random pics that YOU have taken.......

[Skip Newsom]

Backpacking trip last weekend in the Central Cascades

[Skip Newsom]

And another, my Son on a peak between two amazing alpine lakes:

[kach22i]

Screen shots of an abandoned 100 foot long hovercraft in Florida, which somehow moved 500-600 feet on it's own.

[teenerted1]

Originally Posted by kach22i

Screen shots of an abandoned 100 foot long hovercraft in Florida, which somehow moved 500-600 feet on it's own.

so did YOU take the photo for google or did you take a shot of your computer screen?

[KevinP73]

Originally Posted by Skip Newsom

Backpacking trip last weekend in the Central Cascades

Freakin Awesome!! It took a couple seconds to figure he was sitting on a boulder next to water. That has to be the clearrest water I've ever seen. How cold is that water?

[Pat S]

Originally Posted by Skip Newsom

Backpacking trip last weekend in the Central Cascades

Skip, that's an amazing shot. Very well done.

[kach22i]

Originally Posted by teenerted1

so did YOU take the photo for google or did you take a shot of your computer screen?

I could not figure out how to save a jpg of the Google image, so I took my camera out and took pictures of the computer screen. Hi-Tech.

Photo taken on my camera, by my wife.............big leaves in Michigan.

[mjohnson]

The wife's been away for a year (with visitation...) on an internship far enough away to have her own place. I've got one more week of bachelorhood. To celebrate -- Martinis and Tostinos!!!!

[Skip Newsom]

The lake is at 4,600' elevation and frozen over (not solid) in the winter, it's about 42 to 45 degrees late summer... the outside temp was 80 in the shade, warm enough to do this:

But not for long... swimming in mountain lakes tends to change your voice pitch.

[porsche4life]

That lake would be fun to dive in a Dry Suit....

[Skip Newsom]

Another view along the trail... about a 2,000' drop down to a lower lake, I'm just not a good enough at cliff diving to attempt this one.

[Skip Newsom]

The Cascades can be a bit unforgiving.



But chicks dig scars, right?

[Skip Newsom]

Odd things can happen in camp


It does create some great Father/Son memories though!

[tcar]

Originally Posted by Skip Newsom

The lake is at 4,600' elevation and frozen solid in the winter, it's about 42 to 45 degrees late summer... the outside temp was 80 in the shade, warm enough to do this:

But not for long... swimming in mountain lakes tends to change your voice pitch.

Where is it?

Hard to believe it freezes solid unless it's only a few feet deep.

Shoot, that elevation would be 600-1000 feet underground in Denver.

Lakes freeze over, but only the top foot or two during a really cold winter.

There are lakes here at 11-13k feet that don't freeze solid.

Anyway, beautiful.

[J1NX3D]

Queenstown, New Zealand, in fog from the countries highest road, the Crown Range Rd.

[Skip Newsom]

Tcar, absolutely correct, freezes over with many feet of snow on top... not solid.
This lake is well over 100' deep and has some very nice trout swimming around.

The area is south of Steven's Pass, highway 2 about 16 miles.

[cashflyer]

A couple of mine from yesterday (taken with a Blackberry)

KCEU

(I guess I 'could' have tweaked it with p-shop to get rid of the haze and correct the colors.... oh well.)


An "RV" series airplane at KTOC

[widgeon13]

Is that RV a retractable??

[dhrcr911s]

Heli delivering Concrete to the new top terminal at Bridger Bowl Ski area.

[Seahawk]

Originally Posted by widgeon13

Is that RV a retractable??

It looks like a Harmon Rocket, based on the RV series (uses a lot of RV parts).

The helo in the pic is a Kaman K-MAX. I got to meet Charles Kaman years ago when I did some flight test on the SH-2G. Aviation pioneer.

K-MAX on the left, below, with the SH-2G