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Notes:

Due to a run-in with the ever-present and mutating Norovirus, I was unable to attend this hike.  This week's chronicle is from an email to me by Ron, K7RJ:

Clint,

It is late and I have to get up early, but I will be out of town for a few days so I better send this much to you.

 

We went toward Circle All (or how ever you spell it)

Notice I said "toward". The evening started out cloudy but by the time the lead party had neared the ridge line, the rain was hard and the lightning was just too close for comfort. The flash to boom time was about 2 seconds. Most of the gang was well down the trail when the rain and lightning got bad enough for us to realize that we should abandon this hike. We made it back to the car, wet but still lightning free, sometime soon after 8:00 if I remember correctly. (someone else will have to fill in the exact time.

 

We took a group picture less Brian and Chris who snuck out before we got organized enough to take the picture.

 

I left the memory card out of my camera so I didn't get any pictures, but a few others took pictures and promised to send them to you.

 

Mike M was heard briefly on 54 as he drove around town.

 

Unique on this hike was 2 XYL's and a 2 year old.

 

Josh returned after last week and appears that he will be a regular.

Andy and Melissa enjoyed the hike.

 

Since I had give a noontime talk to the L3 ham club, I had a lot of microwave gear in the back of my car and after we returned to the cars I drug a little of it out to show a couple of the folks who were interested in seeing it.

 

Hope you are feeling better. Nothing feels worse than feeling badly.

Talk to you next week.

 

73

Ron

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Additional comments:

From Bruce, KI7OM:

Bruce mentioned later that, along the way up, a familiar group was met coming down - one that he'd seen the week before on the way to the Salt Lake overlook.  As it turns out, a large group of Varian employees have also taken to going on Wednesday Night hikes as well:  Either they are far more fit than we are, or they start an hour or so earlier...

From Andy, KE7UQO:

Clint, The hike was thoroughly enjoyable, if short lived. We missed you. My wife and I are planning on coming this Wednesday...

If you'd like a few more, let me know and I'll send some over when I get home. I also have the GPS tracklog in garmin format, showing us chugging up the mountain, and rocketing down it when the lightning hit. Thanks,

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• A detailed map with the GPS track of the hike (plus surrounding landmarks)
  
• The elevation profile of the hike - This shows the ups and downs of the trail.  Due to ratty GPS signals, only the "downhill" portion is shown.
  

No-one is exactly sure of the name's origin, but Gordon, who spoke with Charles Keller himself, said this:

"Mr. Keller believes that the Circle All Slide Area got its name because of how the slides behave. They come roaring down the north side of the canyon with enough energy that they go back up the south side some distance. That creates a secondary slide that comes back down and the two create something like a circle in the canyon bottom."

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Comments about pictures/video/audio taken by Clint:

• All images taken using a Sigma Digital SLR camera and were taken using the lens noted in the EXIF data.  (Usually, an SD-14.)
  
• Because all of the images were originally taken stored in raw binary format, they have been down-processed to .JPG for web posting:  If requested, different color/contrast/brightness may be applied and/or higher-quality uncompressed versions may be available for most of these images.
• If you want one (or more) of these images and wish some sort of adjustment (color, brightness, exposure, etc.) please let me know:  All of these image have been processed in some way.
• These images are numbered in chronological order.
• No-one ever said that all of these images (or any of them) were good.  Some of them may have definite focus/exposure "issues."
• EXIF data is present for most of the images, showing time, date, and precise exposure conditions.  Recent versions of Irfanview will show this in the "View->Image Information->EXIF" tab.
  
• Note that cropping/noise reduction required the use of another program which may have removed some/most of this EXIF data.
• Images suffixed with "h" (if any) are half-size.  This was done for images that were somewhat out of focus (due to misfocus or camera/subject movement associated with long shutter times) or those that required some extra noise reduction and had lost some detail anyway.  Additional suffixes of the image file name may include "sh" to indicate that some "de-blurring" was done, "mb" for correction of motion blur, and "crop" denoting that the image was cropped.
  
• If you took some pictures of the hike and send them to me, I'll post them - and give you the blame!
• The video clips, if any, were shot using a Panasonic DMC FZ-8 digital camera, have been re-compressed, and are of lower quality than the originals.
• Audio clips, if any, were recorded using a Zoom H-2 audio recorder.
  

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