tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-169553162024-03-13T18:37:51.867-06:00Places to see ...... to experience ... to share ... to photograph ... people to talk to ... to live...to scoot...to rideShelleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12520217660192159959noreply@blogger.comBlogger73125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16955316.post-23679404952959374622015-10-19T10:20:00.001-06:002015-10-19T10:32:22.590-06:00Fried rice recipe... easy and quick<h2>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">First though, I need to thank Wolfram and our buddy Kevin for their awesome support and patience all of today; it was a marathon day. We left Nederland at 10am and didn't get back home until 7:30 this evening.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It probably comes as no surprise to anyone but me that I chose the BMW F700. Well, the pro lists for the Versys and the Beemer were long, the coin toss technique was not working... but once I put my bike up for sale, it was like my bike-life flashed before my eyes. All of the rides and places we had been together surged through, how I'd longed for these quirky- Wall-e eyebrow shrug- headlights since I first saw them ride by, and how I enjoyed going over bumps and off the beaten track. N</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">ow though after having to ride the last 10 miles of our ride home on dirt roads, in the dark, I'm even happier with my choice.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My one hold out was whether a lowered seat would give me enough foot-on-the-aground... and it did! We took another test ride, and then we started the dance. I gotta say though Foothills BMW made my life easy. I knew what farkles I wanted on the bike worked with the parts guy. We walked through each item, looked at the manufacturer websites, and came up with the wish list. I was not going to ride with a vulnerable underbelly exposed around my rock-infested neighborhood just waiting for a rock to kick up and puncture the oil sump (or what have you). </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Then we talked numbers... and I talked to the service manager, looked at their bikes, talked options ... went to lunch (nom nom, the Carnation Restaurant is awesome), talked numbers and bikes and I came away very happy. They went out of their way to get most of my farkle list installed today so that I could ride the new bike home with the bash plate and crash bars ready for the 'just-in-case' plus the luggage. Really, each person contributed to the whole buying experience. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And then there was the ride home. It was almost dusk when we left the dealer. Lots of traffic going through Denver; then completely dark on Hwy 36. All three of us got split up due to lights, but met up in Boulder. Then... Boulder Canyon was closed and we were forced to go another route over Sugarloaf! </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Urban, highway, then back roads. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Through the whole ride I kept noticing how wonderful the bike handled, how it purred up and down every hill and every curve. It rode like a charm! </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Home at last!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 130%;">Quick update: <span style="font-size: small;">The air quality here is not very good. Riding down from Nederland this morning, the air was clear (and a bit cold ~40F) but by 8:30, the area around Boulder was blanketed in a shroud of smoke. It smelled like a camp fire and my eyes burned riding from Table Mesa to Gunbarrel. Near Ft Collins, the plume from the High Park Fire is being blown eastward then spreading out. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 130%;">Air quality Index - <span style="font-size: small;">note that the maps can't take into account the topography so there are areas that are worse and better than others. For instance Table Mesa / South Boulder Road near 76th street is quite smokey while in Gunbarrel, 3 miles away, it is significantly clearer.</span> </span></div>
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Another year and more fires. As we are coming to the end of a La Nina cycle (a double one), we would like to think it is getting wetter outside, however it is dry, dry, dry. Relative humidity is between 3 - 10%. If you have been trying to survive, keeping an eye on, or worrying about the High Park Fire or the Whitewater-Baldy Complex Fires (and way too many others), there have been many tweets and discussions about the fires. I've pulled together some images with links to the resources for the past few days to try to make sense of the descriptions. Thoughts of safety and rain go out to those of you impacted by this fire.</div>
