| Subject: Re: mountain facility? |
| From: "miso@sushi.com" <miso@sushi.com> |
| Date: 25/10/2009, 18:08 |
| Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy.area51 |
On Oct 24, 11:33 pm, obviouslydelusional
<obviouslydelusio...@gmail.com> wrote:
On Oct 24, 5:58 pm, "m...@sushi.com" <m...@sushi.com> wrote:
Back to the GPX, I put in a waypont for where the Stirling photographs
are done. To my knowledge, Tom Mahood and the Desert Secrets guy (name
escapes me) did not photograph from the peak, but just used the spot
I provided. I know Trevor Paglen went to the top of Mt. Stirling, but
I don't recall asking him if he took any shots there. In any event,
with a combination of Bonanza and Striling, you could get enough
vectors to locate stuff.
It looks like a lot of Mahood's old stuff can still be viewed via the
Internet Archive. There's a picture shown, taken from the top of Mt.
Stirling, of Papoose. Looks pretty poor, but the lake is clearly
visible.
http://web.archive.org/web/20030620100829/www.serve.com/mahood/papoos...
The Desertsecrets guy was Steve Hauser. He had a shot of Papoose from
Reveille Peak, but I don't think he ever had anything on his site
taken from the south..
I'm not sure it would be from the top of Stirling. I went through some
minor pains to retrace Tom's route. He didn't use a GPS, so the
instructions were distance and turns, and it took a bit of deciphering
since there were many turns off along the way. In any event, the
waypoint I put in the GPX file is his observation point. Not much of a
hike. I can provide a GPS trail if needed. It is very low altitude so
you could probably do it in the winter.
I slopped together two panos from the spot:
http://www.lazygranch.com/images/mtstirling/400mmpano.jpg
I think that is Yucca Lake behind the mountain, with Mercury in front.
As you can guess, I had no interest in Papoose.
http://www.lazygranch.com/images/mtstirling/50mmpano.jpg
Somewhere in this wide shot is Papoose Lake.
