Taken By Herbert Ponting:
Please go here and enjoy the slide show.
“London’s largest ever display of Herbert Ponting’s Captain Scott expedition photography opens shortly at the Chris Beetles Gallery in central London.
More than 60 photos will be exhibited, taken from the 1910 expedition. Here are a few of the highlights. ”
Huckfunn sez go here to for more exciting pics!
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that looks like one hell of a fine boat
@ heysoos:
its beautiful
hey ya’ll
very cool pics
for them it was as alien as going to the moon
Makes me chilly just looking at those pics, but they are nice.
aggggggghhhhhh
me want
me want NOW!!!!
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Here’s another photo stream entitled “The Lost Photographs of Captain Scott”.
huckfunn wrote:
thx, i forgot to add that earlier
Yar.
Bumr50 wrote:
indeed!
Really cool pics. Are they of the Antarctic? I looked, but didn’t find anywhere it said.
Can you imagine being an explorer back in the day? What an exciting life. Lewis & Clark’s exploration fascinates me.
Dolphin wrote:
Have you read Undaunted Courage by Stephen Ambrose? A great read.
@ huckfunn:
No I have not. Thanks for the tip! Excellent timing, will be finished with the current book by the weekend and this will be the next one! Wasn’t sure what I was going to listen to next, you just saved me some hunting!!
this is just hard going. wow, no internal combustion engines, no tech.
just hard assed work.
@ coldwarrior:
man vs nature
man gets a draw
rain of lead wrote:
unless man is chuck norris
@ coldwarrior:
When men were men!
A short story. I grew up in Oregon. Lived in both western and eastern Oregon. Took many, many road trips with the parents. Both around Oregon and across the US. One time we stopped at a place in central OR (lava beds). It had an observation area (built out of lava rock), you could walk around inside and use steps to view surrounding land marks like certain mountains, etc. The also had trails through the lava fields. We walked out on one (it seemed far at the time), maybe 2 miles. It took you to the “Oregon Trail” The ruts from the wagons were still visible in the lava beds and for miles in either direction you could see where the beds had been smoothed out for the wagons.
Can you even imagine being the first wagon train through that area?
Dolphin wrote:
nope.
i’ve been in some pretty remote places but always had a radio to call a helicopter or someone to get me out.
those cats lived without a net.
we should double the investment in Freeze Dried History…there’s phone number
coldwarrior wrote:
I require a 4 star resort, with beach…I’ll not be visiting those lava beds anytime soon
Dolphin wrote:
Another good one is Nothing Like it in the World; the Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad, also by Ambrose.
If I had to guess, this may have been the place.
http://www.everytrail.com/guide/mckenzie-pass-highpoint-and-dee-wright-observatory-trails
And this is similar to the type of lava beds.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/treviscarletta/5941859754/
heysoos wrote:
i need 3 stars and a golf course, thanks.
the Oregon Trail, Santa Fe trail, the Bozeman, California Cutoff, the Chisholm trail, Trail of Tears…trails are the foundation of our history
huckfunn wrote:
well, the trans-siberian railroad is like it….its longer…worse weather…
@ huckfunn:
Wonderful!! Just added that one to my wish list!
@ heysoos:
@ coldwarrior:
Mt. Bachelor is “right” around the corner!
@ huckfunn:
that was another good tale from Ambrose…I read all his stuff
coldwarrior wrote:
In 1938, my missionary grandfather and his entire family (including my Dad) had to leave Japanese occupied Korea. They took the Trans-Siberian Railroad all across Stalin’s Soviet Union and then continued through Warsaw, Berlin and back to England. My Dad said that he and his siblings made up rhymes about the Russian towns they went through. Omsk and Tomsk are the ones I remember from the story.
I still prefer snorkling to snow shoeing…I float like a manatee
heysoos wrote:
Yep, I read all of Ambrose’s books and enjoyed them all. Unfortunately, just before he died, there were accusations of plagerism, inaccuracies and faulty research. Good reads, though. Nobody’s perfect.
@ huckfunn:
that must have been one hell of an adventure
Dolphin wrote:
nice!
huckfunn wrote
‘Citizen Soldier’ was a masterpiece, a stark reminder of just how bad ass the average American male is…the feds might take note
huckfunn wrote:
please tell me that they wrote this adventure down.