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<span style="font-size: 130%;"><br />Incident Information System<br /><a href="http://www.inciweb.org/">http://www.inciweb.org/</a><br />Overview of the current wildfires around the U.S. including <br /><br />Current and official information on the High Park Fire from Larimer County Emergency Information<br /><a href="http://larimer.org/emergency/emergency_detail.cfm?nam_id=85">http://larimer.org/emergency/emergency_detail.cfm?nam_id=85</a><br /><br />4:48 PM - Jun 11 The official cause of the High Park Fire has been confirmed as lightning. The High Park Fire remains at 36,930 acres with 0% containment.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 130%;"><b>'Photos' of the fire plume from Space (using MODIS)</b>High Peak Fire near Ft Collins, Colorado</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 130%;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Source: Fire Detection Maps with MODIS images<br /><a href="http://activefiremaps.fs.fed.us/imagery.php">http://activefiremaps.fs.fed.us/imagery.php</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 130%;">source: Google map of High Peak Fire from Daily Camera/Denver Post<br /><a href="https://maps.google.com/?q=http://extras.denverpost.com/media/maps/kml/high-park-wildfire-2012.kml&msa=0&t=p&output=embed&z=12">https://maps.google.com/?q=http://extras.denverpost.com/media/maps/kml/high-park-wildfire-2012.kml&msa=0&t=p&output=embed&z=12</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 130%;">source: <a href="http://www.firedetect.noaa.gov/viewer.htm">http://www.firedetect.noaa.gov/viewer.htm</a><br />GIS-type viewer showing fire locations and smoke plumes</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 130%;">main page:<br />Wildfire Interactive Maps <br />from NOAA National Geophysical Data Center <br /><a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_855627554">http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/hazard/wildfire.shtml</a></span><span style="font-size: 130%;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 130%;">today's wind: <a href="http://hint.fm/wind/">hint.fm/wind/</a><br /><br /><i>more resources:</i><a href="http://forestry.about.com/od/forestfire/tp/wildfire_maps.htm">http://forestry.about.com/od/forestfire/tp/wildfire_maps.htm</a><br /><br />Interagency Real Time Smoke Monitoring for California and New Mexico : <a href="http://www.satguard.com/usfs4/realtime/fleet.asp">http://www.satguard.com/usfs4/realtime/fleet.asp</a><br />These graphs show the air quality in hourly and 24 average concentrations <br /><br />NOAA GOES imagery: <a href="http://newweb.wrh.noaa.gov/satellite/">http://newweb.wrh.noaa.gov/satellite/</a><br /><br /><a href="http://gacc.nifc.gov/rmcc/">http://gacc.nifc.gov/rmcc/</a><br /><a href="http://wildfiretoday.com/2012/06/10/high-park-fire-update-and-map-june-10-2012-very-active-saturday-night/">http://wildfiretoday.com/2012/06/10/high-park-fire-update-and-map-june-10-2012-very-active-saturday-night/</a></span></div>
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<br /></div>Shelleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12520217660192159959noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16955316.post-43709509957177725632012-04-21T18:22:00.001-06:002012-04-21T18:22:47.567-06:00cobwebs<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 130%;">Whew, I almost dodged that one. A creative spasm gripped me, so I thought I would dust off my sadly neglected blog... but then there was blogger asking if I would like to review the unpublished comments; a helpful tip (admonishment) to check the comment section occasionally since I don't let any comments go through unchecked... so I did that, and there was as usual a few comments that are really advertisements for something else... and then they ask if you would like to review your popularity dashboard, convert the blog into a Google + account, and oh, look at that, my rss feed for my recent photos had gone kaflewy. The mundane, non-creative stuff oh so often expands to fill every crack of life. yawn.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 130%;">With all of this to distract me, its a wonder what my creative moment was all about! But here I am writing. So that is something. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 130%;">And now God has turned out the lights by sending a cloud in front of the sun and it is actually kind of cold outside. But for the first time in many months, I sat outside, in the sun, just looking at the mountains. I'll rush off in a bit to start researching for a paper, and that's ok; however right now I watch the shadows traverse the high country and watch the wind riffle the tree tops.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 130%;">I don't seem to have a pic handy of the mountains, so here's a similar feeling photo instead:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 130%;">There. A creative moment. And because mostly this site uses riding as a metaphor for creativity, well, we'll just have to be content with landscapes today.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 130%;"><br /></span>Shelleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12520217660192159959noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16955316.post-1691956879322164092011-06-29T13:28:00.000-06:002011-07-08T13:30:25.304-06:00The daylillies sing ~~~ reaching out to the warm sun ~~~~ from their high creviceShelleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12520217660192159959noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16955316.post-85362651228767250062011-06-28T13:24:00.003-06:002011-07-08T13:28:05.601-06:00Blindingly Orange,<br />
