The Cellar / Scenic Spots Everywhere

**Posted by griff** 2/24/2023 8:00 am

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.

**Posted by glatt** 2/25/2023 5:05 pm

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.

**Posted by xoxoxoBruce** 3/04/2023 2:52 am

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.

**Posted by xoxoxoBruce** 3/04/2023 3:03 am

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...

**Posted by Diaphone Jim** 3/05/2023 12:55 pm

Vermillion Cliffs = Fantastic Voyage

**Posted by xoxoxoBruce** 3/16/2023 11:53 pm

**Posted by xoxoxoBruce** 3/25/2023 5:12 am

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...

**Posted by glatt** 3/25/2023 8:49 am

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.

**Posted by Diaphone Jim** 3/25/2023 11:32 am

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

**Posted by Happy Monkey** 3/25/2023 2:11 pm

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.

**Posted by glatt** 3/25/2023 6:35 pm

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.

**Posted by griff** 3/26/2023 6:23 am

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/

Last edited by griff (3/26/2023 6:24 am)

**Posted by xoxoxoBruce** 4/02/2023 3:07 am

**Posted by Diaphone Jim** 4/04/2023 11:27 am

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

**Posted by griff** 4/05/2023 6:28 am

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

**Posted by xoxoxoBruce** 4/19/2023 2:52 am

**Posted by glatt** 4/19/2023 9:06 am

TIL: Torghatten: The ‘Hole in the Mountain’

https://lifejourney4two.com/torghatten/

**Posted by xoxoxoBruce** 4/23/2023 7:34 am

USA! USA! USA!

**Posted by glatt** 4/24/2023 7:04 am

I enjoy this thread. Thank you, Bruce.

**Posted by xoxoxoBruce** 4/29/2023 5:29 am

My pleasure...

**Posted by Happy Monkey** 4/30/2023 12:43 am

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

**Posted by xoxoxoBruce** 5/03/2023 1:01 am

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

**Posted by xoxoxoBruce** 6/17/2023 12:18 am

Here we go...

**Posted by xoxoxoBruce** 6/17/2023 12:28 am

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

**Posted by xoxoxoBruce** 6/25/2023 12:48 am

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