tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-85752282024-03-18T22:03:26.706-06:00Steve Joyce's BLOGThis blog is mostly just a record of the photographs I have been taking. It gives a bit of a view of what I have been up to lately, as I have learned to take my camera most everywhere.
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Steve JoyceAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04887737827462692531noreply@blogger.comBlogger1595125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8575228.post-56800075498055680062016-05-25T13:28:00.002-06:002016-05-25T13:28:24.400-06:00This morning's baby marmotsThe kids are growing up in a hurry, I had to stop and let Jasper watch for a while before Julie and I go to California.<br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04887737827462692531noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8575228.post-90580125953367263672016-02-10T13:07:00.001-07:002016-02-10T13:07:53.941-07:00The heating pad in our garage fridgeJust thought I would share this odd little battle with physics.<br />
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We have a standard fridge out in our garage. Its freezer compartment is in the bottom, although after a while I realized that made no difference. The problem is that the refrigerator compartment was doing just fine, but the ice cream in the freezer kept melting. I assumed it was the door not closing completely, which had occurred once or twice, so I order a <a href="http://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B004QJVU78?psc=1&redirect=true&ref_=oh_aui_detailpage_o04_s00">remote thermometer with two sensors</a> that would alarm at certain temperature settings.<br />
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Watching it for a few days, I noticed that the refrigerator compartment was holding around 36 degrees, which is just fine. The freezer was varying from 3 to 20, which way too warm. That in itself was a lesson for me. I thought anything below 32 was freezing, so 20 would be dandy. A freezer should really sit between -10 and 0. Not everything freezes at 32.<br />
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I set the temperature for the freezer to "Coldest" but that had no effect. So I did what we all do and went to Google. It didn't take too long to learn that I was not unique in the world and that a GE service call would do me no good. First, the speced operating temperature for the fridge starts at 60 F. That was a clue that they weren't supposed to work at cold temperatures. Then I learned that there is no thermostat in the freezer, only the refrigerator. When you change the freezer "temperature" setting, all you are doing is controlling a damper that forces more or less of the cold air into the freezer.<br />
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So, the problem with a fridge in a cold space is that the refrigerator stays cold. Our garage is about 40, so that compartment is almost always happy. You could just leave the door open. That means the compressor never gets turned on. The freezer then slowly heats to the same temperature as the garage. Mystery solved! Now, what in the world do you do about it.<br />
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Once answer is to buy a special garage fridge, which is controlled differently and costs about 3 times as much as a really nice fridge. I went with plan B (cheap). I bought this <a href="http://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B000NVC7DO">little $25 heating pad</a> designed to keep your animals warm. It is a 25 watt pad, giving about as much heat as a pair of night lights. I plugged it in and stuck it in the fridge. Now, every once in a while, it warms up enough in the refrigerator compartment to force the compressor on. A little fine tuning and I have the freezer running right where I need it. For a while, it was actually getting way too cold. Come spring or summer, I will pull the heating pad out and let Mother Nature keep the garage warm enough.<br />
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Seems silly to stick a warming device into a fridge but this was by far the best of the alternatives. If the compressor was running too much, I would have returned the heating pad and gotten one that was closer to 15 watts.<br />
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I wondered why I hadn't had this problem before. Next door we had a full freezer, and it was in the house. Back in NC, we didn't have too many days with lows below zero. I guess if I lived elsewhere, I might have to worry about the compressor overheating. Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04887737827462692531noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8575228.post-308288298195690592016-02-08T14:34:00.001-07:002016-02-08T14:34:56.487-07:00U.S. Snowboarding & Freeskiing Grand PrixIt was a big weekend of competitive ski and snowboard events here in Park City.On Friday I went over to see the skiers hit the PCMR halfpipe and on Saturday I returned to watch the snowboarders. These young athletes are incredible to watch. In addition to their obvious skiing and gymnastic skills, they are obviously both brave and a bit of crazy.<br />
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I have always noticed that the snowboarders come further out of the pipe than the skiers. Just the same, let's do some quick math. The top of the pipe is 22' off the bottom. Those are 6' guys standing on the rim. The skier looks to be another 15 feet above them. That means he is about 40 feet above the base of the pipe.<br />
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A flyby. It looks so static, but they are in the middle of some number of twists and flips. Looks like they just stopped by for a visit.<br />
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Another view of how high they get. At least this guy is looking down.<br />
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But sometimes bad things happen, like landing on the rim instead of dropping down the steep wall. That means you stop suddenly and with a lot of force. Fortunately he was ok.<br />
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Patriotic.<br />
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The next day was the boarders. Kind of like the skiers not going as high as the boarders, the women don't go as high as the men.<br />
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Until 15 year old Chloe Kim comes along. She is the women's version of Shawn White. When she does her run, she seems to be doing a different sport than everyone else. Just amazing! And 15!<br />
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She had already won the event before she did her last run. Sometimes they will just do some little tricks to show off for the crowd on their "victory lap". Instead she did the first back-to-back 1080s ever done by a woman in competition, earning her the 2nd 100 score ever given.<br />
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For the boarding event, I was fortunate to get a Photo pass, which meant I was right on the lip of the pipe. It is a bit unsettling to be looking through a viewfinder as they come flying by. This is a wide lens, zoomed all the way out. Tough to make out the detail on anything but a full rez version of the photo, but I can see myself in her goggle reflection. <br />
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Just HUGE tricks and flying forever.<br />
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I love how the colorful boards pop against the sky.<br />
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One of the more stylish freeze frames. I don't know how to capture the energy and motion without video. I tried a few longer shutter speeds, but those looked like crap.<br />
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Quite the crowd for the event. People were packed in all down the pipe and then tons at the bottom.<br />
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Now for the odd shots I tend to end with. This guy looked like he was examining my camera as he flew by,<br />
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I normally would just toss this one. It is hard to make out the boarder with all the background noise. I liked it though, because with the flat perspective of the longer lens, he looks a bit like a giant about to squash all the little people.<br />
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This little herd of munchkins. Not sure how they got to the top of the halfpipe. It is quite the steep hike. Lord knows they were having a blast getting down though! Some were sliding, others rolling. If any walked it was only for a few steps before they decided the alternatives were much better.<br />
