A World On A String

[Crusader Rabbit]

I found that a hand truck with 13" wheels will move heavy items over irregular ground with incredible ease. It's my go-to tool for moving big rocks. My 10" wheeled hand trucks have sat idle for years now.

Harbor Freight calls their's the Bigfoot.



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[Jericho Mile]

Woke up in the middle of the night...

Woke up in the middle of the night...

...not at all unusual. Got a warming fire started...smoked a few bowls..slammed down more water..brushed my teeth..slept in until 8 A.M.

My forearms and shoulders are sore...back is tight. I'm about to start stretching out on my rocks...then going for a run.

Not moving any rocks today. Trails are calling.

 

[Jericho Mile]

Hit Noble Canyon

Hit Noble Canyon

out and back little over 10 miles. Ran strong...racing mountain bikers

let this group start off in front of me at my turnaround...since it's mostly downhill..no way I could stay in front through this mile long section..so I ran at a fast pace to keep me within striking distance for when we hit the hills that they'd have to push their bikes up...and I could boogey up

came around a right hand turn and saw riders over the side..about 20' down the hill side. Steep rocky drop.

One of the dudes..high sided off the drop and landed in a massive Yucca plant. He didn't break any bones but his upper right leg was a bloody mess with broken Spanish swords stuck deep in the meat...

He was totally fucked up. His ride out must have been brutal....didn't look like a hardcore mountain bike enthusiast....so my gut feeling tells me...he'll never ride trail again. Definitely the worst case of Yucca spearing I've ever seen.

1st thing I thought to say when I got on scene: "OOOOOOOO...that's fucked up....you hit that Yucca?"....poor dude is trying to pull the broken points out of his leg...totally in crash shock...friends are pulling his bike up....

there were two GoPro cameras there..and nobody got the shot. All for naught. Cut Cut Cut...

 

[unclefishstick]

and people give me crap for wearing pads...riding in the desert is no joke,i have been speared by those things myself...
thats one reason im very select about who i ride with...you cant have too much ego on group rides,it just causes stupidity...and everyone needs to be prepared and capable of riding the trail...

 

[Crusader Rabbit]

Ouch... That guy's going to hurt for a long, long time.

 

[Jericho Mile]

I was thinking that he most likely would have to seek medical help. Some of those tips would have to be cut out. I would also be surprised if he was able to ride out. To the trail head he was looking at over 4 miles...but he could have taken a short cut to the road...cut it down to 2 miles if his buddies got their vehicles and picked him up.

...by far the worst case I've ever seen. Bleeding like a stuck pig...trying to be tough..but he was having trouble just getting back up to the trail. Could have been way worse. He had full equipment on...pads/full faced helmet..but still...I thought he would have had some broken bones. It was a big drop he took.

The county rescue copters get a lot of use in Noble canyon. I've witnessed so many rescues out of there...it's hard to remember them all.

 

[unclefishstick]

living in alaska forever influenced my approach to going out in the "woods"...it only takes once or twice of making it home only because you were prepared for a worse case scenario to see the value in lugging emergency stuff along time after time...the only time i want to see those stuff sacks come out is to periodically renew the supplies...rather get home with extra water and whatnot than find myself dehydrated and miles from home...

yup,the pads i wear have a hard kevlar shell and some sort of non-newtonian gel stuff that stiffens up under impact...i have pile driven my knee right into a pointy rock and not even felt it...well worth the money just for that one wreck...wish i had them on when i hamburgered my knee doing wheelies...a month and i still cant kneel on that knee...

 

[Jericho Mile]

living in alaska forever influenced my approach to going out in the "woods"...it only takes once or twice of making it home only because you were prepared for a worse case scenario to see the value in lugging emergency stuff along time after time...the only time i want to see those stuff sacks come out is to periodically renew the supplies...rather get home with extra water and whatnot than find myself dehydrated and miles from home...

yup,the pads i wear have a hard kevlar shell and some sort of non-newtonian gel stuff that stiffens up under impact...i have pile driven my knee right into a pointy rock and not even felt it...well worth the money just for that one wreck...wish i had them on when i hamburgered my knee doing wheelies...a month and i still cant kneel on that knee...

There's no way I'd ride Noble without a helmet and full pads. Even a low speed crash is not pretty. There's a lot of steep drops and sharp things to impale yourself on.

I fall sometimes...fell yesterday (tripped on a root..rolled right over and back up)...and the potential to get maimed is very real...but I'm not getting the speed and air the mountain biker's are. In most cases I say the faster you can go...running or riding...the better your chances of gliding over the terrain...

but...as you know...going fast and choosing the wrong line at the wrong time leads to some bad crashes...

That canyon trail takes it's share of blood and bones. It's one of my favorite trails to run.

 

[Jericho Mile]

I-HOP Satellite Male

I-HOP Satellite Male

A current "Sonny Boy"



^ I call all my male plants Sonny Boy. This is the male I'm using to progress the I-HOP Satellite cross into the f2 generation. I only had three plants to work with...the 2 females are already in flower and awaiting their hits of pollen. Sonny Boy is exiled and soon to start dropping. Should work out.

