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Well? Did you die? I wanna know! Can I have your swords?
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I think whoever gets to the house first gets the swords and since I'll be in Saratoga.....
(Definitely dead)
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DIY - you can have all my non-Chinese swords. The Chinese ones are willed to KF classmates, at least they are in my head.
Obvs I survived. After the D&c weekend, it’s weird to think about almost dying a week ago today.
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Not obvs you survived. You could have been subsumed by an AI Chat-Bot.
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that's fair
i would've just said 'fair' as was last year's interwebz trend, but the new nazi forum said 'no'
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Still waiting on a tale of death which could imperil future backpacking plans.
In other news, while in conversation with Scapino, he mentioned he likes to backpack and wants to be invited....
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The price of my digital detox? Being offline for 5 days equaled:
214 personal emails
2 calls
2 fb DMs
154 YMAA emails
139 KFM emails
45 texts
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Delete them all. Start over. I do feel honored to get the Yosemite exit texts then.
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Well, I wanted to stop you from building the travois because surprise, surprise, I didn't need it.
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08-16-2023, 08:45 PM
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Not how I almost died.
Quote:NEWS
Bears are climbing Half Dome in Yosemite National Park
by: Victoria Meza
Posted: Aug 16, 2023 / 04:24 PM PDT
Updated: Aug 16, 2023 / 04:24 PM PDT
YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) – Park Rangers recently discovered evidence of a black bear’s presence on the summit of Half Dome in Yosemite.
On Tuesday, Yosemite National Park announced that black bears have been present on the famous summit. They warn bears can easily tackle the 46-degree angle “no cables needed” – and warn hikers to be cautious since black bears are excellent climbers.
Rangers advise hikers in Yosemite National Park to keep all smelly objects, from food to sunscreen, locked in a bear locker or bear canister. If someone needs to keep food in the car, rangers say to keep it out of sight, with the car windows rolled up and the doors locked.
Whether at camp or on the trail, they advise always to keep backpacks and scented items within arm’s reach since bears and other animals like the Half Dome ground squirrels will approach unattended bags quickly and will try to take their contents.
“For the safety of people and animals alike, keep your friends close and your food closer,” officials wrote in the social media post.
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08-17-2023, 05:51 AM
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Why wouldn't bears climb Half Dome? I hear the view is quite stunning up there.
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Mmmm, the taste of Deetz rears it's ugly head.
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Quote:September 8, 2023
A New Crack Has Appeared In Yosemite, And It's Huge
Named "Super Natural," it's 200 feet long, appeared overnight, and is still cracking.
RACHAEL FUNNELL
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The crack in Yosemite’s Royal Arches is unlike anything the park’s geologist has ever seen.
Image credit: lovemushroom / Shutterstock.com
Climbers scaling Yosemite came across a new crack near the Royal Arches cliff last week. According to park officials, a subsequent investigation concluded that cracking was actively occurring and so they have taken steps to close sections of the park as a safety precaution.
The new crack has partially detached a large pillar of rock near the climbing route known as Super Slide. To reduce the risk of rockfall, the National Park Service is sealing off trails while their investigations continue. The closures began on August 30 and will remain in place until further notice.
“The following week a climbing ranger and a geologist observed it firsthand and they could hear it cracking like a frozen lake that wasn’t consolidated,” Jesse McGahey, a Supervisory Park Ranger at Yosemite National Park, told Climbing. “And there were pieces of rock rattling down the crack without touching it. The park geologist said they’d never seen anything like this. He’s never been able to observe that in his 15 years in Yosemite.”
The crack is reported to have moved around an inch over a period of seven days, but what that means for the future isn’t exactly clear. The large pillar of rock that has park officials worried could be about to drop, or it could take years, but until they have a clearer picture of the potential threat, parts of the park will remain out of bounds.
Rockfalls aren’t uncommon for Yosemite Valley whose steep cliffs were carved out by a glacier. It means the terrain here is ever-changing, adding to the national park’s beauty, but rockfalls are events you probably want to avoid seeing up close.
“Triggering mechanisms like water, ice, earthquakes, and vegetation growth are among the final forces that cause unstable rocks to fall,” writes the National Park Service. “If water enters fractures in the bedrock, it can build up pressure behind unstable rocks. Water also may seep into cracks in the rock and freeze, causing those cracks to grow. This process is called ‘frost wedging’ or ‘freeze-thaw’ and can incrementally lever loose rocks away from cliff faces.”
Frost wedging is also responsible for the peculiar landscape of Bryce Canyon National Park in Utah, where a record-breaking number of hoodoos can be found.
Greg, wth?!?!? What part of 'leave no trace' did you fail to understand?
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Wasn't me. I was in a different part of the park. Can't prove nothing.
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