Westy
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Post by Westy on Sept 9, 2020 20:00:30 GMT -8
The second looks like the high desert. Bolivia? Peru? reuben 2nd photo small village on approach to Cordillera Vilcanota.
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Post by reuben on Sept 10, 2020 0:24:38 GMT -8
Los Cuernos (The Horns) from Lago Grey, on a cloudy, windy, rainy day. On the very short trail to Perito Merino glacier, Perito Merino in the background, and the vegetated hills behind the glacier. On the very short trail to Perito Merino glacier, Perito Merino in the background, and the vegetated hills behind the glacier. I'll bet you mean Pepito Moreno Glacier...
No, but maybe it has two names.
Named for Francisco Moreno, an Argentine explorer. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perito_Moreno_Glacier
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Post by reuben on Sept 10, 2020 0:26:42 GMT -8
We also liked El Chalten, further North--this is Cerro Torre To my eyes Cerro Torre is the most spectacular group in Patagonia.
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Post by balzaccom on Sept 10, 2020 5:26:59 GMT -8
Ha! You had written Merino, not Moreno. And I wrote Pepito instead of Perito. It's Perito Moreno.
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Post by reuben on Sept 10, 2020 5:48:30 GMT -8
Ha! You had written Merino, not Moreno. And I wrote Pepito instead of Perito. It's Perito Moreno. Hah! And duh.
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Post by rebeccad on Sept 10, 2020 6:36:38 GMT -8
Ha! You had written Merino, not Moreno. And I wrote Pepito instead of Perito. It's Perito Moreno. I’d have told y’all that, but I was asleep :D
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Post by reuben on Sept 10, 2020 7:34:49 GMT -8
I blame spellcheck and the fact that the Ninja Librarian was off duty. I will now likely start referring to it as "Pepito Merino".
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Post by balzaccom on Sept 10, 2020 10:49:06 GMT -8
I will now likely start referring to it as "Pepito Merino". A spicy kind of wool
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Post by panatomicx on Sept 10, 2020 15:51:01 GMT -8
Harriman SP is my local playground. Been there many times, and it never disappoints. The Adirondacks are about a 5 hour drive. But my two favorites are the Winds and the Beartooths.
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Post by rebeccad on Sept 10, 2020 17:26:28 GMT -8
I blame spellcheck and the fact that the Ninja Librarian was off duty. I will now likely start referring to it as "Pepito Merino". I had some trouble remembering that name at first, but by the time we were done we’d run into Mr. Moreno (or General or whatever he was) enough times to imprint him on my brain.
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Post by hikerjer on Sept 11, 2020 9:01:50 GMT -8
Southern Utah and Glacier keep calling me back.
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Post by echo on Sept 12, 2020 11:38:09 GMT -8
gabby said, “ My "critical self" keeps asking if the reference to "trap lines" was, in fact, what that entails or you meant "trotlines", which I felt made more sense after your mention of your grandfather taking you fishing.” Trap, as in beaver, Fox, even porcupine. My grandpa bought dead animals too and I helped him skin them and stretch the hides and pluck the quills and salt down the deer and elk hides, cut off the antlers and make jackalope, scoop brains for tanning, cut off hooves and parts of the leg for gun racks, dig out the ivory teeth; it was a fascinating and reverent process to work closely with death and use parts that the hunters would never eat. I started too young to realize how gruesome and disgusting and disturbing it was to others. The only time that disturbed me was the live bobcat he bought, tried to sell to a zoo and they wouldn’t pay him what he wanted, so he killed it and used its fur.
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Post by ErnieW on Sept 12, 2020 14:06:22 GMT -8
I learned to hunt late in life relatively speaking. I wanted to learn for survivalist reasons and if I eat meat I felt I should know the gruesome part too. I gave it up quickly. It was gruesome to me.
On the other hand I grew up on Long Island sound. From little kids we were encouraged to bring home food from the sound. From this I don't really see fish as feeling things. I have no issue clubbing a bluefish in the head to stop it from flopping around and biting things. When I use a gaff I am more concerned about damaging the fish's flesh then how the fish feels about it. They are food.
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Post by echo on Sept 12, 2020 14:52:47 GMT -8
ErnieW I had a goldfish for 15 years that grew big and was actually amazingly playful. It developed a nasty ulcerating tumor and started just sitting on the bottom of the tank most of the time. I needed to kill it but couldn’t just Club it or . . . I had to google gentle euthanasia for a fish and do it that way. Even though I’ve fished most of my life. Sorry zekeI love storytelling threads. But the original question was lost a bit. Ahem! (Clearing throat) so where do people feel compelled to keep returning?
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Post by catonsvillebill on Sept 12, 2020 15:53:53 GMT -8
The High Peaks region of the Adirondacks. They are unspeakably beautiful, the hiking is great & the people are wonderful.
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