Oversaturate the eyes,<br />
Poppies yell, Hello!Shelleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12520217660192159959noreply@blogger.com0Bald Mountain, CO, USA40.003415137944927 -105.3669334631591739.890037637944928 -105.57321396315918 40.116792637944926 -105.16065296315917tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16955316.post-78624273594630650152011-06-22T13:30:00.006-06:002011-07-08T13:34:29.598-06:00A Dead flat rabbit.<br />
It's lone ear flaps in the breeze<br />
From cars whirling byShelleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12520217660192159959noreply@blogger.com0Bald Mountain, CO, USA40.062002971152324 -105.4693100931640439.948625471152326 -105.67559059316405 40.175380471152323 -105.26302959316403tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16955316.post-77052035784172916022011-06-02T13:34:00.005-06:002011-07-08T13:37:53.414-06:00Lines of poetry ...<br />
Created in the curves of summer ...<br />
Only to float away in the wind.Shelleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12520217660192159959noreply@blogger.com0Bald Mountain, CO, USA40.012197031820726 -105.3027548122558439.898819531820727 -105.50903531225585 40.125574531820725 -105.09647431225584tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16955316.post-47616566231476103052010-09-09T15:36:00.000-06:002010-09-09T15:36:44.399-06:00Watch & Listen to the fire potential forecast<span class="status-body"><span class="status-content"><span class="entry-content">Summary: dry air & windy... National Interagency Fire Center RMACC <a class="tweet-url web" href="http://bit.ly/kwZvk" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/kwZvk</a> <a class="tweet-url hashtag" href="http://twitter.com/search?q=%23boulderfire" rel="nofollow" title="#boulderfire">#boulderfire</a></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 130%;">Over the past 2 days I've gathered quite a compendium of official and unofficial fire map sources, fire/air/police online scanners, discussion sites (which in some ways are more detailed than the Boulder OEM because folks are listening to the scanners and plotting the locations of fires and some structures - something the Boulder cty resources just haven't had time to do), and other streaming sources (such as the local Fox news - no politicizing there, the only place that I found that streams their news).<br />
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You can also get KMZ/KML's to pull into Google Earth and provide very good descriptors of what MODIS is detecting. Let's start there:<br />
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First, the current 'official' perimeter is available as a KML from <a href="http://www.geomac.gov/">http://www.geomac.gov/</a><br />
(pulls from <a href="http://rmgsc.cr.usgs.gov/">http://rmgsc.cr.usgs.gov</a> file name: CO-BLX-FUL0 Four Mile Canyon 9-7-2010 0600.kml)<br />
(full url <a href="http://www.geomac.gov/asp-bin/geomac_KML/kmlHelper.htm?http://rmgsc.cr.usgs.gov/outgoing/GeoMAC/2010_fire_data/KMLS/CO-BLX-FUL0%20Four%20Mile%20Canyon%209-7-2010%200600.kml">http://www.geomac.gov/asp-bin/geomac_KML/kmlHelper.htm?http://rmgsc.cr.usgs.gov/outgoing/GeoMAC/2010_fire_data/KMLS/CO-BLX-FUL0%20Four%20Mile%20Canyon%209-7-2010%200600.kml</a>)<br />
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Then download interior details for Sep 6 and 7 from the Forest Service Remote Sensing Applications Center<br />
<a href="http://activefiremaps.fs.fed.us/googleearth.php">http://activefiremaps.fs.fed.us/googleearth.php</a><br />
This data pulls all of the current fires in one KML. I pulled the current Fire Detections (<a href="http://activefiremaps.fs.fed.us/data/kml/conus_latest_modis.kml">http://activefiremaps.fs.fed.us/data/kml/conus_latest_modis.kml</a>) and historical and animations (<a href="http://activefiremaps.fs.fed.us/data/kml/conus_hist">http://activefiremaps.fs.fed.us/data/kml/conus_hist</a>/) to see how the fire has moved according to MODIS. GOES and AVHRR (<a href="http://activefiremaps.fs.fed.us/data_avhrr/kml/conus_latest_avhrr.kml">http://activefiremaps.fs.fed.us/data_avhrr/kml/conus_latest_avhrr.kml</a>) are also available from the same site (GOES is very gross scale: <a href="http://activefiremaps.fs.fed.us/data_goes/kml/conus_latest_goes.kml">http://activefiremaps.fs.fed.us/data_goes/kml/conus_latest_goes.kml</a>). Selecting Large Incidents shows that this fire is currently requiring a Type 2 incident management team.<br />
