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mouse from merced
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The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Original Post - Jul 18, 2013 - 11:25am PT
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I have my own Merced River Plan.
Go there just as much as I can.
It's my favorite place to be
At home or in Yosemite.
Falls, rapids, pool or eddy,
Keep your camera nice and steady.
You've seen a whole bunch of mine.
You should show us some of thine.
Debouch: emerge, issue, esp. from a confining place.
Love the main fork, but S. Fork is less well-known by far.
It's nice to get lucky when you set up in a spot!
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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Jul 18, 2013 - 05:30pm PT
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hey there say, mouse! wow, i ALWAYS loved the merced river...
keep sharing... will give me good memories of it, even more now...
god bless!'
:)
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - Jul 18, 2013 - 06:20pm PT
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Thank you, neebee, for the gently done 'bump.'
I hunted through my recent files and came up with the nicest shots I could that haven't been posted as yet, Ron.
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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Jul 18, 2013 - 11:23pm PT
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hey there say mouse, oh my, THAT last one had not loaded yet...
i only saw the first ones...
wow, i HAVE heard of MULE deer, so NOW, WHAT'S THIS:
MOUSE deer, ;))
now i know why you put that sentence under that picture...
great lucky shot!!! a BLESSINGGGGGGGGG, :)
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - Sep 8, 2013 - 11:49am PT
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9-07-14. From the riffles above my brother's to the MID's Main Canal intake and the adjacent Crocker-Huffman Dam, the original dam in the project. Because of this dam, the Merced River remains at a constant elevation for several miles. Exchecquer Dam was built later on, when demand grew for MID water.
It then drops straight at the dam for about five or more feet. A long lake is thus created, wider than the normal river, and averaging between ten and twenty feet in depth as it debouches from the canyon it has carved.
The Gaestel family owns 55 acres along the river, some of which are under about a mile or so of the old YVRR right-of-way, which was never dredged because the railroad was a working entity at the time of the dredge activity.
As Fremont learned, it takes a gold mine to operate one. Bobby's dad is not interested, or hasn't found someone to do the digging, one.
Bob, Bobby's dad, knew my dad, Boomer. "That weenie."
Bobby and Terry, his wife, were doing maintenance on the road leading to their dock on the river as Maurice and I drove in to go fish yesterday, Saturday.In 1882 C. H. Huffman organized the Merced Canal & Irrigation Company,
and they bought out the Farmers' Canal Company. The new company began work in
1883. The first year's work was widening the first seven miles of canal and the
tunnel. In 1884 they completed about five miles of the new canal, from the upper
tunnel down to the Carmichael place. In 1885 they started the second tunnel. In
1886 practically all of the canal was completed to the reservoir, now known as
Yosemite Lake, and part of the reservoir. In 1887 the reservoir was completed
and a big celebration held. There were great expectations and a boom in Merced
property.
Mr. Huffman bought the Farmers' Canal for about $80,000, Mr. Martin
thinks. Huffman had interested William H. Crocker of San Francisco in the
project, and Crocker had financed it. Huffman had a lot of land; he was a big
grain-raiser. He acquired more land, a lot of it out towards Cressey, and in
other parts of the territory served by the canal system. Shortly after the
completion of the system the Crocker-Huffman Land & Water Company was organized,
with Huffman and Crocker the chief owners. Huffman put in his land and retained
a little more than fifty per cent of the stock of the company. The year 1888 is
familiar to all water-users under the Crocker-Huffman system, for the life of
the corporation was fifty years and the water contracts were all drawn to run to
1938.
--History of Merced County, California - Los Angeles, Calif.; Historic
Record Co., 1925
I can't finish this up right now. I need to take the grandkids fishing this morning. See ya.
For the record, Maurice caught three large rainbows yesterday from the dock.
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ß Î Ø T Ç H
Boulder climber
extraordinaire
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Happy Isles Webcam
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - Sep 9, 2013 - 02:04am PT
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Old Reliable.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - Sep 9, 2013 - 02:35am PT
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She's really cool. She's a Sagittarius, FWIW.