I-HOP Satellite = SCreme'n Dawg f2 X Blue Satellite 2.2

* Have a friend coming up from town. Going for a run

 

[Jericho Mile]

Rock Madness Continues

Rock Madness Continues

Before it gets political...before the lemons squeeze out their sourness...and rain on parades.



^ The main landing has become a glacier flow. A flow that I will continue to feed until it makes it all the way to the backyard. I spread it out this morning because it was piling up too high..and I'm bringing in more tonight.




^ Started building a new landing to cache a whole other division of material. I plan to make this into a glacier flow as well.

* I'm up 14 truck loads. Some woman made a joke that I should go for 100 loads. I didn't take it as a joke. This is an entirely different endurance sport. I'm getting a good system down..and lifting smart. I will shoot for 100.


Nobody is trying to shut me down...but there (I've heard from a few different parties) are some issues with the construction contractor...the county...and where the rocks are being temporarily kept. Permits that were not gotten...elapsed time frames...etc etc....people bitching just to bitch.

I'm in good with everyone so far. Keeping my head down...working quick..working in off hours...being respectful but..

hauling hauling hauling....no quarter...a full effort blitzkrieg on the material mound. Beautiful the granite be....and I'm on top of my game. I have the truck...the will...and the back.


Fucking Merle Haggard died

 

[redlaser]

Rock on man, got to get while the gettin is good. Even though its exhausting work there are few accomplishments that hold the same weight as making something out of stone. Probably has to do with the weight and being more permanent than other materials.

 

[Jericho Mile]

Rock on man, got to get while the gettin is good. Even though its exhausting work there are few accomplishments that hold the same weight as making something out of stone. Probably has to do with the weight and being more permanent than other materials.

Yes...exactly. Weight and Density. If our house ever burns down..we'll rebuild using our landscaping.

After spending the morning moving and organizing what I already have...I managed to go get 2 more truck loads this evening. That brings the count up to 16 truck loads. There's just so fucking much of it. Still blows my mind. I can't get over this good fortune. I'm pretty tired tonight. Unloading #16 seemed to take a while longer than usual.

* Have to get up early tomorrow. The friend who came up yesterday and ran with me is coming up again tomorrow. We're going trekking up a ridge line that I've been looking at for a couple years. We'll have to run a few miles to get to where we can start bushwhacking our way up. Going to go up the east side of the mountain...as it has...the lighter brush growth. Steep hill.

I heard that there were some old gold mines dug in the side of the mountain...and that there were even traces of an old road/trail...so we're going to be looking to see if it would be worth cutting in a trail or finding a game trail that might be feasible for running. It looks like a killer ridge line...and I seriously doubt many people (in recent times) have found their way up there. It's one of those places that's been calling to me to come have a look.

 

[Crusader Rabbit]

* I'm up 14 truck loads. Some woman made a joke that I should go for 100 loads. I didn't take it as a joke. This is an entirely different endurance sport. I'm getting a good system down..and lifting smart. I will shoot for 100.

I'm in good with everyone so far. Keeping my head down...working quick..working in off hours...being respectful but..

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If you only move big rocks downhill you can accomplish amazing things.

If word gets around that some guy is going for 100 loads of rock, the powers that be won't find it at all amusing.

 

[Jericho Mile]

If you only move big rocks downhill you can accomplish amazing things.

If word gets around that some guy is going for 100 loads of rock, the powers that be won't find it at all amusing.

The woman is the powers that be. Bless her. You have to understand the situation this project is in. They are way behind...under another soon to be realized deadline..and the rocks are still coming in. None can go out...because..until a road is opened...there is no way to haul them out.

a ton of granite rocks the size I'm hauling cost $14.00.............transport is the majority of the costs of many small rock deals. If I were to take 100 truck loads...which would take me months to do..it wouldn't put a dent in the berm of rocks they have going. 100 is a pipe dream...a crazy #

The lemons in the deal are the citizens who are bitching about permits and time frames. I would like the rocks to be there all summer...but other people are unhappy about where rocks are being stock piled...and want them removed...as soon as...possible. The berm of rocks is on private land....not public. They really have nothing better to do than rock the boat (pun)...and make things more difficult. It's just weak bullshit...and it's the same people who "want their country back" ...complain about change...and anything else. With no dog in the fight...bitching to bitch

 

[Jericho Mile]

Rainy Day Trekking With A Brother

Rainy Day Trekking With A Brother

We're having some rain for the next few days...nothing severe..but the mountains are socked in the clouds..and it rained on us most the way. Temps in the 50's...hardly any wind. Quiet rain. Not uncomfortable until you're soaking after a few hours.



^ Parked at a turn out and had to run a couple/few miles to this point. Here we got on a different (not an official trail) trail and started making our way down and over to a place where we could start crashing brush uphill. The clouds are obscuring the rocky top...but it was a ways up there.



