A Brinicle

A brinicle (brine icicle, also known as ice stalactite) forms beneath sea ice when a flow of extremely cold, saline water is introduced to an area of ocean water, being the undersea equivalent of a hollow stalactite or icicle

 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brinicle

A glimpse inside of Erratic Rock

Thanks to Eric Larsen

Scary stories

More parents should scare their kids. Its good for them.

How many Light bulbs does it take to change People.

Poor white raven

White ravens are not as rare as on might think. They are usually eaten by their mothers a few days after they hatch, and just don't make it to become adults. White ravens are not albinos, they simply have no melanin in their body. Few of them manage to grow up to full size and when they do they get bullied by other ravens because they are different. They never breed because nobody likes them. They are on their own their entire life.

Walking on clear ice

No Girls Allowed

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/09/19/katskhi-pillar-monk-georgia-maxime-qavtaradze_n_3950192.html


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katskhi_pillar

Mercedes G4

Aside form the Nazi ties. This is one incredibly cool looking vehicle.

Only 57 were ever made and only 3 are know to still excist.

The G4 was a development of the G1, launched in 1926. All had an 8-cylinder inline engine, in the first three years of 5018 cc (306.2 cu in) displacement delivering 100 PS (74 kW). An unsynchronized four-speed transmission transferred the power to all four rear wheels, or optionally to all six wheels. The rear wheels were attached to two rigid axles 950 mm apart, which were suspended in joint semi-elliptic leaf springs. The front axle was rigid with semi-elliptic springs. All six wheels had hydraulic brakes with servo assistance. The top speed was only 67 km/h (42 mph), limited by the type of all-terrain tyres. Only 11 of these vehicles were delivered to the Wehrmacht. The car used an elongated box-section frame that allowed for generous interior room. Comfortable seating for up to seven was provided by benches (front and rear) and one middle row of two with separate arm rests.

Nazi's are bad.....


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercedes-Benz_W31#

Guy catches tear gas and throws it back like a Boss!

Thats one hell of an arm!!

Eric Larsen at ErraticRock

Just randomly watching a video of Eric Larsen's next move when all of a sudden he walks into ErraticRock. My brother Rustyn and Bill's Hostel in Chile.

Can't remember if i've ever talked to Eric about ErraticRock.

Pretty Cool!! wish i was down there again.

Dubstep kid is cooler than you!

NASA's Orion Space Launch: Success!

To some people this is just another rocket sent to space "Big Deal!!"
But this launch is a big deal. Its the first time we have attempted to go this far in space with Humans since the Moon.
Watch videos in either order:

This video show the actual launch plus onboard cameras.

This Video explains what you just watched of the actual launch.

Weeeee!!!!



The Most Amazing View Of The Earth You’ll Ever See

I want to go to space so bad!

25 Years of Discovery

Several months ago I was contacted by a Production company about a video I had posted on YouTube. They were working on a video for the 25 Year Anniversary of the Land Rover Discovery. After much back and forth, tracking down the original footage and patiently waiting for the completion of the video, it's finally here.
I have been a huge fan of Land Rovers for many years and have owned several, so I think it is very cool to now be part of Land Rover history, all 7 seconds of it. Though i am not actually in the video. Jenny Mesdag (@3:00) is, and Teressa and Maile (the dog).

Thanks goes out to the two people who had the good sense ot capture the good times (simultaneously without any previous planning), wouldn't have been possible without you.

Matt Collins - in lead vehicle (series IIa)
Bri Collins - riding shotgun with the ladies.


Enjoy

Pure Sadness

FACT-

Outer Space is only an hours drive from away-
if your could drive there.

GoPro prototype

We don't just revolve around the sun, we travel with it.

The World’s Greatest Traveler

Not all are created equal

   

A moment when Eddie Vedder found his "voice" on stage (1991)

The Land Rover Series III Is Equipped For Adventure

All guys have dreamed about at least one car at some point in their
lives. When you find the perfect automobile for you, you fall in love.
You know how they say you can tell when people are in love just by
looking at them? Pawel Litwinski loves his 1973 Land Rover Series III.
Don’t just take our word for it, listen to it in the classic car
photographer’s own words with the video below.
By Ben Dahl









http://coolmaterial.com/video/exploring-the-california-dunes-in-a-1973-land-rover-series-iii/

Go Speed Racer

Post by Al Poole.

Sneaky Old School Speed camera

Land Rover Rally (1964)

I want o be part of this so bad!!!
Doing it today would cool, but not as cool. Those were Brand New Rovers back then...