"What hath TM wrote?"
Here's a practical thing to have in your fishing arsenal. If you wage war on trout, it only makes sense to be as prepared as they are with local info, like the amounts of water available to conduct a campaign.
http://cdec.water.ca.gov/river/mercedStages.html
This bank is prime fly-casting, especially when the hoppers are out in large numbers.
Sometimes the wind from the northwest will run your boat in too fast, so you have to turn around and approach again.
I've not had any experience other than a brief try many years ago. I'm a bait fisherman, one of the army of those Jehovah's Witnesses of the angling world.
Read Duncan's The River Why. Joe Bobber says, "Why not check it out? You might save your sole."
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - Sep 9, 2013 - 03:20am PT
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Ciao!
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Mungeclimber
Trad climber
Nothing creative to say
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That cave looks cool.
Appreciate the history, thx!
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - Sep 9, 2013 - 04:25am PT
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And when you are confused about the terms "left bank" and "right bank," they are used in reference to facing downstream.
So remember (and it's easy to forget, so pay careful attention)(and there are two devices, actually):
Down and out or the alternate, which I prefer, Right down the drain.
This useful mnemonic device brought to you by Tim Bermingham's Fishing Guide Service.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - Sep 9, 2013 - 08:09am PT
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - Sep 9, 2013 - 08:50am PT
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Thank you, BIOTECH! Hardly extraordinary but satisfying to know it's there for the next big flood, eh?
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - Sep 13, 2013 - 03:23pm PT
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Huh?
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - Sep 13, 2013 - 04:45pm PT
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I mean Huh!
I, too, found the thread prior to posting up a new thread. But when I tried to post a reply, I taw the message that it had possibly been deleted, etc., and that nobody could post to it any longer.
The schiz fits, so I'm wearing it on my foot.
Here are some Merced River water shots that I leted this morning (oppo of delete, see...)...
The water is in the MID Main Canal and the bridge is the Yosemite Avenue bridge. I had thought to go to Bagby to wee the low-water banks of the old Merced, but there were other things to get done today.
Manana, maybe.
The spirit of the Yosemite Avenue bird bridge is oh so potent. It's always watching you, just like you are watching the birdies, only it is more vigilant. Having Watery Eyes, as it must, it watches us guys turn into dust. Water will become increasingly rare; as for the dust, it will always be there.
There simply is no shortage of dust. It helps form choss as water dries out of it (that's one way). And we all know there is more choss than sound rock. And there are more birds than people. And there are more seeds than birds. It works out somehow to most of our benefit, that of birds, rock, water, and men and mice.
It may seem at times that there are too many humans. There are likely just the right number ALL THE TIME. We just don't seem to get it, probably.
I could do with fewer roaches, though, if I had my way.
I want to thank TT. Man, I don't know; I really just don't know, sometimes.
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Gene
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Sep 16, 2013 - 07:38pm PT
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Anybody have any information on the walk along the river from 140 to 49?
Thanks,
g
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - Sep 16, 2013 - 07:54pm PT
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Gene,
It's prettier in the spring, it's prettiest in the morning and evening, and it's pretty flat all year long.
It's like a lot of ladies you might mention.
And no, I ain't got none of that...other than that.
I haven't been beyond a mile past Brice Burgers.
Dingus, I've considered the photos.
D (MT) = + (inf.)
Dingus, My Thanks are indescribable, probably twisted up en something other than what you or I can't fathom, and just lying there for the taking, worthless as they are, amigo.
"How do you fly that plane with no hands?"--King Arthur to the Black Knight in Monty Python and the Holy Grail/the Braille Version (I think that's what was asked...I don't Braille so good anymore...might need glasses)
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Gene
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Sep 16, 2013 - 08:08pm PT
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+1 on the DMT pics.
