Friday, March 12, 2010

5 ways to look at a mountain

Posted by Mickey Z on 03/12 at 11:09 AM
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  1. Hi Mickey and all…
    I voted.
    When I was growing up I lived in sight of a mountain that had been strip mined.  Now, at my desk, I can look out and see another mountain that has remained relatively undeveloped.  There is a movement throughout the State to allow wind mills on some mountain tops.  I have seen places where they have them.  I support that idea.

    Another issue that is getting to be a problem is that of ‘fracking’ for natural gas. In my hometown area of NE Pennsylvania many people have sold the rights to their land to very large gas companies.  The area to be affected is immense and includes parts of Upper New York State. The pollution from the ‘fracking’ process is serious. Some people have had the water coming out of their faucets catch on fire. Not good!

    Within the past few days an agreement has just been reached for Vermont to get more of its electricity from Hydro-Quebec.  A few years ago there were protests against HQ because, I believe, some Native land had to be flooded to provide the power.

    Posted by RMJ from Ward Churchill 4 Prez Hdqts  on  03/12  at  01:32 PM

  2. I have spent a lot of time on mountains including at one point getting up to just below 5000 metres (all walking and scrambling...never done any actual climbing).

    There is a law of human kindness on mountains which is quite remarkable.

    the closer you get to the top, the nicer people become to the complete strangers they meet. You stop to say “hello, how are you?” far more and far more genuinely than in any other kind of situation I have encountered.

    I think this is because all the people involved know what it has taken to get to the point you have gotten to.

    This is a thing of real and unrestrained beauty.

    unfortunately, just like most other things of unrestrained beauty, our current paradigm seems determined to find a way to fuck it royally.

    Posted by michael from not scotland  on  03/12  at  05:15 PM

  3. On another note.. i met one these kinds of cretins today…

    http://bit.ly/xq0U6

    Posted by michael from not scotland  on  03/12  at  05:30 PM

  4. Hello RMJ and Michael

    Posted by Mickey Z. from Astoria  on  03/12  at  07:10 PM

  5. Alas here in FL anything over 150 ft. is considered a mtn.
    I feel lucky to have seen the Andes in Ecuador and to have drunk from some of those delicious wild springs cascading down. The Quechua and other indigenous folks there love and cherish their “sacred” mtns.
    I know what you mean Mickey, sometimes looking up at those giant snow capped (for how long is another question) mtns. it seemed liked trick photograhy.

    Posted by Bob T. from Archer, FL  on  03/12  at  07:24 PM

  6. I’m not surprised my friends here can appreciate a mountain with awe and wonder. It’s part of what makes us Expendables.

    Posted by Mickey Z. from Astoria  on  03/12  at  07:26 PM

  7. 5000 metres is more than 15,000 feet by the way.

    Have americans learnt the metric system yet? I know it is based on the fundamentally evil concept of rationality but people ...come on… try to catch up.

    (15,000 feet is more than hafl everest).

    Posted by michael from not scotland  on  03/12  at  07:56 PM

  8. If we Americans don’t wanna go metric, we’ll just bomb the whole system from the planet.

    Posted by Mickey Z. from Astoria  on  03/12  at  08:03 PM

  9. simpler that way huh?

    as it happens i got higher than half everest in the annapurna range of the himlayas.

    went to the city this photo was taken from too

    the mountains in the background were one of the places i was walking.
    http://bit.ly/9RrAN0
    for the first month we were completely destroyed by the locals in terms of getting around.

    by the end of the second month we actually beat them on one mountain trek. this was taken in beautiful mountain spirit.

    we had had the piss taken out of us constanltly for several treks by the locals for our general weakness and incompetence.

    the thing to understand it is that this all happens in the spirit of “how can we get up this rahter large hill?”

    so sometimes to take the piss is the best way. other times an arm round the shoulder etc.

    really. beautiful views are one thing. but the most important thing is that mountains are where solidarity still exists.

    you had an artilce about walls in gyms.

    why not real mountains?

    Posted by michael from not scotland  on  03/12  at  08:13 PM

  10. Mount Hood is pretty spectacular.  My favorite mountain from my travels last year was Mount Shasta in Northern California.  Everyone I ran into told me there’s UFO activity at Shasta.  Coincidentally, Shasta is adjacent to Weed, CA, a city with a name that people take to heart, judging by the locals.  It might explain the UFO stories too.

    Posted by Charles from Jersey City  on  03/13  at  02:21 AM

  11. Howdy All,
    I put up a notice at college many years back to tell people that Britain had returned to Imperailism. I included a conversion chart from metres to feet etc. I got a crazy look from a tutor for doing that.
    A Cartoon:
    http://www.theplebsite.com/PlebPictures/Cartoon Imperial Tonnage jpeg (Large).jpg
    I read your article RMJ, it’s strange how the military and things involved with it are not seen as part of the negativity.

    Posted by Rick (the Cartoonist) from England  on  03/13  at  06:58 AM

  12. Hello from rainy Astoria. A new post is up with some very valuable info, re: climate change.

    Posted by Mickey Z. from Astoria  on  03/13  at  07:50 AM

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