Pit Stop - 1950's vs. Present

Kombi...Last Wishes

ANSII Webcam

Link to use your own Webcam.
http://grumdrig.com/asciicam.html

VW vs. Jeep



Van life in Watercolor

Ah, van life! Is it any wonder the VW Vanagon Syncro won AJ’s ultimate adventure vehicle poll? But van life has its, um, wrinkles, as this awesome and very creative animated short shows you. The stop-motion film was created with 300 individual water color paintings, then pieced together with a small and dedicated crew. Who clearly know Vanagons.

Adventure Journal 
http://www.adventure-journal.com/2014/03/video-of-the-day-van-life-in-watercolor/

The Vanagon Song

A Gift Indeed!

http://gawker.com/a-nun-just-totally-dominated-italys-version-of-the-voi-1548812250

Fact...

Pluto never made a full orbit around the sun from the time it was discovered to when it was declassified as a planet.

Stabilized Sasquatch

Original Footage

Who remembers this sound?

Radiohead Creep

Sneaky



Baby Gorilla Born in Rare C-section

Having witnessed the birth of my own child and knowing how cute the first few moments of life are. Its even cuter to see a baby Gorilla get the same hospital treatment.

 

 

The latest arrival at San Diego Zoo Safari Park is a healthy newborn gorilla delivered through caesarian section. The procedure is rare for animal births, but in this case, it was an emergency.

Zoo officials say 18-year-old gorilla Imani went into labor Wednesday morning, but by that evening, she still wasn't showing any signs of progress. Vet staff took Imani to the Safari Park's hospital, where they successfully delivered a 4.6-lb. baby girl.

The baby, who hasn't been named yet, is doing well. She initially needed to be put on supplemental oxygen, fluids, and adorable hat, but now she's doing healthy baby gorilla things (like grasping, kicking, and suckling).

"She looks around. She can hold her own head up, which is pretty amazing," said Nadine Lamberski, associate director of veterinary services at the zoo, to CBS San Diego.

[H/T: Digg]

Airport Buses

Playboy Bunny jet with a young Hue Hefner

Pan American

Women motorcyclists that made history.

Marianne Weber, a belgium motorcycle jounalist, test riding a "new" bmw r68, in 1952...trying to get the bike to the advertised 100 mph.

Link:

 http://demenshea.com/blog/2011/01/29/bikes-and-babes-women-motorcyclists-riding-into-history/

 

 

The Star Thrower

 

 

 

 

We Can't Stop - Postmodern Cover

Ascent - Commemorating Shuttle

As a Huge fan of space exploration and someone you who has studied photography. This is by far one of the best things i have ever watched.

Props to the people that put this all together.


Photographic documentation of a Space Shuttle launch plays a critical role in the engineering analysis and evaluation process that takes place during each and every mission. Motion and Still images enable Shuttle engineers to visually identify off-nominal events and conditions requiring corrective action to ensure mission safety and success. This imagery also provides highly inspirational and educational insight to those outside the NASA family.
This compilation of film and video presents the best of the best ground-based Shuttle motion imagery from STS-114, STS-117, and STS-124 missions. Rendered in the highest definition possible, this production is a tribute to the dozens of men and women of the Shuttle imaging team and the 30yrs of achievement of the Space Shuttle Program.
The video was produced by Matt Melis at the Glenn Research Center. Ben Burtt Jr. and the Team at Skywalker Sound helped with the Riding the Booster Video.


https://sites.google.com/site/ascentcommemoratingshuttle/

Rovers in Space

Link:
http://jalopnik.com/heres-that-chart-of-every-robotic-space-exploration-ro-1526142991

Chad Kellogg Killed by Rockfall in Patagonia

By Dougald MacDonald

2/16/2014 - American climber Chad Kellogg has been killed while
climbing in Patagonia. According to local authority and guidebook author
Rolando Garibotti, Kellogg and Jens Holsten had climbed the Afanassieff Route
on the northwest ridge of Fitz Roy. They reached the top in late
afternoon on February 14 and began their descent via the Supercanaleta
route.


After the third rappel, one of the ropes got stuck, and while pulling
on the cord to try to loosen it, "the rope dislodged a block which hit
Chad," Garibotti wrote at Supertopo.com.
"He died instantly. It was 9 p.m. Jens continued the descent alone
through the night, reaching the base early in the morning to then
continue to El Chaltén, the nearest town. Because of the complexities of
the location, a body recovery will not be attempted."


