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A push core tube is used to gather a sediment sample from waypoint 3 in Wallyland. This and other waypoint markers are used to navigate benthic crawlers Wally I and Wally II along predefined routes among the gas hydrates outcrops in Barkley Canyon. The sediment samples, each marked by a different national flag, will support a Ph.D. research project by Neus Campanya i Llovet of Memorial University in Newfoundland.
Credit: Ocean Networks Canada
“So to what lovely, life-threatening waypoint do you guide us now, Captain?” Kurga asked.
“The last caravanserai.”
“Sounds delightfully harrowing. Do they call it such perhaps, because so many journeys find their terminus there?”
“They call it such because it is the last caravanserai.”
How appropriate. And how long will it take to get there?”
“Three days.”
“Ah, I see.” Kurga gave up trying to engage her further. Their captain was not one to idle the hours with inane chatter. Probably the first woman Kurga had met who wasn’t. How fortunate for me to be trapped on a boat with her for several months, he thought. There was no sound but the hissing of sand under the foils. “Three days,” Kurga mused. No one said anything. “I don’t suppose you know any songs?” Prudence just gave him her “bug” stare. Ch’Voga didn’t move at all. He had been doing nothing but stare off into the distance since he awoke and realized what had happened. “And you Kisretti? Will you not grace us with your melodious voice at all this stretch?” There was no answer. “Oh come now! You can’t sulk the entire way!”
Prudence scoffed, a snorting sound under her veils, “Watch him.”
“Really! Grow up! You act as if you didn’t want anyone to save your life. Quite ungrateful. I’m sorry, what was that?”
“I said, perhaps you shouldn’t have,” Ch’Voga mumbled.
“Perhaps next time we will not. For a savior, you are most unappreciative of your saviors. I thought you wanted to be a missionary, not a martyr. Whom will you save if you’re dead?”
“Who will be saved if I run away in the middle of the night? What will the Emperor think of Yeshua’s followers now? The well of living water is poisoned.”
“I've no idea what their well has to do with it but maybeit he will believe Yeshua's witnesses are smart enough to know when they are not wanted.”
“The Emperor did want me there. He was eager to learn!”
“Precisely why the Vizier did not want you there! Honestly, Ch’Voga, this is not that hard to understand. For the Emperor to turn his ears toward you, he has to turn them away from some one else.”
[So i felt this illo was a bit weak, so i broke it up for some visual interest, putting the antagonists on one side and the protagonist on the other. The entry is also broken up. In the future, i should probably dull the colors of the markers. They are far too bold methinks.]
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Pic #39/67 in set: #TallShipsRaces Helsinki 2013 www.flickr.com/photos/connectirmeli/sets/72157634742596309/
- The pic - together with the one copied in the comment field - is a waypoint course work belonging to a larger series of self portraits under construction...
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Waypoint Charter Services books the wheelchair-adapted wood-hulled yacht the Sea Wolf. Small enough to be intimate (six cabins/ three wheelchair usable) and retrofitted with wheelchair lifts to each of the three main decks cruises in Glacier Bay, Alaska on the Sea Wolf include sea kayaking because the owner has installed a unique lift system. I was out of my wheelchair and into my kayak with the splash skirt fitted down in 60 seconds thanks to a skilled and attentive crew.
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Un petit récapitulatif pour les néophytes, la Mark Hahn Memorial 300 miles de Lake Havasu City est la plus longue course en continue de Jet Ski d'endurance du monde. Elle est organisée depuis 13 ans par Mike Folmer en mémoire de son bon ami pilote de Jet Ski Mark Hahn qui lui avait dit un jour que les 300 miles de Lake Havasu était la course qu'il préférait. Le Lake Havasu est un lac de barrage du fleuve Colorado, soit un réservoir de 79km2, situé sur la frontière entre la Californie et l'Arizona et qui offre des conditions de navigations variables en fonction de la météo.
