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CO (Lake County)
Day 3
Segment 10 random spot to Segment 11 Interlaken Trailhead
Into Segment 11. A few years ago, I climbed Mount Elbert and hit the trail via the Mount Elbert Cutoff Trail. The trailhead was nearby. It was very dark when I started then. There were a few switchbacks but then the trail leveled out before the intersection with the North Mount Elbert Trail. A couple of dayhikers continued up Elbert. (Mount Elbert is the second highest in the lower 48 at 14,440 feet, Mount Massive is a close third. It can be a difficult hike if not prepared. I would suggest starting very early. Not only to lessen the threat of afternoon thunderstorms but also to avoid too many hikers standing on the summit.)
There were a number of streams to cross and the trail was actually quite nice. Lots of Aspens but unfortunately they were still mostly green. A side trail leads to Twin Lakes Village, a small town with a general store for resupply or a mail drop. There is also a small Historic District with several historic buildings. Stop in the visitor center; you might be able to charge your phone. The town can also be accessed when the trail crosses under CO82. I didn't need to go there since I was finishing on the other side of Twin Lakes.
The hike around Twin Lakes isn't too exciting but it also isn't difficult. It is about 6 miles of flat, sandy and totally exposed to the sun, hiking. Great views of the mountains though. I stopped for a short break near Mount Elbert Power Plant at a very small Aspen grove. This is the last shade for about 3.5 miles until past the dam. I made good time and finally made it back to the car.
The Parthenon frieze was a continuous strip decorating the top of the outside wall of the cella (inner building). From the interpretive sign:
"In contrast with the mythological themes of the metopes and pediments, for the decoration of the Parthenon frieze Pheidias chose as his subject the city's major celebration: the Megala Panathenaia — the Great Panathenaic festival. This festival was held every four years and entailed religious rites, sacrifices, athletic contests and musical competitions. The most important and official day of the festival fell on the 28th day of the Attic month Hekatombaion, in the middle of August, and was celebrated as the birthday of the goddess. On this day, Athens’ citizens and metoikoi (foreign residents) formed a procession that traversed the city and ended at the temple of Athena Polias (the Old Temple that was later replaced by the Erechtheion) in order to present a new peplos to the cult statue of the goddess. It is this procession which unfolds across the 160 meters of the Parthenon frieze.
"The frieze depicts 360 human and divine figures and more than 250 animals, primarily horses. Riders, chariots with charioteers, youths leading oxen and rams for sacrifice, musicians, elders bearing olive branches (thallophoroi), young men carrying trays of offerings (skaphephoroi) and jugs of water (hydriaphoroi), girls carrying libation vessels, officers and other figures together make up the Parthenon frieze."
A description of this panel from the museum website (parthenonfrieze.gr/en/explore-the-frieze/north-frieze/?b=6): "Here is shown the file of four hydriaphoroi. They are young men with short curly hair, and with their himatia wrapped around them. The three first bear their water jars on their left shoulders. The weight is so great that the fourth had rested his jar for a moment on the ground and now prepares to lift it up again. According to the literary sources, hydriaphoroi were usually the daughters of metoikoi and they bore their vessels on their heads. Perhaps shown here is an earlier phase of the procession and they carry the vessels on their shoulders rather than on their heads so that the figures coincide with the height determined for the frieze. E. Simon has given yet another interpretation of the male hydria bearers. She believes they may be victors of the lampadedromia (torch-race) that took place the evening before the procession and that the hydria was the victor’s prize. Be that as it may, it is generally believed that the water in the vessels was destined for sprinkling on the altar and for watering the animals."
ESA astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti trains in Extravehicular Activity (EVA) and the Russian segment of the International Space Station at Roscosmos's Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia. October 2021.
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Credit: GCTC
And segments that match those from various geographies… Very interesting that I show more Finnish ancestry than Estonian, with both countries visible to each other across the Baltic Sea and with languages as similar as Spanish and Portugese.
(Perhaps I should not be surprised that Estonia keeps winning the Finnish Wife Carry competitions, since "deep within Finnish tradition... It was apparently common practice for men to steal women from local villages." BBC =)
From a earlier analysis of just my Y-chromosome (which can only be passed down from a father to a son, and thus can be analyzed without any mixing over the generations), I learned a phenomenal amount about my distant history, back from the second exodus from Africa 50,000 years ago, through Samoyed breeding, to the modern day region of Estonia. (In both cases, they just had my DNA and no other information about me.)