Kellogg, 42, was based in Seattle and ran a construction business
that remodeled historic homes. He was best known for his  speed climbs
and attempts—he set speed records on Mt. Rainier and Denali, won the
race up 7,000-meter Khan Tengri in Kyrgyzstan, and made two attempts to
break the Everest speed record. But pure alpinism was his true love, and
in recent years he had accomplished many superb ascents, going solo or
partnering with a select group of highly accomplished Pacific Northwest
climbers.


In 2008 he and Dylan Johnson climbed a 72-pitch new route on Siguniang
in China. Kellogg soloed a new route on the enormous south face of Aconcagua
in Argentina (without going to the summit) in 2009.


Kellogg and Johnson did the first ascent of 18,346-foot Seerdengpu
in China in 2010. In January 2013, he and Colin Haley did the second
ascent of the Corkscrew Route on Cerro Torre,
climbing the Patagonian spire without using any of the controversial
protection bolts placed by Cesare Maestri on the southeast ridge.


In the fall of 2012, Kellogg and David Gottlieb were in Nepal to try
the first ascent of Lunag Ri in a remote section of the Khumbu. When
Gottlieb got sick, Kellogg soloed the second ascent of 22,238-foot Jobo
Rinjang. The two men returned to Lunag Ri last fall and made two
unsuccessful attempts on Lunag Ri. Kellogg recently won a 2014 Mugs
Stump Award to return to this area with Gottlieb and Jens Holsten later
this year.


In addition to his climbing and business challenges, Kellogg had
endured numerous other difficulties. In 2007 his wife, Lara Karena
Kellogg, was killed in a rappelling accident in Alaska, while Kellogg
was climbing in western China. Kellogg also survived a bout with colon
cancer, with which he was diagnosed shortly after his wife's death. In
2011, one of Kellogg's best friends and partners, Joe Puryear, was
killed in a cornice collapse in Tibet.

Chad Kellogg: self-portrait on the summit of Jobo Rinjang in Nepal in 2012.

Date of accident: February 14, 2014

Chad Kellogg Killed by Rockfall in Patagonia | Climbing

Sweet Child O' Dixieland

                    

So true

NWAC Professional Observation - Stevens Pass 2/11/14

Be Careful out there folks....YIKES!

An Oh Shit moment

Land Rover Defender Showing off

 

 

 

                     
 

Wanna be friends?

Man Responsible For Olympic Ring Mishap Found Dead In Sochi

This is my favorite part of the article.

"Although his body was badly mangled and the wounds were consistent with a struggle, so far officials say they don't suspect foul play.

“Sure there were stab wounds and bruises all over the body,” admits the lead investigator on the case, “But who knows what caused them. Maybe he tripped and fell on a set of knives. Right now we’re ruling this an accidental death."

 http://dailycurrant.com/2014/02/08/man-responsible-for-olympic-ring-mishap-found-dead-in-sochi/

UPDATE 

“It’s terrible when accidents like this happen. But then again, maybe Mr. Avdeyev should have thought twice before he screwed up the Olympics. Accidents tend to happen to people who betray Russia.”

Despite the government’s story, fellow hotel guests reported hearing a struggle in Avdeyev’s room around 3 a.m. local time.

“There was a very loud noise last night,” Canadian bobsled member Guy Lafleur, who was staying two hotel rooms down. “I called the front desk but the phone didn't work so I went to the room where the sound was coming from and saw three big men leave the room.

I asked if there was a problem and they told me to go back to my room. Then this morning I find out the guy inside was dead. Very scary I told the police what I saw but they told me to forget what I saw. They were very intimidating.”

Putin, The Man You Can Trust
It was reported that Vladimir Putin was visibly upset with the botched ending of the ceremony and he may have been out for blood. He stormed out of the stadium and took off in a helicopter before the media could ask him any questions.

The embarrassment of his nation could have been too much for him to handle.

“Putin loves Russia to death,” said Alexander Zhukov, the Russian Olympic Committee president. “He also loves accountability.”

While there has not been accountability from the contractors responsible for building the Olympic Village, the ceremony was a world wide event for everyone to see. Putin may hold that to a higher level.

“If he feels the Ceremony reflects him, who knows what he’ll do to seek justice,” said Zhukov before part of a hotel ceiling crashed to the floor beside him. “All I know is Borris Avdeyev failed Russia and got what he deserved.” More of the hotel began to crumble and the interview had to be cut short.

UPDATE UPDATE
I have no proof this is real... 

