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Have you ever been to Table Lake?

	Yes - And I loved it!
	Yes - But I'm not going back... ever!
	No - Don't know where it is?
	No - But I want to
	No - Who cares you crazy bird!
	No - It's not Half Dome so buzz off!

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Hello... please vote. Or I will hunt you down and peck your eyes out.

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Dear Mr. Weeebk-master. I will need the names of anyone calling me crazy.

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chick-on
Dear Mr. Weeebk-master. I will need the names of anyone calling me crazy.

The kiwis and marmots have cast their unified ballot.
(Insanely Yours)
The Marmots et al.

(Uh..., guys, are you sure that this is supposed to post as a reply to the above statement??? F.Sz.)



Edited 3 time(s). Last edit at 08/02/2011 08:13AM by szalkowski.

Yo Beaks, you may want run your responses by the Good Doctor before hitting <enter>.

(although I guess you could just edit them 20 times like he does)
(and what should I really expect from the real nutjob birds when I am continually saving
your butts out there)
(obviously you don't take direction very well)

Signed,
(NeverLeadingYouAstray)

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Vote!

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With 5000+ views of Half Dome Death... should be able to conjur up 100 votes.

Or is this site really that obscure?

So far it looks like only one person I don't know has been there. Amazing

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I think the 'views' number here increments each time someone views a thread, not just each unique person viewing the thread. So, more posts to the Half Dome thread means people viewing it again reading the updates, incrementing the 'views' count.

Got any 'I Voted' stickers to hand out to those of us who voted?



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With 5000+ views of Half Dome Death... should be able to conjur up 100 votes.

Or is this site really that obscure?

No, it's just the same small group of people reading, and rereading, and rereading, and rereading that thread.

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Leave No Trace

Well... if you clicky on home... you can see the number of abusers..
(it was 89 when I just lookied)
So... getting 100 votes should be fairly simple...

Picasa has number of views... and there is Google Analytics... so
it's actually pretty simple to figure out if I can hear Echoes...

Anyway, I got my Sticker:

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Okay, if it makes you feel better, I added the following signature to my posts:

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Leave No Trace

CMON! Only 11 More! (yes, it's a blatant move to put this at the top to get the 11)

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ONLY 11 more! EWE can doooo it!

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Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 08/03/2011 07:33AM by chick-on.

Currently 117 viewers.... and not 100 votes.

Guess it's just like a real election.

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chick-on
Currently 117 viewers.... and not 100 votes.

Guess it's just like a real election.

I've looked at least 4 times. Can only vote once.

I'll take that as a "No - I have no idea where it is"....my feelings exactly...

So far data indicate about 25% of the population really have no idea about what they want and just over 10% are actually crazy.

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Old Dude



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Love Tahoe for nordic skiing; the best! Plus cheap motels. Not so much for backpacking.

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hegel
Love Tahoe for nordic skiing; the best! Plus cheap motels. Not so much for backpacking.

I'll take that as a "No - I have no idea where it is"

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I voted but it would be more accurate if I could have chosen: "I know where it is but have no plans to go there."

How about an option for "I didn't know where it is until you mentioned it...now I want to go!"

Follow the chicken!

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"It is all very beautiful and magical here - a quality which cannot be described. You have to live it and breath it., let the sun bake it into you" - Ansel Adams

Since I've been to Yosemite twice, only once backpacking, it seems likely that I wouldn't know where many places are...

And I want to go to all of them!

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Hitech
Since I've been to Yosemite twice, only once backpacking, it seems likely that I wouldn't know where many places are...

And I want to go to all of them!

Here's the place:

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Old Dude

For anybody still confused it's about 7.2 miles north of the Pate Valley junction in the Grand Canyon. Approaching that way takes you up the most grueling switchbacks in Yosemite as bill-e-g reports. Another approach is via the Rodgers Canyon route coming down from the the Pacific Crest trail near the Smedburg lake junction. It's a good distance from any roadside trailheads. One can also get there from Hetch Hetchy via the Rancheria trail.

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For anybody still confused it's about 7.2 miles north of the Pate Valley junction in the Grand Canyon. Approaching that way takes you up the most grueling switchbacks in Yosemite as bill-e-g reports. Another approach is via the Rodgers Canyon route coming down from the the Pacific Crest trail near the Smedburg lake junction. It's a good distance from any roadside trailheads. One can also get there from Hetch Hetchy via the Rancheria trail.

Wouldn't it be easier to arrive at Table Lake via an amphibious seaplane?

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tomdisco

For anybody still confused it's about 7.2 miles north of the Pate Valley junction in the Grand Canyon. Approaching that way takes you up the most grueling switchbacks in Yosemite as bill-e-g reports. Another approach is via the Rodgers Canyon route coming down from the the Pacific Crest trail near the Smedburg lake junction. It's a good distance from any roadside trailheads. One can also get there from Hetch Hetchy via the Rancheria trail.

Wouldn't it be easier to arrive at Table Lake via an amphibious seaplane?

I'll just let chick-on take this one and stand back aways.

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tomdisco

For anybody still confused it's about 7.2 miles north of the Pate Valley junction in the Grand Canyon. Approaching that way takes you
up the most grueling switchbacks in Yosemite as bill-e-g reports.

BTW, here's some early footage of Bill-e-g in his younger days I found on YouTube, learning to rock climb when he visited India.

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Leave No Trace

Me tinks u giving the guy too much credits.