Le format de course de la Mark Hahn Memorial consiste à être le premier à effectuer 30 tours de 10 miles d'un circuit de 4 waypoints et une chicane pour totaliser une distance de 300 miles (483 km). Le départ de la course est du type "Le Mans", cette année donné par un coup de fusil à 9h00 am. Les 36 équipes de 8 pays différents se sont élancés de la plage pour rejoindre leur Jet Ski tenu dans l'eau pour y insérer le coupe circuit et rallier la même bouée de Hole Shot.
Pour sa quatrième participation aux 300 miles (2013 - 3e / 2014 - DNF / 2015 - 3e), David Chassier, pilote Blésois, formait un duo avec Jérémy Poret, pilote Lyonnais, sur un Kawasaki Ultra310 préparé par le Team Pastorello Competition. Poret prendra un super départ mais se fera rapidement rattraper par des machines plus puissantes dont celles du duo Cyrille Lemoine / Nicolas Rius pour le Team Riva Racing Yamaha qui passeront les premiers devant la tour de contrôle.
La stratégie du duo Chassier / Poret, qui se classe 6e au premier tour, était de miser sur une machine fiable, de tenir physiquement les 6 heures de courses et d'opter pour un relais ravitaillement et changement de pilote tous les 4 à 5 tours selon les conditions météo.
L'édition 2017 fut marquante au niveau des conditions de navigations qui était particulièrement mouvementées par endroit avec une température avoisinant les 13ºC a mi-journée, un ciel clair et un vent du nord qui soufflait à plus de 32 km/h. D'après les organisateurs, si ces conditions avaient été présentes il y a cinq ans de cela, ils auraient annulé la course tellement ça bougeait.
À mi-course, les cloches d'embrayages, les problèmes de batteries, les problèmes d'essence, les pertes d'O2 des turbocharger et autres, sont venu jouer les troubles fêtes pour plusieurs équipages mais les machines Kawasaki Ultra310 préparées par Laurent Lagarde pour le Team Pastorello Compétition ont su tirer leur épingle du jeu. Après 2h30 de courses et 15 miles à faire, on retrouvait donc en tête le duo formé par Jean-Bruno Pastorello et Jean Baptiste Botti, en seconde position le duo Yamaha franco-russe Ryabko / Prayas et a 2min30 d'écart le duo Chassier / Poret. Les conditions de navigations toujours aussi intenses, le duo franco-russe abandonne au tour nº23 suite à des problèmes de coques et de compresseur. Au classement final, avec un temps de course de 5h55 minutes, on retrouve au sommet Pastorello / Botti pour la 3e année consécutive, Chassier / Poret se classe 2e et le duo Américo-Canadien de Klipenstein / Baldwin se classe 3e sur une machine stock.
On doit féliciter et relever la performance extraordinaire de JB Botti qui en plus de faire la course sur un Run About a remporté la course en Stand Up en duo avec Raphael Maurin sur le nouveau Kawasaki SX-R 2017 1500cc. Le Team Pastorello Competition se voit attribuer le prix du meilleurs Pit Crew et c'est bien mérité, BRAVO les gars, merci à Laurent Lagarde, Guillaume Renault et Jean-Michel Guerard !!! Mention spéciale à Christophe Girello pour son soutient avec sa nouvelle structure GO FAST Racing.
Le prix Ironman et le prix d'honneur Mark Hahn a été remit à Anthony Radetic pour avoir complété les 5h55min de course en entier seul sur son Jet Ski et pour incarner l'esprit de cette course, l'ENDURANCE.
Un grand MERCI aux organisateurs de la course: Mike Folmer, Tom Perry de Hot Products, Jim Russell de DSM, et Ross Wallach, directeur de course, pour leur implication. Merci à nos partenaires: Team Race Spirit, Jet Extreme Saint-Martin, Gritchen Assurance, Motul, L.A. Sellerie Design, Bullett Racing et Zapata Racing. Merci à Nicolas Rius pour son hospitalité et un grand BRAVO à tous les participants.
Triangulation pillar or trigpoint TP1664 - Brocton Field on Cannock Chase near the Glacial Boulder.