Earth - Seen from Mars

This view of the twilight sky and Martian horizon taken by NASA's Curiosity Mars rover includes Earth as the brightest point of light in the night sky. Earth is a little left of center in the image, and our moon is just below Earth. Researchers used the left eye camera of Curiosity's Mast Camera (Mastcam) to capture this scene about 80 minutes after sunset on the 529th Martian day, or sol, of the rover's work on Mars (Jan. 31, 2014). The image has been processed to remove effects of cosmic rays.
A human observer with normal vision, if standing on Mars, could easily see Earth and the moon as two distinct, bright "evening stars."
The distance between Earth and Mars when Curiosity took the photo was about 99 million miles (160 million kilometers).
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division of the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, manages the Mars Science Laboratory Project for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Washington. JPL designed and built the project's Curiosity rover. Malin Space Science Systems, San Diego, built and operates the rover's Mastcam.
More information about Curiosity is online at http://www.nasa.gov/msl and http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/.

Image Credit:

NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS/TAMU

 http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA17936

Blurry Trees...not really

Bigger / Clearer

Arctic Monkeys - Do I Wanna Know?

Turn this Up!!!



Thats a lot of wood

The Islands of Seattle

If all the worlds ice sheets were to melt, this is what Seattle would look like.

Were going to need more Ferries.

 

Link to Article by: Jeffrey Linn

http://www.washington.edu/wholeu/2014/01/15/islands-of-seattle/

This is Rediculous!!!





 

How do you transport your racecar?

 

Landy Like Around the World

If mountain bikers use saws and other tools, it's often to create wood features in the forest. Julia Hofmann used them for a different reason, though: to finish her bachelor thesis. No, she didn't assemble a series of wooden jumps and drops for school, but rather transformed a Series 2A Land Rover into her travelling bike caravan. Simply put, the German racer built her own dream vehicle, a two-wheeler's four-wheeler that she'll use to get to riding spots the world over. Below, she tells us the story of how it all came together.

Click link for Video and full artical by: Julia Hofmann

http://www.pinkbike.com/news/Landy-Like-Around-the-World-2014.html

Kittinger's jump from the edge of space.

On August 16, 1960, Joe Kittinger lifted off from Earth in a helium balloon called Excelsior III (experimenting the effects of high altitude on a human body) and rose to a hight of 102,800 feet (31,300). Once he reached the edge of space, he did something incredible brave and amazing...
He jumped like a sack of potatoes...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Kittinger

Boop



MSR Snowshoe Win ISPO GOLD Award

I have worked on this Snowshoe for over a year with some very talented Engineers and Designers. All that work seems to have payed off.

 

Article - http://insideoutdoor.com/msr-snowshoe-win-ispo-gold-award/

MSR has won an ISPO Gold Award 2014 for its MSR Revo Explore snowshoes at the ISPO Trade Fair in Munich, Germany. The Revo Explore snowshoes won the ISPO Gold Award in the Snowshoes category, for their excellent functionality and beautiful design, says the company.
In the new Revo Explore, MSR melds the superior grip of metal perimeter traction with the durability, torsional flex and cold-temperature performance of its proven plastic decks. Combined, this engineering delivers exceptional grip and a more natural foot position on traverses, climbs and descents, says the company.
“The MSR Snowshoe convinced the jury members because of its hybrid construction,” said Klaus Lehner of the ISPO Jury. “This combination offers a dual advantage of perfect grip on hard snow, and low weight of the snowshoe.”

Ballboy - A Day in Space

Peter Freuchen, 6',7", "lived inside the cave of his own breath"

 

"That's Peter Freuchen and his wife Dagmar Freuchen-Gale, in a photo taken by Irving Penn. Freuchen is a top candidate for the Most Interesting Man in the World.

Standing six feet seven inches, Freuchen was an arctic explorer, journalist, author, and anthropologist. He participated in several arctic journeys (including a 1000-mile dogsled trip across Greenland), starred in an Oscar-winning film, wrote more than a dozen books (novels and nonfiction, including his Famous Book of the Eskimos), had a peg leg (he lost his leg to frostbite in 1926; he amputated his gangrenous toes himself), was involved in the Danish resistance against Germany, was imprisoned and sentenced to death by the Nazis before escaping to Sweden, studied to be a doctor at university, his first wife was Inuit and his second was a Danish margarine heiress, became friends with Jean Harlow and Mae West, once escaped from a blizzard shelter by cutting his way out of it with a knife fashioned from his own feces, and, last but certainly not least, won $64,000 on The $64,000 Question. -- Kottke, Peter Freuchen