@ huckfunn:
Had a similar experience with “The Long Walk: The True Story of a Trek to Freedom”
Wanted to find out more after I listened to it and some reports were skeptical of its authentication.
Still an amazing story.
heysoos wrote:
like they don’t? T-party hate? Watch lists? gun control? domestic drone surveillance? Uhhh I think they done took notice.
heysoos wrote:
sting like a bee!
heysoos wrote:
And you didn’t even mention the Great Wagon Road.
@ brookly red:
not sure…but the capacity for the feds to spy on the civilians is doubling or tripling every year…Big Brother is already here
coldwarrior wrote:
My Grandfather was actually writing an account of some of his experiences when he died. I’ll email you the portion of it that I have. Other than that, there’s just word of mouth. My Dad’s youngest brother is the last of that generation and he’s now 85. He’s 6’5, lives on the 9th floor of 14 story condo in Pompano Beach, FL and has never taken the elevator in the 20 years that he’s lived there. I need to check with him on some of this before he leaves the room.
coldwarrior wrote:
I’m old…the fight has passed me by…except for the Alamo, if it comes to that, I’ll be there
It is snowing this afternoon/evening in Phoenix and surrounding burbs.
Payson is totally snowed in. School was cancelled.
Flagstaff and Prescott are going to get some serious snow as well.
Al Gore must be somewhere in the area…
@ The Osprey:
a lot of trails…every one means something
huckfunn wrote:
get it on audio. now
or you will never forgive yourself
heysoos wrote:
that goes without saying, until you get alzheimers…then you wont remember the alamo
@ coldwarrior:
I’ve got 25 years of my kids on tape…and now grandkids…wowzer how times have changed…history at your fingertips
@ huckfunn:
I would love to read it also if you are willing to share.
@ coldwarrior:
I so agree. Someday our history will be relevant again. It takes those of us willing to capture it.
I’m just not good with paperwork, channels and hoops…I don’t like appointments…I don’t like interviews or forms, or phone calls, I want to beat up the people looking at me, I want to be left alone, I have fed the feds more than it deserves and I never see anything good from the robbery…I don’t want anything to do with the feds…should I peel off my fingerprints?…I pay, so why can’t these assholes leave me alone?
@ heysoos:
And important lesson to be learned in each of them.
Night all. Got to get some dinner and hit the sack.
I can’t take it…so I retreat, like this
heysoos wrote:
where we have a few photos of our youth, they have the whole thing in digital.
Dolphin wrote:
i did an audio history of korean war vets locally for part of my secondary degree here.
handed it over to the govt for archive.
@ coldwarrior:
@ Dolphin:
Check yer mail.
@ coldwarrior:
One thing people forget about, though, is that you have to periodically update those digital records, or they’ll become useless.
Not many people have the ability to use 5 1/4″ floppies or digital tapes anymore, after all.
coldwarrior wrote:
we just didn’t think, and a lot is gone…I’m okay with me and my kin, but I had money for cameras and the trimmings…looking back, it’s not short of a miracle the way things turned
@ huckfunn:
got it
lobo91 wrote:
truth.
i just moved all ours to a terrabyte usb drive.
man up…
now to get skype set up on g’ma’s tablet and puti’s tablet…
coldwarrior wrote:
The pages were out of order and I tried to fix them. You’ll end up with an extra 14 or 17 pages at the end.
@ coldwarrior:
When I moved up from Arifjan to Buehring last year, I started going through the cabinets in the office. There were two Sony digital cameras in there that used 3 1/2″ floppies to record on.
Utterly useless, but still on the hand receipt at over $800 apiece.
coldwarrior wrote:
that was easy.
huckfunn wrote:
a fun read
lobo91 wrote:
my bil still works on tape drive faa air traffic systems.
lobo91 wrote:
useless? did you check what is on them?
coldwarrior wrote:
Trip to Manchuria on ponies and a raft ride down the Yalu river in about 1920. Real stuff.
huckfunn wrote:
i cant wait to print this stuff out!
@ brookly red:
I might have if I’d had a 3 1/2″ drive anywhere.
lobo91 wrote:
coulda been a 5 1/4.
@ coldwarrior:
True. Although that would be kind of big for a digital camera.
Pictures you could store on one would be awfully low resolution, too.
@ coldwarrior:
I remember going through the stockroom when I took over my Radio Shack and finding a package of 8″ floppies. Still sealed.
Serious snow coming down.
Leia needs 4WD…
OOT is up.