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thomaswaynewolf · 8 months

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#Sacramento Mountains #Sierra Blanca #New Mexico #three rivers #adventure #my photo #travel #desert #southwest #mountains #photography #aesthetic #landscape #nature

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realityphotography · 5 hours

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feeling homesick.

posted 4/29/2024 ©️ debora smail

#new mexico #tularosa New Mexico #adobe #still life #alamogordo #as is #white winged dove #desert #nesting #bottles #glass #debora smail #Sacramento Mountains

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my-life-on-parade · 11 months

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Our road trip through New Mexico, part two, Carlsbad Caverns, the historic luxury hotel The Lodge in the Sacramento Mountains town of Cloudcroft (Judy Garland and Clark Gable carved their names above the fourth banister in a small sitting room at the top of the tower back in 1940).

#gay road trip #new mexico #queer musician #queer photographer #mark navarro #Michael Ely #cloudcroft new mexico #Sacramento Mountains #The Lodge hotel #historic hotel #judy garland #clark gable #gay activist #my gay life #gay senior #gay Tucson couple #carlsbad caverns

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thorsenmark · 15 days

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A Cloud-Climbing Railroad and Bridge by Mark Stevens Via Flickr: At an overlook to the Mexican Canyon Trestle along the namesake trail in Lincoln National Forest. The view is looking to the northeast. My thinking in composing this image was to use the bridge as a leading line into the image as it created a layered look in the forest to my front.

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valhikes · 4 months

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Sacramento Pass Recreation Area, Nevada

There was one trail I hadn't gotten to try. This is the one aimed at horses rather than mountain bikes. It started off trail-like enough, but is mostly signed along decaying roads. It does wander some pretty hills with a few nice views and I discovered the American Discovery Trail on the way.

#hiking #nature #landscape #travel #hike #outside #day hike #mountains #Nevada #Ely District BLM #Bristlecone Field Office BLM #Bristlecone BLM #Sacramento Pass Recreation Area #trails #trailspotting #horse trails

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thechembow · 7 months

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New Wetlands in Central Valley, Phantom Smoke in Sierras

Oct. 15, 2023

Day one of our Denver expedition took us through South Lake Tahoe and into Carson City, NV. I don't usually have very eventful photos from the first gifting day on account of going through places we've already gifted. The sky over everywhere we've gifted was blue and clear and DOR sky could be seen only in the far distance, all the way through the Central Valley and into Nevada. Our gifting began once again once we hit Highway 50 just past Sacramento.

There were new wetlands in the Central Valley that I wish I could have gotten a better photo of, but it was difficult from the freeway. There were beautiful reeds and water birds and grazing cattle along the water. These wetlands went on for miles and I have never seen them before, even though I've been on that drive more times than I can count.

In the Sierras around South Lake Tahoe, the air looked smoky and i could smell it too. There were thousands of acres of burned trees, but this was from a past wildfire. We wondered where the fire was. So I checked the Cal Fire incident map and found nothing! The three fires on the map from farther north are long out, with the last updates by Cal Fire in early September.

There is no active fire up in the Sierras currently, so the smoke would have had to be from a prescribed burn. With the background of burned trees from a past fire, this scene could really screw with people's heads. That seems to be the idea with the prescribed burns now.

We gifted all the towers along Highway 50 and places that needed the energetic boost like wildfire areas. We will continue into Utah tomorrow.

#orgone #orgone energy #orgonite #orgonite gifting #california #nevada #lake tahoe #carson city #sacramento #central valley #wetlands #mountains #wildfires #geo-restoration #planetary healing

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moreclaypigeons · 9 months

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LOOK WHO IS GOING TO SEE THE MOUNTAIN GOATS!!!!!!!

#sierra speaks #mountain goats #tmg #its the Sacramento show :]

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tedwardbak · 4 days

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After a quick family trip home to Colorado I caught my train (California Zephyr) out of Denver’s Union Station on Friday. Passed thru desert in Utah and Nevada before a long layover in Sacramento where my good friend and fellow cartoonist Rita Sapunor took me out to Locke — a postcard of a tiny river town full of character and rowdy-ass bars and old boardinghouses. We visited the bookshop/antique shop and the Chinese lottery museum then caught a phenomenal show at a tiny venue with the locals. Unreal.