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What they do is build giant ice structures. You walk through them and around them. That by itself would be a bit boring. The cool part is that they put colored lights inside the structures and do a poor man's light show. <br />
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This is what we saw as we first got there. The sun was setting and there was still a fair amount of light.<br />
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As it got darker, the lights began to have their effect.<br />
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I liked this one because there was just enough light in the evening sky to show the clouds on a long exposure.<br />
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All sorts of different shapes of ice.<br />
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I am not sure what the process was for making everything. It has to be some fairly slow drip to get all the icicles and not just a giant ice blob.<br />
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No color in this one, but it was looking straight up into the sky from the ground. I thought it was a cool perspective. The biggest challenge was trying to find the right focus when the camera was on a tripod with the back aimed straight at the ground and the focus points all centered on space.<br />
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There were little caverns and pathways. The challenge was trying to find a shot without a mass of people.<br />
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Some of the shapes left me wondering how they were created.<br />
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One our way out, we stopped to look at a little fountain they had. Clearly this volume of water was too much to create the interesting shapes but perhaps it could build a base for something.<br />
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But the lighting and long exposures made the fountain look pretty cool.<br />
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So, glad I went, but it is one of those things that you check off and don't go back for another few years, or decades. While you don't see it in the pictures, there were hordes of people there on a Thursday night, all paying $10 each. Seems like an interesting business to be in, as long as winter stays fairly cold.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04887737827462692531noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8575228.post-78443125996974429042016-01-23T07:49:00.000-07:002016-01-23T07:49:01.219-07:00Skiers jumping at Park CityI went over to shoot an event in the half pipe, but it was a bust. Right next to the pipe are some big jumps and it is always entertaining to watch the local youth throw their bodies into the air.<br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04887737827462692531noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8575228.post-45101509785256809702016-01-21T19:35:00.000-07:002016-01-21T19:35:22.853-07:00Bobsledding at the Utah Olympic ParkJulie and I went to a world cup bobsled and skeleton competition last weekend. The only part we saw was the four man bobsled. I tried getting some good photos, but it is poorly lit, extremely fast, and was snowing pretty hard. <br />
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When the teams cross the finish line, they hit the brakes. They aren't supposed to slam into the walls, but I guess that slows you down.<br />
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One cool thing is how close you get to be to the sleds as they goes by. That's Julie watching as a sled goes by.<br />
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And my favorite little spectator of the evening. I love the bundle of jacket, but the AC/DC hat is awesome!<br />
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So, off to Heber to take some pictures.<br />
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Before we got to the river where I expected the ice, I saw these cows in the field. I sympathize with them for having to be out on such a cold day, but how many cows get this kind of scenery?<br />
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When I got to the Provo River, the ice wasn't nearly what I had hoped for. Apparently there was a breeze overnight. This prevents the best hoar frost from occurring.<br />
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It was still scenic though. You can see the steam rising from the river, which is why this area tends to be great for ice.<br />
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These bushes had the right spirit, but they aren't particularly interesting.<br />
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One last branch by the river.<br />
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Now I started wandering along, throwing Jasper snowballs and looking for anything else interesting.<br />
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The seed pods on this plant were really interesting. Much prettier than their thorny stalk.<br />
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And another.<br />
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Down in the river, the hoar frost forms on the river ice.<br />
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And I found a section with just all sorts of different water-based forms.<br />
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Nothing special and not what I went looking for, but pretty just the same.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04887737827462692531noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8575228.post-64694306957396136662015-12-23T16:46:00.000-07:002015-12-23T16:46:08.019-07:00The first big snow in yearsThe past four winters in Park City have been between poor and mediocre for snowfall. Quite frankly, it has really gotten old. With the El Nino thing going on, it is kind of a mystery what we will see in Utah for precipitation.<br />
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So far, so good. After a bit of a slow start, our ski resorts have gotten almost four feet in four days. We have had a good 30 inches here at the house.<br />
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This is probably the best measure of depth. Jasper is a tall lanky dog. You can see his butt and if you look on the downhill side, you can make out his ears.<br />
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Nothing beats chasing snowballs. Given that he is standing in feet of snow, the idea seems a little perplexing.<br />
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He can't ploy through it so every step requires a bit of Tigger. This is one of the few times of the year when it is really easy to wear him out.<br />
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Even the little monsters on the front porch seem to be saying "Enough already!"<br />
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As if the skiing and dog play don't make me happy enough, I can look at the big drifts next door and realize that I don't have to spend over an hour fighting a big snow blower. It's hard to tell, but those piles are over three feet deep. Blowing that much snow up over those walls is a Herculean task. Perhaps Sisyphus is more accurate.<br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04887737827462692531noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8575228.post-82303797754916444332015-12-02T14:04:00.001-07:002015-12-02T14:04:21.953-07:00Around Park CityWe have a herd of elk wandering around the south end of Park City, mostly in the Round Valley open space and the Swaner Preserve. Jasper and I went looking for them this morning to grab some photos. We couldn't find the herd, but Park City always has something to photograph.<br />
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I haven't taken the time to figure out the different shades of blue in the sky, unless it is just exposure. It almost looks like I had a polarizer on, but I didn't. There are LOTS of hawks hanging out along the Old Ranch Road area.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04887737827462692531noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8575228.post-61989888130535075702015-11-27T14:47:00.001-07:002015-11-27T14:47:30.724-07:00November in Palm SpringsJulie and I were looking for something different to do around Thanksgiving, which is also Julie's birthday. It is an awkward time here in Park City: cold and snowy, so you know fall (golfing, hiking, leaf colors, ...) is over but the real snow activities aren't here yet. We decided to make our first trip to Palm Springs.<br />
