Slept in until noon...sleep debt was getting too big!...croissant, fruit cup and coffee at Last Chance..and Shuttled over to the Post Office...had thought to walkabout with just the new camera and binocs, but the new digi bracket came....so put it together and was eager to try it out...it's made by Bushnell, and has a three clamp ring with a small arm for the camera...very compact and light and inexpensive!...hopeful to take it on backpack trips...back at the Cabin, geared up with everything, and at the Last Chance Store, picked up tuna, cliff bar, goldfish, and water...and paddled out towards El Cap with the whole afternoon ahead...Juncos along the Bike Path...tried the new bracket, and it works fine...more digi clips and pics by Beaver Bend....two Male Mallards and three females....stayed on the Trail beside the River awhile, then crossed the Road for an exploration of the Rocky Slope just beyond the Three Brothers...on my previous walks out to Horsetail Falls, I've seen on my right the Canyon before El Cap, and the Rock Outcrop with the Tree on Top, which must have a name...the Canyon too, and the Creek coming down...the Canyon is a very Wild Defile with a kinda Sirens call!...and I even found a very seldom traveled use Trail starting up....on the Trail, the usual expected bootprints from recent passage of previous hikers in the morning or yesterday...just remarkable that so out of the way Canyon would be visited in mid-February...but there's a real crowd at El Cap Picnic for the Horsetail Firefall, and maybe they came from there....as I climbed higher, it was Boulders only to clamber over beside the Creek...and looking up, I sighted Big Wings hovering perfectly stationary near a Pine's Top on the Lowest Brother's Ridge Line...tried to get the new camera out quick, but the tripod with the digi wouldn't set down steady, and I missed a great scene of the Hawk hovering by the Pine...oh..I was all thumbs!...but did get pics...and it's the Red Tail Hawk with the Missing Feathers!!!...extraordinary!!!!...and very cool...Hawk flew around behind the Ridge...and will henceforth be called 'Cap'!!....I went up the Canyon far enough to see around to its upper reach....it resembles Indian Canyon, and can, it looks, be climbed all the way to the Rim...maybe the El Cap climbers come down it....will have to research this a bit!....paddled back down to the Road and crossed to the Trail by the River again....and sat awhile to rest and eat late lunch where one can look back up the River and see the Iconic View of Sentinel.....a view spot nearby too of Horsetail, which wasn't flowing very much..and Sky kinda hazy....no shadows on El Cap....forgot to take a headlamp with, and with only an hour of sunlight left, decided to pick up, Horsetail Firefall for sometime, and return...hazy sunlight, warmwarmtshirtwarm....it was quiet out and back to El Cap...only heard a few Juncos...and maybe Pileated Woodpecker by the River....when I got back to Beaver Bend, I turned out to Two Top Pine Meadow, and there began to hear Robins piping in the Scorched Forest, and across the River...and heard them here and there all the way back to the Cabin...oh!...Chickaree was in the Cedar right outside the Store at the start...got a good clip...for sometime!!...and too!..when I reached the Meadow, the Sun broke through, and violet alpinglow on Sentinel and Clouds Rest...and likely Horsetail Firefall did show!!
Bells and Whistles
Tonight's post is number 1000 in Fauna and Flora!....when I passed a year and a day, my origninal goal, by quite a bit, I thought to continue to have a second year to compare with the first...and after passing that...I realized the blog had become a 'Scheherazade'....a thousand and one tales!
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"[Shahrazad] had perused the books, annals and legends of preceding Kings, and the stories, examples and instances of by gone men and things; indeed it was said that she had collected a thousand books of histories relating to antique races and departed rulers. She had perused the works of the poets and knew them by heart; she had studied philosophy and the sciences, arts and accomplishments; and she was pleasant and polite, wise and witty, well read and well bred."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scheherazade
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"[Shahrazad] had perused the books, annals and legends of preceding Kings, and the stories, examples and instances of by gone men and things; indeed it was said that she had collected a thousand books of histories relating to antique races and departed rulers. She had perused the works of the poets and knew them by heart; she had studied philosophy and the sciences, arts and accomplishments; and she was pleasant and polite, wise and witty, well read and well bred."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scheherazade
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The Creek is called Eagle Creek...
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Eagle Creek cascades down from the valley rim between El Cap's Southeast Face and the Three Brothers. It offers a more interesting route than the Falls Trail to reach the summit of El Cap, but it involves a good deal of steep bushwhacking
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and I think I have the name of the Rock Outcrop...brb...it is Split Pinnacle...and while mentioned in web sites...couldn't find a quotable!!...oh...first climbed in 1938...
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liked the photos and loved your comments.
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