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2/24/2023 8:00 am  #101


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glatt wrote:

Thanks for your comment tw, it made me look the place up.
https://mybestplace.com/en/article/porto-flavia-an-ingenious-work-with-a-breathtaking-view#
this link has a diagram of the interior layout when it was a mine and shows how the ships loaded up.

Wow! Great dig Glatt.
 


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2/25/2023 5:05 pm  #102


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Looking at it in Google Earth, there is a road that leads to the back door of this place.  A tunnel about 1km long carved into the other side of the mountain.

 

3/04/2023 2:52 am  #103


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The "abandoned hotel on the edge of a lake in Italy" is the Casa Della Trota hotel on the big lake between Lombardy and Veneto, inland from Venice.
Porto Flavia is way the hell over in Sardinia a hundred miles off the opposite coast.

Never the two shall meet... until the earth melts.


 


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3/04/2023 3:03 am  #104


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OK, you don't have to venture out into the word's unwashed masses to see cool stuff.
You can mingle with 'Merica's unwashed masses...







 


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3/05/2023 12:55 pm  #105


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Vermillion Cliffs = Fantastic Voyage

 

3/16/2023 11:53 pm  #106


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3/25/2023 5:12 am  #107


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Brrrrrr winter, imagine some people actually go out in the snow when nobody's life in in danger and the building isn't on fire or under heavy shelling...






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3/25/2023 8:49 am  #108


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I saw a social media post that did some back-of-the-envelope calculation of the weight of the snow on the roofs of a typical house in Lake Tahoe, where the snow depth is similar, and it was astounding.  The houses there are built for deep snow, but I don't think they expected 20+ feet of snow when they designed them.  This post I saw said the weight was roughly 300,000 pounds on a typical roof.  Not sure if that is correct, but if the snow is over 20 feet deep, it seems possible.

 

3/25/2023 11:32 am  #109


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Buried ski lifts!  The way a California drought starts to ease?

 

3/25/2023 2:11 pm  #110


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It's good for the drought, but it doesn't soak in as fast as it runs off, so the aquifers don't benefit as much as you'd hope.


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3/25/2023 6:35 pm  #111


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Many more hikers will die this year hiking the Pacific Crest Trail and crossing raging snow melt streams when they are too stubborn to turn back.

 

3/26/2023 6:23 am  #112


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The uptick in hikers during COVID lead to a lot of rescues in the Adirondacks as the unprepared got in trouble. On the upside NYS finally hired a bunch of new rangers.  Knowing your limits is so important and hiking with an experienced person helps, unfortunately social media influencers create a false picture of what hiking is. Too many folks are out there in crocs not expecting the shit to hit the fan.


Here's a particularly sad story from NH.
https://www.boston.com/news/local-news/2022/12/23/young-westford-hiker-who-died-in-nh-remembered-as-caring-determined/
 

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4/02/2023 3:07 am  #113


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4/04/2023 11:27 am  #114


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Another wild foot bridge by the same architects as the Lucky Knot:
Melkweg Bridge - NEXT Architects

 

4/05/2023 6:28 am  #115


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That's a really cool foot bridge. I'd like nice things like that.


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4/19/2023 2:52 am  #116


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4/19/2023 9:06 am  #117


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  TIL: Torghatten: The ‘Hole in the Mountain’

 https://lifejourney4two.com/torghatten/

 

4/23/2023 7:34 am  #118


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USA!  USA!  USA!










 


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4/24/2023 7:04 am  #119


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I enjoy this thread.  Thank you, Bruce.

 

4/29/2023 5:29 am  #120


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My pleasure...





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4/30/2023 12:43 am  #121


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That first pic is what happens if you don't take off your muddy shoes before walking on your mom's clean floor.


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5/03/2023 1:01 am  #122


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You mean it's a grave, HM? She made good on her threat to kill anyone tracking mud?


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6/17/2023 12:18 am  #123


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Here we go...






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6/17/2023 12:28 am  #124


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See the USA... in your spare time...











 


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6/25/2023 12:48 am  #125


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Woodstock... not Snoopy's yellow bird buddy...


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