Triangulation pillar or trigpoint were part of a major project started in 1936 to map Great Britian. They are concrete pillars, about 4' tall, which were used by the Ordnance Survey in order to determine the exact shape of the country. They are generally located on the highest bit of ground in the area, so that there is a direct line of sight from one to the next. By sitting a theodolite (an accurate protractor built into a telescope) on the top of the pillar, accurate angles between pairs of nearby trigpoints could be measured. This process is called "triangulation".
Flush Bracket Number FB 11490 / Waypoint TP1664
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Waypoint Charter Services books the wheelchair-adapted wood-hulled yacht the Sea Wolf. Small enough to be intimate (six cabins/ three wheelchair usable) and retrofitted with wheelchair lifts to each of the three main decks cruises in Glacier Bay, Alaska on the Sea Wolf include sea kayaking because the owner has installed a unique lift system. I was out of my wheelchair and into my kayak with the splash skirt fitted down in 60 seconds thanks to a skilled and attentive crew.
To take the trip yourself contact:
Sherri Backstrom
Waypoint Yacht Charter Services
contact@waypointcharter.com
www.waypointcharter.com/accessible_travel.htm
t 888-491-2949 or 360-656-5934
With notes for the waypoints. You could do them in any order (well, the first one you had to do first), but most did them in this order. My route out of the Presidio was better than most's, and I helped my crew navigate Mt. Davidson, so I did my part, I guess.
This map shows the route driven by NASA's Curiosity Mars rover from the location where it landed in August 2012 to its location in early March 2016, approaching a geological waypoint called "Naukluft Plateau."
Curiosity departed the "Gobabeb" waypoint, where it scooped samples from a sand dune for analysis, on Feb. 3, 2016, with a drive during the 1,243rd Martian day, or sol, of the rover's work on Mars.
The base image for the map is from the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. North is up. Bagnold Dunes form a band of dark, wind-blown material at the foot of Mount Sharp.
Snake Eyes and his four-legged companion, Timber, arrive at Waypoint 12, expecting to rendezvous with Duke and together scout the area. Instead they find an ominous clue, a single case marked with the Cobra symbol, evidence of the presence of the terrorist group, and Duke is MIA!
Launching the G. I. Joe 12-inch Figure Environment series is Recon at Waypoint 12 with Timber. This snowy rubble environment provides a detailed backdrop for 12-inch figure display.
THE JIAYUGUAN FORTRESS: THE BEGINNING OR THE END OF THE GREAT WALL
Within the Gansu province of Northwestern China lies the Jiayuguan Fortress. It creates either the beginning or the end of the Great Wall (depending on which direction you started from). It was the last outpost before entering the Gobi Desert and the last outpost during the Ming Dynasty (1368 – 1644).
The fortress was built around the year 1372 and situated in between the legendary town of Kashgar to the west and Dunhuang to the east. It was a famous waypoint along the Silk Road and an obvious stop if you are traveling the historical route.
During the age of the Chinese Kingdom, the fortress protected the Western border with a fearless reputation. It is said that those exiled from the kingdom by the Emperor were ordered to head west into the vast Gobi desert and never return.
The Fortress is surrounded by an inner and outer wall. The inner wall is known as the “inner city” is where you will find some of the fort’s most significant buildings. These include the General’s Office and Wenchang Hall – a two-story pavilion in front of the inner city,
Legends dating back to the creation of the fort state that the master architect of the fort was such an amazing mathematician. He was so amazing in fact that he estimated the exact number of bricks required to be 99,999. Questioning his judgment, the Official had doubts regarding the estimation, so the designer added another brick. When Jiayuguan was finished … one brick remained. Today, this iconic brick is seen on top of the main entrance.
Jiayu Pass
Jiayu Pass or About this soundJiayuguan (help·info) (simplified Chinese: 嘉峪关; traditional Chinese: 嘉峪關; pinyin: Jiāyù Guān) is the first frontier fortress at the west end of the Ming dynasty Great Wall, near the city of Jiayuguan in Gansu province. Along with Juyong Pass and Shanhai Pass, it is one of the main passes of the Great Wall.