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What I think of as Palm Springs is actually a nonstop string of towns, including Palm Springs, Cathedral City, Rancho Mirage, Palm Desert, and La Quinta. Here is a picture of town from a hike we took. The close stuff is Palm Springs but off in the distance you can see the next town or two.<br />
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If Mother Nature had her way, everything in Palm Springs would be brown and barren. The hillsides certainly are. Mankind steps in though, plating palm trees everywhere and then throwing in a bunch of lush golf courses.<br />
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The palm trees are everywhere. They range from short little 3 footers to ones as tall as an oak tree. In addition to the varieties, there seemed to be alternatives to pruning. This one is medium height and pruned tight.<br />
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Much taller, with almost nothing up top. Basically just a telephone pole with a little cap.<br />
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My favorites were the mid-sized trees, but with no pruning. It looked like a palm beard and probably took decades to grow. This one has an especially cute addition to the base.<br />
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We ended up playing two rounds of golf, both at the Tahquitz Resort course. This was a recommendation from Steven Pierce, a Park City friend who travels south for golf fairly often.<br />
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Notice that Julie is in a skirt and short sleeves. This was at about 9:00 in the morning. The lows were around 55-60 and the highs were around 80. NICE!! This morning in Park City it was -3 when I got up.<br />
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The course was lush and beautiful. It kind of makes me wonder how California will react when they really run short of water. Palm Springs sucks water out of a big aquifer but their water rates are cheaper than Park City's. Do they know they live in a desert? They did a 36% cutback this year and if you use more than that, your rate doubles, but looking around town you would never guess.<br />
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It took me a bit to figure out why there was a motor floating around in the golf pond. Turns out it is an air pump. Attached to the other end is a diver grabbing thousands of golf balls, several of which were ours.<br />
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The highlight of our golfing was getting to ride the <a href="http://www.golfboard.com/#intro">Golf Boards</a>. What a wonderful invention. These beat the hell out of the normal golf cart we rode the first day out. You could be playing a shitty round of golf and it just didn't matter! If I lived on a golf course, I would have to have these.<br />
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By the way, the noise from the video is my golf clubs rattling. They weren't loud but my iPhone was about 2 inches away from them.<br />
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There were lots of interesting things going on that we just stumbled into. One was a large <a href="http://www.classic-carauction.com/">car auction</a> with every sort of old, classic and exotic car or truck for sale. We didn't stay long, but it was fun to walk around. Fridays are free as long as you don't bid on anything.<br />
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On Thursdays, Palm Springs closes about 4 block of South Palm (its main street) for an arts and crafts festival. It was well attended and within about 20 minutes walk of our hotel.<br />
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While I forgot to get a picture, we also had dinner with our Park City friends Jim and Don. We were on the board of Friends of Animals together. They moved to Cathedral City about a year or two ago. Their house is gorgeous and the dinner was wonderful. It is so nice when you get to see old friends in a completely different setting.<br />
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One morning we hiked the South Lykken Trail. With the distance too and from our hotel, it was about 7 miles. At its start, you climb 900 feet in 1.5 miles. That gets you way above the valley floor and you can see for miles.<br />
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In the entire Palm Springs area, I think this was their celebration of Fall. It stood out so much, I noticed it from about a half mile away.<br />
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This was taken from a long ways from town, but you can see some of the downside of being downwind from Los Angeles. That's all smog down there, not fog.<br />
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My lovely hiking buddy.<br />
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The only real photography I did was on an afternoon expedition to Joshua Tree National Park. It is about an hour drive from Palm Springs, and an ugly drive at that. If you haven't seen them before, these are the Joshua trees.<br />
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Big ones are about 30 feet tall and they range from almost a stick to a fairly full tree like this one.<br />
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In addition to the trees, there were lots of cacti.<br />
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While many of them were pretty, none looked particularly hospitable.<br />
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This one grew close to the ground and was almost camouflaged. That could explain why I was taking a picture of a big pretty cactus when I backed into one of these. Fortunately I just brushed it, but I took two 1.5" barbed spikes into the calf. If you tripped on one of these, life would suck in a bad, bad way.<br />
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When we were driving from one site to the next, I noticed movement in the brush beside the road. As we got closer, we saw a bighorn sheep. He took off up the hillside before I could get out and grab his photo. When we first saw him, he was only about 50 feet away. There are bighorn sheep all through this area, but you don't tend to see them very often.<br />
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I always like to try and catch some photos at either sunrise or sunset. Sunrise was out of the question to get to the right place, over an hour from our hotel, by 6:00am. A 4:37pm sunset was a lot easier to arrange for.<br />
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A lot of the prettier pictures I saw of Joshua were the trees silhouetted against the sky. The interesting shapes make a nice foreground. The challenge is to get the right sky.<br />
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There were some interesting clouds and I was hoping for a lot of color as the sun went down. Unfortunately, the sun dropped below the horizon and there wasn't much of anything.<br />
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Then, right behind me, the full moon popped up. Wasn't even looking for that one.<br />
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I tried numerous combinations of the Joshua trees and the moon, but I couldn't find anything that worked. I needed to find a distant tree, small enough to be in proportion with the moon, but that just wasn't possible with the landscape.<br />
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We were just about to leave when this happened! I jumped out and shot as quickly as I could. This kind of "very, very last light" tends to last about 2-3 minutes.<br />
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I wish I had known this was coming. I think I could have lined up a few better shots, but I can't complain.<br />
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All variation of the same tree.<br />
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This shot was a little soft because it was actually too dark to see anything and I was shooting handheld. Quite the sight to see though.<br />
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The next day we had breakfast and headed to the airport to come home, where it was snowing. That just didn't seem like a great idea at the time, or now for that matter.<br />
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Things to for me to remember:<br />
