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Re: Spring Break, 2016
« Reply #40 on: March 29, 2017, 03:29:19 PM »
I remember the "l found it" bumper sticker. What did you get?
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Re: Spring Break, 2016
« Reply #41 on: March 29, 2017, 05:02:41 PM »

What did you get?


Another private highpoint. This one located 25 miles west of Patterson and 20 miles east of the Mount Hamilton's Lick Observatory. A routine 10.3 mile hike and we didn't see another person  ;D  ;D

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Re: Spring Break, 2016
« Reply #42 on: March 29, 2017, 06:21:34 PM »
Got it.

You migh want to see a doctor and get rid of it. :lol:
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Re: Spring Break, 2016
« Reply #43 on: March 29, 2017, 06:56:45 PM »

You migh want to see a doctor and get rid of it. :lol:


Wait until you see the views from the summit.

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Re: Spring Break, 2016
« Reply #44 on: March 29, 2017, 08:23:33 PM »

 JC, as a geologist you should...

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Re: Spring Break, 2016
« Reply #45 on: March 29, 2017, 08:33:30 PM »
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Re: Spring Break, 2016
« Reply #46 on: March 29, 2017, 10:45:04 PM »
#26 pretty much sums it all up. Groan.

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Re: Spring Break, 2016
« Reply #47 on: March 30, 2017, 04:58:16 AM »


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#26 pretty much sums it all up. Groan.

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pun·dit
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an expert in a particular subject or field who is frequently called on to give opinions about it to the public.
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synonyms:   expert, authority, specialist, doyen(ne), master, guru, sage, savant, maven;

  :D Correlation?

 So punny!
 
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Re: Spring Break, 2016
« Reply #48 on: March 30, 2017, 06:48:33 AM »
Stan County's highpoint is fairly nondescript. It starts with flat hiking for two miles through oaks and grassland (hard to hide across this stuff - we counted on sheer remoteness and got away with it):







Slow elevation gain up a creek followed:







Past several small ponds:




Then two miles of serious uphill through warm chaparral:













Looking back at how we came up:







All fairly routine, if a little hot. And then we broke out over to the east side of the ridge that makes up the highpoint:




That white line on the eastern horizon? For the un-initiated, that's the entire Sierra Nevada (across the entire Central Valley):




We were back to routine for the highpoint itself:
















The hike back included some nice moments:







And then there was the gate and Vicki:







That was it. We've now got two more private property highpoints left to do and then we're down to more that are publicly accessible (I've got about eight more to do out of 56 total and Tricia has about 20).

Of the two more on private property, we're on a wait list for one - the property owner lets 10 people come on the property twice a year, tag the highpoint - apparently it's 100 feet from his house - and then leave (one wonders what the owner thinks of all these nut-job list-checkers). The other we'll try today. It's off Highway 35, about 500 feet off the pavement, on an old, now disused Christmas tree farm.

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Re: Spring Break, 2016
« Reply #49 on: March 30, 2017, 08:03:21 AM »
nice views
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Re: Spring Break, 2016
« Reply #50 on: March 30, 2017, 08:32:10 AM »

Looks like at one point you were up a creek without a waddle  :lol:

The rock that survey marker is in looks metamorphic - either slate, phyllite or schist - hard to tell for sure without being there.

You guys look uncomfortably warm in a few of those pics.
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Re: Spring Break, 2016
« Reply #51 on: March 30, 2017, 11:33:20 AM »
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The other we'll try today. It's off Highway 35, about 500 feet off the pavement, on an old, now disused Christmas tree farm.

Seems kinda local?  Hwy 35?  I'm assuming we're meeting for beers afterward? mmmmm, kay
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Re: Spring Break, 2016
« Reply #52 on: March 30, 2017, 08:37:27 PM »
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Seems kinda local?  Hwy 35?  I'm assuming we're meeting for beers afterward? mmmmm, kay
Yeah! If I am not working.

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Re: Spring Break, 2016
« Reply #53 on: March 30, 2017, 08:51:09 PM »
well, I got no calls. So hopefully they are ok.
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Re: Spring Break, 2016
« Reply #54 on: March 30, 2017, 09:06:47 PM »
Sorry, I meant to reply. I finished my deposition in San Jose and we ran up there in the afternoon. About as boring as it gets. We walked uphill 500 linear feet to the top of a rounded plateau, spent 15 minutes making sure we walked over every point that could be higher than another, and then beat it to my sister's house just in time for a family dinner.

So, no beers with you today. How about tomorrow up at our house, or join us and the Dawsons for dinner Saturday? Are you coming up this weekend?

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Re: Spring Break, 2016
« Reply #55 on: March 30, 2017, 09:12:52 PM »
ah, glad it was uneventful.

Tomorrow I may be asleep by 6pm. Early rise Sat am and working on plan for being on skis during the day. I'll touch base in the afternoon. thx!
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Re: Spring Break, 2016
« Reply #56 on: March 31, 2017, 05:37:58 AM »
The county highpoint for the county that the Cooks and Cochrans live in:



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Re: Spring Break, 2016
« Reply #57 on: March 31, 2017, 10:18:21 AM »
And here I thought the highpoint was hanging with us.
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Re: Spring Break, 2016
« Reply #58 on: March 31, 2017, 10:45:47 AM »
About as boring as it gets. We walked uphill 500 linear feet to the top of a rounded plateau, spent 15 minutes making sure we walked over every point that could be higher than another

So you didn't find the benchmark?
I can imagine you walking in circles wondering if you touched the exact spot  :lol:
I did a better job than I thought disguising it. :devildevil:
Could this become the new Mystery Spot?  :thumbup: :biggrin: :yesnod:
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Re: Spring Break, 2016
« Reply #59 on: March 31, 2017, 06:20:41 PM »

Where is everybody?

Did I step in it again unbeknownst to me?
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