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Then for a sobering realization of how many homes are in this area: <a href="http://www.bouldercounty.org/sheriff/emergency/map_options.htm">http://www.bouldercounty.org/sheriff/emergency/map_options.htm </a>select Option 2, complete hill shade map set: <a href="http://www.bouldercounty.org/sheriff/pdf/mapbook/map_set_hillshade.zip">http://www.bouldercounty.org/sheriff/pdf/mapbook/map_set_hillshade.zip</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 130%;">And here's Denver Post's current map</span><br />
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Also clicking on Current Large Fires on the Forest Service Remote Sensing Applications Center then clicking on the icon 10 for Four Mile, the current info is this:<br />
Fire Information Report for Four Mile Canyon<br />
Wildland Fire Incident<br />
Report Date: 08-SEP-10<br />
Burnt Area: 6,168 Acres (106% increase from yesterday)<br />
Location: Boulder County, CO (5 miles west of dowtown Boulder, CO)<br />
Cause: Under Investigation<br />
Incident Team Type: IMT Type 2<br />
Team Leader: Richardson<br />
Containment Status: 0% contained)<br />
Expected Containment: Unknown<br />
Fuels: Heavy dead and down with bug mortality in the Douglas-fir High 1200000.00 201PRIM<br />
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Other sources of information:<br />
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Boulder office of emergency management<br />
<a href="http://boulderoem.com/component/content/article/5">http://boulderoem.com/component/content/article/5</a><br />
<a href="http://www.bouldercounty.org/newsroom/templates/bocodefault.aspx?articleid=2291&zoneid=1">http://www.bouldercounty.org/newsroom/templates/bocodefault.aspx?articleid=2291&zoneid=1</a><br />
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Incident Information Systems (and maps)<br />
<a href="http://www.inciweb.org/incident/2119/">http://www.inciweb.org/incident/2119/</a> -- many links from here too<br />
<a href="http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/hazard/wildfire.shtml">http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/hazard/wildfire.shtml</a><br />
<a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_359264166">http://activefiremaps.fs.fed.us/activefiremaps.php</a><a href="http://www.blogger.com/%20http://activefiremaps.fs.fed.us/#"> http://activefiremaps.fs.fed.us/#</a><br />
<a href="http://www.geomac.gov/">http://www.geomac.gov/</a><br />
<a href="http://www.wfas.net/maps/">http://www.wfas.net/maps/</a><br />
<a href="http://forestry.about.com/od/forestfire/tp/wildfire_maps.htm">http://forestry.about.com/od/forestfire/tp/wildfire_maps.htm</a><br />
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Map of the perimeter (~ 10 mb)<br />
<a href="http://www.bouldercounty.org/bocc/FourMileFireWebPerimeter.pdf">http://www.bouldercounty.org/bocc/FourMileFireWebPerimeter.pdf</a><br />
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more maps:<br />
<a href="http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&t=h&oe=UTF8&msa=0&msid=116450738350250475290.00048f9b63b159a7d3dcf&ll=40.049595,-105.405021&spn=0.026117,0.02399&z=15&iwloc=00048f9b6746f57de0f00">http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&t=h&oe=UTF8&msa=0&msid=116450738350250475290.00048f9b63b159a7d3dcf&ll=40.049595,-105.405021&spn=0.026117,0.02399&z=15&iwloc=00048f9b6746f57de0f00</a><br />
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<a href="http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?hl=en&gl=us&ptab=2&ie=UTF8&oe=UTF8&msa=0&msid=107456750744474099138.00048f9bf332e01bf3b40">http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?hl=en&gl=us&ptab=2&ie=UTF8&oe=UTF8&msa=0&msid=107456750744474099138.00048f9bf332e01bf3b40</a><br />
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ESRI map<br />
<a href="http://www.esri.com/services/disaster-response/wildfire-map/index.html">http://www.esri.com/services/disaster-response/wildfire-map/index.html</a><br />
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maps (from inciweb)<br />
<a href="http://www.terraunbound.com/Events/Four-Mile-Canyon-Fire/13676273_RNaQi#998866037_Sh6MF">http://www.terraunbound.com/Events/Four-Mile-Canyon-Fire/13676273_RNaQi#998866037_Sh6MF</a><br />
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radio scanners<br />
<a href="http://www.radioreference.com/apps/audio/?action=cwp&ctid=247">http://www.radioreference.com/apps/audio/?action=cwp&ctid=247</a><br />
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info about the scanners<br />
<a href="http://www.radioreference.com/apps/audio/?action=wp&feedId=591">http://www.radioreference.com/apps/audio/?action=wp&feedId=591</a><br />
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Boulder County Fire<br />
(((Stereo Feed))) LEFT Side = Red-3 Simplex *** Right Side = Red-6 Repeater<br />
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Boulder County Sheriff and Fire<br />
