Feb 11-12, 2009, Sasse Ridge
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Jane and I went back to Sasse Ridge this Wed-Thursday, and I can say that I finally felt like I was skiing instead of just going from here to there. There was about 3 inches new on the valley floor to 4 inches at our campsite, this having fallen the day before. It cleared off sometime during the night and the temp dropped to around 11 degrees (3800 ft) before the fog came back in about 5 am.
We started out at 6 am in the fog and the dark, but by the time we got to the ridge top ~5150', we had come out on top of the clouds. The sun sure felt good, especially with my Raynaud's. By the way, Clem might be interested to hear that I've now tried the experimental drug we discussed at Navaho Pass this last summer two times now, in the field. Results are 'very promising' as they say. If it keeps working, we might have to set up a clinical trial. No, I'm not mentioning the drug right now. (TAYers would just laugh.)
We went up to 'Dawg Peak' (5760') and had an *excellent* run back to the tents, with depths up to 6 inches, mostly very light new, but here and there some strange crust 3 inches down. In fact, the skiing was quite nice all the way to the car.
This trip I started playing with some bracketed photos to generate high dynamic range images, but I won't have them processed for a while.
Maybe this will do instead: a panorama from what I call 'Second Pass'. (It's the second pass you come to on the way to Jolly.) The horizontal field of view is 153 degrees. There are two versions, one with labels and one without. Im sure there are some errors, as did these rather quickly. If you spot any, I hope you will let me know and save me death by embarrassment. :)
The links with a thumbnail below:
http://www.larryscascaderesource.com/HDView/2ndPass/2dnPass.html
http://www.larryscascaderesource.com/HDView/2ndPassLabeled/2ndPassLabeled.html
[edited to add that these pans use HD View from Microsoft Research; allow the plug-in to install if you have not already done so. I'm told that soon I will not need to generate a separate set of files for other operating systems; that for Linux and the Mac, MS Silverlight will automatically be used. Nice!]
We were lucky; shortly after we left the high point, clouds and fog moved in from the east. At least it preserved the snow from the now ever warmer sun.
Larry
We started out at 6 am in the fog and the dark, but by the time we got to the ridge top ~5150', we had come out on top of the clouds. The sun sure felt good, especially with my Raynaud's. By the way, Clem might be interested to hear that I've now tried the experimental drug we discussed at Navaho Pass this last summer two times now, in the field. Results are 'very promising' as they say. If it keeps working, we might have to set up a clinical trial. No, I'm not mentioning the drug right now. (TAYers would just laugh.)
We went up to 'Dawg Peak' (5760') and had an *excellent* run back to the tents, with depths up to 6 inches, mostly very light new, but here and there some strange crust 3 inches down. In fact, the skiing was quite nice all the way to the car.
This trip I started playing with some bracketed photos to generate high dynamic range images, but I won't have them processed for a while.
Maybe this will do instead: a panorama from what I call 'Second Pass'. (It's the second pass you come to on the way to Jolly.) The horizontal field of view is 153 degrees. There are two versions, one with labels and one without. Im sure there are some errors, as did these rather quickly. If you spot any, I hope you will let me know and save me death by embarrassment. :)
The links with a thumbnail below:
http://www.larryscascaderesource.com/HDView/2ndPass/2dnPass.html
http://www.larryscascaderesource.com/HDView/2ndPassLabeled/2ndPassLabeled.html
[edited to add that these pans use HD View from Microsoft Research; allow the plug-in to install if you have not already done so. I'm told that soon I will not need to generate a separate set of files for other operating systems; that for Linux and the Mac, MS Silverlight will automatically be used. Nice!]
We were lucky; shortly after we left the high point, clouds and fog moved in from the east. At least it preserved the snow from the now ever warmer sun.
Larry
Good stuff as always.
Re: Reynaud's -- do you know if it can come on late, or is it the kind of thing that you have from birth? I've got a friend who's having some hand-issues that are similar to another friend with Reynaud's...
Re: Reynaud's -- do you know if it can come on late, or is it the kind of thing that you have from birth? I've got a friend who's having some hand-issues that are similar to another friend with Reynaud's...
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Good stuff as always.
Re: Reynaud's -- do you know if it can come on late, or is it the kind of thing that you have from birth?
Thanks Marcus,
Here's a link to a nice little article about Raynaud's from the Mayo Clinic:
http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/raynauds-disease/DS00433/DSECTION=symptoms
Although it's stated here that the onset is often between 15 and 25, it seems to me (completely off the top of my head) :) that it also quite commonly develops between the 4th and 5th decade. Although the preponderance of cases are among women, quite a number of men get it too, especially us more 'mature' folks who have spent a lot of time in the cold. Prior cold injury may be a precursor to Raynauds.
This is just speculation, but it occurs to me that many of us baby boomers, born just after WWII, were exposed to a lot of outdoor family activities that were inexpensive, but where being cold was just the way it was. These were not things the prior generation may have engaged in to as great an extent because of the depression and other factors. When I was a kid, my sister and I would ski all day with our hands numb; we thought nothing of it. And we would swim in Puget Sound, where the idea was to tough it out until you went numb; then you had about a half hour of enjoyable swimming. I guess we became borderline hypothermic as a mater of course. I'm wondering if Raynaud's later in life is a potential price to pay as a result.
Larry
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