All of my known relatives are Estonian.
23andMe looks for a larger number of point mutations (SNPs for short) across all of my chromosomes and mitochondrial DNA (which passes down exclusively through the maternal line). Here is what they found on the paternal line:
Haplogroup: N1c1, a subgroup of N1
Highlight: N1c spread from Central Asia to Europe at the end of the Ice Age.
Populations: Saami, Indigenous Siberians, Finns, Estonians
I always wondered why I tend to seem to be tanned even when I have spent very little time in the sun:
“Haplogroup N originated in southeastern Asia, probably in or around modern-day southern China, 20,000 years ago. Later, as the Ice Age wound down about 12,000 years ago and glaciers retreated from northern Eurasia, men carried this haplogroup north toward the Altai Mountains and the Tibetan Plateau. After a pause, the haplogroup began expanding about 5,000 years ago into present-day Russia, where it became very common among speakers of the Uralic languages that were developing in the Ural Mountains and Volga River drainage. After another millennium men carried haplogroup N even farther north and west into eastern Europe and Scandinavia.”
“In some of the farthest reaches of northern Eurasia, haplogroup N1c is represented exclusively by the N1c1 branch. N1c1 appears to be relatively young - no more than 5,000 years old. It is most common in the isolated tribes of northern Siberia, such as the Yakut and Buryats, where N1c1 reaches levels of 85-95%. But N1c1 is also present at high levels farther west, where it's found in up to 60% of Saami and 30% of Estonians. In total, about a quarter of Siberian men have Y chromosomes belonging to N1c1. That prevalence, and the concentration of N1c1 among speakers of Altaic tongues like Mongolian, suggests that the paternal ancestry of many present-day Siberian men may trace to northern China or the Altay Mountains of Central Asia.”
And this makes me wonder about the basis of attraction:
“Although Viking raiders carried many Scandinavian haplogroups to Britain during the first millennium AD, N1c was not among them.
Because women in Scandinavia do not show as much Asian heritage as men, the migration traced by haplogroup N1c may have been almost exclusively male. Alternatively, male migrants from Asia may have preferentially married local women, which would have erased any genetic record of female Asian migrants.”
Gore panels, provided to Boeing by supplier MT Aerospace of Germany, are stacked and ready for welding on the Gore Weld Tool at NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans. Gore panels are preformed aluminum alloy dome segments. They are welded together to form a dome -- the end cap to NASA's Space Launch System core stage hydrogen fuel tank. All of the hardware necessary for building the tank that will be used on the first flight of SLS has been delivered to the facility and is awaiting assembly. SLS will be the most powerful rocket ever built for deep space missions, including to an asteroid and ultimately to Mars. The core stage, towering more than 200 feet, will store cryogenic liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen that will feed the vehicle’s RS-25 engines. Boeing is the prime contractor for the SLS core stage, including avionics.
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UP 4014 has just finished its daily segment of the Heartland of America Tour, taking it from Hays to Sharon Springs Kansas. Like many small towns, the railroad is a major part of the landscape and is visible from just about anywhere. Big Boy will spend the night at the end of a residential street in this quiet town.
The predatory leech, Nephelopsis obscura occurs throughout much of Canada but is restricted to the upper Midwest and Rocky Mountain regions in the United States. In the last two decades this leech species has become an important fish bait in the upper Midwest. A few states are capitalizing on the economic returns from sales of this bait species. In Minnesota alone, annual leech sales have an estimated retail value of $1.5 million.
Nephelopsis is a member of a family of the free living, predatory and scavanging leeches. It is the species predominately sold in this country for fish bait. It occurs in ponds and sloughs throughout North Dakota and is an important component in pond ecology.
In 1979, bait leeches became legal for commercial export in Minnesota and legislation was passed opening state wildlife management areas larger than 2,000 acres to harvest by permit only. The demand for bait leeches by Minnesota anglers has intensified harvest of N. obscura, resulting in localized population declines and development of aquaculture techniques for commercial rearing.
Leech harvesters are able to remove as many as 4,000 leeches in a single trapping bout by baiting gunny sacks with fresh, bloody fish parts. - Wikipedia
Bottineau County North Dakota, USA.