Made it back to Sac for a quick bite then my northbound connection (Coast Starlight) with time to spare. Woke up in my seat the next morning with a view of Mt Shasta. Later scored an old railroad spike beside the train yard in Eugene when I stepped momentarily down from the coach for a breath of fresh air.

Bak home in St Johns for now. Travel over the Rockies and Cascades and Sierras and thru the deserts and along the coasts always puts my soul in a place it wants to be.

#sierra nevada #rocky mountains #travel #train travel #sacramento #desert #utah #nevada #oregon #boarding house #sacramento river

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bisexualsfromouterspace · 14 days

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i threw on the mentalist as white noise earlier and it's enjoyable enough so far but boy does it have a disadvantage (in my books) by being set in northern california. i hope they stick to fictional cities because the goofy geographical mistakes and anachronisms are already enough to drive me off a cliff.

#they were supposed to be in sacramento and there were MOUNTAINS in the shot #yeah you could MAYBE see the crystal range with like a wide range lens but no you would not see mountains like that in sac #also the shots of sac city are so funny because sac is NOT that big lol it looks more like LA or something

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kingkili · 1 year

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Great Room Kitchen in Sacramento

#An illustration of a large open concept mountain style galley kitchen design includes an undermount sink #shaker cabinets #medium tone wood cabinets #concrete countertops #a gray backsplash #a backsplash made of stone #stainless steel appliances #an island #and gray countertops. great room #sacramento #rustic kitchen #kitchen

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thecraptacular · 1 year

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Infinity - Pool

#Example of a large mountain style backyard stone and custom-shaped infinity pool fountain design river pool #emerald bay pebble tec #jim chandler pools #natural rock #pool #sacramento _ca swimming pool constructio #waterfall

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againstthegrainphoto · 2 years

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#thebandghost #ghost #ghostbc #ghostband #namelessghouls #thenamelessghouls #namelessghoul #mountain #mountainghoul #prequelle #prequelleera #apaletournameddeath #sacramento #againstthegrainphotography (at Community City Theater Sacramento) https://www.instagram.com/p/Ce1hEiTvfEL/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#thebandghost #ghost #ghostbc #ghostband #namelessghouls #thenamelessghouls #namelessghoul #mountain #mountainghoul #prequelle #prequelleera #apaletournameddeath #sacramento #againstthegrainphotography

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nanowrimo · 2 months

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When Is a Small Press a Good Fit?

When it comes to publishing, many writers will think about big publishers first. However, there are a lot of different publishing options out there to explore. NaNo participant and author, Clara Ward, talks about their experience publishing with a small press and gives you questions to consider while you think through your publishing options!

NaNoWriMo inspired me to write. Signing with a small press gave me the support I needed to publish a book I love.

I’d published books before—starting with NaNoWriMo sponsor deals in the early days of online publishing—but I never had the right skill set to promote those books. As a result, they never truly found their audience.

In November of 2020, I poured my heart into a genre-blurring near-future tale of sailing across the Pacific and building a neurodiverse, queer, and possibly magical chosen family. In 2021, I titled it Be the Sea and asked myself: What am I going to do with that?

1. Are you looking for fame or family?

Small presses are as varied as the people who form them. If you read widely, you may already have a treasured book on your shelf from your publisher-to-be. Try asking NaNoWriMo friends who share your interests if they’ve discovered any surprising or emerging sources for great reads. (At the very least, you may find books you’ll love in unexpected places!)

Admittedly, a small press doesn’t have a fortune to spend on paving your path to fame. But I have never felt as seen as when my soon-to-be publisher, E.D.E. Bell at Atthis Arts, wrote back, “I’m really in love with what you are doing and would like to talk about it.”