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<li>The <a href="http://www.palmspringshotelcalifornia.com/">Hotel California </a>was a great place to stay. The owners were as nice as anyone could possibly be. It was in decent walking distance to downtown and the room was very comfortable.</li>
<li>Elmer's was nice for breakfast.</li>
<li>Lulu's was a must do for lunch and/or dinner. We did both. In the same day.</li>
<li>Smokin' Burgers was good for sitting outside and watching football</li>
<li>Tropicale was an eclectic restaurant for dinner and drinks. </li>
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04887737827462692531noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8575228.post-61399371443162502452015-11-16T09:27:00.002-07:002015-11-16T09:27:36.373-07:00Storm cloudsYesterday the winds picked up and you could tell the storm was rolling in. Late afternoon, the clouds started coming over the mountains. They were quite the sight.<br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04887737827462692531noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8575228.post-90030992803747075482015-11-15T16:31:00.000-07:002015-11-15T16:31:20.035-07:00Out to the UintahsI haven't been doing much photography lately and Jasper seemed a little pissed off about it. We decided to take a trip up towards Mirror Lake. My hope was the snow capped mountains would make for some nice early morning reflections in the lake. Then I would go to Provo Falls and get some nice shots with the snow around the falls.<br />
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Well it seems I made these brilliant decisions about three weeks late. This is a photo of the water falls. Sure enough, the water is running under all of that. You can hear it. Doesn't photograph too well though. I am guessing that since it was about 6 degrees, the water would freeze. Just the same, even at 6F, Jasper had his head out the window at 50 mph.<br />
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And this is the river running down below the falls. As you might guess, if the flowing river has frozen over, the lakes certainly have. Oh well, off to plan B.<br />
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Here is one of the lakes. Still pretty, just no reflections.<br />
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I started back down towards Kamas and found some things to shoot in the valley. Yes, I do like the sun stars,<br />
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And Jasper found an incredibly large set of beaver damns. They flood an area that must be 50 acres, all with numerous tiers.<br />
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When the water gets close to freezing and the air is so cold, the little bubbles that form in streams tend to stay almost solid. I doubt they are freezing, but the behavior is definitely different.<br />
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The warm moisture coming off the creeks glazed everything with a layer of ice.<br />
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I got back to Kamas, grabbed a cup of coffee and headed down to the base of the Jordanelle dam. The first thing I ran into was this Osprey nest. He picked the very, very top of the largest pole for miles. The power company puts up a lot of nesting platforms and they all seem to get used. Apparently they need at least one more.<br />
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I had no idea what I would find to shoot, and finally just settled on some running water. I was terribly lazy and left my tripod in the car. It is tough to shoot long exposures handheld, so these are kind of crappy. If the scenery would have been better I would have dragged my butt back to the car.<br />
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Note to self: If you wait until there is snow in Park City, Mirror Lake is long gone.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04887737827462692531noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8575228.post-44569531544344101812015-11-02T13:07:00.000-07:002015-11-02T13:07:13.973-07:00The correct way to update a historic houseIn Park City, there are zoning codes that define what you have to do to protect historic homes. This can be a challenge because people want to build new, big and fancy, but a protected historic home sits on the lot. Many of the miners' homes from the late 1800's are built straight on the ground with no foundation. If you are going to update the house, you certainly want to fix that.<br />
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Here is a great example of how you can do that AND add a basement at the same time. This has to be done very carefully because a lot of these houses are very dry and brittle.<br />
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Sure enough, they have this one up and the walls of a basement and foundation poured.<br />
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Unfortunately, some builders don't seem to have the same luck or skill. I am not sure which this was. They had it up and were building underneath it. Then underneath suddenly became a lot smaller.<br />
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Trying to recover this without having to take the house apart (panelization) may be quite the project.<br />
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You just never know what you will find when you take the dog out for a long walk around Park City.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04887737827462692531noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8575228.post-2832633593768768732015-11-02T13:00:00.001-07:002015-11-02T13:00:23.187-07:00HalloweenOur friend Diane Carson always has a fantastic Halloween party. This year the theme was to come as a rock star. Julie did an incredible job dressing as Gene Simmons from KISS. She got the outfit off the Internet for $4.99! It was perfect. Then she proceeded to do her own makeup, not once, but twice. We went to parties both Friday and Saturday evenings.<br />
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On our way to the party, we stopped to visit the Lutzker's and got to see one of Hannah's costumes this year. Sally did her hair in perfect little Princess Leia buns.<br />
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As you can see, I took the idea of a rock star and stretched into into Reggae, going with the Bob Marley look. I think I may go to a planning commission meeting dressed like this sometime soon. Seems reasonable.<br />
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Hanging out at Diane's . She does a great job of inviting her neighbors, but apparently not quite good enough last year. Someone called the police. This year there were no "bonus" events.<br />
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The only sad part of this Halloween is that we were a bit pressed for time and chose not to head down to the Park City Halloween Dog Parade. We even went over and got Jasper's costumes, but it just didn't happen. Great weekend though!Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04887737827462692531noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8575228.post-15957477005822241992015-10-27T17:34:00.000-06:002015-10-27T17:34:26.069-06:00Bison RoundupThis is a bison. He is basically a cow, only bigger, much faster, leaner, and tougher. He can outrun a horse and can jump a 4 foot fence. <br />
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In the middle of the Great Salt Lake, there is a state park called Antelope Island. I have done a lot of photography out there over the years. One of the interesting aspects of the island is that they keep a wandering herd of bison. The island is about 12 miles long and a few miles wide, so there is a good bit of space.<br />
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You can see the bison in the distance, but the clue they were missing is this horse with a saddle on it.<br />
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OK, the more obvious clue is the dozens or even hundreds of horse trailers, horses and cowboys.<br />
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It is the annual Antelope Island Bison Roundup. The island can maintain a healthy herd of about 500 animals, but with no natural predators, their numbers swell most years. They are all rounded up, checked for health, given some vaccinations, and then some number are auctioned off.<br />
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Some of those auctioned off become meat. Others become breeding stock. Some are used as trainers for cutting horses. Apparently Bison are much more challenging to herd than cows.<br />
