This is an update replacement of my old video. I shot it over a few days. If you look close you will notice that the flag was at half-mast on one of the days I was there due to the death of one of the locals. I did not know it at the time, but those aircraft you see while I zoom at the beginning were part of the funeral. Had I known I would have tried harder to capture their flight.
I have a bunch of old blogs dedicated to this movie's locations that you can find listed here:
http://tinyurl.com/2ch8q23
Note: All my location videos that have movie clips in them are done for context on how the location was used and for educational purposes only. My commentary and criticism of the use of filming in these public locations is protected by "fair use" in Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976. If you want to see full movies then you need to buy the dvd(s) or watch them on television. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGyNinWZJVA
Happy Christmas!
I had all these ideas about making videos for the Donner Party tragedy but then realized when I was there it was not going to work the way I had in my head. So, I just used this video as an opportunity as an experiment to use the sim footage with the few clips I took.
The sims use of the landscapes is the key, and not the buildings nearby. It is kind of silly to see huge buildings in some of the rural surroundings in the sim. Lol! Hopefully, in time, they change that.
For pictures and some other items about this check my blog entry here:
https://tinyurl.com/yd92qz9b
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSAGCAI5Q-s
I returned to Mt. Wilson at the end of November, 2011. This is a few clips from the tour that took us into where both the 150-ft. solar telescope and 100-inch Hooker telescope reside. My blog on this:
http://tinyurl.com/6xjaae6
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VCdNNDTFA0s
I spoke rather quickly because I wanted this to take about ten minutes. Issue #2 is the one that is the one I think is the most important for the public to be aware of.
00:00 A.D.D. Intro
01:16 Point #1 About Ads on some of my videos
02:19 Point #2 No more GPS coordinates
06:30 Point #3 Changes on the way I do videos now
08:41 Point #4 Not looking for work or other projects to do
09:27 Point #5 I could use some help if you know a mountain scrambler with GoPro in the Eastern Sierra.
10:19 Conclusion: Thanks to my viewers!
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jf-IIpTCr8A
This video did not turn out that good because of the early morning lighting involved. I decided to put it up anyways. I may go back sometime in the future when I have better conditions. A few still pictures and explanation:
http://tinyurl.com/yyzd8cq
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-hz6hhP_u7U
It's close to the anniversary of my hike to visit the SA-16 Albatross in Death Valley (the video "Hunting a Bird in Death Valley"). I did that hike twice. Once ten years ago and two years ago in early May. I wanted to visit a fully intact version of the same type of aircraft at the March Field Air Museum. In this video I just give you a "fragment" of all the artifacts and aircraft they have at the museum.
My blog on this one can be found here:
http://tinyurl.com/zal9htl
My Death Valley hike video to the remains of the SA-16 is here:
https://youtu.be/BQsRLO7hWCc
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3NufKzdK2A
This is a reboot of a video I did around five years ago. Over the past three years I have been thinking of doing this one over. The problem I had during the last two summers, and other times of the year, is getting the conditions right. There were times I would be driving by and not even bother going into the Alabama Hills since the clouds were drowning out Lone Pine Peak and Mt. Whitney which was important for me to get right for the ending of the video. I took this video last August, and it is good enough for what I was trying to achieve.
I have completely redone the blogs I did on this location back in 2006. They have new pictures:
http://tinyurl.com/3dcylts
If you are in the mood, I was in Santa Barbara last month checking out the humpback whales there:
http://youtu.be/wrYXJs_K4XI
Last weekend I revisited the mountain lions, Mojeska and Santiago, at the O.C. Zoo since the zoo was celebrating their 2nd birthday:
http://youtu.be/ZbMWYQheiSQ
Note: All my location videos that have movie clips in them are done for context on how the location was used and for educational purposes only. My commentary and criticism of the use of filming in these public locations is protected by "fair use" in Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976. If you want to see full movies then you need to buy the dvd(s) or watch them on television.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdX4-Sn01jw
This is the second video of a three part series. Of course, I have been here a bunch of times before. The following link will give you the most recent blog I did on this location under different weather conditions and the older two blogs I did as well:
http://tinyurl.com/6bof3kp
Something related to what I say at the beginning, a video where I look down to here at the end:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kNBJIppZnzk
Note: All my location videos that have movie clips in them are done for context on how the location was used and for educational purposes only. My commentary and criticism of the use of filming in these public locations is protected by "fair use" in Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976. If you want to see full movies then you need to buy the dvd(s) or watch them on television.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UkmAoC4ka7Q
This is the location of one of the scenes they used at Iverson Ranch. While maybe not the most scenic, you can see traces of what was once here. I did an old blog on this one some months back:
http://tinyurl.com/yhls7b9
Note: All my location videos that have movie clips in them are done for context on how the location was used and for educational purposes only. My commentary and criticism of the use of filming in these public locations is protected by "fair use" in Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976. If you want to see full movies then you need to buy the dvd(s) or watch them on television.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vTh9KR2M5Y
Just another quick "throwaway" video of a drive by this ranch out in middle of nowhere in Nevada. I put a limit on the audio so no need to turn up your sound...nothing is said or anything of importance with that. Just look at the terrain, imagine driving for about an hour on a dirt road with no one around, and then this ranch comes up. This is a "prelude" to a bunch of videos coming out in December. In other words, my "Ghosts of the Past" series is not over just quite yet.
My blog just repeats what is shown below, but if you have something you want to say it can be found here:
https://tinyurl.com/2rvpnr25
Taken from https://www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=191201:
"The history of the Nine Mile Ranch has a long and interesting past, beginning with the Paiute Indians who inhabited this area long before John C. Fremont’s expedition into Nevada in 1843-1844. According to Fremont’s journal he camped in this area along a little creek now known as 'Rough Creek' in January 1844 on his way to California. Fremont’s camp was in the approximate location of the Nine Mile Ranch today.
With the discovery of gold in Aurora in 1860, this area was destined to become a main route from Carson City to the booming mining camps of the Esmerelda Mining District, of which Aurora and later Bodie were featured destinations. Along this route stage stops were established for the convenience of travelers.
Over the years, the Nine Mile has been known as Cobb’s Rancho, Nine Mile House, Nine Mile Station, Green’s Station, etc., but Nine Mile Ranch is what shows on most modern maps.
Notable people in history are known to have visited the area, including John C. Fremont, Kit Carson, Mark Twain, Governor James Nye, and J. Ross Browne, to name a few."
An article about this place:
https://mcindependentnews.com/2018/07/history-of-nine-mile-ranch-dates-back-to-the-1860s-2/
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5nako0LLFI