And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
A common feature of the granite of Yosemite is the rock face is not flat but somewhat sloped. It really is a segment of an arc even though minute. So small is the arc that it is not readily discernible unless viewing a giant slab. What is shown is the gal sitting on a faintly curved surface (towards the valley floor) with diminished friction because of the snow. Too, a horz. surface usually is covered with loose granules of decomposed granite. People fall to their deaths in Yosemite quite regularly doing exactly what this gal is doing.
Several times I have pulled tourists or even experienced hikers back from the edge as they crept closer, ever closer to the edge as they tried to see to the bottom. But the rock surface is rounded and one becomes easily too far gone past the vertical before they know it. Yosemite is stupendous with amazing views everywhere you look. But it's not for clowning around for the consequences are usually severe.
A common feature of the granite of Yosemite is the rock face is not flat but somewhat sloped. It really is a segment of an arc even though minute. So small is the arc that it is not readily discernible unless viewing a giant slab. What is shown is the gal sitting on a faintly curved surface (towards the valley floor) with diminished friction because of the snow. Too, a horz. surface usually is covered with loose granules of decomposed granite. People fall to their deaths in Yosemite quite regularly doing exactly what this gal is doing.
ReplyDeleteSeveral times I have pulled tourists or even experienced hikers back from the edge as they crept closer, ever closer to the edge as they tried to see to the bottom. But the rock surface is rounded and one becomes easily too far gone past the vertical before they know it. Yosemite is stupendous with amazing views everywhere you look. But it's not for clowning around for the consequences are usually severe.
Rick
Jump you fuckers , jump .
ReplyDeleteSitting at the edge of eternity...
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