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The riders start at the south end of the island and start moving the animals along, picking up groups as they go. Once they get moving, the idea is to keep them moving so they don't stop and ponder their alternatives.<br />
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To be a participant, you need to bring your own horse and pay something like $50. People come from all over to participate. I guess there just aren't many chances to round up bison.<br />
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This offers an interesting perspective. The long line of dots is the bison being driven along near the base of the mountain.<br />
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You have to double-click on this one to see all the detail. The bison are on the hill, but so are lots and lots of cowboys. There was clearly a surplus. They pushed them up this hill. When they got them to the top, they let the animals rest for about an hour so they wouldn't be too stressed for the last 30 minute push.<br />
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These riders were part of the surplus. They seemed quite content just following along, chatting up a storm.<br />
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The cowboys now have most of the island cleared and the animals gathered to go into the large pens. This was the first time I saw the bison start turning around and trying to head the other direction. I think it was finally dawning on them that this was not a good thing.<br />
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Credit where credit is due. This large bull decided there was no way in hell he was going to follow all his friends into that fenced in trap. He just stopped. Period. The best guidance I heard the entire day was "You can herd a bison anywhere the bison wants to go." They apparently avoid trying to force these big bulls to go in. They get very angry, can hurt riders and can kill bison calves. This one got to spend the night outside the pens.<br />
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We were there on Friday, which is the day to go if you want to see much. Saturday is left to go find and corral the remaining 5% that were off exploring on their own.<br />
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If you haven't seen this before, it is definitely worth a trip. The only cost is the standard admission into the state park and it is very easy to get around and watch the events. The real herding started around 9:00. We got there by 8:00 because we weren't sure where to be or how things would proceed. If you go, just be there in time to get to the Fielding Garr Ranch at the far end of the island by about 8:45. That's where all the action starts and there are lots of people who can tell you where to be, and perhaps more importantly, where not to be. Bring lunch and drinks. The concession stand is closed for the year.<br />
<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04887737827462692531noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8575228.post-83656775215573609812015-10-15T16:19:00.000-06:002015-10-15T16:19:46.846-06:00Trekking back to NCMy poor, ignored blog. I think it goes hand in hand with my poor, ignored photography. Haven't been doing much of either. I was going to head out and FINALLY do some star photography, so it immediately clouded up.<br />
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Julie and I made a trip back to North Carolina, visiting both Asheville and Raleigh. Asheville is still at the top of our list for where we would live next if we left Park City. The first day we settled in and then went for a realtor tour through a neighborhood we liked called the Cliffs at Walnut Cove. No serious shopping. Just seeing what kinds of neighborhoods are available.<br />
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That evening, our friends John and Pattie Steigerwald drove up from Cary to stay with us.<br />
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Part of our time in Asheville was supposed to be spent golfing. We wanted to play a round in the neighborhood we had looked at and another at the Grove Park Inn's course. We managed to get in a fairly wet round at Walnut Cove. The course was beautiful, even in the less than ideal weather.<br />
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We went from damp, to drizzle, to rain, and back again. And again. And again.<br />
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The course plays long already, but when your balls don't roll at all, it gets tough! I would tell you what I scored, but I quit counting.<br />
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The next day we were driving by the Asheville Country Club. You can see that the entire course was just a wee bit short of a pond. Standing water was everywhere and the predominant sounds was "squish".<br />
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Here is the cart path bridge across what would normally be a tiny creek. Needless to say, that was the end of our golf plans. We spent the rest of our time wining, dining, and looking at art.<br />
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We were staying at a really nice little VRBO house a few miles north of downtown. It was perfect for two couples. If you haven't tried VRBO, it is a great way to rent. It stands for Vacation Rental By Owner (<a href="http://www.vrbo.com/">www.vrbo.com</a>) and you can get anything from a shack to a mansion. You have to be careful about anything that looks too good to be true, but we have used it for rentals all over the country.<br />
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Even with the rain, we spent a lot of time out on the porch. It was very comfortable.<br />
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On each side there was a bedroom with a new king bed and its own bath. All nicely decorated.<br />
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On several of the evenings, we wandered into the downtown area for dinner. Asheville has some awesome restaurants and they are priced much more reasonably than Park City. We didn't go for a ride on the wandering peddle bar, but they seemed to be having a great time.<br />
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From Asheville we headed to Raleigh, mostly to see family and friends. Unfortunately the rain went with us. Jumping to the conclusion, it rained EVERY SINGLE day I was in NC. They actually set a record for consecutive days of rain. I got up to fly back to Utah. Sunny, clear skies. That really wasn't fair.<br />
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While in Raleigh, we went to an NCSU football game. I didn't take pictures there. Why? It was raining of course. And we lost to Louisville. When you only get to go to one game a year, you think they could get around to winning.<br />
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Jim and Carmella Saunders were kind enough to put us up, yet again and we got to see their lovely daughters. Still so sad that as bright as they are, they both went to UNCheat. We got to see family and friends at almost every meal of every day. Still a nice trip, even though I was wrinkled like a prune when I headed back for Utah.<br />
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Settled back into Utah again and hoping to go out and shoot some photos.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04887737827462692531noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8575228.post-19732710822007763562015-09-26T05:58:00.001-06:002015-09-26T05:58:48.354-06:00Annual hike to the Silver Fork LodgeA record 16 of us did Ron and Carol Lee's hike over to Big Cottonwood Canyon. It was the Lee's fifteenth year and our fifth.<br />
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Half way up Rob's trail we ran into a dad, a mom and a baby moose. They were hidden in the trees enough to prevent a great photo, but it was a nice start to the trip. A bit earlier, they had actually been hanging out on the trail. You could tell because of the large poop deposits they left for the mountain bikers to run through.<br />
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This shows a good example of how aspens spread. One family is interconnected by the roots as a giant living organism. An interconnected group changes color all at once.<br />
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Nice color and beautiful blue skies.<br />
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Julie and I. Thanks for the photo Randy.<br />
