tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-330708632024-03-01T10:31:35.929-08:00The Great SilenceHere I explore the artwork that has been done in nature. This usually consists of my "hiking adventures", movie locations, or just some unique place that is a little out of the ordinary.The Great Silencehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12113334878904728038noreply@blogger.comBlogger623125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33070863.post-56082807134111511472024-03-01T10:30:00.000-08:002024-03-01T10:30:47.406-08:00Flying Over Silver Lake<p><span style="font-size: medium;"> So after June Lake I drove over to Silver Lake. There was something special I wanted out of this one, but unfortunately I was a week or two late in getting it. Still went ahead anyways to fly around this lake.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">I have shown Silver Lake in the past because it is a great spot for fall colors. I've never been quite satisfied with anything I have done here because of a sunlight. I show why in the next few pictures. </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7RK1uHKwzscSNG_F3HAWZ0Tpys0PQsuzqGx7vbTLiai3Wkrl-ofuHvoBXPk04rhWdSfPoojVJidMrBN8sHQRGb1JQXaIM4FxUnhPJL3In0k11m-UMgvYwbFZImnJT9IwJG1qclyLh4JODw4U21Hufn56vi2sO1yW1BWkRHssOYNCcoe5uQFjj/s2880/2%20Silver%20Lake%20blog.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2160" data-original-width="2880" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7RK1uHKwzscSNG_F3HAWZ0Tpys0PQsuzqGx7vbTLiai3Wkrl-ofuHvoBXPk04rhWdSfPoojVJidMrBN8sHQRGb1JQXaIM4FxUnhPJL3In0k11m-UMgvYwbFZImnJT9IwJG1qclyLh4JODw4U21Hufn56vi2sO1yW1BWkRHssOYNCcoe5uQFjj/w640-h480/2%20Silver%20Lake%20blog.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;">So, I have had this type of picture before in the fall. The issue in the upper left hand corner is a lot of sunlight hits this area in a way that comes across as haze or smoke. I purposely flew the drone a lot more to the left to do the best I could to avoid the angle that gets that, but you can see it is still there. I meant to come back here in October to get a shot like this again, but that did not work out this time. <br /></span><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Trying to get the right time of the day and best season for this shot is challenging for me in flights or just taking normal pictures on the ground. However, this shot was really secondary to what I was trying to achieve at this lake.</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmZbCLkkquQS9P5KLWEW26RsD5ERRtVXGLg-AL4efH0_gtHxLsMlXHCu3JHojvsx96f272yTP2MC9ZDd_sMO7DopSkfik6XG-QOq27TAhAneRzNH2_UvwzCxR6jv-Wuk13YFZKo3R_FFpTB5Lwxl99rFtzgkWkU8YsMpvqElR8Wk9FZ2eyDAj_/s2880/4%20Horsetail%20Waterffall%20blog.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2160" data-original-width="2880" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmZbCLkkquQS9P5KLWEW26RsD5ERRtVXGLg-AL4efH0_gtHxLsMlXHCu3JHojvsx96f272yTP2MC9ZDd_sMO7DopSkfik6XG-QOq27TAhAneRzNH2_UvwzCxR6jv-Wuk13YFZKo3R_FFpTB5Lwxl99rFtzgkWkU8YsMpvqElR8Wk9FZ2eyDAj_/w640-h480/4%20Horsetail%20Waterffall%20blog.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-size: medium;"> The above is Horsetail Falls which I have <a href="https://the-great-silence.blogspot.com/2010/11/" target="_blank">hiked by to Gem Lake back in 2010</a>. This was sort of the goal of my flying around here. The water had been gushing out from Agnew Lake during the month of July; I believe that was controlled by man made mechanisms and not something from nature. They were releasing water that had been snow/ice back there. I saw pictures of it and hoped to get this huge amount of water gushing over on video. I was too lake and this was what I got. Still it was fun doing this. Btw, in the video, this is the reason I hang out over here for a while. </span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Finally, this is the other shot of June Lake I wanted from the other side:</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj57ven9Lxyi3mFwIYckiE9ZtENo3LmJTxn2MolF775xVFjji8ncVw84yEFzhBbTyJDgbJwqRPtVV3NLuoMCL8hwMgnQ3GqbAXc8G2Bj2drm_9yEl22bKke2FT8pP6OmNozepVjTiZ_Zx5XBPNDXbivbo5K-6_jZETb6h6LYWuIun6eiLMYwfOo/s2880/3%20Silver%20Lake%20blog.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2160" data-original-width="2880" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj57ven9Lxyi3mFwIYckiE9ZtENo3LmJTxn2MolF775xVFjji8ncVw84yEFzhBbTyJDgbJwqRPtVV3NLuoMCL8hwMgnQ3GqbAXc8G2Bj2drm_9yEl22bKke2FT8pP6OmNozepVjTiZ_Zx5XBPNDXbivbo5K-6_jZETb6h6LYWuIun6eiLMYwfOo/w640-h480/3%20Silver%20Lake%20blog.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;">Not bad. I took a few other pictures. Lots of water around, lots of boats fishing, etc. I was very relaxed doing this one.</span><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://youtu.be/xNp50vPkPbQ" target="_blank"><br /></a></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://youtu.be/xNp50vPkPbQ" target="_blank">Flying Over Silver Lake 4K (Youtube Video)</a></span></div>The Great Silencehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12113334878904728038noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33070863.post-82792373185953085442024-02-18T09:06:00.000-08:002024-03-01T09:58:27.305-08:00Flying Over June Lake<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>(For the Love of the Eastern Sierra) </b></span></p><h3 style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">#FTLOTES</span></h3><p><span style="font-size: medium;">For the next two months or so I intend to put up a bunch of these drone flights I did every few weeks. They are simple flights I did last summer with my drone. This was the first one I did during the summer. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">I have shown June Lake before by my drone, but this is one where I covered the whole lake rather than trying to take pictures of the just the lake. This is what I saw when flying to the end of June Lake: Gull Lake! </span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiObt4sSZQjRlzmj-00PQcaQtKTKW0hedzRhKclDgH-nQtNvw18jieB-CtSM4_vSq69dFVSUv4zd0A9eByZNXMR59Jip7wPyDnNEvyPKd7WEb-ektd04cA3aoZGCa-Ggi5zilCcBC7-fH7yzQzTFHE1wyuC3Hq7qRCwuGO1lv1pVZ7so8vm1tZH/s2880/1%20blog.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2160" data-original-width="2880" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiObt4sSZQjRlzmj-00PQcaQtKTKW0hedzRhKclDgH-nQtNvw18jieB-CtSM4_vSq69dFVSUv4zd0A9eByZNXMR59Jip7wPyDnNEvyPKd7WEb-ektd04cA3aoZGCa-Ggi5zilCcBC7-fH7yzQzTFHE1wyuC3Hq7qRCwuGO1lv1pVZ7so8vm1tZH/w640-h480/1%20blog.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;">Then turning around I looked back on June Lake:</span><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj548MlafS7NQcqLRiB3bsOaXo_o9DFJOeZwDYlkmOXys6HAuQQmTLud0W0Lol08rQF5rXBchrCFLY21I6dbkjKLUewOiivKcdvGMd_QwRzQK6sGKet-vtWWElbeENFIgPTS7Qm5uPzv77C5kJ88vFGkUvg0ZRoVS6gJzirVGpFOPwzUqxp9QYP/s2880/2%20June%20Lake%20blog.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2160" data-original-width="2880" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj548MlafS7NQcqLRiB3bsOaXo_o9DFJOeZwDYlkmOXys6HAuQQmTLud0W0Lol08rQF5rXBchrCFLY21I6dbkjKLUewOiivKcdvGMd_QwRzQK6sGKet-vtWWElbeENFIgPTS7Qm5uPzv77C5kJ88vFGkUvg0ZRoVS6gJzirVGpFOPwzUqxp9QYP/w640-h480/2%20June%20Lake%20blog.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;">This is looking east to the 395. Whenever I fly my drone at June Lake I have encountered the remains of some nearby fire. There was some haze during this day in the distance in both directions. Had I been here about a week later I might have had clear conditions as you will see with some other drone flights.</span><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhb0ewP6CS2mybdu7uqcHDJV0zKFKDINE8YPou6R6VbNdkkhJfy2FehNH16wnn1PPBxFo4gACLhhpWt_pKBFTTGI-fjq4J6qsYylDCF6G8X-CDhP0VfoJR_bOhuu0o5IP2242FgSIKB8YnyhpxENfoFvCynHSr0xnqgitiFlvUEmenAuDOpT7j7/s2904/3%20blog.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2160" data-original-width="2904" height="476" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhb0ewP6CS2mybdu7uqcHDJV0zKFKDINE8YPou6R6VbNdkkhJfy2FehNH16wnn1PPBxFo4gACLhhpWt_pKBFTTGI-fjq4J6qsYylDCF6G8X-CDhP0VfoJR_bOhuu0o5IP2242FgSIKB8YnyhpxENfoFvCynHSr0xnqgitiFlvUEmenAuDOpT7j7/w640-h476/3%20blog.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">Of course, I ended with this shot that I have taken a few times. </span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://youtu.be/2TI-8oRKzhg" target="_blank"><br /></a></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://youtu.be/2TI-8oRKzhg" target="_blank">Flying Over June Lake (Youtube Video)</a></span></div>The Great Silencehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12113334878904728038noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33070863.post-71588955769939713932024-02-16T10:49:00.000-08:002024-02-25T14:16:55.294-08:00Do Your Own Thing!<p><span style="font-size: medium;">I have said something like this before and a version of this is in my <a href="http://the-great-silence.blogspot.com/2013/01/questions-quesions-questions.html">FAQ</a>. The point of this blog is not to copy me in areas you visit! That is not going to impress me. What is important is you go out and find your own areas.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Where do I figure out where I want to go or find some movie spot? I use books and watch movies. It is simple as that. I love reading history books and then trying to find out where some of the events took place. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Getting ideas off of social media is NOT something I recommend for a bunch of reasons.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">One thing that has happened over the years on social media is people copying each other over and over again. I get this every time I log in to one of the sites I am on. I start seeing areas, animals, or whatever I have uploaded at one time done by other people.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">It is like the algorithm thinks, "Well, if you uploaded that, then you like that and want more of it!" Which I have to laugh at because I can only handle so much of my own stuff at a time. I have to take time away from my own projects I do on here and do other things otherwise I seriously burn out.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Yet, the way the modern algorithm works seems to be programmed into overkill! I get pounded every time I log into one of those sites. They work on our worst temptations and bad habits to keep us on these sites. They want to keep us on their sites as long as possible. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">The big issue is it is not <b><i>art</i> </b>to do exact copies of others work. This is the way I feel about Ansel Adams photography. I have shown a few locations where he took photos, but I do not think it is right to copy his photo locations to take the same type of picture and then claim it as your own. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">While I would not consider it social media, I get the AAA magazine as I am a member. They usually run contests for the best pictures each year. As is typical, most of the pictures are the same each year. Oh sure, there might be some photography technique used with great outdoor conditions used, but it is the same places year after. The current magazine cover is one of an area I have been to a few times on here and seen others take similar pictures. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Then just recently I saw a comment made on Instagram that on someone's channel dedicated to California. The comment was like, "The state of California should hire you to for tourism!" I did not say anything since it was not my channel, but I wanted to tell the lady that she has not tried looking enough around the internet. What I saw of this person's pictures (could be an A.I. grabber too which is another story) was really obvious places. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">So people trying to stay relevant on the algorithms have to keep uploading things and that encourages the copying, but other issue is I see bad behaviors being encouraged. Like, most people are giving out directions for everything: <i>"Here are the directions to five of my secret hikes I do."</i> It is really bad to do this. Not everyone should be encouraged to drive to areas or do hikes so easily. How many times have we heard about "experienced hikers" getting lost somewhere out there? </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">It has been a few years, but I saw something that was obviously influenced by something I had done on here. It was one of those that I warned that the average person should not take this place and hike lightly. What did the person do? "I highly recommend this hike to everyone!" When I heard about this I just wanted to slam my head into the ground. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">There are other issues with social media giving out information too easily, but my main points are: (1) find something unique to visit and share. Also, (2) be responsible with the rules, both written and unwritten, and what your audience will understand. Remember, social media caters to the lowest of intelligence and wisdom of all ages.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">With that said, I intend to start sharing more of my drone flights about every other week or so for the next two or three months. It is my "Flying Over..." series, but I like to think of them as "For the Love of the Eastern Sierra" (#FTLOTES).</span></p>The Great Silencehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12113334878904728038noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33070863.post-65051636401333607992024-02-08T14:20:00.000-08:002024-02-16T09:53:09.816-08:00Adding Rumble Account<p><span style="font-size: medium;"> So I am finally adding my Rumble account as an official part of this blog:</span></p><p><a href="https://rumble.com/c/c-431135"><span style="font-size: medium;">TheGreatSilence Rumble Channel</span></a></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">In the past I decided it is a good idea to branch out to a few other sites to give YouTube some competition and also make sure some of my older content is not deleted for whatever reason.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">In this case, my Rumble channel has only my last 16+ videos that I have shot in GoPro. My other 1080p videos can be found on <a href="https://www.youtube.com/overwhelmingsilence">YouTube</a> and <a href="https://odysee.com/@TheGreatSilence:1">Odysee</a>. Those go back to 2009 or so. My <a href="https://www.bitchute.com/channel/ILpriVXEDYnT/">Bitchute</a> channel has just the past few years on it.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">As I see it right now, Youtube is still clearly the best when it comes to videos. The closest competition is Rumble that allows 4K (2160p). Odysee and Bitchute are stuck in 720p and 1080p respectively. My GoPro cameras can go as high as 5k video, but no one is doing that right now. As it is with big tv's, 4K is pretty much the standard I see for now. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Again, I think my old 1080p videos are okay to watch, but they are good at smaller screens or cell phones. When you watch on smaller screen or at smaller box on a web browser they work the best. However, my recent GoPro videos are designed for bigger screens. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">In any case, follow me on this blog, or one of the other channels. Whatever is easiest for you and fits how you like to view things. The one thing I always mention is this blog is basically my main area where I let people know what I am doing and shows links to everything else I do. It is true that I have some other sites I have done side experiments on or use to communicate with family, friends, or business partners in the real world. However, those are not part of what I do here on the blog. Please do not try to contact me on other sites not listed here if you see me on them. You would think this is common sense, but...I have had people try doing this before that could just as easily leave a comment below on my most recent blog, but for some reason want to communicate with me somewhere else. Of course, my e-mail connected to this blog is always listed.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">As an aside, I purchased a 4K UHD blu-ray player for myself during Christmas. I ended up buying a bunch of 4k movies I mostly already had as dvd or blu ray. There is a whole other set of reasons I do this instead of watching streaming channels which I will not go into here, but I am at the stage in life where this will probably be the last time I purchase movies I have already purchased before. If in ten years we are at 8K or something higher we will see, but I think I am pretty much done repurchasing movies. I have hundreds of rare movies on dvd and blu-ray I have watched, but some I have watched maybe once in the last 15 years or so. That takes up space.</span></p>The Great Silencehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12113334878904728038noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33070863.post-49110420185292737302024-01-31T12:08:00.000-08:002024-02-16T09:52:54.803-08:00Slowing Moving into 2024<span style="font-size: medium;">I do not have very much that is "new" to say right now. I am starting to think of things I want to do this year. I do have a bunch of simple drone flights that I want to edit and upload.</span><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">One note is that I have added my video channel on <i>Rumble.com</i> to my link section. I will explain more on that on some other blog post in a week or two.<br /></span><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">What I said a year ago in my <a href="https://the-great-silence.blogspot.com/2023/01/housekeeping-2023.html" target="_blank">"Housekeeping 2023"</a> blog pretty much covers the same ground as I feel right now. Refer to that, but I just want to emphasize again the following because I have had people still asking me something I do not do anymore.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><i>That is, I do not give out GPS coordinates or specific directions to locations anymore.</i></b> </span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">I'm sorry, but it is not 2006 anymore. For many years I felt okay in doing this, but I do not like what I am seeing. Vandalism, taking things from the land, leaving trash, and just too many people going to what are meant to be isolated areas with limited traffic.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">What I have seen this last year, and for about ten years before, is that I will probably be on the losing side on this issue. I have seen official social media accounts encouraging certain behaviors that in the long run I fear are going to cause more harm than good. </span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">One thing hundreds of people have told me over the years and I have seen comments for social media sites is something like, <b><i>"My family and I have been going to 'X' since 'P'. </i></b></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">X = some location (for example, Yosemite)</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">P= some date or era (for example, the 1960's)</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">This is a way people try to establish common ground (no pun intend) with each other. I have done it on this blog several times as a way of letting the reader know that I have the knowledge and experience of the area over the years. A good percentage of what I have talked about on this blog goes back many decades. However, if you were to meet me out in the wild I probably would not mention this unless someone asked.