"The Danish-Jewish explorer Peter Freuchen was twenty years old his first winter in the arctic and bursting with vitality and enthusiasm for the other world he’d entered. He volunteered to stay alone on the edge of the ice sheet in Pustervig northeastern Greenland for the duration of the dark winter of 1906-1907. A few other men were there at the beginning, in a stone and timber house built for the purpose, about nine feet by fifteen feet. Freuchen’s task was to go out every day and take weather measurements on the mountain, which sounds easy enough until you factor in that it was dark most of that time and extraordinarily cold, and that the wolves that ate his seven dogs were deeply interested in him as well.
It was so cold that even inside his cabin, even with the small coal stove, the moisture in his breath condensed into ice on the walls and ceiling. He kept breathing. The house got smaller and smaller. Early on, he wrote, two men could not pass without brushing elbows. Eventually after he was alone and the coal—“the one factor that had kept the house from growing in upon me”—was gone, he threw out the stove to make more room inside. (He still had a spirit lamp for light and boiling water.) Before winter and his task ended and relief came, he was living inside an ice cave made of his own breath that hardly left him room to stretch out to sleep. Peter Freuchen, six foot seven, lived inside the cave of his breath." 

From Rebecca Solnit’s The Faraway Nearby

 Peter Freuchen - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Freuchen

http://americandigest.org/mt-archives/citizens/peter_freuchen_thats_pete.php

http://intheborderlands.tumblr.com/post/72328918927/the-danish-jewish-explorer-peter-freuchen-was

The $64,000 Question - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_$64,000_Question

Sweet Buses to Trippy Music

I have watched this video so many times. There is just something about watching these two old Buses drive around the field to this strange music.

1957-58 Trans Antarcrtic Expedition

When I see images like this, I am just in awe of the first explorers that went out there and just did it.

The true adventure of just going out and seeing what happened and were men about it.

In this photo, these guys are just casually unloading the truck before it drops into the abyss. Now a days, the camera crews would dramatize the whole thing and everyone would be back 200yrds just in case, trip over, send in the helicopters. What I would give to be on a trip like this.

And the truck didn't fall, they needed it so the saved it.

"One of the four 1955 Tucker Sno-Cat Type 743 Double Drives (A) used during the Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition of 1957-1958. Led by Vivian Fuchs, the sno-cats traveled 3473 km in 98 days consuming 70 litres of petrol per 100km. After the expedition this unit worked at Scott Base until 1971 when it returned to New Zealand and is now part of the display at the Canterbury Museum, New Zealand, which also includes a converted Ferguson TE20 tractor and sledges."

AMAZING Skydivers Land Safely After Plane Crash

This would be extremely terrifying, But to be honest
(knowing the outcome) It would be amazing to experience and walk away from.

I have skydived once before and this does not detour me.






When two planes carrying a total of 9 skydivers collided mid air, 12,000 feet above Superior, Wisconsin. The wings disconnected from one of the planes causing a fiery explosion. All 9 skydiver landed safely, as well as the two pilots, one of which was taken to the hospital to treat minor cuts.

 http://bit.ly/JukinSportsSub

Balloon Capsule Ride to the Edge of Earth

"Slated for its inaugural liftoff in 2016, World View brings the concept of going where few men have gone before to every average, untrained Joe and Jane...in possession of $75,000 to back up their sightseeing dream. The travel capsule, which can tote up to 8 passengers, spends the first 1-1/2 of its 4-hour round-trip tour on the balloon ascent. Once cruising altitude is reached, the balloon releases its attached capsule/human contents for another 2 hours' worth of ridiculously high view intakes--and free-falling--before the capsule returns from the rim of space to more recognizable airplane heights on earth."
Vicespy.

http://www.vicespy.com/world-view-enterprises/

The Seahawks just won the Superbowl!!!!

RAWR

Why 4ORTY2?

I am huge VW Bus fan, and have been fortunate to own several, but my favorite is my 1966 SO42. Hence  4ORTY2  as a nod to my bus. Thanks to Frank's bus for giving a great explanation to the definition of SO. The photo below is not mine, but mine looks the same.   ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ SO comes from sonderausfuhrungen which means 'special model' and was how VW designated that special models. For example SO1 was a westfalia's mobile shop, SO3 a police car or SO30 an ambulance. All these models where based on VW's Buses. SO42 was ones of the last westfalia's camper conversions on a Split (T1) bus basis, before was SO22, SO23, SO33, SO34, SO35. SO44 and SO45 where contemporary to SO42 which was available between 1965 and 1967. 1967 was the las year of the Split(window), then came the Baywindow (T2), then the Wedge (T3), then...

The SO42 westfalia conversion is sure the most famous and the most ever copied all around. Many other coachbuilders made similar conversions on panel or kombi basis but Westies where the only that could be ordered directly from the VW Factory.

                          ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Frank's bus, an example of a pretty SO-42