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cleo
Social climber
wherever you go, there you are
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Aug 22, 2017 - 09:50pm PT
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"Woman who traveled for the eclipse is surprised by the eclipse".
My friends think this is pretty hilarious...
[Click to View YouTube Video]
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Topic Author's Reply - Aug 22, 2017 - 10:52pm PT
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I saw my life pass before my eyes.
I also forgot to take the filter off my lens for a while. DOH!
Patagonia, here we come!
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seano
Mountain climber
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Aug 23, 2017 - 11:54am PT
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My plan to avoid the crowds worked perfectly: climb an obscure Tetons peak accessed from the Idaho side. I had no trouble finding a quiet spot to camp, and had the summit of Maidenform Peak to myself. It was an amazing view, though probably not as good as the one from the jet that crossed the range right at totality:
I was surprised by how much and how quickly it cooled off near totality. Anyone here watch it from the Grand? I imagine it was a complete zoo, but I haven't heard of anyone falling off.
Anyways, I don't have the right camera equipment to take good sun photos, but I did get video of the onset and end of totality. Trip report.
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the goat
climber
north central WA
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Aug 23, 2017 - 12:30pm PT
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Flew to Smiley Creek,ID and watched it there. Amazing how cold it got (elev. 7,000)during totality. Quite the spectacle. Coincidently, met a guy who had climbed the PO, Tis-sa-ack and Salathe back in the 70's. Amazing where "small talk" will take you..............
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Mike Bolte
Trad climber
Planet Earth
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Aug 23, 2017 - 03:55pm PT
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It was way cool
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the Fet
climber
Tu-Tok-A-Nu-La
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Aug 23, 2017 - 03:59pm PT
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It was so worth it. 10 hours of driving for 2 minutes of totality haha, but we made it about the journey so it was fun.
I'm already thinking about the next one in 2024 from Texas to Maine. I will very likely go see that one too.
We didn't have reservations and played it by ear to avoid crowds. We were thinking Smith Rock or north of there but changed to eastern Oregon to avoid returning traffic back to California.
As I mentioned we went up to a fire look out peak but since your attention is in the sky an open meadow would be fine too. I didn't see a shadow approaching. Not sure what conditions you need for that.
I didn't realize how much fun it is to view it with other people. Kind of like seeing a movie at a theater is different than at home. There was about 30 people where we were. But not much traffic so it was a good balance. We originally planned to find a spot to ourselves but glad we didn't.
A couple minutes after totality just after the oohs and ahhs died down a kid loudly said "okay can we go home now?" And everyone busted up.
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WyoRockMan
climber
Grizzlyville, WY
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Aug 23, 2017 - 05:09pm PT
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It was so worth it.
I had high expectations and they were exceeded!
We left all the people who figured 99% was "good enough" behind and made the two hour drive to just outside Shoshoni, WY and then another 30 minutes down a good gravel road. Finding a place with 360 views and minimal people was easy peasy.
The kids were amazed, including the grown up ones. Not a cloud or any other obscurity made for a magical 2 minutes and 15 seconds. I figured the pros would get good photos, so I didn't spend any effort in that regard. Just soaked as much in as possible. Spending it with my Mom who is losing her eyesight was an emotional experience, I was especially thankful that she took me out of school during the 1979 total eclipse, so that I could enjoy it.
Just Wow!
Great site for getting details about the eclipse (Google Earth files):
http://xjubier.free.fr/en/site_pages/SolarEclipsesGoogleEarth.html
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ec
climber
ca
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Aug 25, 2017 - 04:41pm PT
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This image depicts the closest to what we saw in Madras. Apparently, taken the same day.
 ec
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High Fructose Corn Spirit
Gym climber
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Aug 25, 2017 - 07:23pm PT
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Nice.
that's just where I saw the solar flaring on the corona.
Outside Prairie City.
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john hansen
climber
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Aug 25, 2017 - 08:00pm PT
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Hey Timid,,
I have heard that you can see the actual shadow line of totality coming across the land if you are on a hill with a clear view. Looks like what you saw was a pretty sharp shadow line. Wondering how fast it was moving.
I will let people who are better at math figure that out.
Really cool photos.
Interesting,,,
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john hansen
climber
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Aug 25, 2017 - 08:19pm PT
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Does "looking north beyond totality" mean the back ground is in the emerging sunlight while the fore ground is still in totality?
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Fritz
Social climber
Choss Creek, ID
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Aug 25, 2017 - 08:29pm PT
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Cleo! Congrats on finding a spot to enjoy the eclipse on Scenic Doublesprings Pass. We thought all that scenic high country would be a cluster-fuk, & it usually was not, on Eclipse day.
Fritz! We were there too!
