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General => IHADAV8 Playground => Topic started by: DCEPTCN on January 10 2007, 01:13:52 AM
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I forgot my camera this morning, but here's Google's best..
Blanca Peak:
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Huh?
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Thats where there going for their honeymoon :D
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Greg owns a piece of land right around there. I told him I'd get a few pics of the area next time I drove through, but I forgot my camera.
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That can't be the right place beacause there aren't a bunch of tire marks
all over the place.
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I forgot my camera this morning, but here's Google's best..
Blanca Peak:
Very Pretty. Is that New Mexico?
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Coloooorrrado
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Thanks man! I am sure you get a pic or two in due time.
'Tis true. I have five acres of land in that area. It is in the South central part of Colorado near a town called Alamosa. I have owned that land for about twenty years now and I have never been there.
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Prepare your camping gear boyz, it's time to go camping!
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Hmm... looks too cold to be my kind of farm...
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That is so cool. You should go just to see it in person. Looks pretty nice there. Nothing around, just land.
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You should go there just in case you have to chase squatters away from your stake.
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Damnit RR! Your disclosing my future homestead!
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Damnit RR! Your disclosing my future homestead!
Sorry, I figured you were planing on being Missippi's top realestate mogul ?
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I have actually thought about something along thoes lines
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I have actually thought about something along thoes lines
I figured that. :supz:
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I have had several people stop by there and camp on my land as they cross the country. The last to do it was my brother about a month ago.
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Ooh... can we throw a rave there? I promise stoned and scantily clad hippie girls dancing about.
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Yes, by all means!
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We could have Brian do some Jimi Hendrix impersonations while
we all get F'd up. It'd be like Woodstock or Monterey all over again. :supz:
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It's about 5 hours north of here. I drive through there whenever work has me go from Durango to Walsenburg on CO 160 (and then on to Denver). Blanca peak (like all mountains IS NOT done justice by pictures....14,000 feet of 'fear of god', it is.
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14,000?? damn thats a serious mountain
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Western mountains are way more impressive. Here in
NH we have the largest mountain this side of the Missippi River.
Its only a little over 6000 ft. Its Mt. Washington, home of the
famous weather observatory.
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Western mountains are way more impressive. Here in
NH we have the largest mountain this side of the Missippi River.
Its only a little over 6000 ft. Its Mt. Washington, home of the
famous weather observatory.
Guinness Book's record-holder for windiest place on Earth....aside from Rob's pants.
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I so need to find an old pictah and scan it....
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I so need to find an old pictah and scan it....
A pic of Rob sparkin' a 'Blue Angel', no doubt.
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I so need to find an old pictah and scan it....
A pic of Rob sparkin' a 'Blue Angel', no doubt.
No, nothin' that cool..
I had a pic of me flippin' the bird from the top of Mt. Washington.
Yes, It was the most windy place on earth at that time.
I spent 2 hours lookin' for that pic to no avail. :mad;
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Nice....I had my New Englandah friends one take me to the top of Cadillac Mountain...abo ve Bah Hahbah, Maine....all 1500 feet of it!!
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Nice....I had my New Englandah friends one take me to the top of Cadillac Mountain...abo ve Bah Hahbah, Maine....all 1500 feet of it!!
Thats like a speed bump where you come from.
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Nice....I had my New Englandah friends one take me to the top of Cadillac Mountain...abo ve Bah Hahbah, Maine....all 1500 feet of it!!
Thats like a speed bump where you come from.
My house is at 6800 feet.
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Thats so weird, I didnt even notice it. Your what? A 680 story building above me? If you jumped you wouldnt even splat...just desinagrate.
It helped me get 25mpg all the way home.
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I think tuckerman.org has pics and web cam of Mt. Washington. I skiied Tuckerman's Ravine on the southeast side of Mt Washington when I was about 30. Long hike up with your ski shit on your back. You have to wait until April or May when the avy danger drops to "you'll probably die" from "you're dead for sure". Just before the crevaces open up to swallow your fellow skiers on the hike up. From the web:
"At most ski areas, anyone skiing like that probably would get his lift ticket yanked. But here, at Tuckerman Ravine, almost anything goes. Besides, you can't buy a lift ticket. To ski the ravine, you have to climb it.
3-mile hike
Tuckerman has been drawing hardcore skiers to its challenging terrain for more than 75 years.
Named for 19th century botanist Edward Tuckerman, the ravine is a large glacial cirque on the southeastern shoulder of 6,288-foot Mount Washington, the tallest mountain in the Northeast.
Spectators cheer from the Lunch Rocks while watching a skier take a spill on Tuckerman Ravine on Mount Washington recently. (AP)
Windblown snow collects in the ravine throughout the winter. By March, when skiing in the ravine usually begins, the snow may reach depths of 75 feet. Most years the season lasts well into summer.
The ravine is a 3-mile hike starting at the Appalachian Mountain Club's visitor center in Pinkham Notch.
Shaped like an cereal bowl cut in half, the ravine's dominant feature is the wide slope near the center called the headwall. It's flanked by about a half dozen narrow routes with names like Chute and Sluice.
Most who venture into the ravine strap skis or snowboards to their backpacks for the climb up. Many wear crampons and use ice axes for extra stability to cope with grades as steep as 55 degrees.
Many people who think they aren't afraid of heights learn otherwise after climbing up.
"We definitely get a good percentage of folks who tote their skis or boards up here and don't make any turns because once they get a look at the steep stuff, they just don't want any part of it," said Justin Preisendorfer, a snow ranger with the U.S. Forest Service, which manages Tuckerman skiing.
Treacherous terrain
While they climb, skiers must take note of the terrain they intend to ski.
"At a ski resort you don't have to worry about crevasses, you don't have to worry about falling ice, and in the East, you don't have to worry about sliding off a cliff," said Preisendorfer.
"But our biggest worry today is going to be other people. Skiers falling, coming cartwheeling down, people skiing out of control, hiking up and dropping a ski. These hazards multiply on the weekends."
More than 30 skiers and hikers have lost their lives in the ravine."
There are some good vids on line of guys cartwheeling down the hill in the classic "ragdoll" type fall. The mountains out west are definitely different. I went to Cannon mountain skiing with my oldest son on Sunday and the base elevation was around 2000'. At the peak it was 4186'. That's 2186' vertical. Mt. Washington has a base elevation roughly the same as Cannon. With a peak elevation of 6288' gives about 4288' of vertcal. Breckenridge CO has a base elevation of 9600' and a peak elevation of 12.998'. That's about 3398' vertical. The Rocky Mountains all rise fom a fairly high base elevation but the peak elevations are quite high, some over 14,000 ft....the 14ers. Colorado has at least (53) 14ers. Blanca is #4 on the list so it's up there. Sorry about the longwinded hijack. Greg, how did you come into your land. Inherited? Or was it from one of those ads in magazines where "you can buy XX acres for only $XXX dollars an acre"? Just curious.