 2011 - 08:22pm PT
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Lovely DMT...the Wind River Range is one of my very favorite places.
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AbeFrohman
Trad climber
new york, NY
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Sep 27, 2011 - 09:12pm PT
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awesome pix.
Goddamnit I am still at a complete loss as to what TFPU means.
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rgold
Trad climber
Poughkeepsie, NY
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Sep 27, 2011 - 11:27pm PT
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DMT, totally awesome shots. About fifteen years of my life in them pics.
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EdBannister
Mountain climber
13,000 feet
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Sep 28, 2011 - 08:55am PT
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TFPU!
I never used the abbreviation before, but given the recent anti post, I'm going to use it!
Edit
TYFPUP
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philo
Trad climber
Somewhere halfway over the rainbow
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Sep 28, 2011 - 09:14am PT
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Thanks Dingus!!! I needed a little dose of Wind Rivers to energize me. Love that range.
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Dingus Milktoast
Gym climber
And every fool knows, a dog needs a home, and...
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Topic Author's Reply - Sep 28, 2011 - 09:22am PT
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TFPU!
TFP TFPU! My ego needed the BOOST! Booyah!
DMT
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HighTraverse
Trad climber
Bay Area
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Sep 28, 2011 - 12:14pm PT
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I picked out Pingora right away even though I've never been to the Wind Rivers. Gotta make the trip.
DMT
what's the port in the Midwest? That fisherman looks cold and his pipe has blown out.
Tom
The "Huge mine with tailings ponds" might be the old Ruth copper mine which was shut down in 1978. Was the largest open pit mine in the US when it closed. About 10 miles west of Ely on US50
Mysterious earth fill and aqueduct may be one of the several new gold mines being developed in the area west of Ely/Elko. There are two big gold areas there.
http://minerals.usgs.gov/west/projects/nngd.htm
Do you happen to have the GPS coordinates for the two mine pics?
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Dingus Milktoast
Gym climber
And every fool knows, a dog needs a home, and...
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Topic Author's Reply - Sep 28, 2011 - 12:19pm PT
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Port Washington, Lake Michigan.
Cheers
DMT
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Timid TopRope
Social climber
Paradise, CA
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Sep 28, 2011 - 12:20pm PT
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TFPU!
Timid TopRope
(Oh yeah, that nice, I was losing my sense of self-worth)
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Scole
Trad climber
San Diego
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Sep 29, 2011 - 05:42pm PT
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I wunder if Anguish got his elk yet
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AbeFrohman
Trad climber
new york, NY
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Holy crap. its about time!
TFPUTATMQIRMALTM
(Thanks for Posting Up The Answer To My Question It Really Means A Lot To Me)
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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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If you look closely at the center of Dingus Milqtoast's third air photo of the winds you can see Dingus MsGee rap bolting!
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Dingus Milktoast
Gym climber
And every fool knows, a dog needs a home, and...
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Topic Author's Reply - Oct 3, 2011 - 05:40pm PT
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Yes and you look closely you can see him thanking me for posting up too!
DMT
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Dingus Milktoast
Gym climber
And every fool knows, a dog needs a home, and...
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Topic Author's Reply - Jan 15, 2012 - 05:44am PT
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Aight, I got my Saturday objective accomplished. I am now ensconced in a swank Times Square hotel. Had a nice dinner last night in a NY chop house, and some acquaintances of mine from Great Britain happened by, it was like old home week in the Big Apple.
Anyway, I fly Delta a lot, out of Sacramento. This trip like so many had me connecting through Minneapolis. Sac to Mini goes out of California and over Reno. I have the coveted north side of the plane in the morning photo window.
Out over Pyramid Lake and the Great Basin, brush the north edge of the Great Salt Lake, then... as anticipated, over the southern end of the Wind River range. I was curious as to snow cover, etc. aren't you? You can compare these to the ones I took on a similar flight back in Oct.
It was cold in the Great Valley at Oh Dark Thirty, a lil deicing was called for. The dude saw me taking pictures of him and he squirted my window with that sh#t, lol.
Sunrise. There were a lot of ice crystals in the morning air and as the sun came up over the eastern horizon I could see how dawn had hit the higher clouds before it reached the ground. Looking back behind the plane I could see also how the sun-line rose higher and higher, the tangential relationship with the curve of the earth (the rays are flat, the ground is dropping away, eh?)
Then some coolio formations in northern Utah / Western Wyoming
I like this one... that's the town of Vulva Wyoming down there!
Some more...
A beauty, huh? Such are the formations that bring us oil and gas booms in the west.
Now the goods, eh?
Went over the Black Hills again... NO SNOW! No wonder Mike M is tearing it up this winter, go Mike! Then the connection in Minneopolis where it was genuinely COLD. Another deicing, 2 plus hours, a first class meal service and bing bang boom I'm in the taxi from Laguardia to Manhattan. Life's a trip but I'd rather be back there in the Winds, frankly.
DMT
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sandstone conglomerate
climber
sharon conglomerate central
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Jan 15, 2012 - 06:42am PT
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Great pics man! Thanks for posting those. I love the Winds...you can almost smell those mountains through that glass.
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Brokedownclimber
Trad climber
Douglas, WY
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Jul 25, 2012 - 08:05pm PT
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In about 2 weeks I'm taking a mountain flying intensive course, and the Winds are a target! The camera will be a companion.
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Jim Brennan
Trad climber
Vancouver Canada
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Jul 25, 2012 - 09:58pm PT
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Dingus showing once again that only the worthy should get window seats on an aeroplane.
Thanks man, for wanting to take us along!
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Les
Trad climber
Bahston
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Jul 26, 2012 - 07:21am PT
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Ah, the Winds -- pretty sure I could see the mosquitos in the Cirque of Towers in your aerial shots . . . doh!
Those f#&^kers are brutal in that place.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Jul 26, 2012 - 08:09am PT
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It really pisses me off when I spring for the big bucks ride and the sun
doesn't cooperate!
Luckily there is a magic wand...
Here is one of Dingus' 'wanded'...
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Brokedownclimber
Trad climber
Douglas, WY
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Jul 26, 2012 - 08:40am PT
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I flew out to Burley, Idaho for the "Meet and Greet" at City of Rocks over the 4th, and I snapped a few pix as I was overflying the Northern end of the Wasatch Range at Logan, Utah. My altitude was 12,500 feet above mean sea level, but just clearing the range by about 1500 feet above ground level.
I always try to give terrain a lot of clearance, one of the rules of mountain flying.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Jul 26, 2012 - 08:58am PT
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^^^ Words to live by, Broke. :-) Nothing like being at full power and
you're going down 1500 fpm, eh? Then there is the reverse - being sucked
up into a building thunderstorm in my sailplane. Pick yer poison.
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local
Social climber
eldorado springs
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Jul 26, 2012 - 02:00pm PT
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steveA
Trad climber
bedford,massachusetts
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Jul 26, 2012 - 02:03pm PT
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Going back in there in 9 days. Can't wait!
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