Welcome back, Weekender! I think there’s a thread in the past about something called http://www.picturetrail.com where they let you upload some pix and then you can link to their site.
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[ This Message was edited by: The Weekenders on 2002-07-31 13:33 ]
Thanks to avanutria, here are vacation pix. Shot is at old Donner Pass with Donner lake in background. Rough winter was spent at far side of lake.
Right opposite are the giant snowsheds, originally built by Chinese laborers, then re-concreted and used until mid-1980s.
Note crystalpeople grafitti in background.
Burke High E, my favorite jiggy whistle now. Elevation, 6925 ft. Below on rocks are petroglyphs 1500-4000 yrs old. Most people walk right over em without noticing. I have those pictures too but not with me whistling. Photos taken by other Weekender.
Thanks, Beth.
[ This Message was edited by: The Weekenders on 2002-07-31 13:16 ]
Cool pix, Weekender, thanks for sharing them!
Thanks back. I asked for everyone to do this and even tho its old hat, go right ahead everybody. Spread the good news to the other tourists!!!
Convert or languish from a lack of music in your life!!!
Gawd, that’s beautiful!
If you mean the place, Jim, you’re right but it was smoky that day because of a fire in the southern Sierras (the one that was threatening the Sequoias).
All it takes is a wind shift to to change the sky. I forgot the whistle the day I went to Tahoe but if you have never been, its God’s best swimmin’ hole. I can’t even express how much I love to swim there because the water is so clear you can see everything. We swim at Meeks Bay, where a fairly shallow area warms it up a bit (most people think Tahoe is too cold).
Its $3 to park in the State Beach but it has white sand flecked with mica. You float on the surface and can see the shining ripples reflected on the lake bottom.
As for the pass, its is a very special place in so many ways. Its is famous as a Pass because of the Donner party of course but its also beautifully situated. Most of the Sierra actually has two ridges down the spine and Donner is one of the places where it narrows just to one ridge with steep elevation changes on either side (that’s why its used so much).
During the winter, they have about the heaviest snow possible so Sugar Bowl is about a mile west of the photo. The petroglyphs prove it as a major thoroughfare for centuries.
If you come out on I-80 everybody, take the old way at least once. Its south of the '"new " donner pass. Its an easy hike up the rocks to the place where the pix was taken.
We have been lucky enough to stay at a fancy cabin every summer and winter (in Soda Springs, about 2 miles from the Pass) once or twice and its really fun to sit on the deck and whistle next to these 100 ft lodgepole pines. i ride my mountain bike up to the Pass then come down a dirt road through the trees. Its all right along the old Emigrant trail, which is always a bit eery. I can’t forget what happened there.
Summer…
As you can see, I was sad to leave it.
On 2002-07-31 13:07, The Weekenders wrote:
Burke High E, my favorite jiggy whistle now.
Aren’t those amazing little whistles?
I’ve favored my Burke soprano E over all my other soprano whistles since the first time I played it.
Playing in the key of A is so much easier than it is on a D whistle, and you can really turn on the speed with a smaller whistle… or at least I can with my tiny fingers. 
On 2002-07-31 22:59, raindog1970 wrote:
On 2002-07-31 13:07, The Weekenders wrote:
Burke High E, my favorite jiggy whistle now.Aren’t those amazing little whistles?
I’ve favored my Burke soprano E over all my other soprano whistles since the first time I played it.
Absolutely. I make the other Weekender capo up 2 frets because I like it so much. The D seems sluggish afterwards. But I have found that jigs are great on the E but reels better on the D. But in my experience (as a gtr player) the E reminds me of the “perfectly set-up” gtr that makes you want to play and play.
Yes, I meant the place. Also I like
the hat.
I take skin cancer seriously, especially at 7000 feet. I wish people would get smart (and un-vain) like the Aussies and do the same. My family are all cowboys but being fashion-conscious, wont wear the stampede strap or wreck their Resistols doing it.
My other ancestors, the Dons, always had em and in windy Calif. they make a lot of sense, especially at Donner Pass!!!
Nice pics, Weekenders! Do you mind if I call you Jessie? 
brainfreeze, Bloomer. Cats???
Hey, is that Reasonable??
heeheehee. You’re a newbie, 'enders. 
You don’t get my C&F jokes. Just ask someone who’s been around a bit longer to explain. 
I just passed 1000 posts, so I really can’t just tell you.
/bloomfield
[ This Message was edited by: Bloomfield on 2002-08-01 16:34 ]
Aw that’s okay. I’m still smartin from the putdown on other Forum (see New Forum) and follow thread. Doesn’t seem reasonable to me.
Lets have this private club and we will monitor who gets to join and we’ll have a secret handshake and arcane references…
But I have stumped you on some obscure (and not really very funny) references…
Put down? I didn’t see one. If you are talking about Az’ remark about “My new Burke arrived” threads, you are certainly not the only one to have posted such, and even if you were: Those are some of the more interesting threads, anyway. I think Az was just making the point that they (clearly) belong in the Poststructural Forum rather than the ITM Forum. Is all.
If you want to keep tally of arcane references, I think you’ve got me beat for sure. I don’t even know what a republic is.
As for the cats, here is a hint: Does the word “JessieK” ring a bell?
Take care, my friend,
Dang it, now I have to do a search. And I am at “work.” But we just had two power interruptions and I lost 30 minutes of work (yes, even the great Weekender forgets to SAVE occassionally)… so for a while surfin seemed to be the only sane behavior.
It IS a putdown to many people but your generous and possibly complicit spirit sees it as something else… Hey, its Always about You!!! : ) : )
I have seen other Forums where a managed few dominate. Not as gratifying as you might imagine… but then, we were never big for Brit-style Men’s Clubs over here in the republic…
This is in response to The Weekender’s Summer Challenge thread.
I’m somewhere on the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean about 4 miles East of Key Largo Florida sporting my dashing Chiff & Fipple sweatshirt and gripping my Dixon high D.
I wasn’t impressed with the way the whistle performed in such humidity…however, it DID seem to attract sharks. Moments after the second photo was taken we were buzzed by a 6 foot reef shark (everybody’s a critic).
We had a great vacation despite the fact that I had to cut back on my whistle playing while under water.
Eric
Bless you, my son.
Beat that, anybody!!!
Weekender…
I loved your picture of Donner Lake. I ice dive there from time to time. It’s much prettier ABOVE the waterline. The Sierras really are awesome. Both Beautiful and historically intersting. My favorite place up there is Loon Lake (my “other” office).
My wife and I call Meeks Bay “Band-aid Bay” because when we dive there you can lay on the bottom and look out across the sand and see dozens of band-aids swaying back and forth on the sand with the surge. I guess they fall off of all the little kids that swim there.
I’m sure that if all the C&F’ers out there get motivated they can send in all types of funky whistle pictures!!