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">When people tell me they have been going to a certain area since some date in time I am usually not very impressed, nor I am really snotty about it either. However, if they have some good insights about the area, or explain things that they do to benefit the area then that will impress me a little more.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">That is kind of the goal that I have set for this year. I've done this in the past, but I want to make it known publicly as well. Let me state it this way:</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><i>What can I do to make the area I spend my time at better than when I got there?</i></b></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">Taking bags with you to pick up trash is a good start. I have done this several times over the years. Lots of things can be said, but many people take what may seem "free" for granted. I am not going to get into property taxes, insurance, and other fees that many of us locals deal with, but maybe donating money to the places you visit helps. </span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">Just some ideas. I am going to come back and again talk about the problems I see with social media in my next blog post.</span></div></div>The Great Silencehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12113334878904728038noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33070863.post-91450876469213312952023-12-31T08:00:00.000-08:002024-01-31T12:10:06.903-08:00Thanks and Looking Back at 2023!<p><span style="font-size: medium;">I just want to give a "Thank You!" for those who have followed this blog or my work on Youtube (or other video sites). It is not important to me to have thousands of people following what I do. If I only get a handful of people that enjoy what I do that is fine. With that said, I do appreciate those that share what I do with others. My motivations for doing this are a lot different than many other content creators. I do it for the love of it, not for money or as an instrument for something else.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">I have learned a lot in the past six months or so. I kind of know the direction I would like to take this blog going further. Yet, at the same time, to do this takes a lot of my own time. It feels like since August I have been working on videos every few days, correcting mistakes in them, and then I wonder where the time has gone. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">So, I intend to take a few weeks off from this. I still have a bunch of drone footage I want to show and some other things in the next couple of months. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">In the meantime, please check out my last video of the year (and any others I did this year if you have not seen them):</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://youtu.be/Xt8TG-ahZS0" target="_blank">Flying Over Aurora (Youtube video)</a></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Have a Happy 2024!</span></p>The Great Silencehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12113334878904728038noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33070863.post-40807450219999383422023-12-29T11:48:00.000-08:002024-01-28T07:59:49.105-08:00Ghosts of the Past: Flying Over Aurora (Part 2)<p><span style="font-size: medium;">Again, the Wild West Mine would have been here. I have never walked up here. This is the nice advantage of drones. You can see what remains here:</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-He4rEfxiBDHpXbZ-pcOqLarDSxD_B2TPtSeLR4Tb9fIG9G6FiyW9_gjT1d5ZsEA-vrk0QXBeu1irGS4PN9IhD8tpENH4n8ivWHhdblDxcKgImf8BkoSiDGi0D1gulX5GWSnVac5y9gMKLM9gzU28kOW-m3xhYeE4tfs80lAQKhpG0rFCGpxk/s1920/blog6.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1440" data-original-width="1920" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-He4rEfxiBDHpXbZ-pcOqLarDSxD_B2TPtSeLR4Tb9fIG9G6FiyW9_gjT1d5ZsEA-vrk0QXBeu1irGS4PN9IhD8tpENH4n8ivWHhdblDxcKgImf8BkoSiDGi0D1gulX5GWSnVac5y9gMKLM9gzU28kOW-m3xhYeE4tfs80lAQKhpG0rFCGpxk/w640-h480/blog6.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;">Now turning around where my drone was hovering over the Wild West Mine site:</span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwxGQG0u7dd72AxdUao7TrxhrliEEUI_W9p0rip7oqqr144PwW0AvHEPCZNrIJ7_OtvznTzptFX2DviGTNGdBmM0xYOw3_Fay09WTdCTNR4112kOs9HnOAlKXox16fx2APkH4RwSzqxdmAeZ-OU1cmxfLflZJsSOnK7EW8m2EzsMPpN29pjQZ5/s1920/blog%207.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1440" data-original-width="1920" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwxGQG0u7dd72AxdUao7TrxhrliEEUI_W9p0rip7oqqr144PwW0AvHEPCZNrIJ7_OtvznTzptFX2DviGTNGdBmM0xYOw3_Fay09WTdCTNR4112kOs9HnOAlKXox16fx2APkH4RwSzqxdmAeZ-OU1cmxfLflZJsSOnK7EW8m2EzsMPpN29pjQZ5/w640-h480/blog%207.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;">It is nice to see some of the other roads. The following is looking toward the north:</span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1Aqm0AgLK7XMN7UAZMfpi9y4NXeIAmXi14p7X45LyF__2rtFbzUXXxxLOG0ZVtngk39l8AGjUagXEGIaBd5Kvsx_jEtvlddziG5nrgpwYCNEcHyyVEAlFNFs-9myEtzCDjiXj1BIH12U34xosjIr4tZ-rZ-5WjHL_lIC7asptvjJj5SMQ3aGf/s1920/blog%208.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1440" data-original-width="1920" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1Aqm0AgLK7XMN7UAZMfpi9y4NXeIAmXi14p7X45LyF__2rtFbzUXXxxLOG0ZVtngk39l8AGjUagXEGIaBd5Kvsx_jEtvlddziG5nrgpwYCNEcHyyVEAlFNFs-9myEtzCDjiXj1BIH12U34xosjIr4tZ-rZ-5WjHL_lIC7asptvjJj5SMQ3aGf/w640-h480/blog%208.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;">Somewhat northeast here:</span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWQawOd0Ibg-ur9l-tEJBHO-yHK16EtPvQUvZLwJjEgWpVhQNPcZErYItFQrx-KsNbb2hDJPJrXFAQNAdTWu9gJ7cL5nAHPT1FNORQ1cWqZoIydGvUKWgHfo6DOcizSF5jyEN9Mpyvz9EkwDX4zdnEWvHwywD-2H3P_U-BXTmcmqG0W-upAVLj/s1920/blog%209.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1440" data-original-width="1920" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWQawOd0Ibg-ur9l-tEJBHO-yHK16EtPvQUvZLwJjEgWpVhQNPcZErYItFQrx-KsNbb2hDJPJrXFAQNAdTWu9gJ7cL5nAHPT1FNORQ1cWqZoIydGvUKWgHfo6DOcizSF5jyEN9Mpyvz9EkwDX4zdnEWvHwywD-2H3P_U-BXTmcmqG0W-upAVLj/w640-h480/blog%209.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;">This one is a little out of place since it should have been in Part 1. This is hovering near Lover's Leap. Looking west and those roads are supposed to go Bodie.</span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPrNysjuP8OK7_jhkohoPEHaZOPza-8MlysrVCxa-m_Kl2L4fWzq92FxgUa6jE4Ek4xLQM05lL13XvBqOyqHnY5unrnH1O1NGWq16i21Q9cmHoUgmoxyHuOwliJFVHZ6vuRZRpiyOB7vxBW7raxnhfyCmcNFeEF1U3-wL4r2TyxBWrFfMNb0fU/s1920/blog%2010.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1440" data-original-width="1920" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPrNysjuP8OK7_jhkohoPEHaZOPza-8MlysrVCxa-m_Kl2L4fWzq92FxgUa6jE4Ek4xLQM05lL13XvBqOyqHnY5unrnH1O1NGWq16i21Q9cmHoUgmoxyHuOwliJFVHZ6vuRZRpiyOB7vxBW7raxnhfyCmcNFeEF1U3-wL4r2TyxBWrFfMNb0fU/w640-h480/blog%2010.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;">So, this ends my "Ghosts of the Past" series where I have returned to a bunch of places I have talked about on this blog before. I felt the need for an update in video and pictures. Will </span><span style="font-size: medium;">I come back in ten years for 8K footage? Lol! I love these areas so I probably will return, but not for quite some time. There are other areas I need to get to.</span><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://youtu.be/Xt8TG-ahZS0">Flying Over Aurora (Youtube video)</a></span></div>The Great Silencehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12113334878904728038noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33070863.post-22057927264625515272023-12-28T11:45:00.000-08:002024-01-28T07:59:38.002-08:00Ghosts of the Past: Flying Over Aurora (Part 1)<p><span style="font-size: medium;"> <span>Hey everyone! I hope you are having a great holiday season!</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Long story short, I was supposed to have these next flew blogs up by Christmas for the ending of the "Ghosts of the Past" series, but I got sick and then my internet provider went out on me for over a week. With that said, let's get to it:</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">After I did the GoPro footage and did two drone flights over the area. The first flight started at the where the Daly Gang house would have been. I flew over to the other side near the peak of Lover's Leap. I knew that is where the most popular picture from 1890 was taken looking down on the town. I tried to emulate it, but was much higher up. If I had come down a little lower and moved the drone to my left I might have been a little closer:</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXAUWeJSH4HBkNoexWnlI-01xl4yGHlAP6A63iG4gBjH3yB_vlzXs_CNrEEq-mftvd1jfmpKlIkGyiaHHC7Xb3ZYi0KbiTFYncQNPDhmTjf7jkFLO1RCB3OCwsolT5z28vedG6LDyP502rtDQsBs9QOG1fpokK1_n8PCztQA1KcJAPUqQ6CVXT/s2246/blog1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1440" data-original-width="2246" height="410" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXAUWeJSH4HBkNoexWnlI-01xl4yGHlAP6A63iG4gBjH3yB_vlzXs_CNrEEq-mftvd1jfmpKlIkGyiaHHC7Xb3ZYi0KbiTFYncQNPDhmTjf7jkFLO1RCB3OCwsolT5z28vedG6LDyP502rtDQsBs9QOG1fpokK1_n8PCztQA1KcJAPUqQ6CVXT/w640-h410/blog1.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;">A slightly different picture. You can see how the water really "carved" into the where the town would have been. It turns out the town was prepared for this, and I have seen how water would have come down almost like in some of the maps. </span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgY4ZQLNIZRpyQ7_1owKmIVnAemtVe3XKBZzt62bglmwqks6FOKLlW38PQmq9lxSx1ph3f3AnD-m462C8MpIUyIAaTXAXE5AXb6pyft4WcuOda8oT7yNLozUrm8yQkI4YNlWcV6zM51gu4WMPXaEVn59uUXlD08IvYjDLCHLDKRCXqdcPK5ufDr/s1920/blog2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1440" data-original-width="1920" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgY4ZQLNIZRpyQ7_1owKmIVnAemtVe3XKBZzt62bglmwqks6FOKLlW38PQmq9lxSx1ph3f3AnD-m462C8MpIUyIAaTXAXE5AXb6pyft4WcuOda8oT7yNLozUrm8yQkI4YNlWcV6zM51gu4WMPXaEVn59uUXlD08IvYjDLCHLDKRCXqdcPK5ufDr/w640-h480/blog2.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;">This is trying is looking out where Pine St. would have gone east to west (or vice versa).</span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjT57RTZG2Vgk8VnZt7AYUnSxcU94UdiKOCB3lCkkBD_YzDLifLyuSMurjJO63vM2Xq5ZPXACOjqBtWD_iNiLra4vjcXS_FI6pDczC5MjrEiZqA-mPKO_d3xMNH5FhA1WnTJ9ngJ4-4neySyjXKL25SmIQA7TAurEoYhwwSPKqBOWCqXn85KUkR/s1920/blog3.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1440" data-original-width="1920" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjT57RTZG2Vgk8VnZt7AYUnSxcU94UdiKOCB3lCkkBD_YzDLifLyuSMurjJO63vM2Xq5ZPXACOjqBtWD_iNiLra4vjcXS_FI6pDczC5MjrEiZqA-mPKO_d3xMNH5FhA1WnTJ9ngJ4-4neySyjXKL25SmIQA7TAurEoYhwwSPKqBOWCqXn85KUkR/w640-h480/blog3.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;">For comparison this is from my previous drone during 2020. This lacks the water "carving" drainage of 2023. </span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNNqySII9aL463OUvifgNat6Y-qp7F6zpbGhT3BhZgDawkh1-xRFtAq23YolXhX1QUcHLGQI9waslijSbdn3rWEL9N0hAqXjxd1ZhlKvbn1hE8eAdB8PkXsEY9AYqUyBN3TBLTnWbhtGRKYG1k0KP5Z9PC25F1aZ576Aj4-9EC3dHANQcUPjpJ/s1920/blog4.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1440" data-original-width="1920" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNNqySII9aL463OUvifgNat6Y-qp7F6zpbGhT3BhZgDawkh1-xRFtAq23YolXhX1QUcHLGQI9waslijSbdn3rWEL9N0hAqXjxd1ZhlKvbn1hE8eAdB8PkXsEY9AYqUyBN3TBLTnWbhtGRKYG1k0KP5Z9PC25F1aZ576Aj4-9EC3dHANQcUPjpJ/w640-h480/blog4.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;">Finally, this is crossing over to the eastern side. Where the Wild West Mine would have been:</span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLodHmogEyMRliG0tnlmgs4s0dnGl1uqWvGoZ4EdfPUirLc22yb2VF5pHWg-a-BO3yPQCX_7ZkDgtCJRUCE0knFkrr-mwpwhHsMQmQDOTiMhqAUK7ImFdfnBOHkQtgCKWlncBN_dW4_CmtXVqZ23TqDhHqPlvcDjappROQpwj4JDn24micKB_m/s1952/blog5.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1440" data-original-width="1952" height="472" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLodHmogEyMRliG0tnlmgs4s0dnGl1uqWvGoZ4EdfPUirLc22yb2VF5pHWg-a-BO3yPQCX_7ZkDgtCJRUCE0knFkrr-mwpwhHsMQmQDOTiMhqAUK7ImFdfnBOHkQtgCKWlncBN_dW4_CmtXVqZ23TqDhHqPlvcDjappROQpwj4JDn24micKB_m/w640-h472/blog5.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;">I will continue with this one in Part 2.</span><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://youtu.be/Xt8TG-ahZS0" target="_blank">Flying Over Aurora (Youtube video)</a></span></div>The Great Silencehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12113334878904728038noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33070863.post-17643552829073103012023-12-10T09:55:00.000-08:002024-01-28T07:59:29.101-08:00R.I.P. Gunfighter William E. Carder<p><span style="font-size: medium;">So one-hundred and fifty-nine years ago, either a justifiable homicide or a murder took place. This is one of the big reasons I (and others) enjoy reading about the Wild West (aka Western Americana): we get to see what happens in areas where there is little law enforcement or rule of law, and how the areas evolve as time goes on until they get proper law enforcement and rule of law.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">I have talked about William E. Carder before. More than likely, he would have been commonly known as Billy. In the video I give a short biography; this is mostly a transcript of what I said. This is a bit different, but consistent with my old blog about him that I will link below.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Interesting enough a bunch more about Carder has come out in the past ten years or so. I was reading an old book on the Western Sierra and Carder's name came up several times. That is something fun when you can start tracing names over various places and see how they all connect to each other. I mention one of these odd coindences in the video.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiigvqfkdDQrp8ml-waS6W8A9d1MBjyctvKZHhGvUBDU0HN0-pw1IWI8Scvg_Vc4wvMy0eyPLWsXWiPLpmnJx4HuequnhibNrVjw1OtTKMgIjgqQx3SJ3JqSSPgG0uJrHSH4b30Wu9WDvHglXY2bStiDm8sUTY_LtTpWzvXNXA7RMu3dFfTrvaK/s2700/2%20blog%202.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1800" data-original-width="2700" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiigvqfkdDQrp8ml-waS6W8A9d1MBjyctvKZHhGvUBDU0HN0-pw1IWI8Scvg_Vc4wvMy0eyPLWsXWiPLpmnJx4HuequnhibNrVjw1OtTKMgIjgqQx3SJ3JqSSPgG0uJrHSH4b30Wu9WDvHglXY2bStiDm8sUTY_LtTpWzvXNXA7RMu3dFfTrvaK/w640-h426/2%20blog%202.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Carder was born in Tennessee In 1832, and by the age of 18 he was motivated by the gold rush to travel on his own to Placerville, CA. By 1855, he was the town marshal of Columbia, CA for 2 years. Right away he ended up killing a vagrant by the name of Martin Hennessy who had an outstanding warrant on him. On July 4th, 1857 he was part of a posse to capture a murderer of a man called John Leary. Carder ended up being the one who captured the guy. By September 1858 he started working for a local newspaper. He ended up getting in a shootout with a John Carinelli. No one was seriously injured. In 1861, Carder was down in Sorona, CA working for a local newspaper. He got into a feud with a rival newspaper editor H.C. Bennett. Bennett would constantly insult Carder in Bennett's newspaper. Carder challenged him to a duel. No duel ever happened but Carder eventually confronted Bennett in a gunfight where they both shot each other in the shoulder. Judge Wheaton examined Carder and dismissed him. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Sometime after this Carder came to Aurora, NV. He got into a shooting scrap with Thomas Greely. An innocent bystander E.J. Warren was killed during this fight. He married Ann Davis in 1863. He tried to run for city marshal that year, but was defeated. He was not part of the Daly Gang. He did have some interaction with them drinking and gambling, but he was clearly opposed to them by the time the town formed a vigilante group against them. Finally, he was out of town on business with a man named Moses Brockman in the fall of 1864. Carder came back to Aurora and was expecting Brockman to bring a specific horse with him for Carder. Brockman came back to Aurora without the horse. Carder was angry and eventually let it be known that he intended to kill Brockman. More than likely this was idle words of a drunken man, but Brockman believed him. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">This is where the following takes place so on the night of December 10th, 1864. Brockman was right around here hidden in an unused doorway on the outside of the Exchange Saloon. Carder walked out at 11:30 that night and Brockman shot Carder point blank range. Carder never knew what hit him. The buck shot tore through his neck and his right shoulder instantly killing him. Due to Carder's reputation and Brockman being known as a peaceful miner, he was let go with a justifiable homicide. The thinking was while it was a surprise attack, was Brockman just supposed to sit around and wait until an expert gunfighter was ready to fight? One person disagreed with this assessment.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">So out here in the middle of nowhere at the Aurora Cemetery we find his grave:</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinU9nst267jpOEHimtG-fYc99ksZIZI76IrRRCKXhyphenhyphennAHxgTZwMBrpp6Ow05oT2J6xC0V8G5pOAkW26_lFD-f6gz0MfjHQFxs_AqCTtY3uyKmLAYqM5LX6bGP1r9xlp6mYUOm2LFOAnGUh-YjdGvujY3JCfFCzD4yC7QCv94BPhYJuBiCbEUdR/s2700/carder%20looking%20towards.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1800" data-original-width="2700" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinU9nst267jpOEHimtG-fYc99ksZIZI76IrRRCKXhyphenhyphennAHxgTZwMBrpp6Ow05oT2J6xC0V8G5pOAkW26_lFD-f6gz0MfjHQFxs_AqCTtY3uyKmLAYqM5LX6bGP1r9xlp6mYUOm2LFOAnGUh-YjdGvujY3JCfFCzD4yC7QCv94BPhYJuBiCbEUdR/w640-h426/carder%20looking%20towards.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Then...it takes a little work to find it because it is what you might call the "Boot Hill" section of Aurora. It is a little off and away from the other obvious graves. </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaJl6UO1uLVHS-JUZoiD0HMEpcWlIGZNl4RYgSLfqHb2sGPB5vKzHBxdPS-5MldwrCJTmi2z6HV3GKe1edkZGh35slVbsJv5u9ojZeq4fVyFObLY5bn_Zl1ssLc8YkPIQN9A_6i3SMCo-Q9BXJniF6NciVg9rUI6RBttA24CqGm2HgKAe3Xw4a/s2700/looking2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1800" data-original-width="2700" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaJl6UO1uLVHS-JUZoiD0HMEpcWlIGZNl4RYgSLfqHb2sGPB5vKzHBxdPS-5MldwrCJTmi2z6HV3GKe1edkZGh35slVbsJv5u9ojZeq4fVyFObLY5bn_Zl1ssLc8YkPIQN9A_6i3SMCo-Q9BXJniF6NciVg9rUI6RBttA24CqGm2HgKAe3Xw4a/w640-h426/looking2.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;">It is interesting to note that there are some other graves nearby without names, headstones, or markers, but surrounded by rocks. I have seen an old picture in one of my books that says that one right next to Carder's grave would be a member of the Daly Gang. It had a wooden marker that would obviously not be there anymore. </span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3TboJhm2xVLlf9TdJYamYij2561NSyVNJTjt5YB7wccf4O8sG27Bln5C01a_FRC6G_vvrslTatHSOR2i71MJjoyXOTzW_9ZdrKLkGxgEL3uEi435D5FUkVq9zDnfuS0w9Pv2Xkm6z1vBr1a1XssRIWo0LzwFk1wPw0hzWhoJqQzwUkY3ezCXH/s2905/Carder%20Grave.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1800" data-original-width="2905" height="396" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3TboJhm2xVLlf9TdJYamYij2561NSyVNJTjt5YB7wccf4O8sG27Bln5C01a_FRC6G_vvrslTatHSOR2i71MJjoyXOTzW_9ZdrKLkGxgEL3uEi435D5FUkVq9zDnfuS0w9Pv2Xkm6z1vBr1a1XssRIWo0LzwFk1wPw0hzWhoJqQzwUkY3ezCXH/w640-h396/Carder%20Grave.jpg" width="640" /></span></a></div><p>That person that disagreed with the justifiable homicide verdict was his wife Ann.</p><p></p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p><strong style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; text-align: center;">William E. Carder</strong></p><p><strong style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; text-align: center;">Native of Tennessee</strong></p><p><strong style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; text-align: center;">Aged 33 Years</strong></p><p><strong style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; text-align: center;">was assassinated</strong></p><p><strong style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; text-align: center;">in Aurora on</strong></p><p><strong style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; text-align: center;">the night of</strong></p><p><strong style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; text-align: center;">Dec. 10, 1864</strong></p><p><strong style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; text-align: center;">I will avenge saith</strong></p><p><strong style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; text-align: center;">The Lord</strong></p><p><strong style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; text-align: center;">Erected by his wife Annie E.</strong></p></blockquote><p><span style="font-size: medium;">The video:</span></p><p><a href="https://youtu.be/oEVt7kHaez4"><span style="font-size: medium;">R.I.P. Gunfighter William E. Carder (Youtube)</span></a></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">My old blogs:</span></p><p><a href="https://the-great-silence.blogspot.com/2011/12/aurora-ghost-town-rip-william-carder.html">The old Auora Ghost Town (William E. Carder) blog</a></p><p><a href="https://the-great-silence.blogspot.com/search/label/Aurora%20Ghost%20Town%20%28R.I.P.%29">All my Aurora Cemetery blogs</a></p><p><span face="Roboto, Noto, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #0d0d0d; font-size: 15px; white-space-collapse: preserve;">The following books contain most of the information about Carder:
1)McGrath, Roger D. Gunfighters Highwaymen & Vigilantes: Violence on the Frontier. University of California Press, 1984.
<a href="https://tinyurl.com/3ejduebr">Amazon link: https://tinyurl.com/3ejduebr</a>
McGrath's book is the classic for all the "wild west" information regarding Aurora and Bodie ghost towns. There is a page or two about Carder.
2)Silver Sue. Mineral County Nevada. Museum Ass. of Mineral County, 2011.
<a href="https://tinyurl.com/wzjknjwa" target="_blank">Amazon link: https://tinyurl.com/wzjknjwa</a>
In the chapter about Aurora there is a short biography about Carder. It mentions his days in Western and Eastern Sierra.
3)Silver Sue. Aurora Nevada's Silent City on the Hill: An Historical Perspective. S. Silver 2011.
<a href="https://tinyurl.com/bdhdwmew">Amazon link: https://tinyurl.com/bdhdwmew</a>
This is the book you want for learning about the graves at the cemetery. There is an entry and short biography for Carder.</span></p>The Great Silencehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12113334878904728038noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33070863.post-90666369724676037672023-12-08T10:41:00.000-08:002024-01-28T07:59:11.284-08:00R.I.P. Marden Kids <p><span style="font-size: medium;"> I went over a lot of the Cemtery at Aurora back in 2011. I did not really feel the need to do this one over again so I will link to that one below.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">I do want to go over two of the grave areas that are important to me. The one I am focusing on in this blog will be the Marden family kids.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAdNn53q5GfH5Lr4XQgBYPI_bRTtamUv4XjfME5ec02cd1FIiiCDpES8o74CLdvfIP8T0OycnM11Dh1NbZAvrtkV_ozVwh8vWeJDXCOvOK0-HG4a4p6Fp9BESNYHaKlobn4ZbTgua38r8BgYifI5R5U_1ug2xfK0Aou4aS5MuGDXkJH9y6Z73l/s2700/Marden%20Kids.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1800" data-original-width="2700" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAdNn53q5GfH5Lr4XQgBYPI_bRTtamUv4XjfME5ec02cd1FIiiCDpES8o74CLdvfIP8T0OycnM11Dh1NbZAvrtkV_ozVwh8vWeJDXCOvOK0-HG4a4p6Fp9BESNYHaKlobn4ZbTgua38r8BgYifI5R5U_1ug2xfK0Aou4aS5MuGDXkJH9y6Z73l/w640-h426/Marden%20Kids.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p><span style="font-size: medium;">I am going to refer you to the video below that covers everything I want to say about this family. It is the mark of living in the olden days when you have big families because you never know how many kids will survive into adulthood. These days with medical technology it is a lot different.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">The obelisk on the left represents four kids. There is a name on each of the four sides of it. I have taken pictures of each side since I was there since I did not in 2011. I show the sides in the video.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">I might come back and edit this blog at a later time if there is something else I want to say about this family. I will probably reread the books I mention in the video sometime next year. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">The one thing I did in the original video is I was emphasizing the diphtheria outbreak on members of the family that had it so I said one of the kids of the family survived the outbreak. Yet, there were two others that never had it so the total family kids of the Marden's that survived into the 20th century were three. In other words, all the kids that had diphtheria died, but one. Yet, there were two others that never had diphtheria at all. So, a total of three Marden kids were still alive after the outbreak. I made something more complicated than it should have been, but what you do?</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"> I think this is something we need to keep in mind when we talk to others and read what others say on the internet. There is a tendency to emphasize something and leave out other things depending on how important they are. I always see people respond to others, "You forgot to mention..." which is probably not true at all. I had this issue when making the Streets of Aurora video. I had to remind myself to keep things simple because a lot more could be said for just about everything I said in that video. Like a lot of videos I do that I talk in, I have to narrow down what I say. My rule of thumb is if I talk to much I ruin the video. The Streets of Aurora video was an exception I felt I really needed to speak in that one.</span></p><p><a href="https://youtu.be/lGfsG6nudmc">R.I.P. Marden Kids (Youtube Video)</a></p><p><a href="https://the-great-silence.blogspot.com/search/label/Aurora%20Ghost%20Town%20%28R.I.P.%29">R.I.P. Aurora Blogs </a></p>The Great Silencehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12113334878904728038noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33070863.post-74365378736192398882023-12-06T12:15:00.000-08:002023-12-08T10:43:09.138-08:00Ghosts of the Past: Mark Twain's Cabin Again<p><span style="font-size: medium;"> In almost every blog entry I have written on here there have been mistakes. Some are not really important. I would put stuff like I went left when I went right, words left out or not making sense, etc. I have had stuff up for years only to find out, "Did I say that?! Good grief! I never meant that at all!" For the most part, my readers have been forgiving about those sort of things. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">I have had a few contact me over a few things over the years were my locations were off. In one or two situations I was not trying to show the location of what they thought. Lol! In others there was a good reason that I was mistaken, and I just had not gotten around to updating what I had done. I have few like that I still want to take care of. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">This is one of those situations that no one has said anything to me about, but I have known I have been a bit off for quite some time. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">My original blog on this cabin: <a href="https://the-great-silence.blogspot.com/2011/12/aurora-ghost-town-mark-twain.html" target="_blank">Aurora Ghost Town (Mark Twain)</a></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Here is the reality of this situation...I don't care.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Samuel Clemens (aka Mark Twain) lived at a variety of places in Aurora during his six months there. He lived with friends while there. There is a story that some woman took a piece of wood for this cabin and presented it to Mark Twain. His reply was something to the effect that he never owned a cabin in Aurora. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">So, in the blog above I ended up going a little further than I should have. At the time I did not have access to the older picture shown in this photo:</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKy-Ra8PW-4EH0ttiR-SJDQ_sbe6Gr6WqWLDf7AKBnYf3hVlsZWoElsUwPMJCz1Gvn8e9dHwhR1b_wBsz1kHCC-AtAzpUjh4ao-1X5X3MQYNEdvmWbRWPxfpdILSRV_5EgUPzn3qwYjjqebUuwF94oTuWeaKjt_qZJLl2vkwW1fIR8472-49sI/s2700/blog%20mark%20twain.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1800" data-original-width="2700" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKy-Ra8PW-4EH0ttiR-SJDQ_sbe6Gr6WqWLDf7AKBnYf3hVlsZWoElsUwPMJCz1Gvn8e9dHwhR1b_wBsz1kHCC-AtAzpUjh4ao-1X5X3MQYNEdvmWbRWPxfpdILSRV_5EgUPzn3qwYjjqebUuwF94oTuWeaKjt_qZJLl2vkwW1fIR8472-49sI/w640-h426/blog%20mark%20twain.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p><span style="font-size: medium;">The above picture was taken in 2020. It is a little closer to where this cabin would have been. Notice that Lover's Leap can be seen in the background. That is key. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">When I went this last summer in 2023 I had forgotten I had taken the above picture. So I ended up a little further on East Pine St. than I should have. It is in the video that I note the mistake.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Again, it is a situation that I just do not care enough about. My apologies to any Mark Twain fans that this is important to them. There are certain things I bring up on this blog that are really important to me and others that are nice tidbits, but I just don't care that much about this compared to other things about Aurora. If you do care about this then let me link you to this article:</span></p><p><a href="https://www.bing.com/ck/a?!&&p=94608b65e9b712c8JmltdHM9MTcwMTgyMDgwMCZpZ3VpZD0wMTRlM2RkMC1mNzVjLTZkZWYtMjRiMC0yZjcyZjYzNzZjYTAmaW5zaWQ9NTIzNQ&ptn=3&ver=2&hsh=3&fclid=014e3dd0-f75c-6def-24b0-2f72f6376ca0&psq=mark+twain+aurora+cabin&u=a1aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZnMudXNkYS5nb3YvSW50ZXJuZXQvRlNFX0RPQ1VNRU5UUy9zdGVscHJkMzc5NTMxMy5wZGY&ntb=1" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: medium;">Mark Twain's Aurora Cabins - Site of his First Success</span></a></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Heading back down west to Pine St. we see this:</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-696JZ0-dZem_XvO0yamG8mt4HiP2GD8UsV-ObbEL80XHp2fH7rAdf05zRVpOfRbIQlWRTWaAOoYbzxxwNJCoeOKqT_llWWMZw5hyphenhyphen1fPnUpk3_vIdK1pTaciMo2X2vHCzGiLmDCepkpc_jGSgvqHf-8urFRZU95k8veKfSYTfRGwiuvgbjHXC/s2700/blog%20courthouse.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1800" data-original-width="2700" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-696JZ0-dZem_XvO0yamG8mt4HiP2GD8UsV-ObbEL80XHp2fH7rAdf05zRVpOfRbIQlWRTWaAOoYbzxxwNJCoeOKqT_llWWMZw5hyphenhyphen1fPnUpk3_vIdK1pTaciMo2X2vHCzGiLmDCepkpc_jGSgvqHf-8urFRZU95k8veKfSYTfRGwiuvgbjHXC/w640-h426/blog%20courthouse.jpg" width="640" /></span></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;">Again, this would have been in 2020 when it was a lot less green and road eroded than in 2020. The Esmeralda Hotel and Courthouse would have been the building on the left.</span><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">In the next blog or two I will be heading back to the cemetery.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://youtu.be/cqJr6XOc2jY">The Streets of Aurora 2.0 (Youtube)</a></span></div>The Great Silencehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12113334878904728038noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33070863.post-58262867034925933152023-12-03T08:00:00.000-08:002023-12-08T10:42:58.941-08:00Ghosts of the Past: The Streets of Aurora<p><span style="font-size: medium;"> The video I link below gives you the two main streets that would have been the main intersection of Aurora: Antelope and Pine Streets. Those two streets are where most of the business, drinking, and gambling would have taken place. There were other streets around the town. On those streets there would have been cabins and houses people would have lived. After the years of the first mining boom and until the 20th century, most people that lived in Aurora would have lived peaceful lives. I tend to focus on the "wild west" era so just about everything I talk about in the video is from the early 1860s when there was a lawless element at Aurora. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Now a reminder about the town, there is nothing really there in the town anymore. Around the time of World War 2 many people came to Aurora to take the bricks of the buildings for use elsewhere. You can find some of the foundations of the buildings while looking at the remains. However, some of the fun is trying to recreate the town from the pictures we have. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">For example, looking east on Pine Street:</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAQxkPRS9ZK16Zdnfa2Yg_WPz514coEcYcLCNMUn8GTgdMPhMzs4ioNg6SBj4mRmbT9nCMx0n_NcbxBY1XFfA0g1KcVNf_T0ikST0oRltLKACJ59wKSU89rwoTCEMWcaOZGNBDUrEA5LN1MLNcc_RgKGB9HQhGHBMchfI7czCkeoEgbqHXEOzm/s2250/blog%20east%20pine%20alt.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1500" data-original-width="2250" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAQxkPRS9ZK16Zdnfa2Yg_WPz514coEcYcLCNMUn8GTgdMPhMzs4ioNg6SBj4mRmbT9nCMx0n_NcbxBY1XFfA0g1KcVNf_T0ikST0oRltLKACJ59wKSU89rwoTCEMWcaOZGNBDUrEA5LN1MLNcc_RgKGB9HQhGHBMchfI7czCkeoEgbqHXEOzm/w640-h426/blog%20east%20pine%20alt.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p><span style="font-size: medium;">This picture taken from 2020 combined with the black and white picture gives you an idea of how the buildings would have been on the Pine Street looking east. The Exchange Saloon would have been right next to where two adults and kid are on the right side of the picture. That was the most important saloon in town and most of the "wild west" action happened there.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">At this point, I want to mention the mistake I back in 2011. I assumed the name "Exchange" was the name of something called the "Merchants Exchange Hotel" which would have been a few hundred feet behind me on West Pine Street. I had seen the name "exchange" in print so many times that I assumed they were all the same. Recently, I read there was another "exchange "saloon on the lower level/basement of the courthouse. Each time I come to Aurora I learn something new. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Going up the road one eventually encounters this:</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxEJLRbqONRoQabEC6QYqeT0pksnK_U7qSMc3HH8KgLW5Qwzp9MK84RAMGmgOkRkqgPcw7AxzSbx-vTtPgrSGMVNojwLt-NScOQLAWx7dyTlqm50oRHmwDgBhHgKivEtZjF3Bu75pNl9MH-BGrn9OrfCuejEnYZS5b53kxX2hYrYP9MN2ORxKl/s2700/blog%20last%20chance%20hill.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1800" data-original-width="2700" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxEJLRbqONRoQabEC6QYqeT0pksnK_U7qSMc3HH8KgLW5Qwzp9MK84RAMGmgOkRkqgPcw7AxzSbx-vTtPgrSGMVNojwLt-NScOQLAWx7dyTlqm50oRHmwDgBhHgKivEtZjF3Bu75pNl9MH-BGrn9OrfCuejEnYZS5b53kxX2hYrYP9MN2ORxKl/w640-h426/blog%20last%20chance%20hill.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">This is <i>The Last Chance Saloon </i>foundations. </span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">The road eventually splits. The side of the road on the left continues Pine Street. If one goes right then it is Wide West Street that takes you here:</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGsCQqQMr00MPUKVUHtdPA8uWXxEDNIHvTZ_q4P_Nv67NtCkGicDy79Qu4Ga-ioB1h3d5Ol8nj2pEgd0MQb5Cy_-U2hHsSD5_cG3UqwW8ZTIDJ46aGTSR2EMOd6UTQ3lKJaYOvkvmw0rz7pNk6UKd2Zri4BacSX9y5_fqGYFfySGm3NyOYpZ7y/s2700/3%20blog%20daly%20gang%20house.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1800" data-original-width="2700" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGsCQqQMr00MPUKVUHtdPA8uWXxEDNIHvTZ_q4P_Nv67NtCkGicDy79Qu4Ga-ioB1h3d5Ol8nj2pEgd0MQb5Cy_-U2hHsSD5_cG3UqwW8ZTIDJ46aGTSR2EMOd6UTQ3lKJaYOvkvmw0rz7pNk6UKd2Zri4BacSX9y5_fqGYFfySGm3NyOYpZ7y/w640-h426/3%20blog%20daly%20gang%20house.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p><span style="font-size: medium;">This is where the Daly Gang house would have been. The Daly Gang was hired by one of the mining companies to protect their claims while they were settled in court. The gang of professional gunfighters eventually became deputy marshals in town due to one of the gang members being elected City Marshall. So, for about a year the gang controlled the town.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">I am going to stop here for now. I will come back in a day or two for another blog entry on this town.</span></p><p><a href="https://youtu.be/cqJr6XOc2jY" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: medium;">The Streets of Aurora 2.0 (Youtube)</span></a></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">My old blogs I did during 2011:</span></p><p><a href="https://the-great-silence.blogspot.com/2011/12/aurora-ghost-town-daly-gang.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: medium;">For my blog on the Daly Gang go HERE.</span></a></p><p><a href="https://the-great-silence.blogspot.com/search/label/Aurora%20Ghost%20Town" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: medium;">My old blogs on Aurora during 2011 go HERE.</span></a></p><p><a href="https://the-great-silence.blogspot.com/search/label/Aurora%20Ghost%20Town%20%28East%20Pine%20Street%29"><span style="font-size: medium;">More blogs I did on Aurora during 2011 go HERE.</span></a></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Some of the books that are important about Aurora:</span></p><p><span face="Roboto, Noto, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #0d0d0d; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: medium;">1)McGrath, Roger D. <i>Gunfighters Highwaymen & Vigilantes: Violence on the Frontier</i>. University of California Press, 1984.
