Sunrise, 2005

Daisies

 

Are supposed to be white. Apparently some people like to keep things as far from nature intended as possible.

Red filtered black and white makes blue black

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Links to an album now

Bridger

This was Aaron's first run ever off the ridge.







The northwest flow is still going strong out there, we've got a Winter Storm Warning till tomorrow. . .

Jackson Hole

I went there last weekend and snowboarded Friday-Sunday. I have a 6 day pass there that I got for a price too good to refuse, but while I was down there I was introduced to how easy it is to ski there for free by using the tickets of flat-landers who couldn't handle more then a few runs. "Ticket clipping" in Jackson is unusually accepted by the ski area and is therefore a very popular way to start skiing for free around 11 am without buying a 77 dollar ticket.

The snow was exceptionally good, it snowed 50 inches in the 5 days before we got there and snowed 10", 10" and 8" the three days we were there. We spent a lot of time in the Slackcountry but were very careful because the avalanche danger was considerable because of all the new snow. I didn't stop much to take pictures, but here are a couple.





The strange orange things on the left shoulder straps of their packs are mouthpieces for avalaungs built into their packs. Not a bad idea, I may have to get one of these at some point.

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uploaded more (and some of the same) photos.

Sunrise over a still ocean


A keel billed toucan who learned to beg


Mangroves getting started on a forest


A Belize dog, smaller than is standard.

BZE

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Belize

It was a good trip. More to come. . .

(home sweet home on Glover's Reef)

Belize

Off to Belize tonight with the parents. I'll try and post something from there in the next two weeks. Assuming I'm not too busy getting a tan.

Mer de Glace

2-4 inches in the mountains

yeah right. 10-20? It's hard not to like the localized storms produced by the Bridger Bowl Cloud.

Midweek Pass

Bridger was good today. Except for a couple of rocks. There were strange downhill winds that blew a bunch of the snow off the top.





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Bridger

Opened on Friday. It's pretty good snow up there.

Strain

From my thesis project. . . this is a 1.25" tall by 1" wide by .03" thick piece of carbon fiber laminate with a notch cut in one side. The top of it has been displaced vertically upward by around .025" with around 1000lbs of force.

This picture is a graphical represnetation of strain in the x (horizontal) direction under tension in the y. The blue is negative strain (compression) induced mostly by the carbon fiber laminates geometry, which has the strong carbon fibers aligned from the notch to the left corners at 30 degrees from vertical ([±30]s ). The fibers covered by blue are holding most of the force right now.

My project uses a canon digital rebel and a series of Matlab programs to measure strain off the whole surface of a sample optically for thousands of dollars less then a comparable commercial system and with more flexibility.

Another

Random pic 'o' the day

 

Name this location.

FIRE!

Snow in the Bridgers

This picture is from last Wednesday south of Bridger Bowl. Really light, fluffy snow that was waist deep in a lot of places on top of lots of rocks. Dangerous for equipment.

Turkey Day

Deer in the front yard at the parents house, snow in their backyard, pygmy owls knocking themselves out on the windows and weird smog from a refinery near butte on the way back to Bozeman.