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Waitukubuli National Trail Segment 6: The Kalinago Territory, Salybia to Pagua Bay. passing along the old Kalinago Trails.
Although Lost Creek Wilderness was a bit of a disappointment the day before, the wilderness would have the chance to redeem itself. I woke to the coldest morning yet. It was 42f and although the rain had stopped, the vegetation was wet and unfortunately I had to walk through it. Needless to say I was glad I had my cold weather gear with me. The sun was out but the trail is on the shady side in the morning.
The hiking through the meadow was easy, not steep at all. I saw plenty of flowers and some strange pits with logs across them. I don't know what they were for. Altogether it was about 6 miles of hiking through the meadow including what I had hiked earlier. A couple of miles later is Segment 5 at Long Gulch Trailhead and shortly thereafter is Lost Creek Wilderness, part 2.
This is where the trail really gets good, not just good ... great. Awesome views, sweeping panoramas, pleasant meadows and forests. Each time I thought something was fantastic, the next view was even better. Into the woods and out of the woods. The weather was very cooperative as well .... during the day, anyway.
Every Colorado Trail hiker knows the thing to be concerned about are thunderstorms. You can count on them nearly every day and you don't want to be exposed and definitely not above treeline. I hadn't been above treeline yet, but after a 20 mile day, I chose a campsite which was exposed, overlooking the valley and the town of Jefferson. It was a nice campsite where I could see the clouds and inevitable storm coming. Fortunately, I was able to finish dinner before it started.
CO (Lake County)
Day 2
Segment 9 random pond to Segment 10 random spot
Fortunately it wasn't too cold ... probably in the 40s. The moon was quite bright but it did drizzle several times. I didn't sleep very well with alot of tossing and turning.
I had been contemplating climbing Mount Massive while I was nearby. I would have stashed my pack somewhere below treeline and then climbed. Doing it while hiking the Colorado Trail would mean fewer overall daily miles than during a dayhike. The closest trailhead would add 6 miles to a roundtrip dayhike. In theory, it would have been easier to do it while this close. However, with more anticipated cold weather, I knew I would not want to get up earlier than usual to tackle this challenge. (Leadville is nearby and I recall the forecast for being in the 20s.) I decided to do the hike after finishing this hike instead.
Packed up and hiking by about 7:30 with about 2.5 miles of hiking left in Segment 9 and Holy Cross Wilderness. I took a short break at Timberline Lake Trailhead. In the mornings, after about an hour of hiking and when I come across a water source, I like to take a coffee break. Kind of a second breakfast stop. I dayhiked to Timberline Lake back in 2016. Nice hike to a high alpine lake. This trailhead also leads to Leadville.
CO (Chaffee County)
Day 12
dispersed camping area near Mount Shavano trailhead
Today was the last day of hiking during this trip. I camped right near the trailhead so I was able to start hiking early. It was a short dayhike of about 3 miles out and 3 miles back. Fairly easy hiking below treeline on Segment 14. Mount Shavano, a 14er, was nearby but I did not hike it.
Segment 2 is a very dry and exposed section of the Colorado Trail. In 1996 the Buffalo Creek fire destroyed the pine forests and turned a portion of segment 2 into an arid, almost desert like environment. An unexpected area within the mountains of Colorado.
Segment 2 begins with the crossing of the Gudy Gaskill bridge. Gudy was a driving force behind the Colorado Trail. This bridge was built in 1999 in her honor. After years of being "The Mother of the Colorado Trail", Gudy died in July of 2016.
I knew tonight was going to be a dry campsite, so I had to carry extra water. I started hiking again at 1510 ... about 20 minutes later it was 97f. The next time I checked, under the only shade tree, it was only 102f .... it was HOT! with very little shade. I had enough water so I was OK. I passed several decent campsites (dry) but I kept hiking until 1830. Camped by myself.
Yet another option.
Should the Brush touch the bottom border.
If it doesn't, it looks short,
if it does, it looks like it is longer, but because the chair does not touch the border, .... it looks odd.
The Natural History Museum in London is a museum exhibiting a vast range of specimens from various segments of natural history.
