Wednesday, December 31, 2008

Reflections on 2008 and Where Do We Go From Here?

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As I write this entry it will be my 80th blog this year. A few minutes ago I did a quick check of what I was writing about in each month thi...
Thursday, December 25, 2008

Hell's Heroes (Merry Christmas from Bodie Church)

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At the beginning of the movie when the outlaws escape from town along main street, the pastor of the church comes out in front of the churc...
Monday, December 15, 2008

Hell's Heroes (The Chase Location)

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Most of the town buildings were wiped out due to the fire. Although I knew they used the main street of the town I had hoped to find a few c...
Thursday, December 11, 2008

Hell's Heroes (Bodie Bank Location)

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I do not have any gps coordinates for this area, but if you are ever there it is easy to find since it is to the easternmost part of the gho...
Friday, December 05, 2008

Hell's Heroes (Prelude to Bodie Locations)

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(GPS: N38 12.485 W119 01.245) This is the first of a few blogs I will do with the movie Hell's Heroes which was filmed at Bodie ghost ...
Saturday, November 29, 2008

The Conness Survey Crew of 1890 (Mt. Conness Hike Epilogue)

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One thing to point out is that technical climbers like to do the Harding Route . It is great to take pictures of, but not something I will e...
Friday, November 28, 2008

The Mt. Conness Hike (Part 3)

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(GPS: N37 58.025 W119 19.280)   I knew by getting past the catwalk from the previous entry that the rest of the climb over the rest of ...
Thursday, November 27, 2008

The Mt. Conness Hike (Part 2)

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(AKA The Exposed Scary Part) Happy Thanksgiving (for those of us who celebrate it in the U.S.A.) ! There is a lot for me to be thankfu...
Wednesday, November 26, 2008

The Mt. Conness Hike (Part 1)

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(GPS: N37 57.145 W119 18.665) This will be the first of a few entries on this mountain hike. Two years ago when I was on Tioga Peak ...
Tuesday, November 25, 2008

Why Do I Climb?

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A few months ago I was going through a mini-crisis. It had to do with my motivation for hiking and climbing mountains. In the past few years...
Friday, November 21, 2008

The Iron Man Exhibit at the Lone Pine Film Museum

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One of the new exhibits at the Lone Pine Film Museum is one that shows some of the props and costumes used in the recent Iron Man movie. The...