Mouse,
I’ve been to the very headwaters of the Merced and have walked along it from there through YV. I’ve driven 140 a gazillion times but have often thought about walking the opposite side for grins. A great trip would be to go from the snow fields that spawn the Merced to its untimely death at the dams. All downhill after the first part.
g
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - Sep 16, 2013 - 10:41pm PT
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Downhill's a bitch, of course, with bad knees.
Wingsuit!
Die fledermaus!
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - Sep 17, 2013 - 03:23am PT
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DaMightT,
Back atcha.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - Sep 21, 2013 - 11:29am PT
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She gnaws a mean rib!
She's a lawyer, knows what you mean before you might.
Like Lilabiene, she's oh so sunshine bright.
Two East Coast gals of whom I would like to see more.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - Sep 22, 2013 - 02:19am PT
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Nobody does better than Adsell.
We can only dilletate, imitate, and seal our fate
As wannabes.
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mechrist
Gym climber
South of Heaven
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Sep 22, 2013 - 11:15am PT
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Nice pics. Some of that rock looks worth climbing... if it weren't for all the snakes and poison oak.
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LilaBiene
Trad climber
Technically...the spawning grounds of Yosemite
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Sep 22, 2013 - 05:36pm PT
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So when ya comin' out to visit?!!! :D
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - Sep 22, 2013 - 07:09pm PT
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Lilabiene, sooner or later, hopefully the former.
Mechrist, sooner or later I'll run into a snake which can harm or I may get into some PO and regret it, but I haven't yet this year and until I do, I'm not gonna lose sleep over these things. I have enough of a problem with insomnia as it is!
Thanks to you both for your concern.
The Lord will hold us in his hands when we include him in our plans.
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zBrown
Ice climber
Brujo de La Playa
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Sep 22, 2013 - 10:40pm PT
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Well,
the river kept on rolling
and ...
never heard a word it's said
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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hey there say, mouse... WOW, glad you got this back from being lost...
always loved this!!!
thanks... :)
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - Nov 7, 2014 - 03:50am PT
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - Aug 22, 2015 - 12:41am PT
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Way further down the river.
Back to the center.
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FRUMY
Trad climber
Bishop,CA
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Aug 22, 2015 - 11:40am PT
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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Aug 22, 2015 - 04:05pm PT
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hey there say, mouse and frumy... great to see this on the front again... wow, these pics are just the best...
i love the merced river... thank you for doing this photography plan...
keep the river rolling, :)
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - Aug 22, 2015 - 08:58pm PT
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Thank you, miss.
And Frumy, YOWZAH! THAT'S WHAT THEY WANT! Is that the venerable SToneman Bridge? Sure looks like the old river campgrounds on the other side.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - Dec 21, 2015 - 02:12pm PT
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Bumptious bubbling beauty bump.
http://vimeo.com/67617279
WATER RAT'S VISION
I never tire of the Merced's water
I wish I could be a river otter
I wish I could visit there with my daughter
Or with the spirit of the late Dean Potter
Be the captain of a cruising yacht or
The generous magnate who gladly bought her
So we could all party on it like we oughter.
Sometimes, scratching my Coulda Been Itch
I envision our Valley being a Big Dammed Ditch
Holding acres and acres of smooth water which
Are cruised on by tribes named Dirtbags and Rich
While I gaze out from some tiny niche
With my Fun Companion the High Water Witch
With whom I go swimming wearing nary a stitch.
--MFM 12/21/15
No big concrete feat in this dream, only a magnificent HUGE cataclysmic rockfall to block the stream enough so there is a smooth-water, shallow lake covering the works of man, except that the Ahwahnee Hotel's upper floor rises as a reminder of what there once was.
The cliffs and waterfalls are featured in reflection each morning with no ripples or wind ruffles. It is so like a mirror that some want to name the lake Mirror Lake. This is not going to happen, simply because the new lake's level does not rise so high that the old Mirror Lake has been covered. It still sits, silted and silent, below the dark side of Half Dome. Its outfall is only a few yards higher than the new lake's surface.