The pass is trapezoid-shaped with a perimeter of 733 metres (2,405 ft) and an area of more than 33,500 square metres (361,000 sq ft). The length of the city wall is 733 metres (2,405 ft) and the height is 11 metres (36 ft).
There are two gates: one on the east side of the pass and the other on the west side. On each gate there is a building. An inscription of "Jiayuguan" in Chinese is written on a tablet at the building at the west gate. The south and north sides of the pass are connected to the Great Wall. There is a turret on each corner of the pass. On the north side, inside the two gates, there are wide roads leading to the top of the pass.
Jiayuguan consisted of three defense lines: an inner city, an outer city, and a moat.
When famous traveler Mildred Cable first visited Jiayuguan in 1923, she described it as
To the north of the central arch was a turreted watch-tower, and from it the long line of the wall dipped into a valley, climbed a hill and vanished over its summit. Then a few poplar trees came in sight, and it was evident from the shade of green at the foot of the wall that here was grass and water. Farther on a patch of wild irises spread a carpet of blue by the roadside, just where the cart passed under an ornamental memorial arch and lurched across a rickety bridge over a bubbling stream.
Legend and history
The Great Wall near Jiayuguan
A fabulous legend recounts the meticulous planning involved in the construction of the pass. According to legend, when Jiayuguan was being planned, the official in charge asked the designer to estimate the exact number of bricks required and the designer gave him a number (99,999). The official questioned his judgment, asking him if that would be enough, so the designer added one brick. When Jiayuguan was finished, there was one brick left over, which was placed loose on one of the gates where it remains today.[2]
The structure was built during the early Ming dynasty, sometime around the year 1372. The fortress there was greatly strengthened due to fear of an invasion by Timur, but Timur died of old age while leading an army toward China.
Significance
Mural of a general from a door at the fort
Among the passes on the Great Wall, Jiayuguan is the most intact surviving ancient military building. The pass is also known by the name the "First and Greatest Pass Under Heaven" (天下第一雄关), which is not to be confused with the "First Pass Under Heaven" (天下第一关), a name for Shanhaiguan at the east end of the Great Wall near Qinhuangdao, Hebei.
The pass was a key waypoint of the ancient Silk Road.
Jiayuguan has a somewhat fearsome reputation because Chinese people who were banished were ordered to leave through Jiayuguan for the west, the vast majority never to return. Mildred Cable noted in her memoirs[4] that it was
known to men of a former generation as Kweimenkwan (Gate of the Demons)....The most important door was on the farther side of the fortress, and it might be called Traveller's Gate, though some spoke of it as the Gate of Sighs. It was a deep archway tunnelled in the thickness of the wall.... Every traveller toward the north-west passed through this gate, and it opened out on that great and always mysterious waste called the Desert of Gobi. The long archway was covered with writings...the work of men of scholarship, who had fallen on an hour of deep distress. Who were then the writers of this Anthology of Grief? Some were heavy-hearted exiles, others were disgraced officials, and some were criminals no longer tolerated within China's borders. Torn from all they loved on earth and banished with dishonoured nam to the dreary regions outside.
Amongst those once banished in disgrace was the famous Chinese Opium War Viceroy of Liangguang, Commissioner Lin Zexu, who died in Ürümqi where a statue in his honor can today be found in a local park.
The real stars of Jiayuguan are the thousands of tombs from the Wei and Western Jin Dynasty (265–420) discovered east of the city in recent years. The 700 excavated tombs are famous in China, and replicas or photographs of them can be seen in nearly every major Chinese museum. The bricks deserve their fame; they are both fascinating and charming, depicting such domestic scenes as preparing for a feast, roasting meat, picking mulberries, feeding chickens, and herding horses. Of the 18 tombs that have been excavated, only one is currently open to tourists. Many frescos have also been found around Jiayuguan but most are not open to visitors.
