This happened ages ago, when I first moved to the Boston area and started backpacking in the Whites. We both saw and heard the thing, so it wasn't like one of us had to convince the other that it happened. Of course I have no idea how big or far away it was, just that it was bright and loud enough to catch our attention. The "show" didn't last very long at all, maybe a second or two at most. It kinda made a sizzling, hissing noise and left a very short trail. (Unlike meteorites higher up, which leave longer trails.) The photo below is from the same area and the same GF, if not the very same hike.
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My mom had one land in their back yard when she was a teen. They thought her brother was smoking in the barn again and had blown it up.Lost in the right direction.
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TrafficJam wrote:
..... They thought her brother was smoking in the barn again and had blown it up.
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rafe wrote:
This happened ages ago, when I first moved to the Boston area and started backpacking in the Whites. We both saw and heard the thing, so it wasn't like one of us had to convince the other that it happened. Of course I have no idea how big or far away it was, just that it was bright and loud enough to catch our attention. The "show" didn't last very long at all, maybe a second or two at most. It kinda made a sizzling, hissing noise and left a very short trail. (Unlike meteorites higher up, which leave longer trails.) The photo below is from the same area and the same GF, if not the very same hike.
OMG Rafe.......cotton sweater and courduroys.....were you tring to kill her?........................... =OCheesecake> Ramen -
CoachLou wrote:
OMG Rafe.......cotton sweater and courduroys.....were you tring to kill her?........................... =O
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Most of my 98 PCT Lash rhrough the Sierra was done sans tent & just a bivy sack. I would lay there nights counting the shooting stars untill I fell asleep
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In an effort to get more sleeping bag nights I'm thinking of building a tent platform in our suburban back yard.
Generally Kathy won't sleep outdoors without a tent because she's a bug magnet, even when in her sleeping bag.
The tent would also keep our dog contained, she seems to respect the walls of the tent.
Anybody ever built one? I don't want to use pressure treated wood but wonder what should I use to keep it from rotting too fast.
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LIhikers wrote:
In an effort to get more sleeping bag nights I'm thinking of building a tent platform in our suburban back yard.
Generally Kathy won't sleep outdoors without a tent because she's a bug magnet, even when in her sleeping bag.
The tent would also keep our dog contained, she seems to respect the walls of the tent.
Anybody ever built one? I don't want to use pressure treated wood but wonder what should I use to keep it from rotting too fast.
I was considering that plastic lumber.
Cypress will last many many years.Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment until it becomes a memory.
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Over in Camp Horseshoe Near Nottingham Pa. The tent platforms have survived for years out of plain heat treated pine covered in plank. But the are off the ground on block as this is a prime termite location. They are covered in canvas army tents from WW2 and the Korea war. I know I took a picture or two of the hard platforms as much of the elders 80+ did not use this method.
They used a hard 6 or 8 x10 platform with a shingled north side and a hard wood shingled roof. Nothing special - but they had a platform and an army cot with a shelf system. Some had a bulb & electric and a college refrigerator. Clearly the idea of a Mash Swamp never left their boyhood dreams. Some had netting. Over the years the privet & gardens grew and covered much of this up and many of the younger green horns would walk by and have no idea this was going on. The vets and top volunteers would stay the summer.Be wise enough to walk away from the nonsense around you! -
Here are the early platforms in 2005Be wise enough to walk away from the nonsense around you!
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