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Colorado State Patrol (Denver Dispatch)<br />
~ Stereo Feed ~ LEFT Side = Troops 1A/C and 6A/B/D *** RIGHT Side = Troops 1D, 3A/B/C and 6C<br />
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Rocky Mountain National Park<br />
This feed is temporarily being used to monitor the Boulder Fourmile Canyon fire Air Operations. See additional details page for feed details.<br />
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Boulder county wildfire info<br />
<a href="http://www.bouldercounty.org/newsroom/templates/bocodefault.aspx?articleid=2291&zoneid=1">http://www.bouldercounty.org/newsroom/templates/bocodefault.aspx?articleid=2291&zoneid=1</a><br />
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Fox news live streaming<br />
<a href="http://www.kdvr.com/news/livestreaming/">http://www.kdvr.com/news/livestreaming/</a><br />
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time lapse of the fire Sept 6<br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfXIqbfehxs&feature=player_embedded">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfXIqbfehxs&feature=player_embedded</a><br />
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Blogs w/ pictures and satellite images<br />
<a href="http://www.cejournal.net/?p=3723">http://www.cejournal.net/?p=3723</a><br />
<a href="http://andrewhy.de/four-mile-canyon-fire-2010-boulderfire/">http://andrewhy.de/four-mile-canyon-fire-2010-boulderfire/</a><br />
<a href="http://cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/goes/blog/archives/category/fire-detection">http://cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/goes/blog/archives/category/fire-detection</a><br />
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<a href="http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=45675"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 130%;">http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=45675</span></a><br />
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look for channel 9, 7, 4 - they have pics<br />
<a href="http://www.wunderground.com/wximage/viewsingleimage.html?mode=singleimage&handle=bjcali&number=141&album_id=55&thumbstart=0&gallery=VIPPICT#slideanchor">http://www.wunderground.com/wximage/viewsingleimage.html?mode=singleimage&handle=bjcali&number=141&album_id=55&thumbstart=0&gallery=VIPPICT#slideanchor</a><br />
<a href="http://www.wunderground.com/wximage/viewsingleimage.html?mode=singleimage&handle=emp33&number=0&album_id=0&thumbstart=0&gallery=VIPPICT#slideanchor">http://www.wunderground.com/wximage/viewsingleimage.html?mode=singleimage&handle=emp33&number=0&album_id=0&thumbstart=0&gallery=VIPPICT#slideanchor</a><br />
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discussion<br />
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<a href="http://search.twitter.com/search?had_popular=true&q=%23boulderfire&result_type=recent">http://search.twitter.com/search?had_popular=true&q=%23boulderfire&result_type=recent</a> </span>Shelleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12520217660192159959noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16955316.post-74985465237003072952010-05-19T20:26:00.000-06:002010-05-19T20:26:46.519-06:00Planning for a rally ride<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 130%;">This is a work in progress :) We're meeting up with about 20 of our closest riding friends that we've met over the past two years at the Potato Ranch Rally near Durango, Colorado. Its just 16 days away - and we're so 'cited! Its not a 'sanctioned' rally in the way of sponsors - nah, we do our own agenda and fun :)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 130%;">Here's our route so far <a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&source=s_d&saddr=nederland,+co&daddr=State+Hwy+73+to:Fairplay,+CO+to:Saguache,+CO+to:durango,+co&geocode=FSDDYQIdUQi2-SlbUkVOxMZrhzGyTOyqmFxkjQ%3BFSY_XAIdGP64-Q%3BFYiFVgId1omu-SkP2kfiQuhqhzEwN9au6ZcFBw%3B%3BFZDGOAIdfeGR-Skj_IW9pgI8hzFafqajgogr3A&hl=en&mra=ls&via=1&sll=38.23818,-106.12793&sspn=2.709458,5.493164&ie=UTF8&z=7">(link)</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 130%;">We might be inducting a friend to our BeginnerBiker circle - so we're very pysched about that.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 130%;">Gotta remember to do a full T-CLOC , especially checking the coolant. The wild card is the weather - will it snow? How much cold and hot weather gear do we need to bring? Food? wa?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 130%;"> </span>Shelleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12520217660192159959noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16955316.post-25212403793466591742010-04-18T22:11:00.002-06:002010-04-18T22:14:13.922-06:00A Grand View and Circles<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 130%;">After multiple trips going north and south along the Peak-to-Peak highway, we're ready to find some new routes. Turns out that Bob has never ridden Lookout Road toward the west - so today that is where we headed. </span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 130%;">However, I didn't take any pics... something about hand holding a camera while also trying to keep control of a bike inhibits my picture taking. