Worth the Cold?

Posted on May 15, 2014 by waterhigh

Glad to hear of the successful rescue of a searcher who got stuck in the snow out west! (See Dal’s site, Thrill of the Chase, for details.)

But hey, people. Could we not be doing things that might keep Forrest up at night! And his nephew Chip. And the other heroes. Just saying.

I’m only hunting morels and asparagas until the snow is melted in Yellowstone. (Can’t eat ’em, but, you know, it’s the thrill of the chase.)

Friday Foto Talk: Photographing Rainbows

Posted on March 18, 2014 by waterhigh

Rainbows make me smile.
The pot at the end of Forrest Fenn’s Rainbow? I’d be more than smiling.

Forrest Fenn’s Treasure Chest

MJF Images

A rare morning rainbow in the desert graces my campsite one morning on the Baja Peninsula, Mexico. Click for purchase options.

With springtime right around the corner, the weather in many areas, including here in the Pacific Northwest, will be ‘unsettled’, prime conditions for one of my favorite things: rainbows! Throughout the world’s temperate regions in fact, the change of seasons that is about to happen results in clashes of warm & cool air masses. That means frequent showery weather and a sky that’s often broken into clear and cloudy parts. When the sun is relatively low in the sky, whether morning or late afternoon, and there is precipitation in the area, you’ve got the perfect setup for rainbows.

By the way, all these images are copyrighted and not available for free download without my permission. They are small versions anyway. Click on the image you’re interested in to go…

View original post 1,732 more words

“Nature as Teacher” quote series #2 reblogged

Posted on March 16, 2014 by waterhigh

Muir Wood11 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

“As I have gone alone in there ….” Forrest Fenn

“Let Them Be Eaten By Bears”

Posted on February 7, 2014 by waterhigh

The title sure grabbed my attention.

Sub-titled: A Fearless Guide to Taking Our Kids Into the Great Outdoors

A book I have yet to read, but it sounds like it might help with Forrest’s goal — i.e. to get the kids off the couches.

A couple links:

Peter the author

A review

Yogi Bear with “don’t feed the bears” message – NARA – 286013 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Inspiration

Posted on January 30, 2014 by waterhigh

Anatomy 101 @ World’s oldest university — complete with censor’s window above and marble slab below

DTI image of a brain (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Study the science of art. Study the art of science. Develop your senses — especially learn how to see. Realize that everything connects to everything else.

Leonardo da Vinci

I discovered this quotation on an architect’s blog. Click here: Inspiration.

Paisagem do Arno, 190 x 285 mmm (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Anatomical study of the arm, (c. 1510) (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

At Last . . . . Snow

Posted on December 14, 2013 by waterhigh

Even the chicks get a snow day…

Impossible Earth

Posted on November 1, 2013 by waterhigh

Colorful blaze but don’t get excited— it’s in Nevada.

Impossible Earth.

Methane-decomposing bacteria from hot springs need the valuable metals to produce energy (phys.org)
Yellowstone National Park: Large magma reservoir gets bigger (sott.net)
hot spring (Photo credit: Rick Payette)

Cervalces in Iowa

Posted on November 1, 2013 by waterhigh

Thrill of the Find—

Cervalces in Iowa.

English: Life restoration of Cervalces scotti (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

From Science Dailyhttp://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/09/130919121906.htm

When I find the picture of a spear point found in the skeleton of a bison on the Illinois River during low water, I’ll post it. It was on display at Dickson Mounds Museum in central Illinois. They have great displays of artifacts.

Didn’t Forrest mention that finding a Clovis point inside the skull of a mammoth is still on his bucket list?

English: Museum at Dickson Mounds, Illinois. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

English: A map showing the Hopewell Interaction Sphere and various local expressions of the Hopewell cultures, including the Laurel Complex, Saugeen Complex, Point Peninsula Complex, Marksville culture, Copena culture, Kansas City Hopewell, Swift Creek Culture, Goodall Focus, Crab Orchard culture and Havana Hopewell culture. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

English: A map showing the various Mississippian cultures, including the Caddoan Mississippian culture and the Plaquemine culture, as well as the other cultures influenced by the Mississippians, the Fort Ancient culture and Oneota peoples. Also shows a few important sites such as Cahokia, Moundville, Etowah, Town Creek, Spiro, Kincaid and Angel. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Ancient Pa. dwelling still divides archaeologists (bigstory.ap.org)
Early Clovis knew their land and stone (thepaleolithicshelter.wordpress.com)
Clovis the 1st (joyturtles.wordpress.com)