There is a splendid cataract at the western end of the lake, emerging from the rockfall's debris. It has no name in my vision, and so it must not exist, while my vision has a name, and therefore it does exist. Duality is calling, a mixture of real and not real.
Don't fault me for imagining names like False Falls or Water Real Falls. I cannot help myself any more than I can for loving Yosemite.
It makes me feel sad that This Just In has no interest in climbing there, but to each his own. He's good where he is. We should all be so content.
A very merry solstice to all of you.
MFM
edition: Thank you, Stahlbro! That relfection shot on the next page is so beautiful!
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StahlBro
Trad climber
San Diego, CA
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Dec 21, 2015 - 02:18pm PT
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hooblie
climber
from out where the anecdotes roam
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Dec 21, 2015 - 05:41pm PT
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well whiskered brother, you aced this one. and stahlbro my thumb is up, my ears imagining the pattern of kerplunks as the ice shelf melts out
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StahlBro
Trad climber
San Diego, CA
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Dec 22, 2015 - 10:22am PT
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Thanks MFM and hooblie. New Years Day 2012.
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661climber
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Central valley
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Dec 22, 2015 - 02:26pm PT
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Beautiful!
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hooblie
climber
from out where the anecdotes roam
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Dec 23, 2015 - 08:31am PT
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another plug for mariposa photog/blogger micheal frye
http://www.michaelfrye.com/landscape-photography-blog/
A small storm arrived yesterday morning. It looked like it might clear before sunset, but by early afternoon it became obvious that showers would linger throughout the day. There was, however, another window of opportunity, as the two-thirds-full moon was due to set at 1:45 a.m. When the clouds started to break up around 9:00 p.m. I drove up to Yosemite Valley.
This storm was a little warmer than the previous ones, bringing mostly rain instead snow to Yosemite Valley, but in typical fashion the temperature dropped at the tail end of the storm, and I found a light dusting of snow. I arrived just before ten o’clock, almost four hours before the moon was due to set, so this was the lunar equivalent of an early-afternoon clearing, with the moon still high overhead. But there was abundant mist, and moonlight breaking through clouds, so it was quite beautiful. And the mist lingered for hours, so I stayed and kept photographing until after the moon set.
I haven’t had time to process all the images yet, but this image from Gates of the Valley is one of my favorites. It was captured around 12:40 a.m., as the moon was getting lower, and the light more interesting. I had already made a few images from this spot when I noticed the clouds breaking up a little, revealing stars. I could also faintly see a band of moonlight raking across the bottom of Cathedral Rocks and Bridalveil Fall.
The only way to capture all this with my best nighttime lens, a Rokinon 24mm f/1.4, was to stitch together a panorama. So I turned the camera vertically and captured four frames, each at 15 seconds, f/2.8, and 6400 ISO. There wasn’t time to level the tripod properly for capturing a panorama, so I just eyeballed it, using my camera’s virtual horizon to keep things straight, and leaving plenty of overlap between frames. Lightroom’s Panorama Merge had no trouble blending the images together.
It was another magical, moonlit night in Yosemite. I got home at 3:00 a.m., but it was totally worth every minute of lost sleep. I’ll post more images soon.
— Michael Frye
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McHale's Navy
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From Panorama City, CA
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Dec 23, 2015 - 11:45am PT
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I like the Merced love. Secret pools and hidden landscapes, and wildlife trying to have a world of its own. Wildlife here would include Mouse!
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mouse from merced
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The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - Dec 23, 2015 - 12:53pm PT
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Thanks, Commander McHale!
--SA Mouse
Tooken in early Frebruary last year.Merry Merced River Christmas!
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mouse from merced
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The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - Dec 24, 2015 - 02:14pm PT
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That's a bit of work, DMT. Thaks, and the pictures say a lot. And you're doing it precisely and with finely-tuned abandon, letting the waters carry you upstream like an old-time trapper/explorer. One more reason that you, with your fine mind an ability to get down to basics, are My Ideel.
