Nice bear, but look at the yellow lines. It appears that the yellow on the right side, just before the curve, is "broken" meaning you can pass on that blind curve coming up?by Dave - Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion
It's funny, one of those fake trees between Midpines and Mariposa died.by Dave - Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion
They just got a foot of new snow so that might shorten your trip. I doubt they've had a plow on that road since it closed.by Dave - Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion
ENSO could bring us some rain, but it seems that persistent high off the coast shunts all the weather to the north.by Dave - Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion
I'm not into punishing people for petty rule violations.by Dave - Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion
Bacteria are found just about everywhere - even in solid rock almost a mile underground. I seriously doubt the amount of bacteria in a human bladder could contaminate a large reservoir like that.by Dave - Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion
Colonel Sanders gave him a lift.by Dave - General Discussion
That could all change in an instant. A Russian "Docter of Military Sciences" suggested that they drop a nuclear bomb on the Yellowstone caldera to cause, and end, WWIII. The doctor is too stupid to realize it would have no effect.by Dave - General Discussion
Stabilization is not the goal there. They are only trying to prevent loose rocks from falling down on workers while the shed is being built.by Dave - Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion
The walk out to Manly Beacon looks inviting.by Dave - General Discussion
No, but there were at least 25 quakes at 2.0 or bigger. So, I was right. There was an earthquake as I predicted.by Dave - General Discussion
It's not hard to predict earthquakes in California. I do it all the time and I've never been wrong. There will be an earthquake, in California, tomorrow.by Dave - General Discussion
My idea involves several tunnels. Take a TBM and bypass several "U" shaped road bits.by Dave - Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion
Looks nice. I still like my idea of a real tunnel.by Dave - Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion
QuoteplawrenceBut not before he attends a disciplinary hearing. And with San Francisco public employee unions, that's their escape hatch.No, that's nothing but union bashing. Those hearings and such are to protect the employees from being wrongly dismissed. If there is a good cause to fire anyone in a public employee union, it's not very hard to do so. I've seen it happen many times. QuoteIfby Dave - Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion
QuoteparkloverAccording to a paper presented at the American Society of Microbiology in 2014, human urine is not sterile and even urine from healthy individuals contain bacteria.Not any bacteria that would cause any more pollution than the racoons crapping in it every night. Quote Since the water is treated and given the small ratio of urine to water, I would not be concerned. The issue for mby Dave - Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion
That's true, complex life is probably very rare in our Universe. There's probably no more than a few billion planets with advanced life on them. The fact is that intelligent life has never reached this planet.by Dave - General Discussion
The fish piss in it all day. They do other things in it too. Urine is sterile. I'm sure the raccoons that crap in the water add far worse things, like cryptosporidium or giardia, than human urine would.by Dave - Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion
They are avoiding us because we, as a species, are too violent.by Dave - General Discussion
They have 13.8 billion years of expansion to explain.by Dave - General Discussion
I bet he's pissed off about that.by Dave - Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion
From what I can tell; El Nino can steer all the wet weather our way it wants to, but the high pressure area stationed off the coast of California will push it all north of us. The Jet Stream has slowed down, due to global climate change, and cannot move that stationary high out of the way. We're screwed.by Dave - Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion
Maybe it is time to close the ski resort, clean up the scars, and make it a campground.by Dave - Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion
Better hurry. That dog only has 3 days to live from the time it's brought into the kill center by the fair grounds.by Dave - Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion
Why bother with an app? You're on vacation - RELAX. DNC puts out a little map of all the bus stops, and the dates those stops are in use. Find the nearest stop, sit there, relax, enjoy the scenery, a bus will be along soon.by Dave - Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion
Now they need to do a study on how the removing of the burnt trees, where most of the forest's nutrients are, effects the regrowth of the forest.by Dave - General Discussion
It's summer. I'd be tempted to head down to Tierra del Fuego.by Dave - General Discussion
QuoteOhnivy-DrakIt could rain everyday for the next year, and it still wouldn't make much of a dent. True, no dent, but it would make one big puddle.by Dave - General Discussion
Last night it rained so hard here, south of Mariposa, that it took almost a half hour for the ground to dry.by Dave - Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion
I'd better go out and re-dig my ditches and fill up on pellets for the stove.... and make arrangements to go to the Bay Area when the power goes out.by Dave - Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. News & Discussion