tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post5037490289450105230..comments2024-01-28T03:56:39.351-08:00Comments on TOM CLARK: Rock Cuts: William Henry JacksonUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-8783242155894441922012-12-07T03:27:28.645-08:002012-12-07T03:27:28.645-08:00Bob / j-jock,
Many thanks for the local knowledge...Bob / j-jock,<br /><br />Many thanks for the local knowledge.<br /><br />Haven't been able to dig up photos of that latest slide, but here's some footage of a pretty hairy drive through the canyon last July:<br /><br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b4641GMg3LM" rel="nofollow">Waterfalls and Rock Slides, Big Thompson Canyon, 7/7/12 (video)</a><br /><br />I gather the granddaddy of all recent slides in that spot was the one pictured in the great photos at the bottom here:<br /><br /><a href="http://www.arizonarails.com/cn-derailment.html" rel="nofollow">Derailment of CN Train #355, Big Thompson Canyon, 4 January 2007</a><br /><br />Of course all those slides took place well after EB's photo-shoot. And it does appear Mother Nature continues to have plans for rearranging those rocks.<br /><br />A bit of earth science on the subject...<br /><br /><a href="http://eeg.geoscienceworld.org/content/13/2/161.abstract" rel="nofollow">Complex Earth Slides in the Thompson River Valley: abstract (2007)</a>TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-18839961942664652862012-12-06T20:06:13.709-08:002012-12-06T20:06:13.709-08:00 As a British Columbian, I am so used to traveling... As a British Columbian, I am so used to traveling through these mountains, that I sometimes get a little complacent and am inclined to see more of the beauty rather than the technical accomplishment. There was a slide in the second from the bottom location just two weeks ago, and seeing the pristine picture of the slide location in Thompson River Canyon (second from the bottom) makes the view even more awe inspiring. <br />Thanks<br />j-jock<br />Bob Swansonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18149123397722098120noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-27822315732487182852012-02-19T01:54:19.026-08:002012-02-19T01:54:19.026-08:00Were I a mountain, I would prefer the hymn of the ...Were I a mountain, I would prefer the hymn of the winds to the helpless trauma of being ripped, torn, split, gouged...<br /><br />One mountain: Uh-oh, here they come.<br /><br />Another mountain: From this distance, they look like insects.<br /><br />First mountain: No such luck. Humanoids again.<br /><br />All the mountains together: Sigh! Groan!!TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-29728392818376663442012-02-18T23:31:50.264-08:002012-02-18T23:31:50.264-08:00Song for the mountains<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0D5URCNPgM" rel="nofollow">Song for the mountains</a>adityahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16078144194220301083noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-41665520634303106852012-02-18T07:10:19.315-08:002012-02-18T07:10:19.315-08:00Curtis, well, yes.
(When one's breath has bee...Curtis, well, yes.<br /><br />(When one's breath has been taken away, asked the child, where then does it go?)TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-68291827183693282392012-02-18T06:50:28.442-08:002012-02-18T06:50:28.442-08:00You guys have it covered. This was terrific, but ...You guys have it covered. This was terrific, but my sadness will far outlast my pleasure in the aesthetics of it. CurtisACravanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00315707533118640284noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-27910454302617964702012-02-18T02:29:02.110-08:002012-02-18T02:29:02.110-08:00One sometimes wonders whether, had the requisite t...One sometimes wonders whether, had the requisite technologies, developed over the past two centuries or so, for blowing it up, blasting through it, drilling into it, and otherwise cutting it down to human (lilliputian) scale, in the interest of whatever temporary purposes and uses (short term profit, that sharp big-city lawyer, always wins every argument with the mute ancient landforms), been around a few millennia longer, there would be any Earth left at all for overgrown children to recklessly, willfully f--k up. <br /><br />(Did I hear someone trying to shoehorn those blanks with an "r", an "a" and a "c"?)TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-48696233310259604822012-02-17T23:01:14.552-08:002012-02-17T23:01:14.552-08:00for you pay homage to the mountains,i conquer
gre...for you pay homage to the mountains,i conquer<br /><br />great poem Tom,manik sharmahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18055072451804840121noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-87957085977794469812012-02-17T13:46:42.542-08:002012-02-17T13:46:42.542-08:00excellent word play.excellent word play.gamefacedhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16562522181852339258noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-83039356056217370792012-02-17T11:37:34.010-08:002012-02-17T11:37:34.010-08:00A terrific poem. No one is tall enough I say. No o...A terrific poem. No one is tall enough I say. No one and yet.adityahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16078144194220301083noreply@blogger.com