<a href="https://tinyurl.com/3ejduebr">Amazon link: https://tinyurl.com/3ejduebr</a>
McGrath's book is the classic for all the "wild west" information regarding Aurora and Bodie ghost towns.
2)Shaw, Clifford Alpheus. <i>Aurora Nevada 1860-1960 : Mining Camp Frontier City Ghost Town</i>. Second ed. CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2018.
<a href="https://tinyurl.com/bdd4pzeh">Amazon link: https://tinyurl.com/bdd4pzeh</a>
Most people will want to get the paperback edition in the above link. This the best handbook for trying to "recreate" the town of Aurora. LOTS of pictures through the book. In fact, using this book and pausing my video might be the best way to appreciate the town! :)
3)Silver, Sue. Mineral County Nevada. Museum Ass. of Mineral County, 2011.
<a href="https://tinyurl.com/wzjknjwa">Amazon link: https://tinyurl.com/wzjknjwa</a>
This book has a chapter on Aurora that was useful.
4)Shaw, Clifford Alpheus. The Last Days of the Daly Gang at Aurora Nevada. CreateSpace, 2014.
<a href="https://tinyurl.com/bdd4pzeh">Amazon link: https://tinyurl.com/bdd4pzeh</a>
This small book gives most of testimony people had in the days following the final murder committed by the gang up until they were hanged. I would recommend the McGrath book with the chapter on the gang first, then getting this one if you are looking for more information. It does include some of the location pictures of where things happened (kind of like what I did in the video). </span><span style="font-size: 15px;"><br /></span></span></p>The Great Silencehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12113334878904728038noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33070863.post-44537895033854624462023-12-01T08:00:00.000-08:002023-12-08T10:42:50.729-08:00Ghosts of the Past: Aurora, Nevada<span style="font-size: medium;">So my series I have been calling<i><b> Ghosts of the Past</b></i> was not really meant to be just a October/Halloween series. It kind of worked out that way, but I knew I was going to be doing something that would take me into December. So here we are. This series was mostly me going back to places I have shown before on the blog and them being ghost towns or mines. It was primarily me updating a few things and adding a more up to date GoPro video. </span><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">With that said, I love Aurora Ghost Town in Nevada, but I think I said most of what I wanted to say about the town back in 2011. I will link all those old blogs below in the next blog entry. So let me update you on what has happened.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">Overlooking the town in 2023:</span></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgQssSeODYq5EhunJ8SmmlLqS3ssUNK6BCMRs7xt3DPIphCG0NnDw_CT5_f2NkcChClrpaQqk972qyBKHOqA1rZUNQVh389yQnmhyKMw1SlUw_1CqpjIU1MLcWmCRqNrcDeglj1rq0rfL6E9pxzxyT3T90HObuFN8iItaJeQgMR-a_e2Aeork1/s2700/1%20blog.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1800" data-original-width="2700" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgQssSeODYq5EhunJ8SmmlLqS3ssUNK6BCMRs7xt3DPIphCG0NnDw_CT5_f2NkcChClrpaQqk972qyBKHOqA1rZUNQVh389yQnmhyKMw1SlUw_1CqpjIU1MLcWmCRqNrcDeglj1rq0rfL6E9pxzxyT3T90HObuFN8iItaJeQgMR-a_e2Aeork1/w640-h426/1%20blog.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div><span style="font-size: medium;">First, I did make some big mistakes that I tried to correct during that time. I have not looked, but I think Youtube took down the annotations I did to correct the errors I made. This was a big motivation for me to do another video and make things right. I will note them as we come to them.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">Second, a few more books about the town have come out since I was last there. I will note those in the next blog or two, but it was really great getting lots of new information about the town and people that had inhabited it.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">Third, I was in Aurora back in 2020. I am going to actually admit to you that I was much sharper in finding what I was after during that time than when I came in 2023. There is a reason for that. In 2020, I was still using my old-style camcorder, and it was about that time I was seriously thinking of shifting to GoPro. One thing I did not really want to give up was my ability to zoom in and out of places, but I knew it was time for me to switch video technology. This is one of the reasons I delayed talking about Aurora again. I meant to, but I knew I would probably be coming back.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">I am going to use this blog to point out a few things, maybe a few more blogs to clarify some of the errors I made in 2011, and show what I did on the recent trips. </span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">So what made 2023 a much different year that 2020 or any other time I had been there in the past? Check out this picture of me looking towards the east of Pine Street.</span></div><div><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPtzY19DuLJGAOxgepOn82kVXSPAwPUjqsRKNYzm1RyP1CME4pKQHfp3U8EP7kqZFRMxRpyz2dOBmL9b-FLXJ1pmeI2cfAeU1mZ3ePQFgvwyvOPF2xLL7fL8xg1IfIuDpMqI8y_d4TxZ8KmHdAsZuyXksBQcoX8nibqhad8HWFE05WAJA-X5ot/s2700/blog%20green1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1800" data-original-width="2700" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPtzY19DuLJGAOxgepOn82kVXSPAwPUjqsRKNYzm1RyP1CME4pKQHfp3U8EP7kqZFRMxRpyz2dOBmL9b-FLXJ1pmeI2cfAeU1mZ3ePQFgvwyvOPF2xLL7fL8xg1IfIuDpMqI8y_d4TxZ8KmHdAsZuyXksBQcoX8nibqhad8HWFE05WAJA-X5ot/w640-h426/blog%20green1.jpg" width="640" /></a></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">Due to the winter/spring of 2023 the whole entire Eastern Sierra was much different looking than I was used to. I was walking around where this picture was taken and having a hard time identifying </span><span style="font-size: medium;">things as easily as I did in 2020. All the bushy plant life of Aurora was much bigger and green than I had ever seen before! Not only did I have a hard time walking around, but I had a harder time seeing where the roads would have been. </span></div></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyfye2supsjF-f7KEUt0BR9TPW_fO0vJ4G1dm1Aj3yuku1esnRU_kLf4QXUoXbsuJfmnQ0baXNR0mhcpRsu-haLAfxhpO-2-zLSVorLAFd0ZVblp0NLkl7B-rQnRM2NreAKOYQSQcDF4xfUnkqBAaw8urQwrXSG2oMl0I4_m5vhEJn86a1cwVN/s2700/errosionblog.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1800" data-original-width="2700" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyfye2supsjF-f7KEUt0BR9TPW_fO0vJ4G1dm1Aj3yuku1esnRU_kLf4QXUoXbsuJfmnQ0baXNR0mhcpRsu-haLAfxhpO-2-zLSVorLAFd0ZVblp0NLkl7B-rQnRM2NreAKOYQSQcDF4xfUnkqBAaw8urQwrXSG2oMl0I4_m5vhEJn86a1cwVN/w640-h426/errosionblog.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">Then just walking past the main intersection you could see parts of the road were washed out by the water that had come through here. The above picture is looking at where the Exchange Saloon would have been on the corner of Pine and Antelope Streets. You can see where the water came and washed this part out. It is shown more in the video I took as I mention it a few times. </span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">In the past I would see maps of where two areas of water would come through the town, and how they must have dug out parts of the area to allow for this. This time I could clearly see where an overwhelming amount of water had gone through the town earlier in 2023. There was a small stream going through the town during the summer. That I had never seen before.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">You will see this in the video. So, I was a little disappointed in how that turned out. I truly hope that there is some repair work done on the roads since there was quite a bit of erosion that took place this past year. There were parts of these roads were there were big holes in.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">Okay, I am going to stop here for the time being. I'll get back to this tomorrow.</span></div>The Great Silencehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12113334878904728038noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33070863.post-89188716332492079022023-11-28T13:03:00.000-08:002023-12-08T10:42:43.976-08:00Driving By Nine-Mile Ranch<p><span style="font-size: medium;"> Hope you all had a good weekend. So, my "Ghosts of the Past" series will continue and end in December. It was not just a October/Halloween series.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">The following video is the prelude to where we just drive by "Nine-Mile Ranch". It is all driving and nothing is said:</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://youtu.be/a5nako0LLFI">Driving By Nine-Mile Ranch, NV (Youtube)</a></span></p><p><span face="Roboto, Noto, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #0d0d0d; font-size: 15px; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Taken from </span><span face="Roboto, Noto, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #0d0d0d; font-size: 15px; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><a href="https://www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=191201">https://www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=191201</a></span><span face="Roboto, Noto, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #0d0d0d; font-size: 15px; white-space-collapse: preserve;">:
</span><span face="Roboto, Noto, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #0d0d0d; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: medium;">"The history of the Nine Mile Ranch has a long and interesting past, beginning with the Paiute Indians who inhabited this area long before John C. Fremont’s expedition into Nevada in 1843-1844. According to Fremont’s journal he camped in this area along a little creek now known as 'Rough Creek' in January 1844 on his way to California. Fremont’s camp was in the approximate location of the Nine Mile Ranch today.
With the discovery of gold in Aurora in 1860, this area was destined to become a main route from Carson City to the booming mining camps of the Esmerelda Mining District, of which Aurora and later Bodie were featured destinations. Along this route stage stops were established for the convenience of travelers.
Over the years, the Nine Mile has been known as Cobb’s Rancho, Nine Mile House, Nine Mile Station, Green’s Station, etc., but Nine Mile Ranch is what shows on most modern maps.