The tribute the Merced River pays to the San Joaquin is used in ag to water the lands south of the river, some of it returning to the network upstream where Bear Creek and Owens Creek, among others south of Merced, and delivers excess irrigation water, Merced River water, into the San Joaquin, but it's not much. This probably just disappears in the dry beds of these creeks.
Here;s the Plan the County has in place.
http://www.co.merced.ca.us/pdfs/planning/generalplan/DraftGP/DEIR/6_ag_mcgpu_eir_2012_11_23fa.pdf
Were it not for the Merced Irrigation District's dams, Exchequer and McClure, and the canals which they feed, beginning at Merced Falls, this land might have not developed into such a phenomenal bread-basket.
I like to think of the flood control which these dams provide, as well. There were SERIOUS floods on the Merced prior to Exchequer's construction in the 1920s afterwards. Folks were un-ready and helpless to do anything except open flood gates, warn others along the river to get the heck out, and house the displaced wherever they could.
//Floods of 1950/USGS record//
http://pubs.usgs.gov/wsp/1137f/report.pdf
Irrigation with water from the Merced River continued to grow substantially until most of the arable land around the river, some 120,000 acres (490 km2), was under cultivation. By the late 1950s and early 1960s, irrigation in the San Joaquin Valley was to such an extent that many of the rivers ran dry in sections. Upriver of the Merced River confluence with the San Joaquin, the latter river was usually dry, only regaining flow where the Merced River enters. In the mid-20th century, the flow in the Merced River diminished to such a degree that very few salmon returned to spawn in the lower section of the Merced River. In 1991, a fish hatchery, the Merced River Hatchery, was built beside the Merced River just downstream of the Crocker-Huffman Diversion Dam, the lowermost Merced River dam. Fall chinook salmon travel up a fish ladder into the hatchery's pools, which are supplied with water diverted from the Merced River.
--Wikipedia
The sixties saw the level of Exchequer Dam raised, and Snelling no longer has a significant flood problem, but here in town I've seen some flooding since I've lived here, but not anything drastic.
There is an Army Corps of Engineers dam on most of the creeks south of Planada and north of Hwy 140 in place since the fifties and sixties that prevent flooding .
These links I'm posting take a while to read, but there's lot of beta in them.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - Dec 25, 2015 - 02:16pm PT
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For the record, the unidentified bridge is the one on the Snelling Road, or G Grade closer to town, an extension of G St. in Merced. I think it's officially called by the State Highway System J-19. It crosses from the flat plains north of Merced into dredging talus mixed in with some cattle farms and suddenly dead-ends at the road going east into Snelling.
Here is a motorcyclist heading south in the evening.
Here is some of the bottom land located in what is commonly called by locals "The Big Bottom."Before it was dredged, the place looked similar to this.
And this is what the country looks like going south from the bridge, just at the top of the rise. This is what the Big Bottom folks called The Plains.
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hooblie
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from out where the anecdotes roam
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Dec 25, 2015 - 02:51pm PT
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you had me at slough! no really, 'strue. this level of share pleases the parto'me that wants to know it all
this is not the one, but same make and model: our family boat saw many a mile of the delta
back in the early sixties. what a separate world between the levies, where blackbirds
and muskrats ruled the willows and canvas snaps secured the preteen from
his own imagination and otherwise unmanageable quantities of dew
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mouse from merced
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The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - Jan 30, 2016 - 05:52am PT
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When the family settled into living in Merced in 1961 I was twelve and my older brother was 14. He had been under Grampa Bill Bermingham's influence for most of his life and by then was a dyed-in-the-wool outdoorsman, spending many days out in the area of Snelling and Merced Falls shooting things and catching fish. That's what outdoorsmen do, right?
He later went to work for the Irrigation District and eventually purchased about twenty acres on the north side of the river, setting up a series of bass ponds in the piles of dredged rock, leveling acres of piles of cobbles, and building a beautiful house there with a large lawn extending down to the riverbank.