2. Do you have the bandwidth for working with others?

Even with the most supportive small press, you may have to push outside your comfort zone. I know authors who love the absolute control and freedom of self-publishing. For a time, I felt very comfortable just posting my NaNoWriMo fanfiction novels on Archive of Our Own. At most, I had one or two beta readers to offer feedback on those works. Whereas E.D.E. told me in one of our earliest conversations that in addition to our three rounds of editing we’d need “a good number of betas” to cover the range of topics we were working on together.

I was delighted! I knew what I’d written was ambitious, and I welcomed all the feedback I could get. But it turns out, each extra person in a process adds new challenges and delays. I had to stretch my empathy as well as my publishing timeline because, to quote E.D.E. again: “It’s a lot of emotion (as well as brain cycles) to go through...” Outside perspectives will only improve your writing if you are willing to work with them, to truly listen and learn.

3. Can you handle the two-way commitment?

No form of publishing is easy. The myth that authors write while others handle business and promotion is not true at the top, and certainly not with small presses. In my experience, working with Atthis Arts was like joining a team or chosen family. Beyond certain paid tasks, such as editing and sensitivity reading, I discovered a community of authors who freely offered coaching before my first public reading, social media boosting, tips for author webpages, and an extra pair of eyes on letters requesting bookshop readings or other events. While not all small presses work the same way, this supportive culture proved to be an excellent fit for me. Naturally, I wanted to give back whenever possible.

Small presses can only succeed with community. This month, as I promote the launch of Be the Sea at bookshops in Mountain View, Davis, and Sacramento, I will be introducing many Californians to my Michigan-based small publisher, Atthis Arts. When I stand up as a panelist at Norwescon in Washington state or at various science, library, or Pride events later in the year, I’ll be promoting more than Be the Sea by Clara Ward. I’ll give back by sharing my appreciation for small presses, the supportive and inclusive practices they can normalize, and the opportunities they open up for future writers and readers.

Clara Ward lives in Silicon Valley on the border between reality and speculative fiction. Their latest novel, Be the Sea, features a near-future ocean voyage, chosen family, and sea creature perspectives, while delving into our oceans, our selves, and how all futures intertwine. Their short fiction has appeared in Strange Horizons, Decoded Pride, Small Wonders, and as a postcard from Thinking Ink Press. When not using words to teach or tell stories, Clara uses wood, fiber, and glass to make practical or completely impractical objects. More of their words along with crafted creations can be found at: https://clarawardauthor.wordpress.com

Photo by Hümâ H. Yardım on Unsplash

#nanowrimo #now what #writing #publishing #small press publishing #by nano guest #clara ward

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fatehbaz · 1 year

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The Clear Lake hitch (Lavinia exilicauda chi) is a rare endemic species of minnow living only in the Clear Lake watershed of northern California, a fish that was once a “symbol of abundance” for Indigenous people. In December 2022, the Big Valley Band of Pomo Indians, Robinson Rancheria Band of Pomo Indians, Scotts Valley Band of Pomo Indians and the Habematolel Pomo of Upper Lake ask for immediate emergency protection of the hitch. The fish is in danger of extinction as the last observed successful breeding for the species was in 2017, and the creatures only have a six-year-long lifespan. US land management agencies say hitch numbers have “fallen to near zero.” However, in the past, there were millions of hitch in the watershed each year, and the fish was important to Indigenous food systems. Local “entrepreneurs” prefer to protect the introduced non-native bass, which voraciously preys on the endangered hitch. Clear Lake hosts dozens of bass tournaments each year, events large enough to attract international visitors. There is a past-time tradition (”hitching”) of children beating the hitch to death with baseball bats in the springtime as the hitch gather in streams to try to spawn. The hitch is also threatened by pesticides, runoff, and overuse of water for the region’s prominent local vineyards. The hitch is referred to as a “trash fish,” and some feel that this insults the importance of the fish to Pomo people.

Excerpts below from: Louis Sahagun of Los Angeles Times. “As a sacred minnow nears extinction, Native Americans of Clear Lake call for bold plan.” As published at Phys.org. 6 December 2022.