^ On the way up...looking down and back from where we had started bushwhacking our way up. By this point we're above the brush line and climbing with both hands and feet.climbing around big Yucca and over slippery rock. Probably 300 yards above the brush..with another couple hundred(?) vertical yards left to go. Clouds were drifting up...making it harder to see where we needed to go.



^ Another shot above the brush line...looking down at where we'd just come up. Obviously an uplifting spot....looking into the drainage through the drifting clouds. We were pretty stoned the entire trek.



^ The high ground of the ridge line...pointing back down at where we had started. Looked how I expected it to look. Great hill to train on if I can get a trail cut through the brush at the bottom. It would be a lot of time and work...but it might be worth it.

* From the peak of the ridge line we looked off the backside (I'd never seen the backside of this ridge) and could see what looked like an old two track road following along...just above...a drainage bottom. Pretty much right away I figured out what I was looking at...having been at the mouth of this drainage...but having never gone up it. So cool...there was a road.

We went off the backside...through mostly waist high brush (downhill in brush is way easier anyway...easier to let gravity help crash it)..into a side drainage which fed into the drainage that the two track was following.

 

[Jericho Mile]

Old road, Old Mines, Big Cat

Old road, Old Mines, Big Cat



^ At one time this was a well used road. They took the time and effort to fortify it. There were plenty of open spots...and plenty of places where the brush had taken it back. This is as open as it gets.



^ Roads...even old ones...usually go somewhere. This was the first mine we found. It was gated over and under water. I don't know how old it is...or what its name is. There are shit loads of these things around. Some don't have gates blocking them and can be entered into (though I've found two that need to be wormed into..crawl)..and most are under water to some degree. Sketchy stuff.



^ I've never seen a mine entrance foamed in. I'm sure it's not environmentally sound...and not that safe to walk on. This was the 2nd mine we found...or maybe it was a part of the other one...because it was a few hundred feet up the drainage. Somebody or something had torn some of the foam out..but dropping rocks didn't make it very far before you could here them bouncing on a foam surface. I would not jump up and down on it though. Probably pretty deep.

This mine looked like somebody was blowing holes straight down...so maybe they were making a connector piece to the 1st mine....and how the hell they got the foam back up there...no idea. Looks like something that was done in the 70's or 80's...maybe a helicopter....or a lot of hose.



^ On the way out of the drainage we came across this cat print...meandering the same direction we were. It couldn't have been there very long...as it had been...raining for the past couple hours. We were hoping to catch a glimpse of him...but we didn't. I'm sure he is a spectacular specimen.

 

[unclefishstick]

really easy to downhill bushwack on a bike...painful but easy...

 

[Jericho Mile]

Kept in an empty Tequila Bottle

Kept in an empty Tequila Bottle



^ I was gifted this bag of seeds from an uncle...a generation ahead of mine. They are seeds from the imported herb that came through southern California in the 1970's.

Yeah...kept in a Tequila bottle until recently. Apparently this uncle smoked a lot of pot.

don't have much faith in any or many germinating but...

there's seeds from the South American golds..the Mexicans..the Thais..all the pre Indica imported genetics.

Fun having a sack of seeds from that era. I just started smoking herb when this stuff was beginning to be replaced by Skunk and indoor stuff. I remember the golds going to greens.

 

[Jericho Mile]

Making I-HOP Satellite f2's

Making I-HOP Satellite f2's



^ I-HOP Satellite expression #1 on flower day 27...a picture of one of the two lower flowers (2 branches actually) that got pollinated and the pollen itself. The male plant which produced this pollen was kept in spare bathroom during the night..and every morning taken out and placed where he could get sun. He stunk up that spare bathroom with a foul feline piss aroma. Really strong aroma.

Expression #1 is going to be nice. She hit her flowering pace pretty quick...so I don't think she will be a long flowering expression. She's a blaster. My feelings at this stage in the saga..is that she'll have a good Blue Satellite 2.2 lean to her....as she appears..to have that Blueish feel to her. I'm digging on her. I'd be lost if I couldn't grow different expressions. I need to see different things.

I-HOP Satellite = SCreme'n Dawg f2 X Blue Satellite 2.2

I haven't seen CBF (the dude who created SCreme'n Dawg) around in years...don't know even...if he still grows or breeds...so the genetics are probably not...all that...easy to find anymore. Others on here can attest however...CBF made some cool stuff. I want a lot of f2 beans here...that's why I went for 2 branches instead of 1. This I-HOP cross has a lot going for it.

* All my SZSK f2 and Skunk Jones males are in...the choice females have been cloned and will be joining the males tomorrow. After I'm done with those pollinations...and another I-HOP pollination and one more Jaundice pollination...I'm done dusting until fall or winter.

** We had 5 straight days of rain here...spring spring spring...everything in my gardens is blasting growth

 

[budman678]

I'd crisp them in a pan with some salt and butter. Toasted cannabis seeds. Yummy. My Persian friends father always brings a jar home from Iran. Just checks them in his bag.