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Climberdude
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Clovis, CA
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Dec 31, 2016 - 02:49pm PT
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I loved these photographs, particularly the ones from Locke and Walnut Grove. These bring back some memories since my mother had a pear ranch just up river from Locke. I stayed on the ranch or nearby during the picking season. It was a treat to go get an ice cream bar at the Big Store in Walnut Grove after my mom finished checking the pears for the day.
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Brandon-
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The Granite State.
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Cool shots, Mouse. Where'd you go?
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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That was on the return trip to Merced coming down the Central Valley from Redding after T Hocking and I farted around on Tom's Thumb near Susanville.
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limpingcrab
Trad climber
the middle of CA
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Looking for birds with my son yesterday. Central Valley: hell on earth
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Jan 12, 2017 - 06:23pm PT
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The Hammer of God is still cranking,
sending boomers over the valley this week,
dumping rain in huge amounts.
These shots were made from the fifth floor
of my home this evening as the sky cleared a bit.
More to come tonight.
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WBraun
climber
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Jan 18, 2017 - 07:23am PT
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This IS the real Central Valley ^^^^^^ and has cow manure in it.
Cow manure is the only sh!t on the planet that is PURE ......
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hooblie
climber
from out where the anecdotes roam
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Jan 18, 2017 - 08:45am PT
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Jan 18, 2017 - 08:48am PT
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[Click to View YouTube Video]
Not that farmers are the only inhabitants of the Central Valley, you understand.
You need truck salesmen, too.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Jan 26, 2017 - 05:16pm PT
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hooblie
climber
from out where the anecdotes roam
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Jan 30, 2017 - 06:04pm PT
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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UPPER SACRAMENTO RIVER.Grapes and Grain, eh?
Pic posted to BroTim's FB page today, wanting to know the name of the place.
edit: Tim sez it's Oroville Dam. So much for ST "Jeopardy!"
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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This morning's Central Valley weather, lots of clouds after raining most of the night.
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tuolumne_tradster
Trad climber
Leading Edge of North American Plate
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Feb 12, 2017 - 11:47pm PT
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Our Wines receiving glowing reviews some glow more than others ;-)
In compliance with environmental standards and regulations, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) monitors a broad range of environmental media for radiological constituents including tritium levels in Livermore Valley wines and compares these results to other California and European wines. The results are reported in LLNL's Site Annual Environmental Report (SAER). Here are the results from the 2014 and 2015 reports.
https://saer.llnl.gov
For Livermore Valley wines purchased in 2014, the highest concentration of tritium (4.1 Bq/L [111 pCi/L]) was just 0.55% of the EPA’s standard for maximal permissible level of tritium in drinking water (740 Bq/L [20,000 pCi/L]). Drinking one liter per day of the Livermore Valley wine with the highest concentration purchased in 2014 would have resulted in a dose of 41 nSv/y (4.1 μrem/y). A more realistic dose estimate, based on moderate drinking (one liter per week) (1) at the mean of the Livermore Valley wine concentrations (2.3 Bq/L [62 pCi/L]) would have been 3.3 nSv/y (0.33 μrem/y). Both doses account for the added contribution of Organically Bound Tritium(2). The potential dose from drinking Livermore Valley wines in 2014, including the contribution of OBT, even at the high consumption rate of one liter per day, and the highest observed concentration, would be about 1/250 of a single dose from a panoramic dental x-ray.
For 2015, the Livermore Valley wines represent vintages from 2010, 2012, and 2013; the California wines represent vintage from 2013 and 2014; and the Rhone Valley and Bordeaux region wines represent vintage from 2011. Tritium concentrations must be decay-corrected to the year of harvest to correlate with tritium concentrations in air and soil to which the grape was exposed. In 2015, decay-corrected concentrations for Livermore Valley wine samples ranged from 1.0 to 4.8 Bq/L; for the two California wine samples, -0.21 and 0.86 Bq/L; and for the Rhone Valley and Bordeaux wine samples, 1.1 and 2.8 Bq/L, respectively.
(1) Moderate consumption is higher than the average consumption of wine in California (15.7 L/yr) (Avalos 2005).
(2) Dose from wine was calculated based on the measured concentration of HTO multiplied by 1.3 to account for the potential contribution of OBT that was removed so that the tritium in wine could be counted using liquid scintillation counting. The ingestion dose coefficient for HTO is 2.1 × 10–11 Sv/Bg per DOE (2011).
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Feb 13, 2017 - 12:08am PT
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Livermore
Initially an adobe structure built by Livermore and Amador served as their house on the rancho.
In 1850, a wooden two-story house was shipped around Cape Horn and became the Livermores' new home.
Later the adobe structure was rented to Nathaniel Greene Patterson who used it as a small hotel,
the first place of entertainment in the valley.
The rancho's economy was based on cattle, hides, and tallow, as well as agriculture.
Livermore planted the first wine grapes in the area
and today the Livermore Valley is one of California's premier wine-growing regions.
Livermore studiously avoided involvement in politics, and all evidence indicates he got along well with both the Mexican and Anglo communities
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Patrick Sawyer
climber
Originally California now Ireland
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Feb 13, 2017 - 09:00am PT
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Dingus is a blow-in from Tennessee I believe (Dingus? correct me if I am wrong). Just like I am a blow-in from California in Wexford, hah hah.
It takes a native Californian to look in the eye of California (gawd how parochial Patrick), or is better that a non-native looking in who has the less biased and jaundiced eye?
Believe me, being a blow-in Ireland, in the sticks, not so bad as it used to be. Ireland is more cosmopolitan now, like California, hahahahhahhahahahahahah...
Great photos on this thread, especially from Dingus, you capture it.
EDIT
Oops, I only read the first page of this thread, as I looked further, wow, some of you such as Merced Mouse, Hobbie and others, fantastic photos. You capture the diversity and beauty of The Big Valley. (As an aside I never appreciated Barbara Stanwyck until later years.)
But the paddle-wheel steamboats, Bret Harte and American Graffiti are missing.
And I admit, I am a native of the East Bay (East Bay Grease, okay not Oakland like Tower of Power, but I went to school in Oakland, I am from the 'burbs, Lafayette/Walnut Creek) but I have done my share of traveling The Big Valley.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Feb 13, 2017 - 09:41am PT
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Nice to hear from one of the resident ST ex-pats.
Moraga was at one time in the Central Valley, Patrick.
(Not the town, the party of explorers.)
True fact. :0)
Are you finished hibernating?
It's green as it gets here this winter.
Cheers!
And thanks for the compliments.
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