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Four silver-colored James Webb Space Telescope primary segments. The primary mirror segments were cryogenically tested at NASA Marshall both before and after they were coated with gold. The gold coating optimizes them for reflecting infrared light. The mirror segments are actually made of beryllium, and polished to a precise prescription.
Credit: NASA
The Meyer Werft GmbH is one of the major German shipyards, headquartered in Papenburg at the river Ems. Founded in 1795 and starting with small wooden vessels, today Meyer Werft is one of world's leading builders of luxury passenger ships. Altogether about 700 ships of different types have been built at the yard. Its "Dockhalle 2" is the largest shipbuilding hall and the building with the fifth largest usable space in the world.
Meyer Werft has been owned and managed by the Meyer family for six generations. Since 1997, it has been part of the Meyer Neptun Group together with Neptun Werft in Rostock.
The shipyard is an anchor on the European Route of Industrial Heritage.
Taken with Bronica ETRSi 35mm W back and 75mm f2.8 lens. Shot on Kentmere 100, developed in Kodak d76 stock.
The internal frieze of this skyphos from the Kerameikos bears a scene of choral dance, the segments of which are constituted respectively by: a line of girls; two girls; and a line of youths who precede another line of girls. The figures hold each other’s hands, except a group of girls who dance alone. Each of the three segments is led by a player of the phorminx. Some of the youths bear a sword. The girls wear an elaborate garment and a girdle, the ends of which are visible at the waist, an attribute which projects them ideally into the nuptial sphere. A line of tripods on the band around the outside of the vessel could be connected to the internal scene: it would represent the prizes in an “agon” in music and choral dance. B. Borell has proposed that this scene could be connected to the Attic festival of the Thargelia, in which the victors in dithyrambic choruses dedicated to Apollo Patroos the tripods won as prizes (Borell 1978, 65, n. 168). Whether it concerns this or another festival is impossible to say.
Attic skyphos
Diameter 16 cm.
Late Geometric II Period
From the Burly Workshop
c. 735-720 BCE
From the Kerameikos, Athens
Athens, National Museum – NM 874
Finally had an overcast day with no precipitation to take better pictures as my lighting setup is not great for taking indoor pictures of larger builds.
Both the front and rear connections are built exactly the same.
CO (Lake County)
Day 3
Segment 10 random spot to Segment 11 Interlaken Trailhead
It was cold but mostly tolerable. Probably didn't need to, but since I carried it, I did use the 'woobie' which added additional warmth. During the night I heard something pelting the tent at various times. I figured frozen snow or ice pellets. There were white patches in the morning. Thermometer said 36f which was not as cold as I anticipated.
I only had about 3 miles of hiking to reach Segment 11 at the Mount Massive Trailhead. It was chilly so I did wear gloves and buff. I encountered a large boulder that had fallen on the trail. I've removed numerous trail obstructions from the Appalachian Trail, mostly blowdowns and never a large rock like this. It was easy to get around, so I don't think they will be moving it anytime soon (even if they could). Just before the trailhead I left Mount Massive Wilderness Area.
Halfmoon Creek Road leads to the Mount Massive Trailhead and is another access to Leadville. Cyclists are allowed to bike on the Colorado Trail. However, they are not permitted in Wilderness Areas. Segments 9 & 10 contain Wilderness Areas. After a detour, cyclists can rejoin the trail here. As a general rule I have not had problems with cyclists.
At the trailhead I noticed a 'No Camping' sign but the CT Databook indicates camping here. And there are nice sites so I assume the sign is for car campers. I had my coffee break here overlooking Halfmoon Creek.
Sketch strikingly modern of Satyr and Maenad dancing.
Attic black figure kylix
510 – 500 BC
The Segment Class
Rome, Vatican Museums, Museo Gregoriano Etrusco
The end of one of the segments of the Florida National Scenic Trail on the Eglin Reservation near Crestview, Florida. The Florida National Scenic Trail is one of 11 National Scenic Trails. The trail runs for 1300 miles from Big Cypress National Preserve to Fort Pickens within the Gulf Islands National Seashore.