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 130%;">Riding down Boulder Canyon we ended up behind a covey of touring bikes (no pic for that either), Goldwings and the like. Very impressive riding through the narrows - and we would have continued riding with them but they turned off at a gas station once we got to Boulder.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 130%;">And there are butterflies flitting around - I still do my best to avoid them if I can. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 130%;">We wound our way through Boulder traffic and off to the east we went.The trees here are starting to bud and flower (imagine white flowered trees) so riding was filled with sweet fragrances along Valmont and Isabelle roads. We had a short section of 287 and hardly any traffic - got to blow some carbon out of the engine for the few miles until Lookout. We ooh'd and ahhh'd as the front range and continental divide mountains rose into view as crested the hill - somewhere I have some pics of this, again, not today.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 130%;">Since it was lunch time I took Bob to one of my local favorites, <a href="http://www.ajuua.com/">Ajuua Restaurant</a> in Niwot. While the wait-staff watched the Rockies and Braves battle out game three of their away-stand, Bob and I munched on some great carnitas and shrimp and sipped on iced tea.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 130%;">After waddling back to our bikes, I decided that now would be a good time for me to practice slow speed U-turns, so off we went to a local deserted business parking lot near where I work. It wasn't working for me, so I had Bob demonstrate one more time:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 130%;">It still wasn't working for me - my circles were still the width of parking lot and 4 lanes wide. And then I had him stand in the middle of the 'ideal' circle so I could focus on him. Voila! Suddenly I could make smaller circles - half hour later they were almost acceptable. It wasn't so much that I hasn't turning my head, it was that I didn't know where to look! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 130%;">By now our lunches had worked their way to where we really needed to -- so off to <a href="http://www.celestialseasonings.com/visit-us/index.html">Celestial Seasonings </a>we rode. In addition to the awesome tea shop is their tasting room where you can try any tea that they sell. My new acquisition was the Acai Mango Zinger, which provided a nice robust flavor - although I wonder if its a sustainable product. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 130%;">Of course, what ride is complete without finishing with washing the bikes. </span><br />
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</span>Shelleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12520217660192159959noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16955316.post-48108147875524668522010-01-10T20:41:00.001-07:002010-01-10T21:17:05.241-07:00To my newly retired friend B0be<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 130%;">I am retired. <br />
I do whatever I want<br />
wanna go skiing?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 130%;">Ski Bums ski a lot<br />
Retired folks ski much more<br />
welcome to freedom</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 130%;">today I will ski<br />
tomorrow I will ski more<br />
because, I am freeeeee!!!!! <br />
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I've been too cheap to buy a real head lamp, so I've got this flashlight thingy that goes on the brim of a hat. With the snow reflecting the light, I can see about 15 feet really well - but it is a bit nerve racking to be in the middle of the woods, by oneself, no dog as protector, hoping no mountain lion is hungry. So I sang Christmas carols - loudly.<br />
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The leads went about 2 - 3 miles in, I have no idea how far I went, maybe a little over a mile and turned around when they came back down the trail. By now it was light out so careening downhill and huffing uphill was a bit easier with being able to see the rocks and tree roots. Complete trip was about an hour.<br />