This mosaic of nine images, taken by the Mars Hand Lens Imager (MAHLI) camera on NASA's Mars rover Curiosity, shows detailed texture in a conglomerate rock bearing small pebbles and sand-size particles.
The rock is at a location called "Darwin," inside Gale Crater. Exposed outcrop at this location, visible in images from the High Resolution Imaging Science Experment (HiRISE) camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, prompted Curiosity's science team to select it as the mission's first waypoint during the mission's long trek from the "Glenelg" area to Mount Sharp.
MAHLI took the component images shortly before sunset on the 400th Martian day, or sol, of Curiosity's work on Mars (Sept. 21, 2013). The camera was positioned about 4 inches (10 centimeters) from the rock. Scale is indicated by the Lincoln penny from the MAHLI calibration target, shown beside the mosaic.
Reddish dust coats much of the surface visible in this mosaic, but the patch of rock also offers some bare patches where sand and pebble grains can be seen. Pebbles here are mostly gray, with some white in them. Some grains are somewhat translucent, and some are shiny.
Researchers interpret the sand and pebbles in the rock as material that was deposited by flowing water, then later buried and cemented into rock. Curiosity's science team is studying the textures and composition of the conglomerate rock at Darwin to understand its relationship to streambed conglomerate rock found closer to Curiosity's landing site. A major goal for observations at waypoint stops along the 5-mile (8-kilometer) route to Mount Sharp is to piece together the relationship between rock layers at "Yellowknife Bay" in the Glenelg area, where the mission found evidence of an ancient freshwater-lake environment favorable for microbial life, and layers at the main destination on lower slopes of Mount Sharp.
Malin Space Science Systems, San Diego, developed, built and operates MAHLI. NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., manages the Mars Science Laboratory Project and the mission's Curiosity rover for NASA's Science Mission Directorate in Washington. The rover was designed and assembled at JPL, a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena.
More information about Curiosity is online at www.nasa.gov/msl and mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/.
THE JIAYUGUAN FORTRESS: THE BEGINNING OR THE END OF THE GREAT WALL
Within the Gansu province of Northwestern China lies the Jiayuguan Fortress. It creates either the beginning or the end of the Great Wall (depending on which direction you started from). It was the last outpost before entering the Gobi Desert and the last outpost during the Ming Dynasty (1368 – 1644).
The fortress was built around the year 1372 and situated in between the legendary town of Kashgar to the west and Dunhuang to the east. It was a famous waypoint along the Silk Road and an obvious stop if you are traveling the historical route.
During the age of the Chinese Kingdom, the fortress protected the Western border with a fearless reputation. It is said that those exiled from the kingdom by the Emperor were ordered to head west into the vast Gobi desert and never return.
The Fortress is surrounded by an inner and outer wall. The inner wall is known as the “inner city” is where you will find some of the fort’s most significant buildings. These include the General’s Office and Wenchang Hall – a two-story pavilion in front of the inner city,
Legends dating back to the creation of the fort state that the master architect of the fort was such an amazing mathematician. He was so amazing in fact that he estimated the exact number of bricks required to be 99,999. Questioning his judgment, the Official had doubts regarding the estimation, so the designer added another brick. When Jiayuguan was finished … one brick remained. Today, this iconic brick is seen on top of the main entrance.
Jiayu Pass
Jiayu Pass or About this soundJiayuguan (help·info) (simplified Chinese: 嘉峪关; traditional Chinese: 嘉峪關; pinyin: Jiāyù Guān) is the first frontier fortress at the west end of the Ming dynasty Great Wall, near the city of Jiayuguan in Gansu province. Along with Juyong Pass and Shanhai Pass, it is one of the main passes of the Great Wall.
The pass is trapezoid-shaped with a perimeter of 733 metres (2,405 ft) and an area of more than 33,500 square metres (361,000 sq ft). The length of the city wall is 733 metres (2,405 ft) and the height is 11 metres (36 ft).
