Quick and dirty ride into the mountains yesterday.
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Quick and dirty ride into the mountains yesterday.
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Brought this forward from previous page. Don't want anyone to miss this... the night sky as I seldom see it. Light pollution is a bummer.
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Out and back from 10 days on another fire. Rum Creek Fire Oregon. Near Grants Pass/Rogue River County. Another outfit we have come to know well from being on so many fires together needed someone to fill in while they were short handed. Great guys and had another chance to make a little bit more $ and see an area that I haven't seen before.
He operates a very specialized piece of equipment. I've seen it in action many times. We were clearing roadsides of dead and downed. I loved it when he would grab a tree and used it like a big bat, swinging it and mowing down 10 or 15 other trees. It is an extension of his arm and hand, but also equipped with a big ass chainsaw.
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Putting a sharpened chain on. Big one.
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Then.....on the way home. Plowed a jackrabbit at 70mph in the middle of the night. Stopped to see if any damage to the car as far as leaking fluids. None. Proceeded for more than a 100 miles before observing the next morning in one of my photos... an odd thing sticking out of the grill. See for yourself...
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Hit the hill today. Was a beautiful day.
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Beautiful pictures through the entire thread!
Thanks! Appreciate the reminder of how long this thread has gotten.Quote:
Originally Posted by Hopeless Sinner
I have been a little spare in my contributions lately though. On one hand I have been busy with life. Cleaning up my little property. Hauling off years of useless shit I have collected through 40 years of living here. Where the fuck did all this shit come from?
On the other hand? Mountain biking. I know I said in the past that I would never get real serious about it. I was wrong. So wrong. It is exceptionally good fun. And even though these are e-bikes, we have been able to get plenty of exercise. Transitioned into snowboarding with legs ready to go.
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Many of you know how old I am (67) and that I suffered a cardiac arrest 10 years ago. Was able to boot it up to the top of 'The Ugly' at Targhee on Sunday. No small feat (for me) ....
But there's this thing... this thought of one day that I will see a place for the last time. I visited the Upper Palisades Lake this summer. I have been to the upper end of the lake a dozen times or more over my life. It is incredibly beautiful. But....I will never visit it again. I said my goodbyes. I've run out of time.
I am now and again prompted to look at the past through my photos going back nearly 20 digital years. I can look at all the September photos I have taken at a glance. Or October. You get the picture. Anyways... it always gets me how many photos I have taken and how when I look back at them, it triggers strong, sometimes overwhelming feelings about life and what it all means. Try looking at a photos of your children 40 years later. Smells can trigger that shit too. Sagebrush after a rain. Burning leaves. Fresh cut alfalfa. The distant smell of a skunk. Some music can do it too. Lots of reflection comes with these episodes, and as I grow old, yes I'm old, these thoughts and feelings come more often. More intense.
It is what I call my 'dying days'.... going to use them wisely. Will I boot Targhee again? Fuck yeah. But any remote lake I visit will be a new one. Any peak I climb will be a new one.
The wifey was pissed about the bike purchase. Bought 2. Major decision that I made without her approval. I spent 80 days on the fires this season. Felt I earned them after the hard work. I gave her the rest of the $ and just said I'm not waiting until I die to get them. 'Couldn't you get cheaper ones?' she asked.... It is hard to explain to someone who doesn't like or care about this sort of stuff. It isn't her style. At all. She has been OK with it...but like I said...she doesn't get it. She's been a pretty good sport about it though. She can see what it does for me.
Anyway...enough words...I will post some more photos later, snowed a buttload last night, gotta finish shoveling the driveway.
Also....don't feel too bad for my wife, she is planning a trip home next summer, by way of Isle of Man (her ancestral home) to see her older half brother who she has never met in person, and to see her 3 (full) brothers, 1 being her twin, in SA, perhaps for the last time. She will stay a couple of months. :-)
Who is cutting onions in here? Wishing you health and many more great memories LBL. Your photos and words are beautiful.
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( gotta) go - but I will come back to this.
I understand LBL - BUTT ! You ain't dying, You are living, kind of Extra Large !
( so. let's pick it up Here -
Thank you for your friendship , And . . . your Example - I have nothing but admiration and Respect for You my friend ! !! )
live ON ! !!! tj
It's funny you mentioned U Palisades. In 1985 I was assigned to a fire near the UP as a falling boss. We were spiked out on a ridge above the lake. It was the first and only time I got laid in a fire camp. What a beautiful place!
Thank you. You understand what I mean. I hope for you the same... and more.Quote:
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You and I have talked about some of this. Life is complicated and brutally hard sometimes. But it can be at times the opposite. That's why when the boy says let's hit Targhee on Sunday by hell we will hit it. Hard. Never ever have I regreted going snowboarding, even the day I suffered the 'heart issue'. That says something. Every day I am reminded of the fact that tomorrow may not come. But....I am luckier than most.Quote:
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If anyone wants to know how I feel about everything.... listen to 'Those Were The Days' by the Old 97's. It comes real close.
Well, I'm not sure how to reply to that.. But I will say that you are also luckier than most. ;-)Quote:
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Couple more shots from Sunday.
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And a few mtb shots from not so many days ago.
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Millie, arguably the best behaved doggo on the hill.
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Just some random shots...new and old.
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Just your typical . . .ly Grrreat stuff, JB !Quote:
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FkN-A., my friend
roll ON ! tj
Officially employed at LTPM. Dec 1 tentative opening date. Earlier if enough snow.
On the way up yesterday.
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My #privateidaho
https://youtu.be/kxHJ7xeZJrg
What is LTPM?
Guessing Lost Trail Powder Mt. Aren't you in Ririe, LBL? That's a haul...
Last spring my wife and I searched for a nice used travel trailer and found one that looked great and a nice price. I believe it was a 2009. Anyway...financing approved and went to take delivery. I was in New Mexico on a fire, but my son and wife watched as the dealer brought the trailer up from the lot to the main office. They forgot to retract the tip out....and tore it completely off as it hit a gate pole.Quote:
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Anyway long story short we got a brand new trailer for nearly the same price.
I'll be staying in it at a spot near the resort. Pulling it up Saturday.
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The hill is open Thursday through Sunday much of the season. I can come home once a week to do laundry and whatnot.
Looking south from the Gilmore Summit. I love this long stretch of lonely af road. Have climbed several high points in this photo.
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