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.
I remember hiking a mountain near Snoqualmie Pass in Wash. during summer and seeing sections above and below the trail that were stripped of trees. As an Easterner, it took a short spell to realize that these were avalanche paths of prior winters removing most of the vegetation. One of my favorite hikes of my life other than doing Rainier a few days later (below summit).
This scale is interesting. I grew up skiing in Utah and most of the resorts there have a skiable vertical drop of about 3000 to 3500 feet and that translates to a path length of probably twice that at maximum for a ~30 degree slope. They shoot down avalanches after every heavy snowfall and I’ve seen the scars of a few that were not nearly as large as those on the scale. I guess regular avalanches keep them from getting so big.
I remember hiking a mountain near Snoqualmie Pass in Wash. during summer and seeing sections above and below the trail that were stripped of trees. As an Easterner, it took a short spell to realize that these were avalanche paths of prior winters removing most of the vegetation. One of my favorite hikes of my life other than doing Rainier a few days later (below summit).
ReplyDeleteThis scale is interesting. I grew up skiing in Utah and most of the resorts there have a skiable vertical drop of about 3000 to 3500 feet and that translates to a path length of probably twice that at maximum for a ~30 degree slope. They shoot down avalanches after every heavy snowfall and I’ve seen the scars of a few that were not nearly as large as those on the scale. I guess regular avalanches keep them from getting so big.
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