Sciencey LOL of the Week

Posted on October 24, 2013 by waterhigh

Wander Woman Thea

View original post

Spectacular Blaze

Posted on October 4, 2013 by waterhigh

A young Amish boy on his way to work

A young Amish boy on his way to work at 4:30am looking at the light show on Fuller Road in Easton, Maine. The image was captured by 61-year-old photographer Paul Cyr

“Hear Me All . . . ” Forrest Fenn

Posted on September 19, 2013 by waterhigh

Somewhere south of Duluth

English: John Muir (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

“There is a musical idea in every form. See, hear, how sharp, loud, and clear-ringing are the tones of the sky-piercing peaks and spires; and how deep and smooth and massive those of the swelling domes and round-backed ridge-waves; and how quickly the multitude of small features in a landscape suggest hurrying trills and ripples and waves of melody. We not only see the forms and colors of the mountains, but hear them. Plants and animals also seem to be music both in form and color. Everything breaks forth into form, color, song, and fragrance – an eternal chorus of praise going up from every garden and grove, a wide range of harmonies leading into the inner harmonies that are eternal.”

Signature of John Muir (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Could You Hear Color? (guardianlv.com)
John Muir’s first steps into nature were in Wisconsin (jsonline.com)
John Muir’s Giant Sequoia to Be Cloned (sierraclub.typepad.com)
The man who buried his treasure in a poem (telegraph.co.uk)
‘Jolly Green Giant’ pilot in Vietnam War’s 1,500th airman rescue dies at 90 (stripes.com)

Where It’s Not — Part Three

Posted on September 7, 2013 by waterhigh

In the morning, I drove through the tunnel, past Mummy Cave, and the BB Dam again. About the time I stopped to pay my entrance fee to Yellowstone Park, I was struck by a blaze — the blinding kind you get before a migraine, if you’re subject to auras.

At home my remedy would have been to boil water, brew green tea with half a capsule of feverfew, and hit a dark room with an eye mask. On a 2-lane winding highway, I popped a cola for caffeine and downed Excedrin, and took a time out at a pull-out. Then I spent more time at the ranger station/stuffed animal museum. In the shade.

The ranger called the lone bison I’d seen a “fed-up bull” — fed up of fighting the young bulls in the herd, and at an age where he prefers to go it alone.

There were 5 fires burning in Yellowstone Park at the time, a few pull-outs were closed, but no roads closed that day. I remembered the summer of 1988 and the massive fires in Yellowstone. We could smell the smoke all the way over in Minnesota.

Fishing Bridge

So far, going solo hadn’t been a problem (except for getting creeped out by a guy in a van who asked me where I was from. He had just been staring at my license plate, so I thought it was not a real question. This happened back at the Oregon Trail ruts and Register Cliff where we seemed to be the only tourists out in the 105 degree weather. Not a good sign. Maybe it was nothing, but I didn’t like being followed.)

West Thumb of Yellowstone Lake

Another reason I’m going to bring Mr. W next time came about at Isa Lake.

Lily Pads at the Continental Divide? Is there a frog?

I really wanted to wade into the lily pads to see what was at the end of an under-water marker, but a couple (searchers??) from Salt Lake City was kinda killin’ time, like they were waiting for me to leave.

I won, but then realized, typical female, I didn’t have the right shoes.

Also, I saw strange underwater bugs, a possible fluke-wiry worm, and a very fast little pond-hugging, mole-nosed rodent running towards me. The picture that was supposed to of him is a blur of me jumping out of his way.

Yikes!

I don’t think I screamed.

From there, not far but too far to walk, I arrived at Old Faithful at the perfect time. People were streaming towards it so I parked and joined them. Another geyser was putting on a show at the same time. Serendipity strikes again.

And then, something else. Remember I left home without a GPS? The only place I might have needed it this trip was in the parking lot at Old Faithful Lodge and Visitor Center. It’s changed in the last 15 years apparently. The other thing about migraines is the mental shadow they leave you with. It took me an extra 15 minutes (or so) to find my car, and then I scared a poor family picnicking next to it when the alarm went off.

I passed another lone bison as I continued west. My heart goes out to the old and lonely.

On to the much discussed Firehole River and Canyon. Is it “Where Warm Waters Halt”? I couldn’t say.

And then, of course, the much touted Madison River, which had lots of giant boulders lying around.

I tarried as much as I wanted that day. I had a reservation for that night in West Yellowstone, so no need to hurry. Just tried to absorb the beauty and if a potential solution to one of the TTOTC 9 clues presented itself, all the better.