Uh Ricky D - it's here somewhere, just hard to find.
BASEBALL, not Big League
TJ down, but not out. CV looking good (CV 6 - CT 3). My ex-neighbor/friend Karen Kopins (Miss Connecticut, 1977) will not be dancin' with herself or the night rider.
Lord, give me the strength and the bank account I need to combat feline arrogance.
Lord, let them see life thorugh the eyes of a hungry, but humble, field photographing mouse.
And thanks for getting me out of the house.
Ricky D,
As much as the public used to like Topo Gigio, Supertopo Gigio says he's dead as Opera. Give the little urban poser his funeral and let's move on. Granted, it will be a whing-ding of a funeral, like JFK's or Joe Green's.
When Verdi passed, the sun fell from the sky.
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I said the sun fell from the sky!
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The help is not very good around here. They need more training than I have time to give them. Bear with, please.
I have big trouble. I can't approach the union on this one, either. These are scabs from Camp 4 whom I've hired to haul sets. They work cheaply, about all you can say. They know when their breaks are and that's all they know, it seems.
But a bigger moon hit the sky that night in time for the overture.
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Leggs told me not to do it...
and now I've gone and broken my cheapo-cheapo tripod, to boot.
I don't buy all my 'biners at Grocery Outlet, just to spend the savings on somebody's laziness. Guys go climb walls and spend so much energy, they look on jobs like this as a form of recreation.
I need a really rich, very stupid producer if this is gonna run much longer.
Guido Contini alla ricossa!
I think not: He's too damned stupid...that was Kate Hudson, ferfergiesakes!
It could be worse, Luisa. Remember that.
Do I need to repeat myself nine times, like I seem to have to do to get work out of these dirtbag scabs? Hell, they managed to put up a video, but the thing is running two times instead of just once! Feck feck feck!!!
zeeBs neebs! What am I gonna do? I've run out of chocolate syrup and my baby's gone to heaven, besides.
And the cows have gone home.
I'll be Lucky if I don't FREAK OUT!
I should wait and talk this over with somebody I can trust.
Gene! Bring yer boots with ya! We need to check out some boulders. Make plans to be home later than normal.
He's a glorified DJ, when you come to it, but his vibe is so mellow.
BIG LIKE! *
This is a Clair Loon I saw last evening out in the hills north of town, looking for the absolute closest and highest point around town. It had no mate either. So we made love.
Baby! Same time & phase next month? 7:06 ce matin.
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The back of the law offices on 18th STreet, around the corner from Middle Earth. The resident rodent regulator! Ack! Put a bell on that thing.
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Seven no ate a.m. Where's the BBQed chicken, guys? I can smell it.
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7:33 a.m. Un chat ne peut faire que ce qu'il fait.
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Most cats do not get enough fiber in their diets. Mice never seem to have this problem. We eat more sensibly. F-Factor works as well as anything, but melons and berries are best this time of year.
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Is this fudge brownie treat interesting enough to entice you to get off your lazy feline butt?
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I thought not. Worth a try, if only to devil the cat.
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Arrogance in the first degree!
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Wake up, Tigger! Yer giving the set hands a terrible example.
If you want to know what I climbed yesterday, I have lowered expectations now I'm 65 and asthmatic. I've been content lately getting out and stretching my legs and piddling on top of these cone-like objects out north of town.
It turned out that I was wrong in my a*#essment of which point of land is the HPCT hereabouts. I made it good with another two forays out there.
Early in the afternoon, around two, I went out to snap some photos of the Rim Fire's cumulus. I noticed that the hill further east from the first one I climbed and the one I climbed after that, which I thought was the highest, were not the closest. The one I ascended today around sunset was furthest south, hence closest to town.
How we worship numbers in our lives! What day of the month? What time of the day? Who's older? Who's a ten and who's a one? Just go do SOMETHING, it doesn't need to be the best, the highest, the hardest, or the prettiest, as long as you feel it's right, it's solid.
La Paloma Road, the road to nowhere, from nowhere, if the gate is locked. Lower end.
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No respect.
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All those opposed to the landowners' decision to close off access to China Hat, raise your chosen firearms. Pick your targets. Fire!
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The top end of La Paloma Road at Hornitos Road.