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Spring runs of a large minnow numbering in the millions have nourished Pomo Indians since they first made their home alongside Northern California’s Clear Lake more than 400 generations ago. The Clear Lake hitch glinted like silver dollars as they headed up the lake’s tributaries to spawn, a reliable squirming crop of plenty, steeped in history [...].

In all that time, the hitch’s domain, about 110 miles northwest of Sacramento, had never suffered the degradation of recent years.

Now, with a growing sense of sorrow, if not anger, the Pomo Indian tribes of Clear Lake are watching the symbol of abundance and security they call chi dwindle into extinction.

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On Monday [December 2022], they took the rare and drastic step of urging Interior Secretary Deb Haaland to use her emergency powers and invoke the federal Endangered Species Act on behalf of the Clear Lake hitch. “Bringing the chi back will require a bold plan of action devised by people with the power to move mountains,” said Ron Montez, tribal historic preservation officer for the Big Valley Band of Pomo Indians.

“I have almost zero confidence in state or federal officials to save the chi and our way of life,” Montez, 72, said. [...]

The Clear Lake hitch was designated as a threatened species under California’s Endangered Species Act in 2014. Since then, however, its numbers have fallen to near zero, according to recent surveys.

Some causes of the hitch’s decline, however, seem extraordinarily difficult to fix: prolonged drought, mercury contamination, gravel mining, an overtaxed water distribution system, pesticides and runoff from vineyards [...], and predatory nonnative game fish. [...]

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The 2023 spring spawning season is crucial for the continued survival of the Clear Lake hitch, scientists say. That’s because the last observed successful spawning was in 2017. “Hitch have a six-year life span,” said Meg Townsend, an attorney with the Center for Biological Diversity. [...]

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But until its fate is known for certain, Michael Fris, a field supervisor at the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, said his agency is unlikely to list the hitch on an emergency basis. [...] That kind of talk prompted the Center for Biological Diversity, together with the Big Valley Band of Pomo Indians, Robinson Rancheria Band of Pomo Indians, Scotts Valley Band of Pomo Indians and the Habematolel Pomo of Upper Lake to take their request for emergency listing to Haaland.

All involved agree that seeking intervention under the federal Endangered Species Act is an act of desperation. Only two species have been emergency-listed as federally endangered over the last 20 years: the Miami blue butterfly in 2011 and Nevada’s Dixie Valley toad earlier this year. [...]

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The hitch is a 12-inch-long minnow found only in and around the oldest, largest and perhaps most polluted and wildfire-prone watershed in California. In 2020, the Lake County region was charred by six of the 20 largest wildfires in state history. [...]

It’s been the poor luck of the hitch to require adequate stream flows in February, March and April to trek from the lake to spawning beds at the same time agricultural interests need water to defrost their vineyards.

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“An emergency listing would force people to consider alternatives to the way water is used in this region,” said Sarah Ryan, environmental director for the Big Valley Band of Pomo Indians.

Beyond water flows, the prospect of emergency-listing the hitch raises other economically significant issues connected to the lake’s food chain: Zooplankton are eaten by shad, crayfish and hitch, which are favored by monster catfish and largemouth bass.

Clear Lake entrepreneurs host dozens of professional bass tournaments each year that are supported by contestants from around the world.

The most popular lures in local tackle shops are hitch replicas that cost up to $180 each. Other lures are made to resemble juvenile hitch and sold under a slogan that some people feel mocks the creature’s cultural importance to Pomo people: “The All-American Trash Fish.”

Over at [C.O.], a sporting goods store on the southern end of the lake, old-timers still talk about how local kids had a tradition of “hitching,” beating hitch to death with baseball bats for fun as they ascended streams to spawn in spring.

They also grumble over the thought of new special protections for a nongame fish disrupting human pastimes for any reason [...].

"The reason our bass grow so big is that they love to eat hitch," mused [D.B.], owner of [C.O.]. "So, when customers ask me, 'Where can I catch the biggest bass of my life?' " he added, "I send them to places hitch hang out in."