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Opps, Wrong Table Lake. The one I was thinking of is a very popular spot in Missouri.

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parklover

Opps, Wrong Table Lake. The one I was thinking of is a very popular spot in Missouri.

Isn't that Table Rock Lake, by any chance?

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Leave No Trace

Yikes, I somehow read "Lake Tahoe". (I am thinking about skiing....).

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hegel
Yikes, I somehow read "Lake Tahoe". (I am thinking about skiing....).

That's just funny. Everyone and der brudder keeps asking when the snow is gonna be GONE.



(maybe you need to revoke your vote and re-vote?)

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OK

Thank you for voting.

Here is Loch Tablae from a couple years ago:
http://yosemitenews.info/forum/read.php?3,20415

Curious why the people who said they never wanted to go to it again said so.
And I will need some names of the 711 turkeys out there Mr. eeek.
(already know Marmuts/Beaks were one of the 810)

Have a nice day

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Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 08/03/2011 09:02PM by chick-on.

Results are kinda what I expected.

Here's another picture of beautiful Loch Table:

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By any chance, do you have a photo album on your Picasa site with more photos of Table Lake and the nearby environs?

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Leave No Trace

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plawrence
By any chance, do you have a photo album on your Picasa site with more photos of Table Lake and the nearby environs?

Nope. I'd have to put something together. I had a bunch of stuff for some guy that wanted to
traverse the entire Piute... but I deleted it after I determined I was wasting my time again.

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So...what's most special about this place for you? Its isolation? Nearby views of the Tuolumne Canyon? ?

You and I have both posted more spectacular pictures here (and I joined here in Nov. so you may have already answered...). Sometimes a place is special for other reasons.

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ttilley
So...what's most special about this place for you? Its isolation? Nearby views of the Tuolumne Canyon? ?
Sometimes a place is special for other reasons.

Chick-on spent twenty years there one summer while hiding out from Colonel Sanders.

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szalkowski
Chick-on spent twenty years there one summer while hiding out from Colonel Sanders.

Whu! Da Colonel and I are budd-ees:
http://yosemitenews.info/forum/read.php?3,30052,30169#msg-30169

(ahem... sorry folks... you be eating Marmut meat)

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ttilley
So...what's most special about this place for you? Its isolation? Nearby views of the Tuolumne Canyon? ?

You and I have both posted more spectacular pictures here (and I joined here in Nov. so you may have already answered...). Sometimes a place is special for other reasons.

You know, honestly, there are a zillion places in Yosemite that are perhaps more spectacular.

It all came about because on an 11 day trip back in 1999, The Old Dude, my wife, and bill-e-g
stayed by Table Lake in early August. It was hot there... and it can get kinda of dusty...
and I guess after Smedberg and beautiful Rodgers Lake, Neall Lake, and Rodgers Meadow,
Table Lake just didn't measure up to them. Add to that that Old Dude was a wee bit tired after
hiking all that distance... and him and the wife ganged up on Billy and turned it into trashing
Table Lake... and it has become the poster child for anything that isn't super spectacular
in Yosemite... this continued for MANY years... too many...
So that is where it started.

In 2007 Old Dude and Billy along with OD's Son in Law went back to Table Lake and the agreement
was that OD would quit trashing the lake if it was nice. Since it was May and there were
no bugs to speak of... it was gorgeous... but I'm not sure OD wouldn't even admit to it even
though there is photographic proof. So it's kind of turned into "It's as nice as Table Lake" or
"It's not as nice as Table Lake"... which can mean it's truely incredible... or just incredible...
(or it sucks bad or sucks really bad... depending on who is talking)

I get sort of defensive of the place when people trash it... there's so much variety in the
park and so much to explore that is different.
I've said it so many times... but so much great stuff is off the trail...
I'll post something soon I just ran across that is pretty cool...

Anyway, that's pretty much the story on Loch Tablae... if you search all dates on this forum
you'll probably find a lot of sillyness w/r to Table Lake/Loch Tablae

As for the other lakes in that area... Saddle Horse is really nice.. and Irwin Bright is imo
the 3rd nicest lake in Pleasant Valley area. I can say more if there is interest perhaps.
One thing that has been on my list is to finish the traverse all the way to Benson from
Saddle Horse... and then boat to the Beach... too much stuff to do.. and time flies though...

Have fun out der

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Thanks.

Lake 10400+ east of Evelyn was the first backpacking night I spent in Yosemite, back in the late 1980s. With my tent huddled against a small clump of whitebark pines. I still think its special.



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ttilley
Thanks.

Lake 10400+ east of Evelyn was the first backpacking night I spent in Yosemite, back in the late 1980s. With my tent huddled against a small clump of whitebark pines. I still think its special.

That is a pretty little lake. These pines?

Yep! That's my first Yosemite backpacking home.

Edit: Adding picture I dug up:





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In the wife and Old Dude's defense...



But... I'm pretty sure this was one of those cases where Billy wanted to go find a better
spot but got smacked by the other two to just camp here. Nowadayz Billy will spend
as much time as is required to find a nice spot with a view and we only camp by
a firepit if there is pretty much nothing else around.

Old Dude is prob. not commenting due to he prob. is using the "flat" mode and misses all this.

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The Old Dude, my wife

Wow! Who knew?

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chick-on
The Old Dude, my wife

Wow! Who knew?

Just get me the names smartypants!

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The Old Dude, my wife

Wow! Who knew?

Felix and Oscar.