There is nothing in North America that's west of the Rockies and same longitude as St. Louis - you mean same latitude?
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There is nothing in North America that's west of the Rockies and same longitude as St. Louis - you mean same latitude?
.... but just to eliminate it if nothing else;
Fort Selden, NM? Built to protect settlers from Apaches, first housed the "Buffalo Soldiers"?
oh never mind.... just saw the St. Louis reference.....
I can't get away with anything with you guys on the case -- yes... (sheepishly) Latitude.... And it's closer to 39 degrees N.... And the river it's on flows more or less east....Quote:
Originally Posted by glc
Mark
...........my sense of fair play requires that I warn you: I am a professional in these matters.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mark Sedenquist
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Only east-flowing rivers I can think of west of the Rockies come out of the Sierra, so by process of elimination...
Truckee? nope.
Carson? yep. Fort Churchill.
<Sigh> -- OK, wise guy, next time less clues....
Yes, it is Fort Churchill on the Carson River. Originally built at an extremely high cost of $$ and resources to safeguard the Pony Express route and keep the Paiute nation "calmed down." Here are some great photos and more historical viewpoints... And even some better photos from our colleagues at GhostTowns.com I was there after the park had closed one day -- but there are remnants of more than 20 buildings on the site....
{Edit: There are some great photos on the Ghosttowns.com site, but when I went back to check the link, there are also SOME HIGHLY ANNOYING FLASHING ADVERTISEMENTS and so we won't be linking there again. That's a shame}
TMI.... again?
Mark
Thanks for pointing this place out, I will definitely have to hit this on my next road trip east.... looks like a great place for photography.
How about this one?
Identify the waterfall and nearest town.
Hints: West of the Rockies, not on a major river.
http://donandlindacasey.com/images/MysteryWaterfall.jpg
Not really sure, it doesn't really match the photos I have of the place I'm thinking of -- but.... Howza bout Levitt Falls, in California -- nearest town would be Bridgeport?Quote:
Originally Posted by CalOldBlue
Memory -- Not even close on this one...
Here's Levitt Falls taken in late May, 2006:
http://www.roadtripamerica.com/blog/...Falls-2006.jpg
(photo by Mark Sedenquist)
Nope... Not the right place afterall.... But you can see that if you were somehow able to get town to the river and look up at the falls, that it might look (hence by "squinting comment" look like a similar plume...)
Mark
Nope; not in California.
What I MEANT to say.....
"West of the Continental Divide".
my bad, sorry
Consider that another clue.
Copying the photo again so I can look at it on this page....
http://donandlindacasey.com/images/MysteryWaterfall.jpg
(Photo by Don Casey)
Heh, heh. Question: How far from a paved road does one have to walk to see this particular waterfall?
Mark
It's maybe a quarter mile to a half mile down a trail from the parking lot where you paid your $5 to the nice person from the USFS.
Yes, it will hook me -- in due time -- In the meantime, I have to go back to work to ensure that we can keep the "lights on" here for this forum....
Mark
It might be North Clear Creek Falls, and the nearest town would be Creede, Colorado. --- Nope, it's not that one either....
Maybe someone else will have a clue?
Mark
I thought it might be the Smith River in California - which runs alongside U.S. 199 toward Jedediah Smith Redwoods S.P. - but I was clearly wrong!
It IS in Colorado, and "creek" is part of the name.
Nearest town is well known for something other than the falls.
The nearest town is Steamboat springs [famous for it's hot springs] and the falls are known as Fish creek falls.
At least I think so ?
** Excellent work! It does seem to fit all of the clues -- Mark (it's also where Strawberry Park is)***
What road is this, and the name of this particular section.
http://i81.photobucket.com/albums/j2...wfolder213.jpg
CA-State Highway 49 perchance?
Nope, but your pretty warm. I am also looking for the name of this section of highway.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mark Sedenquist
OK, I'll be back later -- pretty warm eh?
Mark
Old Priest Grade... on CA120 heading into Yosemite (my standard approach)?
A much more fun ride than the new Priest Grade, built for wimps. (Actually, CA120 is New Priest Grade these days, the road on the right side of the photo?)
Yeah, Steamboat Springs, aka Ski Town USA.
Yep, I think you're right --
Mark
What, and where?
http://donandlindacasey.com/images/MysteryColumns.jpg
Photo: Don Casey
The detail on the facade certainly reminds me of the exterior of the Palace of Fine Arts Theater in San Francisco -- but that angle doesn't show the rotanda so I'm not positive...
Hmmm, maybe this wasn't deceptive after all, I found this image of a pillar that is not connected to the Rotunda building and it does look like yours....
But in any case, I think I got this one! (Nice photo by the way!) I like it framed by the tree!
Mark
This place is extremely well known and photographed. Can you name the place and the name of this spot?
http://www.roadtripamerica.com/blog/...y-Mark-086.jpg
(Photo by Megan Edwards)
{Sorry that the horizon is tilted -- when I moved it horizontal -- it eliminated one of the visual clues -- and so I've posted it with the horizon slightly out of kilter....}
Yes, part of the collonade of the Palace of Fine Arts in the Marina District of San Francisco.
http://donandlindacasey.com/images/PalaceOfFineArts.jpg
Photo: Don Casey
The Palace of Fine arts was built as part of the 1915 Panama Pacific Exposition, held to celebrate the opening of the Panama Canal and (partly) to show the world SF was fully recovered from the fire and earthquake of '06. Somewhat ironic, in that the Marina was created in large part by dumping debris from the fire, sand from the Sunset District, and other detritus into muddy tideflats, creating some very earthquake-unfriendly territory. It was this area that (along with the elevated Nimitz freeway in Oakland) took the heaviest damage in the 1989 Loma Prieta quake.