Spent a few days in Stanley (it wasn't that bad) backpacking in the Sawtooths, then got spooked by the clouds and smoke and decided to go Southeast in case we had to drive to clear skies on eclipse morning. We didn't... we set up on Doublesprings Pass Road just north of Mt. Borah!
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Fritz
Social climber
Choss Creek, ID
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Aug 26, 2017 - 07:40am PT
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There was a mob on nearby Mt. Borah, Idaho's highest choss-pile. The U.S. Forest Service Facebook page estimated 400 vehicles parked below the mountain & a 1,000+ hikers on the peak.
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Captain...or Skully
climber
Boise, ID
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Aug 26, 2017 - 08:53am PT
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Incidentally, there is no "Mt Borah". Its name is Borah Peak.
Just saying'.
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Fritz
Social climber
Choss Creek, ID
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Aug 26, 2017 - 10:43am PT
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Skully! Right you are, although it appears, as an Idahoan, I get to call it Mt. Borah. Usually, I just call it Borah.
From Idaho, A Climbing Guide, by Tom Lopez.
Borah Peak (aka Mount Borah) 12,655'
Borah Peak, Idaho's highest mountain, is usually called Mount Borah by Idahoans. It was named for Idaho Senator William Borah.
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Captain...or Skully
climber
Boise, ID
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Aug 26, 2017 - 10:58am PT
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So if you're a local, you get to be wrong? Slippery slope, that.
I don't follow.
Back onto the subject at hand, things were very cool on Sunset Peak. Long walk, mostly, though worth it.
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stevep
Boulder climber
Salt Lake, UT
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Aug 26, 2017 - 01:34pm PT
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Hey Timid,,
I have heard that you can see the actual shadow line of totality coming across the land if you are on a hill with a clear view. Looks like what you saw was a pretty sharp shadow line. Wondering how fast it was moving.
I will let people who are better at math figure that out.
John,
I was high enough with a west view where we were in Idaho to see the shadow coming. It was not a very sharp line, perhaps due to dust/haze in the atmosphere. It moved very fast...probably about 10 seconds from when we could see it to when we were in it(totality).
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BooDawg
Social climber
Butterfly Town
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Aug 27, 2017 - 03:26pm PT
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After weeks of discussion, we (Lisa, Ira, and I) finally committed to shut down tours for 2 days, so we could travel to a friend’s house in Corvallis, Oregon within the path of totality. We planned to stay at another former Bruin Mountaineer, Nena’s, house where we also planned to meet Ken’s daughter, Briana, and a former river trip friend of Ken and Ira, Christine.
Due to the fires in California, the trip up into southern Oregon, on Saturday, was so smoky that we could barely see Mt. Shasta, but after Grants Pass, we hit some northerly winds, and the skies began to clear, giving us hope that we might actually be able to see the eclipse. By Sunday, the skies were quite clear, and after a very social breakfast, most of our group spent the day around the Oregon State University (OSU) campus scouting out potential viewing sites, attending an excellent eclipse-related lecture by a local professor, and creating eclipse-related artwork.
On Monday, eclipse day, we rose early and walked to the OSU soccer field where several hundred other people were settling in.
About every half hour a balloon was launched by the NASA Eclipse Balloon Project, carrying equipment up to 100,000 feet to live-stream imagery and other data from that perspective of the eclipse.
Meanwhile, every few minutes, private jets or air-taxis were bringing in folks who didn’t want to brave the highway traffic and could afford private air service to see the eclipse.
As the eclipse approached totality, 6 of us, left to right (Ken, Lisa, Briana, Nena, Christine, and Lauren (a friend of Nena’s) posed in our protective eclipse glasses.
As the moon increasingly covered the sun, the sunlight continued to dim; the radiant warmth of the sun continued to decline; a breeze increased. At long last, so it seemed, totality arrived! We removed our protective glasses, and the spectacle that we had all awaited arrived! We, momentarily, could see Bailey’s Beads when the sun is still shining through the mountains and craters’ rims on the moon. Then the sun’s corona seemed to burst outward from the sun-moon and dominated the sky!
As our eyes adjusted to the new light conditions, we could see more and more of the sun’s corona and, with binoculars, we could also see reddish solar prominences, especially at about 1:30 and 3:00 o’clock along the rim of the sun.
The time of totality lasted about a minute and 40 seconds at our locality, but it seemed to pass SO QUICKLY and left us all yearning for MORE! Once the moon began to recede from the disc of the sun, all was a kind of anti-climax. People began leaving, and the anticipation that we’d all felt before totality was definitely gone. Our group sat for quite a while, reflecting on our personal and collective experiences, but we finally gathered up our stuff and walked back to Nena's house for a relaxing afternoon.
More pictures and narrative can be found here:
http://yosemitecloseup.com/what-our-guides-do-on-vacation-oregons-total-eclipse/
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