Notable people in history are known to have visited the area, including John C. Fremont, Kit Carson, Mark Twain, Governor James Nye, and J. Ross Browne, to name a few."</span></span><span face="Roboto, Noto, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #0d0d0d; font-size: 15px; white-space-collapse: preserve;">
An article about this place:
<a href="https://mcindependentnews.com/2018/07/history-of-nine-mile-ranch-dates-back-to-the-1860s-2/">https://mcindependentnews.com/2018/07/history-of-nine-mile-ranch-dates-back-to-the-1860s-2/</a></span></p>The Great Silencehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12113334878904728038noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33070863.post-72928865416922320652023-11-01T10:53:00.005-07:002023-12-08T10:42:32.643-08:00An Awesome View of Mono Lake Two<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b> Happy All-Saints' Day!</b> I think it is amusing how our traditions have evolved and what people think of as Halloween and such. I have people I follow that are really into Halloween that will say stuff like, "Happy Halloween Eve" on Oct. 30th so now we have an "Eve" for an "Eve" day for today. What we know of as our modern Halloween really goes back to the early twentieth century...about a hundred years ago. I know you will have tons of people that will say stuff like it goes back to Samhain the Celtic pagan day, but no one knows really when that day was other than a guess that it was at the end of October. I am just saying that most of what people think of today as Halloween has a lot of mixed traditions in it. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Anyways we are done until next year(?) with that, but my series <i>"Ghosts of the Past"</i> is still live as I will start my next project soon.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">In the meantime, here is another look at Mono Lake:</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtshLRAMia9Sm7ReP8-CTDrZKc0iXTpLTJyMzVvnWFpAAHBOP6OCZjewtoNjfyVOaxWLSll9tqV746BwCc-JRTtgVdYsf4DfM1_7r2SKyX7to1qs4IDVTAKkqpFr83Cxqt5wci5Z8OGcYR1LX46XEZJL4av-64MZQfVOtD7xQbTRFgXfhaKEsD/s2700/monolakefor%20blog.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1800" data-original-width="2700" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtshLRAMia9Sm7ReP8-CTDrZKc0iXTpLTJyMzVvnWFpAAHBOP6OCZjewtoNjfyVOaxWLSll9tqV746BwCc-JRTtgVdYsf4DfM1_7r2SKyX7to1qs4IDVTAKkqpFr83Cxqt5wci5Z8OGcYR1LX46XEZJL4av-64MZQfVOtD7xQbTRFgXfhaKEsD/w640-h426/monolakefor%20blog.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p><span style="font-size: medium;">It was kind of gloomy due to the clouds and rain coming down. I was once here taking pictures when I started the blog back in 2006. I will link that below. Those pictures were during really nice conditions, but I liked this because it worked as part of what I was trying to do as an October/Halloween type of video. Yeah, the above is in the new "Ghost Mine..." video. Let me take this time to link all three videos I did for this series:</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">This is the off-road drive that gets you up there:</span></p><p><a href="https://youtu.be/4L6-kb4WnC0"><span style="font-size: medium;">Off-road Drive: "Ascending Log Cabin Mine Road" (Youtube)</span></a></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">This is the main video that is the most important of the bunch to watch. It is about twenty-three minutes long:</span></p><p><a href="https://youtu.be/2bFfk2gq0Xo"><span style="font-size: medium;">The Ghost Mine Above Lee Vining 2.0 (Youtube)</span></a></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Finally, this is sort of a throwaway video, and not really needed. However, if you do want to see the drive back down the same road we came up on it is here. It is unlisted because I do not care about it too much. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://youtu.be/1X9QSpb1I2g">Off-road Drive: "Descending Log Cabin Mine Road"</a></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">This is the blog from 2006 that shows the same spot with nicer conditions:</span></p><p><a href="https://the-great-silence.blogspot.com/2006/09/awesome-view-of-mono-lake.html"><span style="font-size: medium;">The old blog: An Awesome View of Mono Lake</span></a></p>The Great Silencehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12113334878904728038noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33070863.post-24840223310836113872023-10-31T09:46:00.004-07:002023-11-01T10:22:22.108-07:00Ghosts of the Past: The Simpson Mine (Part 3)<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b> Happy Halloween! </b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Continuing from the last blog entry, this is the same room I showed the newspaper article. I am standing with my back to where the newspaper was.</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoN_7Dy1VrjYyryHjjaCVa9A9CHCMKFTz8DGOm-PWhdeT2mnlM3K_gE-dfdpolkQwjMmSiOQGxFOqqErxvhICJ5U9gxYAJUJ2Ny-X3jGR2NPQBQAiZln8M_d4OfrdH_tVyXvrwvI4RDmRoLUGovm_3zBu8hlzw5cjGoPgC-qox39qQJ7xeEsKO/s2700/13.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1800" data-original-width="2700" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoN_7Dy1VrjYyryHjjaCVa9A9CHCMKFTz8DGOm-PWhdeT2mnlM3K_gE-dfdpolkQwjMmSiOQGxFOqqErxvhICJ5U9gxYAJUJ2Ny-X3jGR2NPQBQAiZln8M_d4OfrdH_tVyXvrwvI4RDmRoLUGovm_3zBu8hlzw5cjGoPgC-qox39qQJ7xeEsKO/w640-h426/13.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;">A room nearby that had some beds in it. One thing to think about is how did these people live during the winter?! There were heaters used, but being up at almost ten thousand feet on a mountain side can be very cold. I walked around these rooms and some were pitch black and spooky. You can see what I am talking about if you watch the video.</span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHq8oiiP7ZfPb5kJJE8MPv1FJ1ucUr0F5cMPcLpdzxExJcRrCbxBtNrwcb_Fw4gZAD0YPFgkRCAoJmSOIB7u62O0qv2eyHnq6YzJgs28Doo_L2V-5CJvtTHhzCZofYwbqJHPXk9_it__B_oBy69OFLepowaibG1XpZalk3WaXzw71M2_GIigp7/s2700/14.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1800" data-original-width="2700" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHq8oiiP7ZfPb5kJJE8MPv1FJ1ucUr0F5cMPcLpdzxExJcRrCbxBtNrwcb_Fw4gZAD0YPFgkRCAoJmSOIB7u62O0qv2eyHnq6YzJgs28Doo_L2V-5CJvtTHhzCZofYwbqJHPXk9_it__B_oBy69OFLepowaibG1XpZalk3WaXzw71M2_GIigp7/w640-h426/14.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;">These buildings had more machinery in them for use with the mine.</span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjw6Eh8OVAkKwrg2QSzbpq7rGa5Bd8BHpKcxIXC1vWcCi80NpIZHLF0VId-_6pXkHR7lC8-0Ok7UCh5CWIZ1bML393D5VMHVO1gXsuTERlk9XkUhNuwQNwVhX2VhQdFkrki28SzxtVW6yZkd3Dq50odnQ2PtxSHd-efo-Z47KPtZfleADSZ0Q3l/s2700/15.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1800" data-original-width="2700" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjw6Eh8OVAkKwrg2QSzbpq7rGa5Bd8BHpKcxIXC1vWcCi80NpIZHLF0VId-_6pXkHR7lC8-0Ok7UCh5CWIZ1bML393D5VMHVO1gXsuTERlk9XkUhNuwQNwVhX2VhQdFkrki28SzxtVW6yZkd3Dq50odnQ2PtxSHd-efo-Z47KPtZfleADSZ0Q3l/w640-h426/15.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;">For example, this is what is in the building above:</span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicyyO4KQEh3CxMkFqRFuUMHNFhfsFZ8O5Jhf4ECthDzAyXosmnFY8O0OePGU2OcK5bsnFuiHGzB_YCvQqT2q2QbMeV0GO5IyzAqTYUhkSE-RBtwu2ipU6LHaEJOF5gIbDQ9GDbX9bMns-H25lXFKzwLNq3EPbkDwYjBAM4bNZTBITjP2g4_4kh/s2700/16.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1800" data-original-width="2700" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicyyO4KQEh3CxMkFqRFuUMHNFhfsFZ8O5Jhf4ECthDzAyXosmnFY8O0OePGU2OcK5bsnFuiHGzB_YCvQqT2q2QbMeV0GO5IyzAqTYUhkSE-RBtwu2ipU6LHaEJOF5gIbDQ9GDbX9bMns-H25lXFKzwLNq3EPbkDwYjBAM4bNZTBITjP2g4_4kh/w640-h426/16.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;">I do not recall the gate being up last time I was there. I believe this has been added to keep people away from the mining hole that appeared to be collapsing some and sinking...the best I can describe it...from last time I was there.</span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwAQ3-ttmVHrzxYY8ltCIIi0RC-nRruOC0rgd4Coag9O5thTR7aILRNOceHQSwp-80pkl1tdQyXc5IOxDuR8x_tzjqeTyPInyd6nKtWZmk60Xn5kJghBVFA6HM5Nws8UJQieul1XKAwwRl8tG9pqesExTh-C7EV91Ld8g_IMIS25L5kkf2FZrM/s2700/17.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1800" data-original-width="2700" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwAQ3-ttmVHrzxYY8ltCIIi0RC-nRruOC0rgd4Coag9O5thTR7aILRNOceHQSwp-80pkl1tdQyXc5IOxDuR8x_tzjqeTyPInyd6nKtWZmk60Xn5kJghBVFA6HM5Nws8UJQieul1XKAwwRl8tG9pqesExTh-C7EV91Ld8g_IMIS25L5kkf2FZrM/w640-h426/17.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">Okay! I want to emphasize that this series of blogs about this mine was to build to this GoPro video. It is long at about 23 minutes. So you might want to save it until you have the right time to watch it all at once. If you have a fast connection, can watch it at 4K on a bigger TV screen, then I would suggest turning off the lights and enjoy. Originally, I had music playing through most of the video, but decided it did not work. So, I hope you enjoy this video as much as I did making it:</span><p></p><p><a href="https://youtu.be/2bFfk2gq0Xo">The Ghost Mine Above Lee Vining 2.0 (Youtube)</a></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">I will keep the prior video up which might be a good thing seeing how this one had a different weather condition to it. Tomorrow I will link to an unlisted video for the drive down. My unlisted videos are sort of "throw away" videos that I put up as extras, but do not put as much time into nor care as much about. Kind of like Blu-Rays or Dvds that have extras on them.</span></p>The Great Silencehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12113334878904728038noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33070863.post-61099503313652888402023-10-30T09:51:00.005-07:002023-11-01T10:22:12.311-07:00Ghosts of the Past: The Simpson Mine (Part 2)<p><span style="font-size: medium;"> Continuing my "Ghosts" series with part two of the Simpson Mine. In the past most of my pictures were showing the exteriors of the mine. This time I wanted to show more of the insides of the structures. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">The following building is the lower building of two others. This structure is connected by stairs.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgq8yOobQug8theNjwF11XPH-bLvcTXVdKaowTgPO9jwjoyjxCnmnnAMrSy4r-l7o3LBQgEAxWsjldQeeHtFqObJnX16weU0QMI0LcuFnA7ZDj1DD1PJx1AZV9Es7jU5P2pUd9emY1yWwBAIGbQhksXTmjsMe1ot2jQb4W_ve8V0qVuMykKNSRH/s2700/7.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1800" data-original-width="2700" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgq8yOobQug8theNjwF11XPH-bLvcTXVdKaowTgPO9jwjoyjxCnmnnAMrSy4r-l7o3LBQgEAxWsjldQeeHtFqObJnX16weU0QMI0LcuFnA7ZDj1DD1PJx1AZV9Es7jU5P2pUd9emY1yWwBAIGbQhksXTmjsMe1ot2jQb4W_ve8V0qVuMykKNSRH/w640-h426/7.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;">As you can see here the stairs lead into darker rooms. The first room is a bathroom and shower area. </span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKwPiOvEBLRGeCo9l6a6z4fBez6Yw7dGIgehMYaC0DWSjVoYRD9PxhrgtTdao8E_RxSp2VCew8RJzmDTHyvUXvRn5SRCZxU_RTRR-IMASN4AXMJUGFAKPd6fJ6_9XsCd_gJ4qrprnhQpi44_W7VUs0jW68Yw4d4Ebgpt0_jK5cYFXbKdGKois8/s2700/8.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1800" data-original-width="2700" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKwPiOvEBLRGeCo9l6a6z4fBez6Yw7dGIgehMYaC0DWSjVoYRD9PxhrgtTdao8E_RxSp2VCew8RJzmDTHyvUXvRn5SRCZxU_RTRR-IMASN4AXMJUGFAKPd6fJ6_9XsCd_gJ4qrprnhQpi44_W7VUs0jW68Yw4d4Ebgpt0_jK5cYFXbKdGKois8/w640-h426/8.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;">Then after some more stairs there are a bunch of open rooms. </span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGHp7-Lk-67nyCMA99tHOxBj9aRXrc4c9dmtRrBP_VOsU4Juko0__wUO-8WrJfg4BKv4Mv3i4IhCY12dsXxx_smJnTXuenM985W5hbQIJjLq6a9eTNODktYG7hctGlB0fqwZKgHHgTcVo9CR3-TJjNzKqPDyykbZOaiNtm5VMqd0H6XtoRUzHK/s2700/9.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1800" data-original-width="2700" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGHp7-Lk-67nyCMA99tHOxBj9aRXrc4c9dmtRrBP_VOsU4Juko0__wUO-8WrJfg4BKv4Mv3i4IhCY12dsXxx_smJnTXuenM985W5hbQIJjLq6a9eTNODktYG7hctGlB0fqwZKgHHgTcVo9CR3-TJjNzKqPDyykbZOaiNtm5VMqd0H6XtoRUzHK/w640-h426/9.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;">I assume that this would be living quarters or recreation rooms for some of the workers. </span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj88fyxo1v4jElAm9FT6swlJQ0fNfoqeOUQ5e11o_69WhlO50jusDYthY-ShdKk7e0lwhJE-1pgfBBHGi-5rZL8DGT8_5a6mk78XqLYSgtxIhyphenhyphenI7aQEXsascoz7Fbo9FDxbZYjJjJOvHRhUjVWeRPKZf8SinDg81Nv-E-62-p5qIJFytOOy01MI/s2700/10.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1800" data-original-width="2700" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj88fyxo1v4jElAm9FT6swlJQ0fNfoqeOUQ5e11o_69WhlO50jusDYthY-ShdKk7e0lwhJE-1pgfBBHGi-5rZL8DGT8_5a6mk78XqLYSgtxIhyphenhyphenI7aQEXsascoz7Fbo9FDxbZYjJjJOvHRhUjVWeRPKZf8SinDg81Nv-E-62-p5qIJFytOOy01MI/w640-h426/10.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;">The following is in a totally different building below than this building I am showing, but it has an odd story. I ran across this newspaper from circa 1990ish someone appeared to be reading. </span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-OTpK0ENNCvviOMRw7Jf_rLgyGSjWQx82umAcC1Nhn34Z2qHSbh9DK4Te-uym31AfAjmTZney4JhVwzwRTybS9XFbKADOZYoLsOmJOB_hfdd7Vij-chy0Eo2AhYXaQBuvtlBRR6vxlIDkrGPNcp_5OkM_4VVuaa_p8TF8MLAPKyl9APuxwpxJ/s2432/11.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1800" data-original-width="2432" height="474" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-OTpK0ENNCvviOMRw7Jf_rLgyGSjWQx82umAcC1Nhn34Z2qHSbh9DK4Te-uym31AfAjmTZney4JhVwzwRTybS9XFbKADOZYoLsOmJOB_hfdd7Vij-chy0Eo2AhYXaQBuvtlBRR6vxlIDkrGPNcp_5OkM_4VVuaa_p8TF8MLAPKyl9APuxwpxJ/w640-h474/11.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;">It was a twilight zone moment for me because it was talking about a high school game three hundred miles away near my home. At where I am typing this out right now I am within walking distance of both the schools and the stadium it was played out. It is always weird to me when two things that appear to have no connection to each other create a coincidence like that. </span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiczgc-Ubng7hqf7pZhmM48u9kZ9RdMS99oZSqN5YVh0QyztWl7QFz6Qy1CfCsojiowArhiEZI486BCKbOtFEdvpEQA0LFrnRHXX2MMyxoEyJ1nGHexG2YoJhlshuK9aiiys-nscA-CA0TmmEacdlxSpHjwYKi1qbrYtsBadop28lgctM5rcgEn/s2700/12.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1800" data-original-width="2700" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiczgc-Ubng7hqf7pZhmM48u9kZ9RdMS99oZSqN5YVh0QyztWl7QFz6Qy1CfCsojiowArhiEZI486BCKbOtFEdvpEQA0LFrnRHXX2MMyxoEyJ1nGHexG2YoJhlshuK9aiiys-nscA-CA0TmmEacdlxSpHjwYKi1qbrYtsBadop28lgctM5rcgEn/w640-h426/12.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;">This is the room I found the paper in. The newspaper was being used, by that article above was put aside as if someone was reading it. <i>The Twilight Zone</i> theme<i> </i>was playing in my head.</span><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">Again, if you have want to watch the drive to the mine go here:</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><a href="https://youtu.be/4L6-kb4WnC0"><span style="font-size: medium;">Offroad Drive (Ascending Log Cabin Mine Road)</span></a></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">I will continue this in Part 3 tomorrow. </span></div>The Great Silencehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12113334878904728038noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33070863.post-11038074973764857422023-10-29T09:47:00.011-07:002023-11-01T10:21:59.460-07:00Ghosts of the Past: The Simpson Mine (Part 1)<p><span style="font-size: medium;">We are a few days within Halloween so I decided to get this part up of the "Ghosts of the Past" series. Again, this is another area I have shown on this blog before. The emphasis is really on the GoPro video that will be public on Oct. 31st., but I do have a lot of pictures I want to show so let's go...