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Lorenzo
Trad climber
Portland Oregon
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Jul 26, 2017 - 05:56pm PT
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I just booked for a baseball game at the Salem-Kaiser Volcanos scheduled for 9:00 AM which include a game halt for totality, beer, and a view on the big screen if you are too chickenshit to actually look at the sun.
Opticians all over Portland are offering free viewing glasses.
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StahlBro
Trad climber
San Diego, CA
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Jul 30, 2017 - 05:50pm PT
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Going to McDaniel's ranch in eastern Oregon!
Occupy the Totality!
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skywalker1
Trad climber
co
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That piece of writing is beautiful! Planning my camping trip up in Wyldoming. Found a room in Casper at some generic Inn. $2500 for Sunday night! I will be camping and I can't friggin wait! 1st totality.
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healyje
Trad climber
Portland, Oregon
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Mostly trying to figure out how to avoid all the eclipsers up this way...
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Topic Author's Reply - Aug 9, 2017 - 02:42pm PT
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Join us 40 miles north of John Day! I really don't think we're gonna
have to fight for a spot. ;-)
I just finished my observatory!
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BASE104
Social climber
An Oil Field
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I am heading to Nebraska, but I will be mobile if it is cloudy. I took off for three days long ago.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Topic Author's Reply - Aug 18, 2017 - 12:54pm PT
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Ensconced 20 mikes north of John Day. Reports of insane crowds and gas shortages in Bend and Madras - MEH! It is heaven on earth here!
Got stopped twice yesterday within an hour for doing 80 in a 65 zone and the nice officers just said "Slow down and drive safely." I LOVE OREGON!
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stevep
Boulder climber
Salt Lake, UT
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Aug 18, 2017 - 01:00pm PT
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Yes, a friend in Bend said it's nuts. You may have made the correct call..eastern Oregon appears to have the highest likelihood of good weather in the whole country.
Not looking forward to the crowds when I head up to Idaho this weekend.
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donini
Trad climber
Ouray, Colorado
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Aug 19, 2017 - 08:31am PT
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Reilly....good ole John Day. Angela and I went thru there last month on our packrafting/climbing trip. We stopped at the laundromat to wash clothes. There was a group of people there that looked like the second coming of the Manson clan.
Pretty out of the way place, not surprised you're virtually alone.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Topic Author's Reply - Aug 19, 2017 - 12:39pm PT
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People are starting to show up but not too bad. The low riders aren't gonna make it up the road we're on. :-)
Jim, did you stop here?
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Aug 19, 2017 - 12:52pm PT
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http://www.opb.org/news/article/sisters-oregon-milli-fire-evacuation-expand/?google_editors_picks=true
Christopher Viney, a materials science and engineering professor [UC Merced] who moonlights as an accomplished photographer, has advice for shutterbugs in search of the perfect eclipse photo. Viney recommends using a very dense neutral-density filter to shoot the eclipse. This prevents overexposure while also protecting the camera.
“An 18-stop filter with an optical density of around 5.4 will allow for an exposure that captures the edge of the moon’s shadow within the shutter speed range of a standard camera,” Viney said.
But Viney warns against looking directly at the eclipse, even through a camera fitted with a lens filter.
“People make the mistake of thinking something good enough to protect the camera is enough to protect your eyes. That’s not true,” Viney said. “What’s on the camera only protects the camera.”
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ec
climber
ca
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Aug 20, 2017 - 02:56pm PT
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Madras, no problem, if ya got here early with a full tank of gas. However, the planners did not acquire the right amount of buses for event shuttles. 3 hour wait each way.
We refused to join in...
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BLUEBLOCR
Social climber
joshua tree
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Aug 20, 2017 - 06:31pm PT
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It seems more than a coincidence that the moon is at the perfect distance and has the exact diameter to block exactly the suns diameter!? Is it known how this is achieved? Is the moons orbit determined by both the earths and the suns gravitational pull?
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High Fructose Corn Spirit
Gym climber
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Aug 20, 2017 - 06:58pm PT
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Wow, look at that smoke. Apparently
from the Sister area fire. Thanks ec. I
wish you blue skies!
I wonder how things look from Trout Creek
this evening?
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BLUEBLOCR
Social climber
joshua tree
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Aug 20, 2017 - 09:24pm PT
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What's the goldilocks size? That widdling away seems to be an effect that happens when any irregular shaped piece of mass enters into a orbit. Thus producing a sphere?
I'm provoked by the ratio of sizes between the three..
I hope the space station is stationed to get a wonderful pic?
Really wish we could get a pic from outside our orbits tho! Don't we have camera's on Mars??
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