There are two gates: one on the east side of the pass and the other on the west side. On each gate there is a building. An inscription of "Jiayuguan" in Chinese is written on a tablet at the building at the west gate. The south and north sides of the pass are connected to the Great Wall. There is a turret on each corner of the pass. On the north side, inside the two gates, there are wide roads leading to the top of the pass.
Jiayuguan consisted of three defense lines: an inner city, an outer city, and a moat.
When famous traveler Mildred Cable first visited Jiayuguan in 1923, she described it as
To the north of the central arch was a turreted watch-tower, and from it the long line of the wall dipped into a valley, climbed a hill and vanished over its summit. Then a few poplar trees came in sight, and it was evident from the shade of green at the foot of the wall that here was grass and water. Farther on a patch of wild irises spread a carpet of blue by the roadside, just where the cart passed under an ornamental memorial arch and lurched across a rickety bridge over a bubbling stream.
Legend and history
The Great Wall near Jiayuguan
A fabulous legend recounts the meticulous planning involved in the construction of the pass. According to legend, when Jiayuguan was being planned, the official in charge asked the designer to estimate the exact number of bricks required and the designer gave him a number (99,999). The official questioned his judgment, asking him if that would be enough, so the designer added one brick. When Jiayuguan was finished, there was one brick left over, which was placed loose on one of the gates where it remains today.[2]
The structure was built during the early Ming dynasty, sometime around the year 1372. The fortress there was greatly strengthened due to fear of an invasion by Timur, but Timur died of old age while leading an army toward China.
Significance
Mural of a general from a door at the fort
Among the passes on the Great Wall, Jiayuguan is the most intact surviving ancient military building. The pass is also known by the name the "First and Greatest Pass Under Heaven" (天下第一雄关), which is not to be confused with the "First Pass Under Heaven" (天下第一关), a name for Shanhaiguan at the east end of the Great Wall near Qinhuangdao, Hebei.
The pass was a key waypoint of the ancient Silk Road.
Jiayuguan has a somewhat fearsome reputation because Chinese people who were banished were ordered to leave through Jiayuguan for the west, the vast majority never to return. Mildred Cable noted in her memoirs[4] that it was
known to men of a former generation as Kweimenkwan (Gate of the Demons)....The most important door was on the farther side of the fortress, and it might be called Traveller's Gate, though some spoke of it as the Gate of Sighs. It was a deep archway tunnelled in the thickness of the wall.... Every traveller toward the north-west passed through this gate, and it opened out on that great and always mysterious waste called the Desert of Gobi. The long archway was covered with writings...the work of men of scholarship, who had fallen on an hour of deep distress. Who were then the writers of this Anthology of Grief? Some were heavy-hearted exiles, others were disgraced officials, and some were criminals no longer tolerated within China's borders. Torn from all they loved on earth and banished with dishonoured nam to the dreary regions outside.
Amongst those once banished in disgrace was the famous Chinese Opium War Viceroy of Liangguang, Commissioner Lin Zexu, who died in Ürümqi where a statue in his honor can today be found in a local park.
The real stars of Jiayuguan are the thousands of tombs from the Wei and Western Jin Dynasty (265–420) discovered east of the city in recent years. The 700 excavated tombs are famous in China, and replicas or photographs of them can be seen in nearly every major Chinese museum. The bricks deserve their fame; they are both fascinating and charming, depicting such domestic scenes as preparing for a feast, roasting meat, picking mulberries, feeding chickens, and herding horses. Of the 18 tombs that have been excavated, only one is currently open to tourists. Many frescos have also been found around Jiayuguan but most are not open to visitors.
THE JIAYUGUAN FORTRESS: THE BEGINNING OR THE END OF THE GREAT WALL
Within the Gansu province of Northwestern China lies the Jiayuguan Fortress. It creates either the beginning or the end of the Great Wall (depending on which direction you started from). It was the last outpost before entering the Gobi Desert and the last outpost during the Ming Dynasty (1368 – 1644).
