When: 2009 Dec. 17-18
Where: Joshua Tree National Park, CA
Who: Myself & three co-workers.
Temp. min & max: 37*, 79*
Acts: bouldering, camping, hiking, landscape photos
Kind of a "last hurrah" before moving out of the State, I and three friends drove out to the sticks, or should I say "stones", for two days of bouldering and landscape photography. I told Dane to bring a decent tent for the three of them, and he sure did. A palatial twelve-man giant. Not wanting to be left out, I set my tent up inside of theirs.
We arrived just before sunset and shot until well past dark. I love light painting with long exposures.
Somehow we forgot to bring enough briquettes. We made due by charring half our wood supply to coal just to grill our enormous steaks. All of the splitting was done with my SOG Gov-Tac knife and the edge is still superb! It takes batoning like no other.
We also managed to forget the guitar, cards, and anything else entertaining. I told some stories and long-winded jokes and not long after we headed to sleep. Temperatures fell to 36*F, but I slept great in a Mountain Hardwear Lamina 15* bag with the Sea-to-Summit Thermolite Reactor liner.
The next morning we hiked up to the peak of Lost Horse Mine and witnessed some bizarre aerial phenomena. More than thirty fly-overs by large aircraft emitting some type of white dispersing vapor. Unlike water contrails, (which I am quite familiar with - my dad was a pilot and raised me around aerospace information) this vapor hung in the air for more than eight hours and spread until it appeared to be normal cloud cover, which drifted into the Riverside area. We observed the transformation from clear skies to cloudy for several hours - 100% man-made. For reasons explained in the audio file, I do not believe these were ordinary water-based contrails such as those sometimes seen trailing high-altitude airliners, and feel fairly insulted by those who would expect me to be so ignorant.
Where: Joshua Tree National Park, CA
Who: Myself & three co-workers.
Temp. min & max: 37*, 79*
Acts: bouldering, camping, hiking, landscape photos
Kind of a "last hurrah" before moving out of the State, I and three friends drove out to the sticks, or should I say "stones", for two days of bouldering and landscape photography. I told Dane to bring a decent tent for the three of them, and he sure did. A palatial twelve-man giant. Not wanting to be left out, I set my tent up inside of theirs.
We arrived just before sunset and shot until well past dark. I love light painting with long exposures.
Somehow we forgot to bring enough briquettes. We made due by charring half our wood supply to coal just to grill our enormous steaks. All of the splitting was done with my SOG Gov-Tac knife and the edge is still superb! It takes batoning like no other.
We also managed to forget the guitar, cards, and anything else entertaining. I told some stories and long-winded jokes and not long after we headed to sleep. Temperatures fell to 36*F, but I slept great in a Mountain Hardwear Lamina 15* bag with the Sea-to-Summit Thermolite Reactor liner.
The next morning we hiked up to the peak of Lost Horse Mine and witnessed some bizarre aerial phenomena. More than thirty fly-overs by large aircraft emitting some type of white dispersing vapor. Unlike water contrails, (which I am quite familiar with - my dad was a pilot and raised me around aerospace information) this vapor hung in the air for more than eight hours and spread until it appeared to be normal cloud cover, which drifted into the Riverside area. We observed the transformation from clear skies to cloudy for several hours - 100% man-made. For reasons explained in the audio file, I do not believe these were ordinary water-based contrails such as those sometimes seen trailing high-altitude airliners, and feel fairly insulted by those who would expect me to be so ignorant.
Check out my audio report: [18 min. 8MB]
Download .mp3
What is it? I'm not sure. Here are some photos I took:
(right-click, open in new tab to view large)
Download .mp3
What is it? I'm not sure. Here are some photos I took:
(right-click, open in new tab to view large)
The Wall Street Journal published an article on June 15, 2009 that seems to acknowledge this concept, as if to prepare the public, though I question whether the explanation given for the spraying is not itself a government spin.
I found a video on YouTube and re-posted it to my vimeo [below]. The clip clearly captures the same "dark line phenomemon" that all four of us witnessed: an apparent "beam of darkness" projecting ahead of the plane and remaining in mid-air after the plane had left the region! I have some realistic hypothesis about what causes this. (Never mind the creepy music. If I had time, I would have removed it.)
I found a video on YouTube and re-posted it to my vimeo [below]. The clip clearly captures the same "dark line phenomemon" that all four of us witnessed: an apparent "beam of darkness" projecting ahead of the plane and remaining in mid-air after the plane had left the region! I have some realistic hypothesis about what causes this. (Never mind the creepy music. If I had time, I would have removed it.)
This video, starting at the 1:10 mark, demonstrates clearly that this is more than "contrails". Two planes flying at the same altitude pass; one has the plumes, the other emits no trails at all. (Again, please look past the scary music and try to have a reasonable mind.)
Here is an earlier post of mine on the subject.
A simple Google image search will bring up some provocative shots, with lots of filler, too.
Your thoughts?
Here is an earlier post of mine on the subject.
A simple Google image search will bring up some provocative shots, with lots of filler, too.
Your thoughts?
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