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That says 1.6 miles, not 16 miles.
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The hill on the right is the goal, the potential new HPCT/Merced, highest point closest to town.
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This is the skyline as I strode up the face. I decided to go further east to see what was around that way, maybe a view of the China Hat monolith?
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Coming round the east side of this monotonous climb, I spy one more, but it's lower and not as close, being too far east. Close, but not worthy of a panetella. I'll need to go back soon and lookee more To The East of this little Eden-in-the-sticks.
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Twin summits. It turned out there was another summit to be gained behind this hill.
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This is the one, and I had time to go there. I returned to the car via the draw with the pond, as shown from earlier this week.
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My next conic-shaped objective.
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Hill number two. There is a distinct saddle, one side dropping into the western draw, the other side dipping into the one heading to the next hill east, which presents the obstacle of a fence. Hmmm...so?
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YCA rules!!!! Summit number two. This is four summits in one three-day span, involving not one placement, a single porter (me), and NO GODDAMNED GUIDE OR GUIDEBOOK! This, my fellow travelers, is ADVENTURE, the heart and soul of mountaineering.
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Good Night, All.
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It's available, but it costs!
The pond, the moon, the saddle.
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Looking directly at Mt. Bullion in Mariposa Co. The Rim Fire's glow is at the left. God help them folks!
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n.b., edit, whatever: That's too bad--that last photo doesn't show the eerie glow off to the left like my original.
Meh, ya get the picature, Boo-Boo?
Smokey did, even just casually observing. What a nose! The place is a tinderbox.
the humps in the ground... those oval mounds that dot that particular landscape..., like what, 10 feet long, 5 feet wide, a foot or two tall...
what's your explanation of their formation?
Got theory? Its something Angus and I have pondered aloud many times on the road from Merced Falls to Hornitos, looking right (west and south). We have our theories, what's yours?
The cones themselves all seem to be eroded from meltwater passing through the lower slopes of the Sierra Nevada to begin with, from the large glaciers of the SN, and it took some force, of course. Mammoth melting and flow created by them started the erosion, then the rains came and have been finishing off the job for longer than Donini has been alive.
The cobbles are washed out long before that, along with auriferous (gold-bearing) goodies and they form the layer under the top of the relatively hard layer of solid rock below the summits of these cones. You should see the depth of this solid layer, which is very well-exposed on the south bank of the Merced near my bro's place in Merced Falls. It's substantial and continues up and down the valley.
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There are younger cobbles sitting atop a layer of harder stone, and under the stone are older cobbles, as well. The younger cobbles lying about on the hills are part of this layer, but haven't any gold to speak of, or small amounts. Remember the dredge piles from earlier? That guy was working basically the same layer as the dredges out at my Mike's. He likely found enough to keep him going, and not much more, if any, I would think. the larger dredges kept money rolling in and some folks made some good money there.
As for the little hummocks, they have counterparts in the flat spots where the stones gather in low spots.
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Let's hear the real story, though...I'm as in the dark as you and Angus concerning this. It is a weird pattern. Like I indicated earlier, back in the thread, I believe the hummocks are caused when one cobble gets exposed, slowly, and the slope of the cobble determines the directional aspect of the erosion of the rest of the slope.
The turth is, this is and has been my best guess since the 2000 Census, when a co-worker, Twila Stout, asked me if I knew. She's a librarian, you'd think she'd be able to look sh#t up instead of asking a doofus.
And thanks, Prof D, it's nice to hear you're interested.
Marlow, cat that sh#t out! It's Verdi impolite to show the climax before the fat lady sings.
One theory Angus floated having heard it from a co-worker - the hummocks are 2ndary placer dumps from dredging the nearby Merced river, the big wastelands east of Snelling being the source.
Wagon loads of placer deposits were dumped out there, to disperse the impact and possibly mine them a 2nd time for smaller grains of gold. I never bought into that theory though.
But they are clearly placer deposits, yes.
Yes, erosional, and cobble-influenced as you suggest, imo; but....
there is also Bovine Influence at work?
I read some interesting work online from a geology prof at Turkey Tech, discussing the Merced formation blah blah blah which included roadside geology lessons and I'm pretty sure he addressed those hummocks but alas its been a while and internet geology searches take some time.
Let us know!