</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">I have talked about the history of the Simpson mine before so I will not do that here, but link to a blog I did before that talks about it below. The deal with this mine it is on a mountain above the town of Lee Vining and Mono Lake. It is really isolated, and the time I was there I was the only one exploring the mine. Getting to the mine is difficult because you do need a 4-wheel drive or high clearance vehicle. This year was a little tougher because of the snow melt that made the roads a lot messier at certain places.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">When I arrived the weather was overcast, and it would start raining on the way down. I was sort of disappointed at the time, but then realized it would probably be the best atmosphere for a Halloween video. I walked down the road and soon came across the main structure of the mine.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjN5jU8t_YfAuFKqItGUT3SUSDp-QBwgCg-VWfLaCi6uNJfiDqW68UpQ7xJH-MaTo8YMB-5_3WsAeBJpd-_cEH03R_eDiTlfwimWGlWTeB3QItKasWATbcbFrcgl9i1fszsFT6sTXjkaWgoGgXiiFI7E-d7rRYKd-AktKQsnSIx9n-JX-juHWq7/s2700/1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1800" data-original-width="2700" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjN5jU8t_YfAuFKqItGUT3SUSDp-QBwgCg-VWfLaCi6uNJfiDqW68UpQ7xJH-MaTo8YMB-5_3WsAeBJpd-_cEH03R_eDiTlfwimWGlWTeB3QItKasWATbcbFrcgl9i1fszsFT6sTXjkaWgoGgXiiFI7E-d7rRYKd-AktKQsnSIx9n-JX-juHWq7/w640-h426/1.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;"></span><span style="font-size: medium;">Turning to my right:</span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhln9sYiFGHc0RA_koHi4K-K0mB2Nbik2uagj_Gj-DB1CgFjnf_683_tP_NYhHpdYZxfASqN2CMVaEfpmrSn3LihfJ_BuqZKguHcRYsJOYSW9iyjCSb365I9Igu0ZlCh3o4TEcVGRbU5MXAfQWLzqA8J0qLvMcYC_-HPt5QMQdf4GFgVZ0HBctJ/s2700/3.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1800" data-original-width="2700" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhln9sYiFGHc0RA_koHi4K-K0mB2Nbik2uagj_Gj-DB1CgFjnf_683_tP_NYhHpdYZxfASqN2CMVaEfpmrSn3LihfJ_BuqZKguHcRYsJOYSW9iyjCSb365I9Igu0ZlCh3o4TEcVGRbU5MXAfQWLzqA8J0qLvMcYC_-HPt5QMQdf4GFgVZ0HBctJ/w640-h426/3.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;">The following pictures emphasize part of the main structure:</span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiC5BZduVAGJJlzXryPSWC0vHZGGgy7yB5-sxJ1pdtlt5eYptrLLDuIyRFcFgr4RTYSKl2j65g2fxmPYUYj4DGxGPGHGPAiHGdJoZKHYkGrxCnw34K5iCrwDXqyu01zJtYBIshwGfsgEtqt_sYUhqLgRDA9vRNqJRZ5bGEX6JGySZGNmnRLdtHD/s2700/2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1800" data-original-width="2700" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiC5BZduVAGJJlzXryPSWC0vHZGGgy7yB5-sxJ1pdtlt5eYptrLLDuIyRFcFgr4RTYSKl2j65g2fxmPYUYj4DGxGPGHGPAiHGdJoZKHYkGrxCnw34K5iCrwDXqyu01zJtYBIshwGfsgEtqt_sYUhqLgRDA9vRNqJRZ5bGEX6JGySZGNmnRLdtHD/w640-h426/2.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;">Notice the part of the structure that is lifted up:</span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgs3fOJ0f3cx4tXleceC5hCdUUSg9aSW7bcvwY5KuY_fR9XPmpYjgt61bvkOamfi2ZS_PDPdrQNm5J-KrXe9fW9kamzDvvxN7dtjR-ByD6qEBC_SS_SxBQDtohAwYI7t2bJnVzWVQscDr49FBmBR4QWMyAV-qPvnjC0ngCJ-1kg8f4t-TTDl7eH/s2700/4.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1800" data-original-width="2700" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgs3fOJ0f3cx4tXleceC5hCdUUSg9aSW7bcvwY5KuY_fR9XPmpYjgt61bvkOamfi2ZS_PDPdrQNm5J-KrXe9fW9kamzDvvxN7dtjR-ByD6qEBC_SS_SxBQDtohAwYI7t2bJnVzWVQscDr49FBmBR4QWMyAV-qPvnjC0ngCJ-1kg8f4t-TTDl7eH/w640-h426/4.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;">This would be the inside. In the video I walk all the way up and back. I was careful, but wondered how dangerous it really was. It appeared safe for what I do. Standard disclaimer that I am not responsible for what others do. If someone does go up this thing make sure someone else is nearby. </span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhL93p7AElQJ7P5JZoqcdLrkDMBXtk3GR5HXPElV8-jZegVx-7i5dxJphZxHp4lBs8cQaLOlicHeq05P9SNi670xfFZjlVeYicKgvrBrE61ETFrnXsuBQij9bRDt8Sg7RcxlK8LA9j_dLATYO-SiMaR6TqDzpyeP2YRZHKTNJVsWFigAWa5Rly_/s2700/5.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1800" data-original-width="2700" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhL93p7AElQJ7P5JZoqcdLrkDMBXtk3GR5HXPElV8-jZegVx-7i5dxJphZxHp4lBs8cQaLOlicHeq05P9SNi670xfFZjlVeYicKgvrBrE61ETFrnXsuBQij9bRDt8Sg7RcxlK8LA9j_dLATYO-SiMaR6TqDzpyeP2YRZHKTNJVsWFigAWa5Rly_/w640-h426/5.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;">I walked further down the road. There is a series of buildings that are connected on the left side that I entered. That will be the next blog entry.</span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEincNpMFMWwjELTY2hzUt0bC7jm-S3il0I6XZ2CzDUu3HIGh1T86hRZradssf0Ax9ZeEoFnadGEEmRf2BWvAuJ8G-EcvMoKMpGiknWdkaRCcd0NbwQYIjidzDLo0L_BSg1zkoCZ8XHs3jijILmoOgoyS28fMiYiDXEeFH6emyq17Vqht9qxj_K5/s2700/6.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1800" data-original-width="2700" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEincNpMFMWwjELTY2hzUt0bC7jm-S3il0I6XZ2CzDUu3HIGh1T86hRZradssf0Ax9ZeEoFnadGEEmRf2BWvAuJ8G-EcvMoKMpGiknWdkaRCcd0NbwQYIjidzDLo0L_BSg1zkoCZ8XHs3jijILmoOgoyS28fMiYiDXEeFH6emyq17Vqht9qxj_K5/w640-h426/6.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p><span style="font-size: medium;">One of things I did was take GoPro video of the drive up to the mine. This video is almost twenty minutes long. It covers just about all of the drive except for a minute or so. If you are into offroad driving videos here it is:</span></p><p><a href="https://youtu.be/4L6-kb4WnC0"><span style="font-size: medium;">Offroad Drive (Ascending Log Cabin Mine Road)</span></a></p><p><a href="https://the-great-silence.blogspot.com/2014/12/the-ghost-mine-above-lee-vining.html"><span style="font-size: medium;">The Ghost Mine Above Lee Vining (Blog with the history of the Simpson Mine)</span></a></p>The Great Silencehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12113334878904728038noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33070863.post-86888873283503044512023-10-24T10:30:00.020-07:002023-10-29T09:53:50.401-07:00Ghosts of the Past: Flying Over Chemung Mine<p><span style="font-size: medium;"> This is a follow up to the last blog entry. Like my GoPro footage, this was my first attempt using my Anafi drone two years ago a little more seriously than I had been. When I first got this drone I would fly it straight up, take a few pictures, take some video without going too far away, then come down. My emphasis was on taking pictures, and my concern was losing the drone if I flew too far away. At the time I thought this might be the only drone I would get, which turned out not to be the case. What you will see in the video I link below is that I did have the idea of taking pictures first as I flew over the area. The moves were slow looking for potential pictures. It is not the way I do things with my current drones, but I thought I would upload this video as it does show the area above<i> The Chemung Mine.</i></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">So the first picture is my drone just slightly up looking at the main entrance to The Chemung Mine.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdkgNyXiljWD0u3aLxdUeJjlUP7gFyBP5cYJYnypIHwiWJD-HPJ_sFjlh8-O3ohGZhyphenhyphenRSvqJofv6hsXCSJPw-kn5AGOf8FfdHwHrya0KUbCcFGvqxc_mCQ-06h4cchf_y27y3Bt9vRZzFdacyC6p36WvaKRtJbqxXP8niRFb2yTylwosAVaT9c/s2395/1a%20for%20blog.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1800" data-original-width="2395" height="482" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdkgNyXiljWD0u3aLxdUeJjlUP7gFyBP5cYJYnypIHwiWJD-HPJ_sFjlh8-O3ohGZhyphenhyphenRSvqJofv6hsXCSJPw-kn5AGOf8FfdHwHrya0KUbCcFGvqxc_mCQ-06h4cchf_y27y3Bt9vRZzFdacyC6p36WvaKRtJbqxXP8niRFb2yTylwosAVaT9c/w640-h482/1a%20for%20blog.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;">Much higher to my right from the above picture, looking down on the mine:</span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2pItAPNmJJbjywuU738ehyphenhyphennl4f0MJy5S_wKPoY2-dV1EphaI5d_Twco_JSH53DNo3oSSs0yyxtkVaLdHm6B7jXCAZ9cbxse5e_TTxOd4VJ6KcaKpGyFA6DvyMifGtsR_D2nD1gIJSn5l4uUg8n9J1E2Yb2Lst2M4mtcH47Zc-ST-pxfOCJRT7/s2395/2%20for%20blog.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1800" data-original-width="2395" height="482" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2pItAPNmJJbjywuU738ehyphenhyphennl4f0MJy5S_wKPoY2-dV1EphaI5d_Twco_JSH53DNo3oSSs0yyxtkVaLdHm6B7jXCAZ9cbxse5e_TTxOd4VJ6KcaKpGyFA6DvyMifGtsR_D2nD1gIJSn5l4uUg8n9J1E2Yb2Lst2M4mtcH47Zc-ST-pxfOCJRT7/w640-h482/2%20for%20blog.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;">I flew over and took this from the backside. Something mysterious is in this picture. I will explain it more below, but when I got home, I saw someone walking around between the trees on the lower left side of the picture. Can you see the person in blue?</span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEMLD7CA_xXB8b4k7TSoF95fw_PxQoT6lqoetBQrB4Igul9qxQ3typkBxBjeeXiwiC9hbU_OqK09Wk5U_MHZfpThA8-SBMgR7rwjQ7fnGxn9b3rQ7dWEHIS9JyvhdgW_LuKGJnEWMDPXCRYBsXAbPa7DUT-ypnE_bQTg8_kTa2pZyfyWv8T40v/s2395/3%20for%20blog.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1800" data-original-width="2395" height="482" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEMLD7CA_xXB8b4k7TSoF95fw_PxQoT6lqoetBQrB4Igul9qxQ3typkBxBjeeXiwiC9hbU_OqK09Wk5U_MHZfpThA8-SBMgR7rwjQ7fnGxn9b3rQ7dWEHIS9JyvhdgW_LuKGJnEWMDPXCRYBsXAbPa7DUT-ypnE_bQTg8_kTa2pZyfyWv8T40v/w640-h482/3%20for%20blog.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;">I then flew back further to get a picture looking towards Bridgeport Lake and Sawtooth Ridge/Matterhorn Peak on the upper left side of the ridgeline.</span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhf8RQCom9d6oW4ADItHluVVrHZqnO5guP6E9-5x0WzMVDaQavN_tyTwgpLueBu7WcK53SGsEnjw3owCcv5WNhtKuhbMZfC_SYWSfRTK8pCvn8B4p4j-E-KZiis1VXOKCNrSsATo-WNxIXNGk4k-MRf6DfX24NqNbSP8lCjoyBuKkbpDsYe8FwC/s4320/4.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3208" data-original-width="4320" height="476" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhf8RQCom9d6oW4ADItHluVVrHZqnO5guP6E9-5x0WzMVDaQavN_tyTwgpLueBu7WcK53SGsEnjw3owCcv5WNhtKuhbMZfC_SYWSfRTK8pCvn8B4p4j-E-KZiis1VXOKCNrSsATo-WNxIXNGk4k-MRf6DfX24NqNbSP8lCjoyBuKkbpDsYe8FwC/w640-h476/4.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;">I then flew back to where I was, and I took this shot looking down on the mine.</span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmCGLZukKr1Q-JEpvkHSF6xLTNGaXOADeOe0Zr1oYq-HrDVnYxPO1Uk5XthVY3FUYlBSEhHNxaIVN8o7kcDcsXKlYmsXowSGbrJROUnunLUpw4BVK1kTR07DQ4tTzB45LhyphenhyphenrAk7YI37U9kvgxrbvrUpv6hnacud_DcPPUg3I29sykfJTZtwpz-/s2388/5.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1800" data-original-width="2388" height="482" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmCGLZukKr1Q-JEpvkHSF6xLTNGaXOADeOe0Zr1oYq-HrDVnYxPO1Uk5XthVY3FUYlBSEhHNxaIVN8o7kcDcsXKlYmsXowSGbrJROUnunLUpw4BVK1kTR07DQ4tTzB45LhyphenhyphenrAk7YI37U9kvgxrbvrUpv6hnacud_DcPPUg3I29sykfJTZtwpz-/w640-h482/5.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p><span style="font-size: medium;">So here is the deal with the mysterious person in the pictures and video. What I did was when I got there was fly the drone first. I spent about ten minutes doing that. Then I walked up with my GoPro and did the footage for that video. All through this I never saw anyone at all. I came home, and a few hours later I looked through the pictures and footage on the computer. I was a bit spooked to see a person hanging out at the mine while I was there. I never saw this person.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">What I think happened was that person was there with a motorcycle as I got there. I flew the drone as he was there. As I finished up with the drone, he must have taken his motorcycle and gone out on one of those other roads you see in the above picture. He did not come back through the main entrance area. I would like to tell you that he was a ghost, but this seems the logical and natural conclusion to what happened here.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">However, I never saw him nor did I ever hear any motorcycle by there. I should have heard the motorcycle roar as he took off. I heard nothing.</span></p><p><a href="https://youtu.be/29vjoFDyDU8"><span style="font-size: medium;">Flying Over The Chemung Mine (Youtube Video)</span></a></p>The Great Silencehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12113334878904728038noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33070863.post-2360125146514526972023-10-22T10:30:00.013-07:002023-10-29T09:53:34.945-07:00Ghosts of the Past: The Chemung Mine (2.0)<p><span style="font-size: medium;"> So this officially starts my <i>"Ghosts of the Past"</i> series I will be doing. I started on October 1st with <i>Donnell Vista</i> as sort of a prelude to this series. What I will be doing in this series is going back to a bunch of places I have done before. The emphasis is on my new GoPro footage I will be releasing. So, this is why you will be seeing a bunch of (2.0) versions of the new videos. Old videos will remain.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">This was my first real attempt at testing out my first GoPro (GoPro 9) at <i>The Chemung Mine</i>. I was not sure if I would ever release the footage or not. There are a lot of mistakes I made in the settings, a bunch of flickering due to the lighting situation, and it ended up being kind of messy. The thing is I do not mind my October videos being a little messy in that helps the spookiness of them. I am just going to upload a few pictures to show you what it looked like two years ago, link to my old blog of this area, and, of course, link to the GoPro footage.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfNtQjhOE9BiZ8S1AzQ7UB93rFgSEv4CCWU6ziOsYQyjDqS6B3aaXCYcyTwc1gmNq0IFUjJFMW02ZQSmiiSYknaBf6lrtSPZ23EYrJ4UIdd1IiR5zahNP_7W2QOIvv6XqJ89qBGOIueR2hu0AuLj1G4lVCBbdqUlCiu7JokMH794uzDaaD67HN/s2700/1blog.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1800" data-original-width="2700" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfNtQjhOE9BiZ8S1AzQ7UB93rFgSEv4CCWU6ziOsYQyjDqS6B3aaXCYcyTwc1gmNq0IFUjJFMW02ZQSmiiSYknaBf6lrtSPZ23EYrJ4UIdd1IiR5zahNP_7W2QOIvv6XqJ89qBGOIueR2hu0AuLj1G4lVCBbdqUlCiu7JokMH794uzDaaD67HN/w640-h426/1blog.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcVsODnMNH-NvXVE2zR1FHffDPsE8eNuMUpDOBOSsvdghyphenhyphenVDbpsM9Ym7-awSH6zxdiUcikNXPk9zlY-E7RX7cedRSFOLPshzUCr3yAYk6058WEfT_eUCrOXXz0BIEPIRkQgzPNOx5nm96FDaO6hiBM1yxuKxMMhM3Lkas1UsO-44YLd9zP6UFU/s2700/2blog.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1800" data-original-width="2700" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcVsODnMNH-NvXVE2zR1FHffDPsE8eNuMUpDOBOSsvdghyphenhyphenVDbpsM9Ym7-awSH6zxdiUcikNXPk9zlY-E7RX7cedRSFOLPshzUCr3yAYk6058WEfT_eUCrOXXz0BIEPIRkQgzPNOx5nm96FDaO6hiBM1yxuKxMMhM3Lkas1UsO-44YLd9zP6UFU/w640-h426/2blog.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;">The following are interesting. These "Sentinels of Chemung" made a lot of noise as I was wondering around. You can hear them in the GoPro video. "Nevermore!"</span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEu1moL2LVFa3rbgpzSAZuaoMG2P5EIHe7L4HCPWmSF8h5AOD8oP4iR00VgpvPPUU1SiEgbMGfnHVCgM65wvyNe3o4Nu6kSoTwYsu87UAwg7B2XyQik0vyRIWbo-buBiKwcRVRsZqMh44-HiMfS-diqEDTr08_tN37jhRu3bY9KXxkKRDuUWYa/s2700/3blog.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1800" data-original-width="2700" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEu1moL2LVFa3rbgpzSAZuaoMG2P5EIHe7L4HCPWmSF8h5AOD8oP4iR00VgpvPPUU1SiEgbMGfnHVCgM65wvyNe3o4Nu6kSoTwYsu87UAwg7B2XyQik0vyRIWbo-buBiKwcRVRsZqMh44-HiMfS-diqEDTr08_tN37jhRu3bY9KXxkKRDuUWYa/w640-h426/3blog.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQKJInghW8dJ9dJHjfTZdfgrpUMt3E5rTm_aECJtLehRSEwTiGlSXTYzoTiJMoXf9TNzZU_wBOmukHfVp4Z-Q76u1t8-LshEUaxUa9KyOh9xLEkn4-nALqCcZRLQSioG2v9ZoaOlA_fMKQE-SDc2coTSNUdzRSWm3GcPGzpdjcRO0kHR8RAb7x/s2700/4blog.