The fortress was built around the year 1372 and situated in between the legendary town of Kashgar to the west and Dunhuang to the east. It was a famous waypoint along the Silk Road and an obvious stop if you are traveling the historical route.
During the age of the Chinese Kingdom, the fortress protected the Western border with a fearless reputation. It is said that those exiled from the kingdom by the Emperor were ordered to head west into the vast Gobi desert and never return.
The Fortress is surrounded by an inner and outer wall. The inner wall is known as the “inner city” is where you will find some of the fort’s most significant buildings. These include the General’s Office and Wenchang Hall – a two-story pavilion in front of the inner city,
Legends dating back to the creation of the fort state that the master architect of the fort was such an amazing mathematician. He was so amazing in fact that he estimated the exact number of bricks required to be 99,999. Questioning his judgment, the Official had doubts regarding the estimation, so the designer added another brick. When Jiayuguan was finished … one brick remained. Today, this iconic brick is seen on top of the main entrance.
Jiayu Pass
Jiayu Pass or About this soundJiayuguan (help·info) (simplified Chinese: 嘉峪关; traditional Chinese: 嘉峪關; pinyin: Jiāyù Guān) is the first frontier fortress at the west end of the Ming dynasty Great Wall, near the city of Jiayuguan in Gansu province. Along with Juyong Pass and Shanhai Pass, it is one of the main passes of the Great Wall.
The pass is trapezoid-shaped with a perimeter of 733 metres (2,405 ft) and an area of more than 33,500 square metres (361,000 sq ft). The length of the city wall is 733 metres (2,405 ft) and the height is 11 metres (36 ft).
There are two gates: one on the east side of the pass and the other on the west side. On each gate there is a building. An inscription of "Jiayuguan" in Chinese is written on a tablet at the building at the west gate. The south and north sides of the pass are connected to the Great Wall. There is a turret on each corner of the pass. On the north side, inside the two gates, there are wide roads leading to the top of the pass.
Jiayuguan consisted of three defense lines: an inner city, an outer city, and a moat.
When famous traveler Mildred Cable first visited Jiayuguan in 1923, she described it as
To the north of the central arch was a turreted watch-tower, and from it the long line of the wall dipped into a valley, climbed a hill and vanished over its summit. Then a few poplar trees came in sight, and it was evident from the shade of green at the foot of the wall that here was grass and water. Farther on a patch of wild irises spread a carpet of blue by the roadside, just where the cart passed under an ornamental memorial arch and lurched across a rickety bridge over a bubbling stream.
Legend and history
The Great Wall near Jiayuguan
A fabulous legend recounts the meticulous planning involved in the construction of the pass. According to legend, when Jiayuguan was being planned, the official in charge asked the designer to estimate the exact number of bricks required and the designer gave him a number (99,999). The official questioned his judgment, asking him if that would be enough, so the designer added one brick. When Jiayuguan was finished, there was one brick left over, which was placed loose on one of the gates where it remains today.[2]
The structure was built during the early Ming dynasty, sometime around the year 1372. The fortress there was greatly strengthened due to fear of an invasion by Timur, but Timur died of old age while leading an army toward China.
Significance
Mural of a general from a door at the fort
Among the passes on the Great Wall, Jiayuguan is the most intact surviving ancient military building. The pass is also known by the name the "First and Greatest Pass Under Heaven" (天下第一雄关), which is not to be confused with the "First Pass Under Heaven" (天下第一关), a name for Shanhaiguan at the east end of the Great Wall near Qinhuangdao, Hebei.
The pass was a key waypoint of the ancient Silk Road.