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That kind of banter and lore suggests that unless government agencies yield to Native American concerns, they are headed for a showdown of complicated and competing values.

“The way some people ridicule hitch makes me wonder what they think about the folks who eat them,” lamented Robert Geary, cultural resources director for the Habematolel Pomo of Upper Lake. [...]

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At the heart of the matter is that Pomo people [...] did not consider their native attitudes and lifestyles to be an expendable price of living in America.

Yet, their modern history is told mostly through economic hardship, rip-offs, massacres and environmental destruction.

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Headline, image, caption, and text by: Louis Sahagun of Los Angeles Times. “As a sacred minnow nears extinction, Native Americans of Clear Lake call for bold plan.” As published at Phys.org. 6 December 2022. [First paragraph in this post added by me.]

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mapsontheweb · 11 months

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Cities by Impressiveness of Mountain Backdrop / Rut

by u/Gigitoe

After seeing the recent posts Cities with a better mountain backdrop than LA? ( u/odi3luck ) and This is a response to the LA mountain backdrop ( u/sam_woke ), I realized that I had the exact tools to answer a particularly niche but interesting question:

How do we quantify how impressive a city's mountain backdrop is?

To answer this question, we use rut, an indicator I developed back in the days to quantify how sharply or impressively the surroundings of a location rise above the location. (my research paper if you're interested)

Roughly speaking, rut works as follows:

The higher the mountains rise above a city, the more impressive they are, and the higher the rut.

The steeper the mountains rise above a city, the more impressive they are, and the higher the rut.

In the map shown, I measured the rut of every city with a population of over 100,000. Here's some cities in each tier and their corresponding rut values:

S tier - rut > 500 m (world-class, would visit for mountain views alone) -

Pokhara, Nepal (1358 m) | Chamonix, France (1336 m) [not on map; population too low] | Zermatt, Switzerland (904 m) [not on map] | Yosemite Valley, CA (617 m) [not on map] | Innsbruck, Austria (584 m)

A tier - rut between 200 to 500 m (impressive, but probably wouldn't visit just for mountain views)

B tier - rut between 100 and 200 m (mountains in close proximity, or big mountains further away)

C tier (glorified hills nearby, or distant mountains, or very distant big mountains) - rut between 25 and 100 m

D tier (hills nearby, or glorified hills in the distance, or very distant mountains) - rut between 10 and 25 m

F tier (flat tier) - rut between 0 and 10 m

So to answer the question, what cities have a better mountain backdrop than Los Angeles? Quite a lot... quite a lot.

Here's the data spreadsheet that was used to generate this map!

Edits: switched Vancouver to downtown measurement, added more cities, switched to steepness explanation instead of proximity explanation.

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Note: rut measurements only consider rise above surroundings (relative height differences and steepness). They do not consider absolute elevation, nor the "aesthetics" of a mountain, nor visibility (or lack thereof) due to weather or smog.

This visualization was made possible with Google Earth Engine, MERIT DEM, and GeoNames.

If you like rut, you'll probably like its older brother jut even more. Jut is an indicator of how impressive, spectacular, or badass a mountain is—considering both its height above surroundings and steepness. If you want to find the most impressive mountains near you or worldwide, you may find the link above to be useful.

Let us know if you have any questions or comments—I'm happy to address them!

#maps #Gigitoe #cities #mountains

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satansapartments · 5 months

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hey hey hey hey btw the sacramento show from october is up on the archive. you should listen to it. genuinely one of the best goats shows i’ve been to. the crowd energy was wild, it was the first time jd had played sacramento since the 90s. waylon jennings live. solo heel turn 2. very cowbell-heavy no children. partial bowie cover?? wear black!

#when i say one of the best goats shows i’ve been to i mean like the actual performance n setlist itself..#the venue management/getting into the venue wasn’t. great.#but the show was fantastic #also love peter’s little ba ba baaaaa after legend on the shield in greek when they play fresh tattoo #i think he did that at every show #tmg #the mountain goats

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