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1800" data-original-width="2700" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQKJInghW8dJ9dJHjfTZdfgrpUMt3E5rTm_aECJtLehRSEwTiGlSXTYzoTiJMoXf9TNzZU_wBOmukHfVp4Z-Q76u1t8-LshEUaxUa9KyOh9xLEkn4-nALqCcZRLQSioG2v9ZoaOlA_fMKQE-SDc2coTSNUdzRSWm3GcPGzpdjcRO0kHR8RAb7x/w640-h426/4blog.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7xTtWNNQ81afVhrvqF_wdLiDujtJtDv-IeaCP1iSycWaOOmFA7n-MSUbuMCUaHDfGa5jwm7FtMOHrqw-b9qMRufWXr5no8K2lrF7QtK_oikJCrfBC_Wbdxn76gMG3zw4CnCj5fA5AAwAatH1W44aRK_pp00jclZYYf0uh0nI-T7bs-xberXE2/s2700/5blog.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1800" data-original-width="2700" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7xTtWNNQ81afVhrvqF_wdLiDujtJtDv-IeaCP1iSycWaOOmFA7n-MSUbuMCUaHDfGa5jwm7FtMOHrqw-b9qMRufWXr5no8K2lrF7QtK_oikJCrfBC_Wbdxn76gMG3zw4CnCj5fA5AAwAatH1W44aRK_pp00jclZYYf0uh0nI-T7bs-xberXE2/w640-h426/5blog.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p><a href="https://youtu.be/-u8h4FAKh04"><span style="font-size: medium;">The Ghosts of Chemung (2.0) GoPro video on Youtube</span></a></p><p><a href="http://the-great-silence.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-ghosts-of-chemung-aka-chemung-mine.html"><span style="font-size: medium;">My old blog: The Ghosts of Chemung</span></a></p>The Great Silencehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12113334878904728038noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33070863.post-53551551612645459652023-10-01T10:00:00.216-07:002023-10-22T10:37:24.392-07:00Donnell Vista: Scenic or Tragic?!<p><span style="font-size: medium;"> We have entered October which means I get a little on the spooky side. What it looks like is going to happen is I will officially start my <i>"Ghosts of the Past"</i> Halloween series later this month. I have some commitments I have to keep so I do not want to start anything until those are taken care of. So, I kind of look at this blog entry as a prelude to what I will be doing. However, I want to make it clear that what I am showing here deals with real world unsolved mysteries that friends and families are still seeking closure to. So, I am going to be sensitive, serious, and matter of fact about how I explain this one.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Back in August, 2005 my brother and I had just completed two major mountain scrambles that either border Yosemite or are in it. We were very excited, came home, and I was looking at the local Eastern Sierra news. I noticed that a woman, Nita Mayo, from Hawthrone, NV had gone missing during the days I was doing those hikes. Her car was parked at Donnell Vista past Sonora Pass on HWY 108. I remember some special searches the locals did up until the winter. Over the years I have checked into anything that was said about this since she was never found.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Then in 2014 another woman, Patricia Tolhurst, went missing and again her car was found parked at Donnell Vista. Then in 2016, Breck Phelps, was fishing nearby and his car was found about 1/4 mile from Donnell Vista. None of these people have been found. I will link a few articles that go into more detail below.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Donnell Vista has become a very mysterious place to me. I had all these ideas in my head of how the place should look like and how isolated it must be. If I ever went to this place, should I bring weapons? Two years ago in October I decided to make a visit just to see what the place is like. No, I did not bring any weapons. </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoj6OW6qYNpW3YWu6N4DlNnT78rcRt7MdwW7XwQVKAnrZHOhVNo9jUKLmsXdU9zGCT-M6YpFJjm66Zll9xF3VS0mtlvL1hx5DfNye6ABwLcavCdMYPQ8nwSroGwAmd90v3AXW1uyBFF_gR9N2oyR0gZ00yYBiXEwbNz0s_PXThOfKaRyhjcboD/s2700/1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1800" data-original-width="2700" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoj6OW6qYNpW3YWu6N4DlNnT78rcRt7MdwW7XwQVKAnrZHOhVNo9jUKLmsXdU9zGCT-M6YpFJjm66Zll9xF3VS0mtlvL1hx5DfNye6ABwLcavCdMYPQ8nwSroGwAmd90v3AXW1uyBFF_gR9N2oyR0gZ00yYBiXEwbNz0s_PXThOfKaRyhjcboD/w640-h426/1.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;">So, after driving on HWY 108 for what seemed like about an hour of going up, down, back, and forth, my brother and I got to the small turnoff parking area that serves as a rest stop for people traveling by. You do get some good views of the area with lots of forest trees around.</span><div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9gvgZlJS4VATsOzs9I2wOmsTd5DPHNdL9giJpCZBATFckNpl4QW99lntq8eJvV3vG6wuinAGA8fanV5ebjU88NGE-7yZbc-wybRVB3Wlc9fNZOQxxY8SggAYy6xsUJEd2ZrqbsEbjFlo-YKEjc7rZquNFbRJ2T5U80-IrxuZPfrFfSbFl1Pl7/s2700/2.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1800" data-original-width="2700" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9gvgZlJS4VATsOzs9I2wOmsTd5DPHNdL9giJpCZBATFckNpl4QW99lntq8eJvV3vG6wuinAGA8fanV5ebjU88NGE-7yZbc-wybRVB3Wlc9fNZOQxxY8SggAYy6xsUJEd2ZrqbsEbjFlo-YKEjc7rZquNFbRJ2T5U80-IrxuZPfrFfSbFl1Pl7/w640-h426/2.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">There is a major elevation drop off and you can see Donnell Vista lake below. </span><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBqii0ylwaBPYhfhVlTi_XdrJfMqRSDy-tCi6hTz2En92fW7m2wvUlUQCOCn3nyOudV3TRsikQ91pKdApj31W0BtrBt_i21VoM5xX46on25LVrb7vJjWj0O7ps1HzxYdbo-7s0S8zLh2VjbTx1PDduytJvHjE0vrQnO4eAz7ui-dp3rAz2qVwe/s2700/3.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1800" data-original-width="2700" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBqii0ylwaBPYhfhVlTi_XdrJfMqRSDy-tCi6hTz2En92fW7m2wvUlUQCOCn3nyOudV3TRsikQ91pKdApj31W0BtrBt_i21VoM5xX46on25LVrb7vJjWj0O7ps1HzxYdbo-7s0S8zLh2VjbTx1PDduytJvHjE0vrQnO4eAz7ui-dp3rAz2qVwe/w640-h426/3.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr></tbody></table></div><span style="font-size: medium;">If you look carefully, you should see the dam at the end of the lake. From what I understand this is a major source of water for the towns on the western side of the Sierra. Coincidentally, I have read about some of the people crossing this area in the late 1800s before this lake was here. It was a major trek trying to get through the river and down below.</span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDZbAkvNKEPr7H01xI08R_jvSUz4Fe4GHMU8wxGTXCKCEmfsRBQTResthJQhh3x26UY38G-89acIA2gxBUrpB6yi1tlQZxIMquJrNKiTvJnyhQvzUZAO4BIA1zIHq9J6UuKZUflGmQkOFKs8Vb1cQD92M2iSUxp6bESuugkF_yfsXn4FUBoS5k/s2700/4.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1800" data-original-width="2700" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDZbAkvNKEPr7H01xI08R_jvSUz4Fe4GHMU8wxGTXCKCEmfsRBQTResthJQhh3x26UY38G-89acIA2gxBUrpB6yi1tlQZxIMquJrNKiTvJnyhQvzUZAO4BIA1zIHq9J6UuKZUflGmQkOFKs8Vb1cQD92M2iSUxp6bESuugkF_yfsXn4FUBoS5k/w640-h426/4.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;">Looking at the dam. Again, the area has a nice trail and lots of trees like this surround the area. You are pretty safe walking around the paved trail here. However, if you go off trail and fall down it might take quite some time before you are found again. Keep this in mind.</span><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzWBgiEQkpEkl1q8LRV9Y0eZNYZzW0CBYxbIggRpv3mkXhvnDFEDyTIOVbUyg2EIBmZ91Bsrzu8h4xQI7jVSqEiHl1rqrIMnZBm5vrlePQhYWsjwSW9NueENbqjPIwETVrl27rcEpb9OL8fC8tq1C3u0uqcSXAfgsG_Jl42sNHmreFCvFpMFyS/s2700/5.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1800" data-original-width="2700" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzWBgiEQkpEkl1q8LRV9Y0eZNYZzW0CBYxbIggRpv3mkXhvnDFEDyTIOVbUyg2EIBmZ91Bsrzu8h4xQI7jVSqEiHl1rqrIMnZBm5vrlePQhYWsjwSW9NueENbqjPIwETVrl27rcEpb9OL8fC8tq1C3u0uqcSXAfgsG_Jl42sNHmreFCvFpMFyS/w640-h426/5.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">This is part of the parking lot. It goes into a circle from the main highway. If you look carefully you can see the rest rooms in the middle of the picture.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8VCDKG9BVr8GX0T8bXprcpNzyoqi6_MbSNO_YZWxdrzvI62wgl6Fod6Gcbh6En88uY_wgzB2BTiZg9EwtPUzHPISbseXhgJEqmK2VBpowDvpZESP6k-ihvlIqsqhO-lIRYUXAJ4dIoiHExccZHwZBSn0Jh9Rse8xnYAg0mBl5uGSxpV6iPI7d/s2700/6.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1800" data-original-width="2700" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8VCDKG9BVr8GX0T8bXprcpNzyoqi6_MbSNO_YZWxdrzvI62wgl6Fod6Gcbh6En88uY_wgzB2BTiZg9EwtPUzHPISbseXhgJEqmK2VBpowDvpZESP6k-ihvlIqsqhO-lIRYUXAJ4dIoiHExccZHwZBSn0Jh9Rse8xnYAg0mBl5uGSxpV6iPI7d/w640-h426/6.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The rest rooms. The paper that shows Nita Mayo as missing is the middle there and can be seen in my video. Interesting enough, another person that went missing a month before I visited and is still missing was listed right next to her, but that was somewhere in Yosemite. Many people have gone missing there to never to be found.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Let me give my assessment before I link my video and some of the articles I have seen. This area is isolated, but not as isolated as other places I have been at. There were a bunch of cars parked, families walking around the trail, and I never got the feeling I was ever really alone there. Lots of cars passed by as well, and there are campsites a few miles in each direction. So it was not as isolated as I had imaged it would be. Keep in mind this was in October in middle of the day. I am not sure what it is like during other times in the year or earlier or later in the day. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Yeah, the terrain is one that if you make a few mistakes you might not be found for a long time. Yet, it is hard to imagine not being found eventually over a period of time. This is puzzling.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">So, my conclusion is that in at least one of these cases foul play probably happened. I do not know enough about each case other than what I have seen on the internet and newspapers. So, I do not want to say anymore than that. If you follow this blog you know I always say something like, "nature does not play by rules." Well, when you are travelling in isolated areas that same idea applies. You need to be prepared for not only nature, but people you could encounter. 99.999% of people are good and helpful, but there is always that tiny % you just do not know about.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The video covers what I showed here, but I also used the opportunity to show some of the terrain one encounters in clips back to Sonora Pass:</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://youtu.be/CtodU5H4SEk"><span style="font-size: medium;">Donnel Vista: Scenic or Tragic?! (Youtube Video)</span></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Some articles:</span></div></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><div><a href="https://mcindependentnews.com/2018/08/13-years-later-still-no-answers-in-the-case-of-missing-hawthorne-nurse/"><span style="font-size: medium;">Mineral County Independent News Article</span></a></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><a href="http://charleyproject.org/case/nita-mary-mayo"><span style="font-size: medium;">Nita Mary Mayo Charley Project</span></a></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><a href="http://charleyproject.org/case/patricia-sue-tolhurst"><span style="font-size: medium;">Patricia Sue Tolhurst Charley Project</span></a></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><a href="http://charleyproject.org/case/breck-mcdowell-phelps"><span style="font-size: medium;">Breck McDowell Phelps Charley Project</span></a></div><div><div><br /></div></div>The Great Silencehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12113334878904728038noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33070863.post-19123304496789764882023-09-16T09:36:00.090-07:002023-10-01T11:08:23.834-07:00Flying Over Dana Point (Part 2)<p><span style="font-size: medium;"> Continuing from yesterday, this is my drone flight over Dana Point, but near the harbor.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgws8sShhcCCipErTikDjFImmlNp1DBSIsaFd_OWTdiVyWch1Zt5UKDZ_oTPEMmPNzj0I5pwa6tP-t1wDy0YLi4w4VcLoIyv7noTPxBSuOSTK-gK6vKMfhiZ9kcUomGbGuUIWGXEG6qsY8fdTBogRi8kne9lrx19CFbrv73KJE-gy_QIdm-xL_P/s4032/6%20for%20blog.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgws8sShhcCCipErTikDjFImmlNp1DBSIsaFd_OWTdiVyWch1Zt5UKDZ_oTPEMmPNzj0I5pwa6tP-t1wDy0YLi4w4VcLoIyv7noTPxBSuOSTK-gK6vKMfhiZ9kcUomGbGuUIWGXEG6qsY8fdTBogRi8kne9lrx19CFbrv73KJE-gy_QIdm-xL_P/w640-h480/6%20for%20blog.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;">This is the opening where all boats from the harbor must go to get to the open ocean. I usually whale watch with <i>Dana Wharf</i> which would be in the upper center part of the picture.</span></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2-hTbbLzKIl7HVpJ4DQjexqFL54HLmzmvEN9CT7SuOFlwwxdowBy4xAHJAD3ag7nCdTJY-KOQZyTZwht2KVtcE48x0nWMO31SV3GzFzRGZTeYBeYLCCb7UtT_WbFZJfz1fppstAo0hzdFf8BUCNIQnHMAJWCzQLq0XeeNuyJe-spffdiqpTkP/s4032/7%20for%20blog.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2-hTbbLzKIl7HVpJ4DQjexqFL54HLmzmvEN9CT7SuOFlwwxdowBy4xAHJAD3ag7nCdTJY-KOQZyTZwht2KVtcE48x0nWMO31SV3GzFzRGZTeYBeYLCCb7UtT_WbFZJfz1fppstAo0hzdFf8BUCNIQnHMAJWCzQLq0XeeNuyJe-spffdiqpTkP/w640-h480/7%20for%20blog.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;">This is heading back to where I was hanging out near the breakwater.</span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4roIoSfyljs79kzas4f3qnRNItQlnjq1lh_aK-BplDRuIqdKn9wA0Vmkn7kYA2Jz8Xii9zoYGiKRXr_R8Xl4bZCcq_8ES6nLNoHdTaCU_0l6cTwom1cSY7F2TtYvupVLclY04fKQj-rO9HkXyiBwIaVDsRAHydMt-45YU1OVWXaEXVW8l2zuz/s4032/8%20for%20blog.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4roIoSfyljs79kzas4f3qnRNItQlnjq1lh_aK-BplDRuIqdKn9wA0Vmkn7kYA2Jz8Xii9zoYGiKRXr_R8Xl4bZCcq_8ES6nLNoHdTaCU_0l6cTwom1cSY7F2TtYvupVLclY04fKQj-rO9HkXyiBwIaVDsRAHydMt-45YU1OVWXaEXVW8l2zuz/w640-h480/8%20for%20blog.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>The Ocean Institute</i></span> <span style="font-size: medium;">is mid-center on the right. Lots of kids go there to learn. I know some public schools have their kids raise money to go there. I know parents that send them there for the summer programs that were going on while I was there.</span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiq13w7QHr10GHRTTZMzQTMEZh8oNlNM1YTtf2Pj462wFmlP-8ia_HRF_ikxPlfaJkRWGM56jDjwbHusVwbhg3bizZaA5TZzhEOhVwjnJMg9te-3-UmkdkhTJxYONnFwrQNTQE1T2NxCQXhByJx1gdNIWX6FtheaSfEIKwaYnlr6uTaYNkpvGfi/s4032/9%20for%20blog.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiq13w7QHr10GHRTTZMzQTMEZh8oNlNM1YTtf2Pj462wFmlP-8ia_HRF_ikxPlfaJkRWGM56jDjwbHusVwbhg3bizZaA5TZzhEOhVwjnJMg9te-3-UmkdkhTJxYONnFwrQNTQE1T2NxCQXhByJx1gdNIWX6FtheaSfEIKwaYnlr6uTaYNkpvGfi/w640-h480/9%20for%20blog.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;">Finally, upper center is the kids beach location that families can take their little kids to for a beach experience. Although I have not spent much time there, I do think it is a great place for the little ones since it is pretty safe from what I can tell. </span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">In closing, I love going to Dana Point a few times a year. It is a nice area that is relatively easy to get in and out for tourists compared to the other beaches in the Orange County/Los Angeles area. </span></div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://youtu.be/KeJdory9wZU">Flying Over Dana Point (4K) Youtube</a></div>The Great Silencehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12113334878904728038noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33070863.post-78217935853820125002023-09-15T09:35:00.005-07:002023-10-01T11:08:35.068-07:00Flying Over Dana Point (Part 1)<p><span style="font-size: medium;"> The next "Fly Over" I wanted to show was a drone flight I did back in July. Turns out I went a few times both to fly the drone and to whale watch. I flew the drone each time I went, but only once was the weather clear enough to what I was after. That is what I will be showing.</span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7VBVX8mcVfZhPILZD0LhC-b8-_MoDwgLGAQYvnbBlysIuAKcme-VfPUs0uAa17W3ZTI7wYQ8OVI6jeVxy8o3RLC2KKnDWcmQNXt_OpVS9w-LhJJNaPabPIXPfqn1vQaS8SQM7jMry1GPrsnA0SWNNc23K1FTEM4Pr3ZRUgUEFRY5cIeVR02Pe/s4032/1%20for%20blog.