He is now retired and living well, but spends only enough time there (or so it seems to me) to maintain it and has a friend living there in a single-wide who takes up the slack when he isn't there. He likes to travel to hunt and fish, and his wife is kinda happy this way...she's a sweetie and I love her for loving my hard-to-love older Downstream Brother.
Myself, I prefer the higher section of river between Briceburg on Hwy. 140 and Lake McClure, and the section of the river in Yosemite Valley, especially.
Here are some shots of the Briceburg Canyon. The railroad grade on the north side of the river is maintained and a relaxing cruise. It is gated several miles downstream from Briceburg at a campground, and the rest of the run can be done by hikers to Bagby. The BLM controls things here, and the watershed lands below Bagby and just above it are run by the MID.
Feel free to make up your own captions. These were taken in Nov. of 2013, so the water level was low, low, low and remained that way the next spring.
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mouse from merced
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The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - Jan 30, 2016 - 07:25am PT
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Good morning, DMT.
Here is some of that wildlife safely protected in Briceburg Canyon, where there is no hunting allowed.
Geese and a variety of ducks and some deer.
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mouse from merced
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The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - Feb 8, 2016 - 01:49pm PT
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Swirls in the eddy.
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mouse from merced
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The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - Apr 9, 2016 - 05:30am PT
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The Cascades flats on the Merced River from Reed's Pinnacle area on Hwy. 120.
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mouse from merced
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The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - May 3, 2016 - 05:25pm PT
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Merced River looking upstream from Snelling Road bridge.
Looking upstream on the Merced River from an access point at Fourth St. in Snelling.
Maurice Simon is the man in the picture.
Top of McSwain Dam, earth-filled and rock-faced.
Back side of the dam.
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mouse from merced
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The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - Aug 30, 2016 - 04:57am PT
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Bro Tim knows big trout.
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mouse from merced
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The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - Dec 11, 2016 - 10:00am PT
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Hey hey! There there...say...say...
Listen to the fog
Echoes on a winter day
In the afternoon
They die out quickly
Muffled by the overcast
And float downriver
I was just this morning wondering what the river looked like from the rain this week.
Merci beaucoupo, brolly boy.
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mouse from merced
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The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - Dec 11, 2016 - 10:04am PT
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I personally approve this plan.
I have never been further downstream than the locked gate below Briceburg several miles on the MR Trail.
The very top of El Capitan is visible in Timid's fine picture.
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mouse from merced
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The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - Dec 11, 2016 - 10:12am PT
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EdBannister
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13,000 feet
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Dec 11, 2016 - 10:29pm PT
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ok Mouse
some would say, it is a shrine.
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EdBannister
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Dec 11, 2016 - 10:31pm PT
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EdBannister
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EdBannister
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EdBannister
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EdBannister
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EdBannister
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EdBannister
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EdBannister
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EdBannister
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Dec 11, 2016 - 10:57pm PT
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mouse from merced
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Topic Author's Reply - Dec 12, 2016 - 04:20am PT
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Thank you, Ed Bannister, Dingus, Timid.
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mouse from merced
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The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - Dec 12, 2016 - 07:28am PT
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Dingus, I can hear the rain dripping from the branches. Nice work, bonus time for you and your "crew."
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EdBannister
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EdBannister
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Dec 12, 2016 - 07:46pm PT
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mouse from merced
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The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - Dec 30, 2016 - 03:22am PT
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Merced River just above MID Crocker-Huffman diversion dam, which backs water up for several miles.
These were taken in September 2013 from a small, very small, boat operated by my brother's neighbor and show the south bank and the impenetrable riverine brush on the north side.
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neebee
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calif/texas
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Dec 30, 2016 - 06:53am PT
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hey there say, mouse... man oh man, i forgot about this...
this is really wonderful... the river stuff...
will come back and see more when i can...
great bump... :)
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neebee
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Dec 30, 2016 - 06:55am PT
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hey there say, ... well, this is soooo funny...
i was looking at the START of the thread, and had not time
to go see the NEWest post that BUMBPED it, as:
i KNEW when i posted, i would automatically SEE IT...
well, oh my-- it SEEMED i was back on the FIRST page, :O
now, i see-- you posted the FIRST pics, :))
EDIT: OR re'posted, better said...
good job!