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If someone had told me a month ago that I would have the lungs to x-ctry ski for an hour I would have laughed. Now I'm wondering what I'm going to do for exercise while we're in North Carolina starting tomorrow... Thanks for reading!Shelleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12520217660192159959noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16955316.post-15353082974551720812009-12-09T15:20:00.000-07:002009-12-09T15:20:20.820-07:00Between the storms<span id="profile_status"><span id="status_text">golden light glitters ~~</span></span><span id="profile_status"><span id="status_text"> in the meadow </span></span><span id="profile_status"><span id="status_text">snow devils spin ~~ </span></span><span id="profile_status"><span id="status_text">welcome back dear sun<br />
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<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 130%;">Yet, there I was yesterday cross-country skiing a very nice trail - the upper Sour Dough near Brainard Lake - sliding up and down hills contemplating how riding a motorcycle and xtry-skiing have similarities. What was it that felt familiar? Tiny baby step stomps to ascend small hills? The thrill of sliding downhill in my best knee-knocking snowplow? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 130%;">And then it dawned on me. It is more than just the ability to balance, it is an awareness of how subtle changes in one's body position and limbs changes the balance one is in. The gee-whiz word for this is proprioception.<br />
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<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 130%;">This fall we've been lucky enough to have a few really good snowfalls. However, each time it snowed I had been out of town and by the time I would get back, the snow would be 'old'. My snow efficiendo friends would say that today the snow really really was not worth skiing on; most of it had melted, what was left was stomped on, crusty, and icy, and at 50F it would be like thick mash potatoes and stick to the bottom of one's skis. Yep. I went anyway. <br />
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Its a forested area near where I live which is fairly flat and heavily wooded, so my thinking was I would ski deep in the trees on the north side of the slope. I get there are there's one couple leaving - awesome! I walk down the trail and realize the trails are mostly mud with a little snow. OK, off trail I go. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 130%;">And it was fun! The 2 inches of base meant being watchful for tree roots and such so as I slowly made my way through the brush and over tree fall, I mentally calculated the impact that a ski has on the terrain below (about .6 kg/cm2). A few moments of gliding but mostly I was winding my way along and the trek became a game to find a continuous path snow-covered path through the trees. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 130%;">A new rule also came into play - avoid open areas with lots of sun - because indeed the snow stuck to my skis with a vengeance. And the sudden stops and slow downs were just part of the challenge. Today slow was good as I was figuring out how to weight my edges and snowplow.<br />
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sharp winds rustle the edges ~<br />
earth begins a long sleep.<br />
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<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 130%;">The lighting is all wrong. Now that its not summer, the sun is lighting her hind end - not exactly the most flattering angle on any fem. I take a pic </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 130%;">And thus starts a photo shoot, lead peeping series of rides.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 130%;">We ride to Rollinsville and Tolland Road. The leaves are not totally changed</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 130%;">but some are</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 130%;">More at: <a href="http://www.terraunbound.com/Scooters-scootering-scooter/But-they-are-THIS-YEARS-colors/">http://www.terraunbound.com/Scooters-scootering-scooter/But-they-are-THIS-YEARS-colors/</a><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 130%;">Stay tuned<br />
</span>Shelleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12520217660192159959noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16955316.post-62887664287430848322009-09-14T09:03:00.003-06:002009-09-14T09:45:55.240-06:00Packing List for Road Trip<span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:130%;" >Our packing list for a three day motorcycle trip in the summer for two people. We packed our bulky stuff into reusable grocery bags which fit very nicely into the side cases. Bob wore a backpack and I had a tank bag. I chose not to take the top box because it was going to be windy on the plains and I didn't want to fight the wind more than I needed to.