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stonefly
Social climber
Alameda, California
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Mar 12, 2019 - 04:26pm PT
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Pleeeze, that's Stonefly, not sandfly!
Same site rephotographed:
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Mar 12, 2019 - 06:38pm PT
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*burp*
Dude, so sorry!
How did you come by the photo? Curious...
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stonefly
Social climber
Alameda, California
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Mar 12, 2019 - 06:54pm PT
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Just another shot from the misplaced and nearly lost photo collection of Lewis Clark documented here: http://www.thehighsierra.org
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Mar 12, 2019 - 07:17pm PT
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What a collection! Thanks for that link. Super!
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originalpmac
Mountain climber
Timbers of Fennario
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Mar 17, 2019 - 10:25pm PT
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From 1870s I believe. Saw it on display at the Crocker art museum in Sacramento today.
The painting is enormous, 6'x8' maybe. El Cap meadow was a forest back then.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Mar 18, 2019 - 04:34am PT
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Misleading as heck, that painting is NOT a true depicticon of what the Ditch looked like in the 19th century.
The valley floor was more open, with oak trees abounding, not pines, which is now the case, though they are dying off from disease.
I don't know if that's a Tahomas Hill or a Bierstadt at the Crocker, but it's romanticized all to heck, a routine practice of painters in the Victorian period.
Nice photo of it. I haven't been to the old Crocker since the fifties and a newer museum has been built, I have learned.
"Need to check it out, self."
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originalpmac
Mountain climber
Timbers of Fennario
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Mar 18, 2019 - 12:20pm PT
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It is a Hill painting and thanks for the insight. Apparently he painted that piece in Boston, years after a trip there.
Definitely worth checking out the Crocker. We took our 11 month boy there, was an awesome family outing.
He here a smaller, different painting with a distorted view of El Cap. Looks like the artist added another Nose to it.
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stonefly
Social climber
Alameda, California
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Nice find!^^^
Accession number and validation, too!
Sure looks like WH's profile on the right.
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Tarbuster
climber
right here, right now
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Topic Author's Reply - Apr 8, 2019 - 02:31pm PT
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Biplanes over Liberty Cap: there's a sight you don't see every day!
I wonder if those are twin engine? Or triple? Lots of wingspan. Flying a pretty tight formation as well.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Hey, Roy. I looked into the types available in the Army's stable of multi-engine bi-planes. This looks like the ones pictured. Long wingspan, 3 engines. No model numbers or mfrs, just the photo. Best I can do.I'm probably dead wrong, but then I'm not an aviation buff.
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