Jiayuguan has a somewhat fearsome reputation because Chinese people who were banished were ordered to leave through Jiayuguan for the west, the vast majority never to return. Mildred Cable noted in her memoirs[4] that it was
known to men of a former generation as Kweimenkwan (Gate of the Demons)....The most important door was on the farther side of the fortress, and it might be called Traveller's Gate, though some spoke of it as the Gate of Sighs. It was a deep archway tunnelled in the thickness of the wall.... Every traveller toward the north-west passed through this gate, and it opened out on that great and always mysterious waste called the Desert of Gobi. The long archway was covered with writings...the work of men of scholarship, who had fallen on an hour of deep distress. Who were then the writers of this Anthology of Grief? Some were heavy-hearted exiles, others were disgraced officials, and some were criminals no longer tolerated within China's borders. Torn from all they loved on earth and banished with dishonoured nam to the dreary regions outside.
Amongst those once banished in disgrace was the famous Chinese Opium War Viceroy of Liangguang, Commissioner Lin Zexu, who died in Ürümqi where a statue in his honor can today be found in a local park.
The real stars of Jiayuguan are the thousands of tombs from the Wei and Western Jin Dynasty (265–420) discovered east of the city in recent years. The 700 excavated tombs are famous in China, and replicas or photographs of them can be seen in nearly every major Chinese museum. The bricks deserve their fame; they are both fascinating and charming, depicting such domestic scenes as preparing for a feast, roasting meat, picking mulberries, feeding chickens, and herding horses. Of the 18 tombs that have been excavated, only one is currently open to tourists. Many frescos have also been found around Jiayuguan but most are not open to visitors.
Snake Eyes and his four-legged companion, Timber, arrive at Waypoint 12, expecting to rendezvous with Duke and together scout the area. Instead they find an ominous clue, a single case marked with the Cobra symbol, evidence of the presence of the terrorist group, and Duke is MIA!
Launching the G. I. Joe 12-inch Figure Environment series is Recon at Waypoint 12 with Timber. This snowy rubble environment provides a detailed backdrop for 12-inch figure display.
Waypoint Charter Services books the wheelchair-adapted wood-hulled yacht the Sea Wolf. Small enough to be intimate (six cabins/ three wheelchair usable) and retrofitted with wheelchair lifts to each of the three main decks cruises in Glacier Bay, Alaska on the Sea Wolf include sea kayaking because the owner has installed a unique lift system. I was out of my wheelchair and into my kayak with the splash skirt fitted down in 60 seconds thanks to a skilled and attentive crew.
To take the trip yourself contact:
Sherri Backstrom
Waypoint Yacht Charter Services
contact@waypointcharter.com
www.waypointcharter.com/accessible_travel.htm
t 888-491-2949 or 360-656-5934
Dyxie loves Whole Foods Market. She adjusts her route to make it a waypoint when she travels. This is well known.
A few weeks ago, Jamie and I went to the new one that is five minutes from us. We thought we would buy some food there. Wrong. Turns out, the market doesn't actually sell food. It sells organic and macrobiotic stuff. You cannot get mac-n-cheese there, but you can buy psyllium husk colon cleanser. Forget Pop Tarts, think gluten-free "beer" instead.
So last night, we went there thinking we'd get some quality energy bars. I was unsurprised to find flax-seed bars, but the ingredients hardly looked healthy. I don't think there were any that eschewed 10-letter chemicals, or cost less than $5 a bar, or even both. We came away knowing that we'll make our own, and when we need to find toasted wheat germ, we'll be back.
On the way out, I decided to try out my new lens again. At least I'd get some benefit from being in their parking lot. This is straight out of the camera. Except for noise, I think the photo is pretty sharp. The lens is working great.
Sorry Dyxie Lou Shuttlecock, we tried (again). At least we didn't digi-dial you this time. :)
Another work by Strickland. This one is kinetic. The day I was there, the upper boxed section was moving gracefully back and forth in a gentle arc. I'm not sure if the movement is due to the wind or the sun, but I suspect it's both. At various times during the day it was both windy and sunny, but at other times it was only one or the other, yet the sculpture continued to move. I hadn't noticed any movement the last time I was there, or realized it was a kinetic piece, so I was pleasantly surprised to discover this. I tried to do more research on Mr. Strickland, but couldn't find much online other than his blog: jamesstrickland.blogspot.com/