Hike to Tuckerman Ravine
A couple of us were climbing around on Mt. Washington on Wednesday. We'd gone up to Tuckerman to watch the spring skiing. Unfortunately, the weather was lousy and the wind was heavy in the bowl below the headwall, so when we arrived there were only a few hardy skiers hunkered down amongst the rocks (see below), waiting for a break in the weather. I did get this shot of the ravine wall above the shelter at Hermit Lake. Jim, to the far left of the top photo is where you and I climbed up to Boot Spur last summer.
Yes, Virginia, Santa is missing.
posted by chuck at 4/02/2011 08:20:00 AM
6 Comments:
Great shots. We only got a little mountain going/skiing in this winter as the snow was scarce. Here everyone seems to accept that it's global warming as one must go higher and higher in altitude to hit the slopes. Hmm.
Over here, with the Republicans calling the shots and the American reading level having dropped to grade 2, it has become anti-American to believe in or speak about global warming. It is seen as a liberal plot, a ploy by progressive One-Worlders to roll back free-market opportunism and obstruct unbridled pillaging of what's left of the natural world. The only people concerned about climate change are commies and socialists.
we could do wit a little upwardly mobile climate change here in joysey what wit da coldest winter in thirty years and 4 buck a gallon fuel earl.
does anyone think maybe the uprisings in the middle east are being sponsored by big earl to drive up prices at le pump or am i just being paranoid?
Charlie, with 33 persons per sq km in the US and 105 in Europe, there's no wonder Americans have a harder time with this theory. In my opinion it's exposure to humanity that conditions us. Also, European influence on US culture has only been present for 500 years whereas Europe has been exposed to 2000 years of man conquering nature through science & engineering, not to mention christian virtue. As a result there's greater sensibility to protecting the little nature that's left.
Bill, global warming doesn't translate as warmer temperatures all around, but regardless of the theory doesn't it just make sense to conserve natural resources? I think we need to look more to our predecessors, the American Indians, for guidance. What does Elizabeth think?
elizabeth seems to feel the CIA should execute the entire house of saud--marauding murderers that they are--make the peninsula the 51st state, and live it up on that sweet sweet crude so fine you can practically pump it straight into your beamer or jeep grand cherokee.
i, on the other hand, worry that people are not taking the sages rush limppaw and danny trump more seriously.
bobby o, where's dat birth certificate???
Jake, I like your idea that exposure to humanity makes us better neighbors, but I think you go too easy on us unschooled Americanos and give Europeans more credit than they’re due. To a great degree “US culture” is an extension of European economic ideas and cultural values. And plenty of those enlightened European sensibilities you mention are profiting big time from America’s "failure to protect nature."
I think we all know exactly what we’re doing, and in spite of our professed “concern for the environment,” most of us really just want the free lunch to last long enough for us to pig out. If that were not true, would people be flying to New Zealand for brunch or throwing destination graduation parties in Tahiti? Would there be oil rig explosions, nuke meltdowns, Bhopal, fracking, PCB's, dioxin, agent orange, air/water pollution, deepwater drilling accidents, loss of rainforest, global warming, Donald Trump, etc.?
As for the idea that Christian virtue has somehow curbed European rapaciousness, I’d suggest a look at slavery, or better, the Conquest: Europe’s maniacal pursuit of wealth and power, resource destruction, obliteration of native cultures, exploitation of the natural world, etc. Meanwhile, back in Amsterdam, London and Madrid, as Christians were virtuously high-fiving each other for expanding God’s dominion, their hired thugs were gutting the New World in His name and sending the money home. Some of the worst atrocities were committed in the guise of Christian virtue.
Of course this is just the opinion of a cynical old faht running at the mouth. Please take it with a grain of salt, or two, or three...
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