Understatement of the year... "That path could sure use a bit of maintenance."
That said I would love to hike that path. yeah, it's dangerous but living on the edge and taking dangerous risks is a large part of what makes living great !!
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Understatement of the year... "That path could sure use a bit of maintenance."
That said I would love to hike that path. yeah, it's dangerous but living on the edge and taking dangerous risks is a large part of what makes living great !!
Its the dying part of that hike that i want to avoid.
I don;t blame you. But it's the thrill of the risk that makes it fun. The whole idea that it's very dangerous and one wrong move or slip up can lead to death. It is the idea of challenging death, gambling with death that makes life fun.Quote:
Originally Posted by N7YA
It does not appear to be wheelchair accessible. Hell Nawh!
Makes Machu Picchu look like an elementary school by comparison.
LAZ needs to hike that trail with a vhf/uhf walkie talkie. plus a web cam.
And a Ustream link. They could make it into a huge commercial tourist attraction if they bored tunnels and elevator shafts leading up to balcony restaurants and shops. Kind of like Chimney Rock NC. You know, between Bat Cave and Lake Lure.Quote:
Originally Posted by suddenseer
Funny you should talk like that just now. A couple of days ago I was watching a cable channel show about Alaska, and there was a segment about hiking on the glaciers solo on Denali. They were intervieiwing a solo glacier hiker and he was talking just like you are - from the comfort of your home. He sounded like he got off on the risk -- there's lots of ways to die on a glacier.Quote:
Originally Posted by n2ize
THEN...as he was hiking, he discovered a body up there. It was a hiker who had disappeared some years before, and the hiker who spotted it saw the boots of the deceased. That really turned his head around. He has sworn off solo glacier hiking for good. Said the immediacy of seeing what could have happend to that guy drove home the stupidity of taking unnecessary risks. There's better ways to get one's "risk" rocks off.
That path is one big accident waiting to happen.
Re: The comments about Imax 3D. It could be "fairly" soon that 3D stereoscopic vision on a PC or TV goes mainstream. All the technology seems to be there. I've heard there's some problems still with active 3D glasses (the IR kind), but it seems the technical glitches will be improved rapidly. Of course the sticking point is public acceptance. Does the average person want to see 3D bad enough to put up with glasses? A bunch of us do - but we may be fringe & not that big an overall market.
As for source material, Sony already sells a High-Def 3d Camcorder.
And the nvidia 560M in this here laptop does a good job with what it has, and will turn non-3D games plus other software (like Google Earth) into very well done stereovision. Pity I can only see it through anaglyphic (red-cyan) images, and that really subdues the color. But the stereo imaging is very well done. The thought of seeing THAT through good active glasses has me closely watching the technology and waiting for a reasonable (IMHO) price anad quality point!
Rudy don't need a trail - he'll be there selling tacos from his bell helicopter!