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">I wore: </span><br />boots<br />wool socks<br />mesh & armor overpants<br />bicycle shorts<br />t-shirt<br />riding jacket<br />earplugs (I wore them when we were getting onto the highway, in-town riding I need to be able to hear the traffic around me)<br />sunglasses<br />gauntlet leather gloves<br />helmet<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">In tank bag</span><br />good camera w/ 10-20mm wide angle lens<br />water<br />snack<br />microfiber cloth<br />baseball cap<br />maps (on top)<br />GPS (on top)<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Ram mount w/ small camera w/ tether</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Take with (side cases):</span><br />other maps<br />book<br />camera bag w/ </span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:130%;" >100-300mm lens, macro 50mm, </span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:130%;" >camera goodies<br />camera (2) +cell chargers, plus batteries<br />toiletries + bug spray<br />sunglasses case w/ cleaner<br />rain jacket + waterproof pants liners<br />poly-pro sweater<br />1 extra t-shirt, undies, socks, etc<br /></span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:130%;" >sandals<br /><br /></span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">plus evening wear</span><br />jeans<br />nice shirt<br />jewelry<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">food / water</span><br />2 liters / person<br />gorp<br />kashi bars<br />apples<br />choc covered almonds<br /><br />trash bags - 1 / side case<br />v. large ziplock for camera<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">tools etc</span><br />coolant<br />oil<br />tire gauge<br />6-way screwdriver w/ </span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:130%;" >torx bits</span><br /><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:130%;" >adjustable wrench<br />zip ties<br />duct tape<br />velcro ties<br />bungee<br />cell phone<br /><br />I brought too much stuff - too much clothing really. The torx driver was well worth having since we needed to check our coolant levels daily (and there are 6 screws to remove). And while we didn't need any extra tools, when riding on dirt roads in National Forests with limited cell coverage, being a bit prepared is a good thing to do.<br /></span>Shelleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12520217660192159959noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16955316.post-64148919673427602082009-09-07T18:28:00.000-06:002009-09-20T18:29:59.011-06:00Short rides on dirt<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 130%;">OK then. We decided to a suite of dirt rides since it was Labor Day weekend and the last place we really wanted to be was on the main roads.<br />
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So, off we go for a quick jaunt up to the old Caribou town site. This 'ghost' town had been the home of some 5000 souls and the Caribou Silver Mine. Now, it has just a few ruins from the late 1800's.<br />
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A very nice ride up a fairly well maintained dirt road, with occasional stretches of bedrock peeking through is rewarded by spectacular views. We were surprised to find the trees changing color so early in September.</span><br />
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And then off to Sawmill Rd...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 130%;">This one shows the real steepness of the road. With sharp drop offs. No pressure. Really.<br />
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Back to Apex...<br />
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<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 130%;">It turns out that the cemetery (the Catholic one) has a number of interesting gravestones.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 130%;">This one is Woodman of World.<br />
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<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 130%;">A complete section of Italian graves. So many people died young in the mines...<br />
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<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 130%;">And this structure we thought might be a tomb, but perhaps its for holding the lime? <br />
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<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 130%;">Rest in peace yea brave miners and families of yester-year<br />
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<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 130%;">Nevada City feels like it should be alive and yet there's one family house that I could see<br />
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<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 130%;">Well - shoot! This is supposed to be pic #1, where are trips often begin.<br />
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<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 130%;">Someone's skid lid...<br />
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<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 130%;">Just 1.8 mil. A bargain.<br />
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</span>Shelleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12520217660192159959noreply@blogger.com0