Mamiya 645 Pro Tl
Mamiya Sekor C 55/2,8
Svema-100 @100
Dev D-23 Stock 18 min on three segments 20°C
Fixer ФК-2
Scanned with a Sony HX50 camera
The shelf life of the film is November 2011
Schweiz / Berner Oberland - Reichbachfall
The Reichenbach Falls (German: Reichenbachfälle) are a waterfall cascade of seven steps on the stream called Rychenbach in the Bernese Oberland region of Switzerland. They drop over a total height of about 250 metres (820 ft). At 110 metres (360 ft), the upper falls, known as the Grand Reichenbach Fall (German: Grosser Reichenbachfall), is by far the tallest segment and one of the highest waterfalls in the Alps, and among the forty highest in Switzerland. The Reichenbach loses 290 metres (950 ft) of height from the top of the falls to the valley floor of the Haslital. Today, a hydroelectric power company harnesses the flow of the Reichenbach Falls during certain times of year, reducing its flow.
In popular literature, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle gave the Grand (or Great) Reichenbach Fall as the location of the final physical altercation between his hero Sherlock Holmes and his greatest foe, the criminal Professor Moriarty, in "The Final Problem".
Location
The falls are located in the lower part of the Reichenbachtal, on the Rychenbach, a tributary (from the south bank) of the Aare. They are some 1.5 km (0.93 mi) south of the town of Meiringen, and Interlaken. Politically, the falls are within the municipality of Schattenhalb in the canton of Bern.
The falls are made accessible by the Reichenbach Funicular. The lower station is some 20 minutes walk, or a 6-minute bus ride, from Meiringen railway station on the Brünig railway line that links Interlaken and Lucerne.
In popular culture
Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories
The town and the falls are known worldwide as the setting for a fictional event: it is the location where Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's hero, Sherlock Holmes, fights to the death with Professor Moriarty, at the end of "The Final Problem", first published in 1893. A memorial plate at the funicular station commemorates Holmes, and there is also a Sherlock Holmes museum in the nearby town of Meiringen.
Out of many waterfalls in the Bernese Oberland, Reichenbach Falls seems to have made the greatest impression on Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, who was shown them on a Swiss holiday by his host Sir Henry Lunn, the founder of Lunn Poly. Sir Henry's grandson, Peter Lunn, recalled, "My grandfather said 'Push him over the Reichenbach Falls' and Conan Doyle hadn’t heard of them, so he showed them to him." So impressed was Doyle that he decided to let his hero die there.
The actual ledge from which Moriarty fell is on the other side of the falls from the funicular; it is accessible by climbing the path to the top of the falls, crossing the bridge and following the trail down the hill. The ledge is marked by a plaque as illustrated here; the English inscription reads: "At this fearful place, Sherlock Holmes vanquished Professor Moriarty, on 4 May 1891." The pathway on which the duel between Sherlock Holmes and Professor Moriarty occurs ends some hundred metres away from the falls. When Doyle viewed the falls, the path ended very close to the falls, close enough to touch it, yet over the hundred years after his visit, the pathway has become unsafe and slowly eroded away, and the falls have receded further back into the gorge.
In other media
The Reichenbach Falls are the subject of several early 19th-century paintings by the English Romantic landscape painter J. M. W. Turner.
The indie band Ravens & Chimes named its debut album (released in 2007) after the falls.
Reichenbach Falls was also the title of a 2008 BBC Four TV drama by James Mavor, based on an idea by Ian Rankin and set in Edinburgh. Numerous historical characters associated with the city, including Conan Doyle and his mentor Dr Joseph Bell, are mentioned in the story.
Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows, a 2011 film adaptation inspired by "The Final Problem", also hosts the falls, although in this adaptation, a large castle has been built over them, replacing the pathway.
The third episode from the 2012 second series of the BBC drama Sherlock, "The Reichenbach Fall" (inspired by "The Final Problem"), is a play on the waterfall's name.The special episode of Sherlock, "The Abominable Bride", which was broadcast on 1 January 2016, featured a re-creation of the showdown between Sherlock and Moriarty set in Victorian times, as depicted in the book.
The final season of the TV series Elementary features a villain named Odin Reichenbach. The next-to-last episode, in which the character meets justice, is titled "Reichenbach Falls".
(Wikipedia)
Der Reichenbachfall (auch Rychenbachfall) ist eine 300 Meter hohe Kaskade von sieben Wasserfällen im Verlauf des Reichenbachs auf dem Gebiet der Gemeinde Schattenhalb südlich von Meiringen im Kanton Bern in der Schweiz. Er ist bekannt vom dramatischen Ende der Kurzgeschichte Das letzte Problem von Arthur Conan Doyle.