Behind the Palace is the Exploratorium, a hands-on science center popular with the younger crowd (and wannabe rocket scientists like me).
Sea Lion caves along the Oregon coast.... but the angle looks wrong and the opening is too small....
The Exploratorium has long been a favorite place of mine. So many cool gadgets and gizmos to play with. And you're right, the last place I want to be during a 6.6 or greater earthquake is anywhere in the Marina district -- well, actually, most of the fill areas on the west side of the bay scare the living daylights out of me. Liquidfication is not a fun thing to observe first hand.
Hey, when you've visited the Exploratorium -- do you ever swing the Wave Organ? It's pretty neat.
Mark
It's not the west coast.... and it is north of 40 degrees N -- latitude....
mark
No, I need to go play with that someday. Like many people who live in a tourist area, there are things I have in the category "I have to do that someday, but I have a lot of time....". E.g., I've never been to Alcatraz, despite living in the Bay Area for 6 decades.
As to fill and the 1989 quake... yeah, I did my term paper in a California Geography class I took at Cal on the 1906 quake; learned a lot about liquefaction, etc.
So when the 1989 hit, I found myself faced with a dilemma. I was in the basement of a modern, glass-facade building built on landfill at Sierra Point (first point that juts into the bay south of Candlestick point).
Amazing what can flash through your mind in a few seconds: do I stay in the garage and wait for a 5 story building to pancake on me, or do I try to run outside, possibly to be speared like a bug by a shard of glass exfoliating from the building?
Split the difference; ran to the garage entrance and waited to see which way things went: in my case, nowhere... building did fine.
Can't say the same for my commute home. Popped in my car and made it as far as the Bay Bridge entrance before getting shunted off onto the Embarcadero freeway (y'all may recall the Bay Bridge had a few problems that day and for months to follow).
Spent hours trying to get out of the city, watching the smoke rise from the Marina from the downtown area, trying to phone home, driving around trying to avoid gridlocked traffic. Low point was pulling over south of Market near the Federal courthouse to think things over, and buying a can of beer from a homeless person (he had a sixpack) for $5. He was happy, I was happier.... really needed that beer.
Eventually made it back to my parent's place in Millbrae for the night.
..... One final thought: I was never so prouder of the people of The City than that night. In spite of all the chaos, in spite of all the traffic, dead traffic lights, whatever: people were remaining calm and courteous. People took turns at 4-way stops, nobody honked their horns, folk waited patiently at payphones for others to make their calls. The City showed it's class that evening. ......
And quite possibly only a warm-up for the next big event in San Francisco. I used to be active in an urban rescue/evaluation team for the Red Cross and I've crawled around some red-tagged buildings in the aftermath of earthquakes in southern California. For awhile, I never went anywhere without having a drywall handsaw in close proximity. I think it's possible there's still one in my car...
With drywall saw, you can make doorways anywhere -- just like drawing a door in a wall in a cartoon. Doesn't work nearly as well in lathe and plaster or other construction types, but it's darn handy when the doorways are all above you and your crawling on what used to be the ceiling of a collapsed building. By the way, I don't recommend the practice -- collapsed buildings make all kinds of weird and very disturbing sounds....
Thanks for sharing your recollections of that day.
Mark
That water is very, very cold....Quote:
Originally Posted by Mark Sedenquist
Yep, the 120 is the new priest grade. Due to a blip in the mapping program directions [or the ability to read them] we ended up going down the Old one in a 30 ft RV and the woman had there eyes closed all the way down, and yes we were well over the weight restriction, oops!Quote:
Originally Posted by CalOldBlue
Ow! For those who haven't done it, Old Priest Grade is narrow, steep, windy, and has a few sharp drop-offs. Icky enough in an SUV, but ugly in an RV. Worse downhill than up.Quote:
Originally Posted by Southwest Dave
In a car with decent handling, you can make it from top to bottom in about half the time as the new road (traffic permitting), even without breaking the speed limit (much).
I did that in 32-foot, 7.5 ton vehicle back in 1994. I can agree that there are some very twisty places on that road. My truck was custom-built and I knew it's performance capabilities -- Doing that route in a rental RV -- my hat's off to Southwest Dave!
Mrk
Thunder Hole in Acadia Nat. Park?Quote:
Originally Posted by Mark Sedenquist
And the sign is one of the featured funny signs in this book and well as here.... Excellent work!Quote:
Originally Posted by Twilight
Mark
These two rock outcroppings have several names -- They are both historically significant. What are their most common names? Where are they? And what is the historical reference?
http://www.roadtripamerica.com/blog/...y-Mark-087.jpg
(Photo by Gerald Thurman)
These outcroppings are roughly at the same latitude as St. Louis and in the neighborhood of the longitude of Bismark....