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mouse from merced
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Topic Author's Reply - Jan 7, 2017 - 08:43pm PT
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Also called Burma Road.
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mouse from merced
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Topic Author's Reply - Jan 9, 2017 - 03:29am PT
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This shot was taken in November 2013, the river was drought-low.The shots above were taken three days ago on the sixth of January, 2017, a Thursday.
An epic storm series over this weekend some were calling the Hammer of God threatened Yosemite Valley with flooding and the Park was closed to the public.
Today is Monday and the storm's maybe blown itself out, but there was a whole lotta rain and not much cold, so there may be some epic-type flows recorded.
The road in the top photos is known as Bull Creek Road, mapwise. Burma Road is a popular name, not official.
--Clara T
More shots of the river at The Flames
http://www.supertopo.com/climbing/thread.php?topic_id=2607974&tn=9140
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mouse from merced
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Topic Author's Reply - Jan 18, 2017 - 07:47am PT
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mouse from merced
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The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - Jan 18, 2017 - 07:56am PT
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That was the day we saw a Bigfoot Jr. on a mission of mercy.He finally located it.
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mouse from merced
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Topic Author's Reply - Jan 18, 2017 - 04:04pm PT
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One canyon over to the north.
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mouse from merced
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Topic Author's Reply - Feb 13, 2017 - 06:44am PT
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mouse from merced
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The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - Apr 27, 2017 - 10:41am PT
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mouse from merced
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The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - Oct 23, 2017 - 02:48pm PT
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mouse from merced
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The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - Sep 15, 2018 - 11:02am PT
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This is one of the most peaceful places on earth if the tourist crowds are gone. The auto traffic on SS Drive is muted and easy to tune out.
The reach has some great big trout for those who know how.
My older brother Mike and his wife have sold the land and their house on the river and now reside in Merced. Our parents' ashes lie in the quiet reach behind the Crocker-Huffman dam below Merced Falls. Access, should I want to visit, isn't a problem, since I don't feel like visiting. Glooooomy f'n thoughts on an otherwise fine early autumn day.
It's the quietness of the river that I recall. It's a good place to rest in peace, I think.
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mouse from merced
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Topic Author's Reply - Sep 16, 2018 - 05:45pm PT
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whackin' bushes.
ant lions on the beach.
Too noisy...all that tourist ruckus across the river. What a shame.
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mouse from merced
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Topic Author's Reply - Sep 16, 2018 - 05:59pm PT
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mouse from merced
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The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - Oct 8, 2018 - 10:44am PT
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mouse from merced
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The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - Oct 16, 2018 - 02:26pm PT
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mouse from merced
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The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - Oct 17, 2018 - 04:16am PT
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Day tripping to Yosemite on 140.
The Ferguson fire of this summer did a job here in the canyon.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - Jan 20, 2019 - 07:02am PT
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Jay Sousa posted on FB:
My good friend and fellow pro image maker Roger J. Wyan and I will be holding a two man photo exhibit titled "One River, Two Perspectives". These images are of the Merced River flowing through Yosemite.
The exhibit will be held at the Merced College Art Gallery From February 25th-March 21st.
Please mark your calendars and join us for an artist reception on Friday March 1st at 6 PM.
Here is one of my images that will be in the show ~
Sounds like a plan, Jay and Roger J.
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mouse from merced
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Topic Author's Reply - Jan 20, 2019 - 07:20am PT
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March 2015.
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mouse from merced
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Topic Author's Reply - Jan 20, 2019 - 07:24am PT
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Drought year, 2015 in March.
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mouse from merced
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Topic Author's Reply - Jan 20, 2019 - 07:26am PT
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mouse from merced
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Topic Author's Reply - Jan 20, 2019 - 07:28am PT
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