The museum is home to life and earth science specimens comprising some 80 million items within five main collections: botany, entomology, mineralogy, palaeontology and zoology.
The museum is a world-renowned centre of research specialising in taxonomy, identification and conservation. Given the age of the institution, many of the collections have great historical as well as scientific value, such as specimens collected by Charles Darwin.
The museum is particularly famous for its exhibition of dinosaur skeletons and ornate architecture sometimes dubbed a cathedral of nature , both exemplified by the large Diplodocus cast which dominates the vaulted central hall. The Natural History Museum Library contains extensive books, journals, manuscripts, and artwork collections linked to the work and research of the scientific departments; access to the library is by appointment only.
In 1864 a competition was held to design a new museum in South Kensington.
Work began in 1873 and was completed in 1880. The new museum opened in 1881, although the move in was not fully completed until 1883.
Both the interiors and exteriors of the building make extensive use of terracotta tiles to resist the sooty climate of Victorian London. The tiles and bricks feature many relief sculptures of flora and fauna, with living and extinct species featured within the west and east wings respectively.
CO (Saguache County)
Day 4 random campsite (Segment 17) to random campsite (Segment 19)
This day was all about the meadows. It started off with a fairly steep, short climb. Then the trail made its way down to Lujan Creek within a large meadow. This was Lujan Pass. I stopped for a coffee break and water fill-up. Normally, the trail would come down and then head back uphill shortly thereafter. But not this time. The trail continued to follow the meadow downhill via an old road. Nice easy walking to CO114.
There was a short road walk on CO114 and then a gate to pass through. This was the start of Segment 18. Another meadow to pass through. One problem about hiking through the open spaces of meadows is the lack of shade. Fortunately, today had plenty of cloud cover to prevent baking in the sun. It did rain a few times, but never for too long or too hard.
After hiking through some cow pastures (don't drink the water!) came into a huge valley that again was easy walking. Rain was threatening, so I couldn't stop for an early Dinner Break. I pushed on to a campsite within an Aspen Grove on the edge of the valley/meadow.
Today there was alot of dirt road walking which was very easy and good for extra mileage. This section was probably one of the easiest yet. Overall did 19.5 miles and was a little sore.
This image was captured through a USB microscope at around 10x magnification. Obviously, the LED segments are not powered on, but you can see the wires that are connected to each segment. The calculator was built in the late 1970's.
The ILO hosted a country-level meeting for Indonesia in Jakarta from 24-25 February in preparation for the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) 2015 Integration Segment in New York at the end of March, around the theme of "Achieving Sustainable Development through Employment Creation and Decent Work for All".
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On Wednesday, October 22, the Governmental Segment of the "Protecting Civic Space and the Right to Access Resources" project was held. The meeting was hosted by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Poland, and moderated by Secretary General of the Community of Democracies, Maria Leissner. Representatives of Warsaw-based embassies of the OSCE region met with United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Rights to Freedom of Peaceful Assembly and of Association, Maina Kiai, and discussed with him his most recent remarks and reports, as well as conclusions from the civil society segment, held in May 2014 in Warsaw.
A segment of the "Aqueduct" seat. Old waterways in LA were brick lined.
Thankfully, there is a return to natural river bottoms instead of the cement lined drains of the 50's.
The natural bottoms allow water to return to the groundwater, where it is naturally filtered through rocks and sand, rather than all that rain water rushing out to sea.
The cement-bottomed 'rivers' were only good for movies about drag racing teens, and giving people the idea that these rain water drains were safe places to hang out!
I forgot to take a purposeful picture on Tuesday so you get this photo I took of my laptop screen to send to my friend Keith (aka Max in the photo). I was using the segment analysis feature in the web version of Strava to try figure out how Strava glitched and showed Keith a minute and 40 seconds ahead of me at the end of the 11+ minute trail section when in reality I was only 20 seconds behind him. The answer was at the starting hill where a technology glitch that I can’t figure out has him 1:20 ahead of me after just 180m of trail when I was in reality right on his back wheel the entire time. Even more odd, there’s another segment that includes that same part of the trail and it recorded correctly. Gremlins!