Der oberste Reichenbachfall ist der grösste. Hier stürzen im Sommer 3 bis 5 m³/s, nach einem starken Gewitter bis zu 30 m³ Wasser auf bis 40 Meter Breite 120 Meter den Reichenbachfall hinunter. Unterhalb des Falles wird das Wasser im Sommerhalbjahr für das Kraftwerk Schattenhalb 1 gefasst, weil das Kraftwerk Schattenhalb 3 dann nur begrenzt Wasser beim Staubecken Zwirgi entnehmen darf. Das Wasser vom Staubecken Zwirgi, das oberhalb des Reichenbachfalls liegt, fliesst durch eine Druckleitung im Berginnern direkt in die Zentrale im Talboden.
Bis zum obersten Reichenbachfall führt die Reichenbachfall-Bahn. An der Bergstation beginnt ein Wanderweg bergwärts bis oberhalb des Falles mit zahlreichen Aussichtspunkten. Von der Station Hotel Zwirgi führt der Fusspfad zur Seilstation mit Aussicht auf den Wasserfall oder bis unmittelbar zur Stelle, an der Conan Doyles Romanfigur Sherlock Holmes mit seinem Widersacher kämpfte; der Pfad endet hier in einer aus Sicherheitsgründen umzäunten Sackgasse. Der genaue Ort des fiktiven Kampfes ist mit einem weissen Stern markiert, der von der Bahnstation zu sehen ist.
Der Reichenbachfall in der Literatur
Der Reichenbachfall ist Gegenstand örtlicher Sagen. Er fand früh Eingang in die schweizerischen Reiseführer und ist Handlungsort vieler literarischer und filmischer Abhandlungen. Ein Loblied auf den Reichenbachfall schrieb Jeremias Gotthelf in seinem Roman Jacobs, des Handwerksgesellen, Wanderungen durch die Schweiz. Der junge deutsche Handwerkerbursche Jacob, der sich allzu sehr auf radikale und kommunistische Agitation eingelassen hatte, erlebt bei seiner Wanderung durch das Berner Oberland die Allmacht Gottes in den Schneebergen und in der Gewalt des Reichenbachfalles.
International bekannt wurde der Reichenbachfall durch Conan Doyles Geschichte Das letzte Problem aus dem Jahr 1893, in der Sherlock Holmes am 4. Mai 1891 gemeinsam mit seinem Erzfeind Professor Moriarty nach einem erbitterten Kampf den Wasserfall hinabstürzt. Später stellt sich heraus, dass nur Moriarty dabei gestorben ist. Eine Gedenktafel erinnert an diese fiktive Begebenheit.
(Wikipedia)
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66532 'P&O Nedloyd Atlas' at Copmanthorpe with 4M52 1633 Hartlepool PD Ports FL - Willesden Euroterminal with HS2 Concrete Tunnel Lining Segments.
nearly finished - only the stained glass windows and the two trees in front of the wall are missing now ;-)
sorry for posting all the time unfinished examples but I have to confess: I really like the moc now ;-))
Ok its a composite of images of my Praktica Nova1 - 9 different images cropped 9 different ways with the 4 corners being different crops of the one image of the lens.
Its partly inspired by this cool image from f8125 :
www.flickr.com/photos/f8125/73765424/
Im not 100% sure it works - perhaps nine images is too many - the sections between the images are all the same though they dont seem to look it, originally done in wedges 1000x1000 pixels and then resized down.
What do you think? Does it work? How would you do it differently?
nearly finished - only the stained glass windows and the two trees in front of the wall are missing now ;-)
sorry for posting all the time unfinished examples but I have to confess: I really like the moc now ;-))
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 and also probably the least scenic. Overall did 19.5 miles and was a little sore.
In this December 2016 photo, a crew member on board the SR 99 tunneling machine uses a remote control box to deliver one of the curved concrete segments that are pieced together to form the tunnel’s circular outer wall. Learn more about the Alaskan Way Viaduct Replacement Program at www.alaskanwayviaduct.org or follow Bertha, the SR 99 tunneling machine, on Twitter @BerthaDigsSR99.