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Not quite everyone, but most of the group as we get to Desolation Lake. A little bit further and we turn down Bear Trap Canyon heading into Big Cottonwood.<br />
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Hiker Julie!<br />
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After 10.5 miles and a lot of up and down over the mountains, we reach the Silver Fork. It's a great little place to stay the night (very simple) and an even better place to eat lunch and dinner. The owner, Dan, is about as nice as he could possibly be.<br />
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The next day we chowed down on a big breakfast and took off again. Sunny and highs of 80. It didn't feel like late September. On last year's hike we were hiking through some light snow.<br />
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There aren't that many ponds up in this stretch of mountains, but this one offered some nice reflections just above the Jupiter chairlift.<br />
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The only mildly annoying thing we ran into was the construction at Park City Mountain Resort. Vail has a ton of lift work going on and it resulted in quite a few trail closures. That meant having to detour off our normal routes, but nothing much. This is the new King Con lift.<br />
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Great weather. No hail this year. No medical emergencies. No one getting locked out of their rooms all night. It was pleasantly void of excitement.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04887737827462692531noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8575228.post-7124128071781007062015-09-21T07:31:00.000-06:002015-09-21T07:31:01.375-06:00Review of Canyons Golf Course in Park CityThis is a bit delinquent. Julie, Cathy Clark and I played the Canyons golf course about two weeks ago. I wanted to write up a review, but we headed out to the east coast and I got behind.<br />
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There is a very long history to this golf course. It was supposed to be developed about a decade ago as part of the Canyons' master plan. Unfortunately, there were all sorts of disputes about land agreements, several of which ended up in court. Then American Ski Corp went out of business. Then the new owner, Talisker, leased everything out to Vail. A decade late, the course is in place and playable.<br />
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It was actually completed last fall and they allowed one day of invitation-only play, but they really opened it up to the public late this spring. The course winds around the lower areas of Canyons ski resort. I have to give them credit for figuring out how to fit a course around all those buildings, which are surrounded by lots of steep mountains. While an impressive achievement, it also resulted in a number of things I didn't like.<br />
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For being one year old, the course is in great shape. As you can see from this photo of the first hole, the fairways look nice, especially for fall. The grass on the greens is good, but the course definitely needs to settle in a bit.<br />
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The first thing you will notice playing the course is that there are some extreme elevation changes. These make for spectacular scenery, but some fairly unpredictable golf shots. In the photo below, we are aiming for the green in the middle of the photo, by hitting to the fairway on the left.<br />
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This photo also shows some of the issues. The cart paths everywhere are fairly rough gravel roads. They advertise this as "soft cart paths that you can play from." There is no way in hell I would take a swing off one off these paths. There is also a real gravel road running right along this fairway and we saw construction trucks driving through as we played. The course distances aren't well marked and it isn't on any of our GPS systems yet. I don't know how long that process normally takes.<br />
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There is a drink cart, but the elevations are so steep that the cart can't get to half of the front nine. That's probably for the best. Some of the cart paths wind up switchbacks so steep that you wouldn't want to drive them if you had been drinking.<br />
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Now my problems. The course is very short. Right now it is a par 70, with the tips playing less than 6300 yards. To compensate for the shorter course, they designed the greens to be something like Extreme Putt Putt. I regret having not taken some photos of the greens, but they normally have tier after tier with steep slopes between tiers. This means that you may hit a nice lofting shot within 5 yards of the flag, only to have the ball roll 30 yards and you are off the green. Now you get to judge the speed to putt the ball back up two or three tiers to get to the flag. A mistake can result in a long putt ending up right where you started.<br />
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That's exactly what happened to me here. This is a short par 5 (450 yards?) with a monstrous drop in elevation. You are aiming at the green to the left of these two lovely golf models. My first tee shot was a nasty hook off to the left. I teed up another and absolutely crushed it. With the massive drop in elevation, it took forever to come down, but it ended up just short of the tree next to the green. I was about 10-15 yards from the stick. I made a decent chip, which for me is a rarity. The ball rolled onto the green and hit the side of the flag stick, deflecting it a bit left. I thought I would have a 5 foot putt for a 3, but that isn't the way in extreme putt putt. The ball slowly rolled down tier after tier, finishing about 30 yards away. It simply didn't feel a bit like golf. I was so annoyed I just picked up my ball.<br />
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I played the rest of the round, enjoying the scenery, not keeping score, always looking for the windmill or the clowns mouth on the greens.<br />
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Just to reinforce my frustration, the golf Gods left a divot repair tool in the cart path, which my cart immediately found. I have had problems with golf carts before, but never a flat tire. The Canyons employees were great about getting us another cart quickly.<br />
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It is a great course to go play once. The huge elevation changes and beautiful views of the Snyderville Basin make the course unique. Just the same, I doubt I would ever put this course into my rotation. I prefer Park City, Soldier Hollow, Wasatch and Mountain Dell better. And if you can get on them, the numerous private courses like Red Ledges and Promontory, while difficult, are much more interesting as golf courses. Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04887737827462692531noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8575228.post-5319348225560741772015-09-20T17:36:00.000-06:002015-09-20T17:36:19.806-06:00Aututmn AloftAbout 20 years ago, Park City had a balloon festival, but it became very popular and apparently outgrew itself, so it died. Last year they got it started again and it was a big success. Unfortunately, we were out of town and missed it. This year I missed the first day, but caught the second.<br />
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Here are my two assistant photographers for the morning. If it looks like Julie is overdressed for this time of year, it is in the low 30s, which is actually a good bit warmer than yesterday morning. Jasper, of course, is completely indifferent.<br />
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They festival is held on the North 40 fields. For those who have been to Park City and seen the giant "PC" up on a hillside, this is right at the base of that hill. We got there around 7:30 and a lot of the balloons were being rolled out for inflation.<br />
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They fill the balloons with portable fans until they have mostly taken shape. Then they start firing up the burners. I have to guess that a few balloons each year catch fire at this phase. <br />
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The flag balloon on the left is ready to go. The rest are all still being inflated with fans. The impressive thing is that a decent fan was able to inflate a balloon in about 5 minutes.<br />
