Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2013/06/03

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Subject: [Leica] Yosemite Mist Trail
From: steve.barbour at gmail.com (Steve Barbour)
Date: Mon, 3 Jun 2013 11:11:29 -0700
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On Jun 3, 2013, at 10:16 AM, Robert Adler <rgacpa at gmail.com> wrote:

> One of the scariest things I've seen:
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lm8ImFWx1ac



wow, yes....


I strongly recomend the film   "Man on Wire"


Steve



> 
> Shame they cropped off the top of the tree at the beginning on Taft 
> Point...
> 
> 
> On Mon, Jun 3, 2013 at 8:27 AM, Paul Roark <roark.paul at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>>> 
>>> "Bob Adler" <rgacpa at gmail.com> wrote
>>> 
>>>> Just don't go swimming...
>>>> 
>>>> http://www.latimes.com/local/**lanow/la-me-ln-man-swept-over-**
>>>> yosemite-waterfall-20130602,0,**1124451.story<
>> http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-man-swept-over-yosemite-waterfall-20130602,0,1124451.story
>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>> I met a ranger in a wet suit at the Merced once and asked him what he was
>> doing.  "Looking for a body."  They have to search the river until they
>> find the body -- or most of it.  They also have to take large bags to the
>> bottom of Half Dome and other cliff areas to pick up the pieces.  It sort
>> of took away my desire to be a ranger there.
>> 
>> One of the absolute dumbest things I ever saw was a testosterone-poisoned
>> teenager hanging from one of the I beams under the bridge at the top of
>> Nevada falls.  He was proving his machismo to his buddies by going hand
>> over hand along the I beam, under the bridge and over the top of the 
>> falls.
>> I couldn't watch.
>> 
>> About the biggest risk I've taken at the top of that falls is to put my
>> camera on the end of an extended tripod, set the self timer, and hold the
>> camera as far as possible over the edge of the falls to get a shot looking
>> straight down.  It makes a cool picture (even if no person is going over
>> the falls at the time).  ;-)
>> 
>> Paul
>> www.PaulRoark.com
>> 
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> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Bob Adler
> 
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