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7VBVX8mcVfZhPILZD0LhC-b8-_MoDwgLGAQYvnbBlysIuAKcme-VfPUs0uAa17W3ZTI7wYQ8OVI6jeVxy8o3RLC2KKnDWcmQNXt_OpVS9w-LhJJNaPabPIXPfqn1vQaS8SQM7jMry1GPrsnA0SWNNc23K1FTEM4Pr3ZRUgUEFRY5cIeVR02Pe/w640-h480/1%20for%20blog.jpg" width="640" /></a><span style="font-size: large;">I flew from the around the breakwater out to a bunch of boats and then looked back at Dana Point right here. There is a nature trail you can see on the land that I will have to investigate someday. I know you are not allowed to fly drones from there, so I did not even bother trying to do anything there.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwFCT90PpY0GGwqW48iddWgH7-Z0bs2rXYZsmGLUeKZEKBAj2L8NJK-99RRFYrFSsVW-6uB8Qnbi7r8dtDBjw-nJMuOEnXVfDhbOb38UFa_JbxeTVFrfGpfHVwm1h1IaoRIHa13w2VXbepG623XQauFlbF77YDno-cPj2um7tyZxHO9-0bfzUi/s4032/2%20for%20blog.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwFCT90PpY0GGwqW48iddWgH7-Z0bs2rXYZsmGLUeKZEKBAj2L8NJK-99RRFYrFSsVW-6uB8Qnbi7r8dtDBjw-nJMuOEnXVfDhbOb38UFa_JbxeTVFrfGpfHVwm1h1IaoRIHa13w2VXbepG623XQauFlbF77YDno-cPj2um7tyZxHO9-0bfzUi/w640-h480/2%20for%20blog.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">This is looking toward Laguna Beach. It was nice to get this shot since I could not see Laguna Beach from where I was at. </span></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhg3qMqLgqvjYTDjcA5SkCjTZg2zeLiWvEi_bMx374fg6Qmx7ZogjsN2qNWy5hCjYCvdHSO2PIkUbQIhb2JYnci6mqKQQc76hpwSJ9K-1ZOfBR0ugfZqZzRMcn9SsH8f1j6pnjeI_JlcJIIWBTUOs1Fwd_4tlnBWqeTdYO2azMJz5GqnqT0towt/s4032/3%20for%20blog.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhg3qMqLgqvjYTDjcA5SkCjTZg2zeLiWvEi_bMx374fg6Qmx7ZogjsN2qNWy5hCjYCvdHSO2PIkUbQIhb2JYnci6mqKQQc76hpwSJ9K-1ZOfBR0ugfZqZzRMcn9SsH8f1j6pnjeI_JlcJIIWBTUOs1Fwd_4tlnBWqeTdYO2azMJz5GqnqT0towt/w640-h480/3%20for%20blog.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-size: large;">More of the rocky Dana Point.</span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7g5wiAH99GmiyN_tGJcuAYe45gNhVPx53Rb1KE79UNiiwTAZ2quqApguUKMNzExGpG-_rMEMN57ZPrtqHZlAouKjZlLY27Ea1mMUdePAGnF6kjdx6R-UJU1rNDXbizw0nt5nV09UV-M9uFhI-VoJqyhhF0sxesIaWQM5IJxy9_JbBQa82uaB1/s4032/4%20for%20blog.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7g5wiAH99GmiyN_tGJcuAYe45gNhVPx53Rb1KE79UNiiwTAZ2quqApguUKMNzExGpG-_rMEMN57ZPrtqHZlAouKjZlLY27Ea1mMUdePAGnF6kjdx6R-UJU1rNDXbizw0nt5nV09UV-M9uFhI-VoJqyhhF0sxesIaWQM5IJxy9_JbBQa82uaB1/w640-h480/4%20for%20blog.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">Looking back at where I was at and Dana Point Harbor. In theory, on a low tide you could walk all the way around you see.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">Tomorrow I will continue this showing the harbor area.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><a href="https://youtu.be/KeJdory9wZU"><span style="font-size: medium;">Flying Over Dana Point (4K) Youtube</span></a></div>The Great Silencehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12113334878904728038noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33070863.post-82655190463655775002023-09-09T10:00:00.013-07:002023-09-15T09:36:03.997-07:00Flying Over Lundy<p><span style="font-size: medium;"> In the past few years I flew one of my older drones over some of the lakes and other Eastern Sierra areas that I called "The Silmaril Series" to highlight a few gems with aerial photography. I decided to transition into something I am calling the "Flying Over..." series. I have gotten a little braver in flying my drones longer distances. The emphasis is more on my videos in doing this than the pictures, but I will still take pictures. In the future there might be some repetition as I might fly over the same areas, but hopefully during different times of the year or with other weather conditions. Also, it is mostly over lakes for now, but if I see dry areas I think are worth flying then I will show them.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">So, there was a long winter this past year that really caused a lot of water runoff in areas I had never seen streams before. In May, the ice and snow had not quite melted as it would through June and July which created new streams. When I was in the Eastern Sierra during May I noticed a lot of lakes had a murky look to them where trees and other plant life were in the water due to the high levels of the lakes. However, when I went to Lundy Lake the icy snow on the mountain side had not melted yet. I assume a lot more water went into the lake over the summer because of this.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcypxEKFr4i-yKfJeBJon6l4znSwEYlVKK8L_8xes4NiCpS0Jzw8FEDpNoKzYycU4iCPAzpjjDupcT9qw3SXUZPTOnBSTvzO5abDuKdkFtIzoQwvys9wfHUpx4w9_dcSgmGX6YH5AnH6RL21WVW3lOOPeJAYH5c1XCggFFJnu1CPVF7TVoeFhP/s3896/Lundy%201%20for%20blog.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2752" data-original-width="3896" height="452" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcypxEKFr4i-yKfJeBJon6l4znSwEYlVKK8L_8xes4NiCpS0Jzw8FEDpNoKzYycU4iCPAzpjjDupcT9qw3SXUZPTOnBSTvzO5abDuKdkFtIzoQwvys9wfHUpx4w9_dcSgmGX6YH5AnH6RL21WVW3lOOPeJAYH5c1XCggFFJnu1CPVF7TVoeFhP/w640-h452/Lundy%201%20for%20blog.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p><span style="font-size: medium;">So, I flew the drone from the other side of the lake and took this picture. A bunch of people were fishing at the lake.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPYTE7a4d9aH6uKWi5FL9tosN-ubljmTXUyS4nqe-C499mOpFk9Nz6bR7WYN6lOwhmthAqNNVCgjt7B1vzwD_EN-zbA26QbZywiKMePqAzKREzmE6QoIKIoHlhGfUzGe6xEi7DI4gNB34grbnRyFiWIYCPrGSNLSI0hcquPkkImglRpuwJ6vKw/s3512/Lundy%202%20for%20Blog.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2496" data-original-width="3512" height="454" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPYTE7a4d9aH6uKWi5FL9tosN-ubljmTXUyS4nqe-C499mOpFk9Nz6bR7WYN6lOwhmthAqNNVCgjt7B1vzwD_EN-zbA26QbZywiKMePqAzKREzmE6QoIKIoHlhGfUzGe6xEi7DI4gNB34grbnRyFiWIYCPrGSNLSI0hcquPkkImglRpuwJ6vKw/w640-h454/Lundy%202%20for%20Blog.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;">As I pointed out, a lot more water was going to get into that lake this summer. </span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhv9wNwvA4NoaDL9R5803tdhJa9CQK6EQ4MHftpcslwu8kYk_clvIkCodQz6o-5jnGxtx7cmmDhRaCsQY97PB8noFlvcbneO0mAhUwhRQH-iR4h6Om-UMPFvACEdpZfSE1FcVvZV3YSWA7YxMROVz93LPuJP5bEo7PjNdc9mGZkLbKCr8Dc-IYU/s3480/Lundy%203%20for%20blog.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2592" data-original-width="3480" height="476" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhv9wNwvA4NoaDL9R5803tdhJa9CQK6EQ4MHftpcslwu8kYk_clvIkCodQz6o-5jnGxtx7cmmDhRaCsQY97PB8noFlvcbneO0mAhUwhRQH-iR4h6Om-UMPFvACEdpZfSE1FcVvZV3YSWA7YxMROVz93LPuJP5bEo7PjNdc9mGZkLbKCr8Dc-IYU/w640-h476/Lundy%203%20for%20blog.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div><span style="font-size: medium;">This is from the side I launched from which is by the "town" of Lundy. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXxFhaBRbDWL8Gm2lNPF_pktJ8meOGe07RP0EtC-c_saG8vACLPTWhjx27IhsPet1WezFhpzmXh_HZ4BW2YoPVNT3oNGjfobt1wqF2fcF_NazXPX0bO5_opT5xpeOJPv1SFo64_MK-i7Jhtc_mlD29golYQ63j-aKF59XvRw7oneZ46S3QJbgB/s3667/Lundy%205%20for%20blog.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2673" data-original-width="3667" height="466" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXxFhaBRbDWL8Gm2lNPF_pktJ8meOGe07RP0EtC-c_saG8vACLPTWhjx27IhsPet1WezFhpzmXh_HZ4BW2YoPVNT3oNGjfobt1wqF2fcF_NazXPX0bO5_opT5xpeOJPv1SFo64_MK-i7Jhtc_mlD29golYQ63j-aKF59XvRw7oneZ46S3QJbgB/w640-h466/Lundy%205%20for%20blog.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div><span style="font-size: medium;">I circled the house (with a blue color) that collapsed with too much snow over the winter. A lot of houses and cabins needed repairs this past summer.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">Please check out this video I did for this on Youtube:</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><a href="https://youtu.be/gozJyvTlkh8" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: medium;">Flying Over Lundy (Youtube)</span></a></div>The Great Silencehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12113334878904728038noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33070863.post-78370418018555323062023-04-19T10:00:00.180-07:002023-10-22T10:45:13.815-07:00Memories of Lago<p><span style="font-size: medium;"> So today marks the 50th anniversary of the U.S. release of <i>High Plains Drifter.</i> It came out on April 19, 1973. Like a lot of movies, it did have a limited premiere release about two weeks before for a few cities, but I decided to use today's date as the official 50th anniversary. I started to prepare for this date about two years ago.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Yes, I had thought about another trip to Lago over the years. The pictures and video I took way back were good for the time, but over the years I told myself if technology improves where I can video the place at 4k and 60fps then I will do it again. Then during the pandemic period I watched a lot of blu-ray commentaries. One being <i>High Plains Drifter</i> with director and Italian western historian Alex Cox. It was after that I decided I need to get back to Lago, and another place that will be for some other time. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">There was a slight disappointment since the last time I had been here. When I came back during the summers of 2021 and 2022 some things had definitely changed. The dirt road has more sagebrush overgrowth on it now. </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkTK9UfnVQO0_MAVB9nf_P2opkABpTjNPLxgYvSM7WbHAZWUzwETSQmLJOqJnlcg-3rwLZ3TEaXLKgfpv4oJj1wrnoG3F5r6mY9G-Xrd3t37w9PMdACgs-dNiOJZ3KGdu1-gemw_WO3I_dsKW-KZdE97ZMT8nwFimALFK8t9xAI1m48qkqdw/s1806/s1.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="753" data-original-width="1806" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkTK9UfnVQO0_MAVB9nf_P2opkABpTjNPLxgYvSM7WbHAZWUzwETSQmLJOqJnlcg-3rwLZ3TEaXLKgfpv4oJj1wrnoG3F5r6mY9G-Xrd3t37w9PMdACgs-dNiOJZ3KGdu1-gemw_WO3I_dsKW-KZdE97ZMT8nwFimALFK8t9xAI1m48qkqdw/w640-h266/s1.png" width="640" /></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;">You can definitely see it in my picture below compared to the movie picture. The main dirt road is still there, but the road one hikes to in order to get to Lago is missing. Well, sort of, I can see traces of it in my picture if I compare to the one above.</span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyStOEA0mZ9jEC6UKWI4aY25InwMCSrUIABjpJi3pgKPeBFFYK3FJY98zLYEoqgBgsKp05Ofv4r8PPQKoMnEBa-X_-cEwc8tBSSNIf93n4a2mmQEj4mN8nMJg8BNr6rTEGxDrgQaBIYOfJacHF8_Jxqm09Fk74yZc2Db_7J6YsGVAWtkd50g/s2733/1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1800" data-original-width="2733" height="422" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyStOEA0mZ9jEC6UKWI4aY25InwMCSrUIABjpJi3pgKPeBFFYK3FJY98zLYEoqgBgsKp05Ofv4r8PPQKoMnEBa-X_-cEwc8tBSSNIf93n4a2mmQEj4mN8nMJg8BNr6rTEGxDrgQaBIYOfJacHF8_Jxqm09Fk74yZc2Db_7J6YsGVAWtkd50g/w640-h422/1.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;">It used to be there was a sign warning people not to drive vehicles in that could not handle the dirt road there. I never drove in there since I have never had the vehicle that does it. I assume most people would not.</span><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">Here is what I was told. A bunch of people that did not have the proper 4WD off-road vehicle went in and were getting stuck in the area. So, the powers at be just blocked the road off. You can still hike in like I thought most people would do, but the issue is that now the sagebrush is growing all over the old dirt road.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHfO4icQxTqdj895XRBKNb7obKbtuJYJVAuGy1eVKkv58ZgB-_vSw8hjaVy8v9TMZYzseEajtTIoJpPQxphVO8a1mm6JMaaBze_nHNJ8Ur_pmPI3MuCK2YfLmA78FTlkQNQINEwTDe8sX-nruWEZSWNM8GqalkZKGUpiMoNbV5XJVAUJoczA/s1818/s2.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="741" data-original-width="1818" height="260" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHfO4icQxTqdj895XRBKNb7obKbtuJYJVAuGy1eVKkv58ZgB-_vSw8hjaVy8v9TMZYzseEajtTIoJpPQxphVO8a1mm6JMaaBze_nHNJ8Ur_pmPI3MuCK2YfLmA78FTlkQNQINEwTDe8sX-nruWEZSWNM8GqalkZKGUpiMoNbV5XJVAUJoczA/w640-h260/s2.png" width="640" /></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;">So compared to what I was showing back around 2010-2012, the road through town is not as obvious.</span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCSY2YGSij0VI5IOAvxILXRWAm7mCi8i2Hh-EfCw5NbmjD-oJMx5NCNQ5vWAmRbg63dzSjw0dpfnjxnPUegYWLE7_PLPpQwolrFPvzR4iHtOBjCYadRFUSCUAdrLnpYcxeEn1RtxCMoj051mFHmq5XUJb5Z0CrP_IYy2jx4mo39R-dKOHLgw/s2700/2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1800" data-original-width="2700" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCSY2YGSij0VI5IOAvxILXRWAm7mCi8i2Hh-EfCw5NbmjD-oJMx5NCNQ5vWAmRbg63dzSjw0dpfnjxnPUegYWLE7_PLPpQwolrFPvzR4iHtOBjCYadRFUSCUAdrLnpYcxeEn1RtxCMoj051mFHmq5XUJb5Z0CrP_IYy2jx4mo39R-dKOHLgw/w640-h426/2.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div><span style="font-size: medium;">Fortunately, as I was walking, I could tell where the dirt road through town was. The rocky tufa formation on the left is still there. It was a situation that you can tell when you are there, but it is not as obvious in my pictures.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">So, this is another reason I am a little down on letting the public know exactly where certain areas are now. It is not like it used to be. All it takes is a few people to mess things up by being careless that it ruins it for everyone else. </span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">I say in the video it would be nice if some people got together to restore the dirt road for fans of the movie. I know that is not realistic these days, but you never know.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">The video I think works, but the conditions were not what I had hoped for. Lots of clouds making it really hazy. </span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><a href="https://youtu.be/g882a2m5YH0"><span style="font-size: medium;">Memories of Lago (Youtube)<br /></span></a><p><span style="font-size: medium;">With that out of the way I originally had planned a total of three videos to be released by around this summer. The second video I had put together was a "Silence of Lago" that used alternative footage. The third video was the same area as the video I call "Clint Spooks 'Em". The second video has the same hazy weather conditions as "Memories". So, I am putting that one off until I can go back on a different day. The third video will come out at some point, but I am not sure when that will be. So, I am not done with this area. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">This is the U.S. version of High Plains Drifter with the commentary I was talking about. It has the 4kHD and the regular Blu-Ray: <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Plains-Drifter-4KUHD-Clint-Eastwood/dp/B0BDNJJ9ZS/ref=tmm_blu_title_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1681580573&sr=8-6">HPD on Amazon.com.</a></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">For all my old blogs on this site click the label here. Please note it starts with the latest blog and goes all the way back as you scroll down: <a href="http://the-great-silence.blogspot.com/search/label/Mono%20Lake%20Clint%20Eastwood%20High%20Plains%20Drifter">Mono Lake Clint Eastwood High Plains Drifter</a>.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Music used in the video: </span></p><p><a href="https://filmmusic.io/song/4617-western-streets"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span face=""Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><span>"Western Streets" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)</span></span><span face=""Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License</span><span face=""Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/</span></span></a></p></div>The Great Silencehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12113334878904728038noreply@blogger.com