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The launch starts. We have now moved up the hill to get a different perspective. I wish they would start about 15 minutes later. These photos are tough when the balloons are in the shade and the background is bright and sunny.<br />
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There was wonderfully little wind this morning. That meant that they could rise slowly and hang around the field. I don't think they could have designed better weather.<br />
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Pretty soon, they were taking off every few minutes.<br />
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In total, I think I counted 20 balloons, one of which remained tethered to the ground, providing people with little 50 foot rides.<br />
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Our fall tree colors are pretty terrible this year. They have mostly been going quickly from green to brown to gone. Some years the mountains would have offered a much more colorful backdrop.<br />
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With the air being so incredibly still, any surface of water provided mirror-like reflections.<br />
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The North 40 fields are over near the Park Meadows golf course and the festival had arranged to be able to use the golf course as a landing zone if that's where the winds were heading. This turned out to be fantastic.<br />
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Like most golf courses, Park Meadows has some ponds. The first fun was just capturing the reflections.<br />
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Then we sat and watched a game the balloons like to play. They come down so that their baskets just touch the water. That had to be a great ride for all of them.<br />
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It was cold enough to have a frost hold on the golf course, but I hope they hadn't scheduled any tee times for the morning anyway. It would be tough to get your golf ball on the green with a giant yellow balloon in the way.<br />
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It is probably too small to see in this photo, but on the left bank of the pond, there is a woman standing outside her house in her bath robe taking pictures. The balloons were coming right over her house. <br />
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Here was our water skimming champion. He kept the basket right at the water's surface and went across the pond like he had a boat. They probably went 200-300 yards doing this.<br />
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Congrats to the people running the Autumn Aloft festival. It was easily accessible, free to attend and a spectacular sight. I was walking by one woman who said to her friend "Isn't it incredible to be somewhere where every single person has a huge smile on their face?"<br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04887737827462692531noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8575228.post-68137003762928989952015-08-19T09:13:00.001-06:002015-08-19T09:13:41.558-06:00Yet another scamI am way behind on my blog posts. Here is a quick one I got in this morning's mail. Of course this is from someone I don't know. I would reply and have some fun with the scammer, but I think that might just increase my spam rate.<br />
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<i>Sorry for any inconvenience, My family and i made a trip to out of the
country due to an emergency unfortunately for us, we were robbed and i was hurt
on our way back to the hotel. I need your help to sort out some bills here and
get back home. I promise to refund you the money immediately once i get back
home.</i><br />
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</i><i>Let me know if i can count on you</i><br />
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</i><i>Ben</i><br />
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04887737827462692531noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8575228.post-48863709117061562602015-07-27T15:16:00.000-06:002015-07-27T15:16:34.404-06:00Vail's huge summer upgradesNot too long after Vail bought Park City Mountain Resort, they announced plans to merge it with Canyons, creating the largest ski area in North America. In a normal year, a resort will spend between 1 and 5 million dollars updating the resort. The $5M normally only occurs when a new, major lift is going in. This year, Vail announced they were spend $50M in a single summer in Park City. That's so far beyond anything we have ever heard of, it is almost hard to imagine.<br />
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You can read a bit of plans and updates <a href="http://www.canyonsresort.com/mountain/resort-master-plan.aspx">here</a>.<br />
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Building a large restaurant and 3 ski lifts on the back side of a mountain can be quite the challenge. How do you get all those materials there? You start by staging everything in the PCMR park lot. These are new lift towers.<br />
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These are odds and ends, including tops for the towers.<br />
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Then you bring in this beast. I would describe this as a flying jet engine with a small seat. The cabin is just big enough for the pilot to get into. <br />
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Helicopters have a hard enough time in the thin air at elevation. Flying with big loads over windy mountain ridges has to be nasty!<br />
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This helicopter looks weird. First, it has two counter-rotating blades. That would be odd enough, but the blades are offset by about two feet. Looks closely at the centers of the two blades.<br />
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It was taking it about 5 minutes to make a round trip. Pick something up, fly it over the mountain, drop it off, and come back for more. I am sure this type of helicopter costs a fortune per hour, so you don't leave it sitting around.<br />
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Everything on the ground was already prepped for pickup so there was no delay. These guys at the bottom of the cable had a miserable job. The helicopter kicked up a LOT of wind and in a dirty mountain parking lot, that means choking dust and swirling debris. <br />
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Jasper and I enjoyed watching a handful of flights before they had to stop the copter for refueling and a pilot break. I wish Vail luck with this. They have a tremendous amount of work to get done in a very short building season. If it starts snowing early this year, completion may be a huge fight.<br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04887737827462692531noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8575228.post-51369956613078288212015-07-24T13:48:00.001-06:002015-07-24T13:48:24.801-06:00Park City ArtJasper and I were going for a walk around Park City today and ran across some new art being created. One of the pedestrian tunnels along Poison Creek was being painted with a mix of geometric patterns. The guy doing it works at a local restaurant and is an art student at the University of Utah.<br />
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The fun part was that he would let you paint one of the triangles so it becomes a community art project. The woman in the blue top is about to paint hers. Then she offered to hold Jasper so I could paint one.<br />
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Mine is the beautiful purple one.<br />
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I will head back and take a photo of the entire tunnel when he is done. It is a HUGE improvement over what has been there for years: dirt and mud on old white paint.<br />
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It is nice to live in a city that supports projects like this. Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04887737827462692531noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8575228.post-73345601682687241562015-07-24T13:42:00.001-06:002015-07-24T13:42:47.016-06:00Visiting MichiganJulie and I went up to Michigan to visit with Julie's family. We stayed with her mom for a few days in Royal Oak and then went with Julie's cousin Kathleen and her husband Bill to their cottage on Rush Lake.<br />
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They recently acquired a pontoon boat, which is perfect for this lake. It's great to take around any time of day, including this gorgeous sunset.<br />
