Maggie’s Motivational Pic Thread v2.0 - - New Rules - See Post #1

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TripleBull said:
The Four Corners area is home to the Navajo Nation. One of the gems of this region in Canyon de Chelly National Monument.

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"Chelly" is pronounced "Shay". The canyon has two major arms that drain towards the west. The southern arm has two impressive sub-canyons.

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I've spent more time in the southern canyon but while we were on our Social Distancing Tour 2020 last week, we swung by the northern canyon to check out the Mummy Cave area. I was blown away. I've been trying to learn how to take larger and larger multi-row panoramas and the Mummy Cave Overlook was a chance to go ape shit. I took 8 rows of images, each 35 shots wide. The composite image was 55 feet wide by 25 feet tall at 72 dpi. Shrinking it down to page width takes away most of the fun:

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But when you zoom in, the fixation of large montages starts to justify itself:

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And then, zooming further in:

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I'd like to check out the Mummy Cave ruin up close but the Navajo are very private people and they are very protective of their land. You can hire them for jeep tours of the canyon and I'm tempted to check it out.
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When in college I worked in the oil and gas fields in the Four Corners Area. The majority of the well sites were on Rez land including Navajo, Southern Utes and Jicarilla Apache. I love the Four Corners area and it is beautiful country but unforgiving. We serviced a Gulf well field in the Bisti Badlands which is a very inhospitable part of the Navajo Rez. Brutally hot in the summer and treacherous in the winter. Never made it to Canyon de Chelly but hope to one of these days. A great read is Blood and Thunder which tells of the exploits of Kit Carson and Canyon de Chelly is mentioned in the book. I went to grad school with several Navajos and they pretty much stayed to themselves with most returning the Rez after graduation.
 
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nikonNUT said:
SkyDrol fixes all that but God have mercy on your soul if you get that crap on you! It’s like Satan himself pissed on you!
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Oh shit yeah. I was prepping my acft for a mission and hydro troops replaced an accumulator but didn't do the ops check. So I am on the ground and another troop went to the flight station. He turned on the pump and when 3k of pressure hit a cross threaded B nut it exploded and fuckin skydrol soaked my flight suit head to toe and that shit got in my eyes too in spite of ppe. God what a miserable night getting cleaned up. I wanted to strangle the asshole that did that.
 
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rg1911 said:
Had one of those do that to the water hose on my car while I was deployed.
Cute but remarkably destructive. And why they like rubber and plastic is anyone's guess.
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I had a buddy who left his pickup at a trailhead for a week long pack trip. When he got back, the pickup wouldn't start. He opened the hood and there was a fresh pack rat nest built on the engine. Long story short, that little prick had eat up so much of the wiring harness that the insurance company totaled it out...
 
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rg1911 said:
Had one of those do that to the water hose on my car while I was deployed.
Cute but remarkably destructive. And why they like rubber and plastic is anyone's guess.
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Not sure now but in the old days the coating on the wires had vegetable oil in it and they liked the taste.
 
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Soulezoo said:
Oh shit yeah. I was prepping my acft for a mission and hydro troops replaced an accumulator but didn't do the ops check. So I am on the ground and another troop went to the flight station. He turned on the pump and when 3k of pressure hit a cross threaded B nut it exploded and fuckin skydrol soaked my flight suit head to toe and that shit got in my eyes too in spite of ppe. God what a miserable night getting cleaned up. I wanted to strangle the asshole that did that.
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That's why we used to say, "I'd rather have a sister working in a whorehouse than an aircraft mechanic for a brother."?
 
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