A Kuna Crest Traverse

Submitted by scott on Mon, 02/19/2018 - 11:03

A day hike, circa '75, of the Kuna Crest, Yosemite National Park. The little blue flag marks the spot where the photo of myself, on the Kuna Glacier crevasse, was taken (see my home page). Click on the Traverse Pages to follow the trail.  This set of pages consists of twelve (12) sections - pages that contain an image map with clickable icons.  Each icon links to a page with a photograph I took on the hike as well as an Google Earth Image of the approximate location of where the photo was taken.

Kuna Crest from Lyell Canyon

Submitted by scott on Wed, 12/27/2017 - 14:00

This is the first test of a slide scanner I just purchased, the jumbl digital film scanner/converter. I was most concerned about being able to download the images from it's internal memory onto my Ubuntu computer. All the documentation talks about is Windows and Apples. But, following the same directions it has for connecting to Windows the unit mounted onto my file system and I simple copied the scanned jpeg image and loaded it into Gimp. This particular image comes from sometime in the early '70's. I no longer have the date but I can still recognize the location.

Following the Equator: Chapter XXXV

Submitted by scott on Sun, 11/26/2017 - 13:27
Maori Women with Feather Robes

Twain begins this chapter by proclaiming the virtues of the New Zealand Railways, the Ballarat Flyer in particular. The Ballarat Flyer, however, seems to be a fictitious railroad. His 50 mile journey from Palmerston North to Whanganui was aboard "The Napier Express", which ran from Napier to Wellington, and not all of this line was as pleasant as the leg to Whanganui.

The War Memorial at Whanganui:

https://nzhistory.govt.nz/media/photo/moutoa-gardens-nz-wars-memorial

A Study in Scarlet

Submitted by scott on Sat, 11/18/2017 - 12:56

A study in Scarlet is Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's first Sherlock Holmes adventure, a novel wherein much of the action takes place in the American West.  We are first introduced to John H. Watson, M.D., Late of the Army Medical Department.  Seeking a roommate, he is introduced to Sherlock Holmes.  The second chapter is an introduction to Holmes's Science of Deduction. Sherlock is invited to the scene of the crime in the third chapter by Scotland Yard detective Tobias Gregson, Lestrade is also present at the scene of the crime.  

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