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Kathleen and Julie, our beautiful boat bling. <br />
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As the sun dropped, the colors kept getting better.<br />
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In the morning, Bill would wake up and head out on to the dock with his fishing rod, in search of the perfect bass.<br />
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But he let me use a rod, and I got the big catch. It's about a 15" large mouth bass. It is back swimming freely in the lake again.<br />
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During the time we were there, we saw a number of other family members. This is Megan, Bill and Kathleen's daughter. We also went out to dinner with their sons Michael and Patrick.<br />
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We also got to spend time with Julie's uncle Tom and her aunt Marie. Below we have Tom and Julie lounging on the back deck.<br />
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Nice trip. It was fun getting to see everyone and we had nice weather, although it did get hotter and more humid than Julie and I are used to. Once we left North Carolina, we have grown soft (and dry, and comfortable).Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04887737827462692531noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8575228.post-24307918106287703732015-07-14T11:01:00.000-06:002015-07-14T11:01:35.837-06:00I bought a Phantom 3 drone a month ago to use for video and photos. Yesterday, I got to ride in a much bigger, much nicer one, a Bell 407. I hope as I go through life, the only time I have to ride in an AirMed helicopter is when I am up shooting photos.<br />
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Paul Hewitt, a friend, fellow Rotarian, and runner, is our Park City Fire Chief. He set up a ride with our local helicopter ambulance company, AirMed, which is part of University Health Care. The idea was to fly around the local fire district, checking out the foliage (dry versus green). I got to tag along and take some photos. What an opportunity!<br />
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For those in Park City, the AirMed office and landing zone is over near Promontory, tucked back away from all the houses. It is conveniently close to Park City, but out where the helicopter noise doesn't upset the locals.<br />
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My photos aren't terribly artistic. I was shooting out a little hole in the door's window and as nice as this helicopter is, we weren't exactly sitting still. You will notice some pieces of helicopter showing up in some of the photos.<br />
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This past year, Park City, Summit County, the DOT and a few others got together to build this very nice tunnel under highway 40. Humans can traverse through it, but the main push was for all the deer, elk and moose. There had been a lot of big road kill accidents in this stretch.<br />
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This is the Park City Heights subdivision, out by the hospital. They started building 2 or 3 years ago, but ran into some EPA issues with mine tailings. Seems like it will be a long time before we see houses.<br />
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The first stage of our new movie studio is nearing completion. Eventually there will be a hotel and a few other buildings around it. I don't know the details, but I heard that they are already successful at finding companies to pay for the space. Maybe it won't have to be converted to a Target store after all.<br />
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This is the lower half of Old Town. The big building on the right is the newly refreshed library. Most of the ski runs are Park City Mountain Resort, with a few from Deer Valley on the far left.<br />
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And the upper half of Old Town.<br />
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Same area, but looking back through town towards I-80.<br />
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Can't fly around Park City without taking a picture of the house. Right below the white spot on the hill is our ex-house. Our condo is just to the right of it.<br />
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Another view of our neighborhood, looking from the northwest. This elevation is the only way you can see the entire neighborhood at once.<br />
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This is the base of Park City. This may be one of those great pictures to look back at a decade or two from now for a before and after. That base area will see some very serious development.<br />
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Wonder how Vail is doing on development of the new Gondola and the Snow Hut restaurant? Right now, they are basically a big hole in the ground.<br />
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Here is a closer look. The gondola base will be on the left and Snow Hut will be on the right. They have a long way to go before the ski season.<br />
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The Montage hotel, up at Deer Valley.<br />
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This is the Hotel Park City, which also serves as the clubhouse for the municipal golf course.<br />
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The Utah Olympic Park. The big Nordic ski jumps are on the left. The luge and bobsled track is on the right. The collection of white lines in the bottom, middle are the practice jumps for the ski jumping. You can see the big pool they land in. They just rebuilt that entire area with new jumps, a new pool, and even a climbing wall.<br />
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While a lot of my pictures were a bit soft, this one came out very sharp. Zoomed way in, you can see some of the jumpers standing on the jumps.<br />
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And the last photo is a shot showing the huge value of having conservation easements on local land. The pretty green area is the Swaner Nature Preserve. The closest area is Kimball Junction. The contrast is amazing.<br />
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Getting to take these shots was a fantastic opportunity. A huge thanks to both Paul Hewitt and the great group at AirMed!Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04887737827462692531noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8575228.post-55630104156302225582015-06-29T09:34:00.001-06:002015-06-29T09:34:24.033-06:00The construction continuesAlmost four months ago, I did a <a href="http://sjoyce.blogspot.com/2015/03/the-mystery-wall.html">blog post </a>on a house being built in our neighborhood. It had a very bizarre concrete wall and its very own crane.<br />
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Here we are in mid summer and the crane is still there. These things can run $1000 per day. I have NEVER seen a home under construction have a semi permanent crane. They normally show up for one day, do their thing, and leave.<br />
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Why would you need your own crane? Just for lifting really heavy stuff, like a steel beam. When you want to support a long run without have to add a column in the middle of your room, you just replace the wood beam with steel. <br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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But in this house, they are putting steel everywhere. The floors, the ceilings,.... The rightmost wall in the photo below is the mystery wall. So far it seem to just be holding up those two beams. Odd for a wall that literally took them a month to build.<br />
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Steel is very expensive. There is so much steel in this house that I believe it will be left after the nuclear war with the cockroaches.<br />
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Yes, this is all steel.<br />
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And the entire front of the house.<br />
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This house will undoubtedly be the most expensive construction project, taking the longest to finish, of any one I have seen. I wonder how many more months they will have the crane on site. Perhaps they just bought it outright to save money?Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04887737827462692531noreply@blogger.com0