Landslides and Donkey Walks
Well, I have mentioned before that you are at a non-sequitarian site!
The weekend before last, I had the great pleasure of camping at a friend's cabin in the Cascade Mountains somewhat near the gold town of Liberty, which is between Cle Elum and Wenatchee. We played old time music and other sorts of music that suited us. There were mandolins, banjo, guitars, fiddles, and recorder players. Your host (Auriel Ragmon) plays the clarinet. I am not of Jewish descent, but I adore Klezmer music... However, since my friends play "Old Time" I am trying to learn fiddle music on the clarinet! One difficulty is that the donkey friends take up a lot of my time!
On to donkeys: Sunday, we had our first SOLO walk along the Chehalis Western trail. Abe, who is a 16.1 hand donkey (I kid you not!) is very, very shy, but a great gentleman. Trooper, who is a 14.2 hand donkey, did very, very well today. They are learning that bicycles and dogs don't eat donkeys!
Sometime within the next two weeks, I will have my first solo RIDE along the Chehalis Western trail on Trooper. Abe gets more time to fill out and grow into his huge frame.
Back to the mountains: At the cabin we went for a hike to a meadow. The interesting thing about the meadow is that there are hills and vales and there aren't trees to speak of. The forest resumes along two edges. And there is evidence of a spring within the meadow.
I got to looking and realized that this could be an enormous landslide! The hills and vales are like the hummocky surface that a landslide creates when blocks of the ground slip and tilt. The trees were torn down by the moving slide.
The size of the hills and vales makes me think it was a huge force that caused the slide.
I wonder if this slide happened because of the 1872 magnitude 6.8 earthquake at Lake Chelan? The website http://earthquake.usgs.gov/regional/states/events/1872_12_15.php says that this earthquake triggered large landslides. One even blocked the Columbia River!
Now to figure out when the landslide happened, you would need to dig up a tree from within the landslide that had been destroyed during the slide and age date it.
Interesting to note that seeing what happened in a past big earthquake gives you an idea what would happen should another come along! Get your emergency plans in gear - water, extra food, that tent and cushy sleeping bags... We hope we never have to use these things, but nice to be prepared. Ok, this is MUCH to preachy for Auriel, time for bed!
The weekend before last, I had the great pleasure of camping at a friend's cabin in the Cascade Mountains somewhat near the gold town of Liberty, which is between Cle Elum and Wenatchee. We played old time music and other sorts of music that suited us. There were mandolins, banjo, guitars, fiddles, and recorder players. Your host (Auriel Ragmon) plays the clarinet. I am not of Jewish descent, but I adore Klezmer music... However, since my friends play "Old Time" I am trying to learn fiddle music on the clarinet! One difficulty is that the donkey friends take up a lot of my time!
On to donkeys: Sunday, we had our first SOLO walk along the Chehalis Western trail. Abe, who is a 16.1 hand donkey (I kid you not!) is very, very shy, but a great gentleman. Trooper, who is a 14.2 hand donkey, did very, very well today. They are learning that bicycles and dogs don't eat donkeys!
Sometime within the next two weeks, I will have my first solo RIDE along the Chehalis Western trail on Trooper. Abe gets more time to fill out and grow into his huge frame.
Back to the mountains: At the cabin we went for a hike to a meadow. The interesting thing about the meadow is that there are hills and vales and there aren't trees to speak of. The forest resumes along two edges. And there is evidence of a spring within the meadow.
I got to looking and realized that this could be an enormous landslide! The hills and vales are like the hummocky surface that a landslide creates when blocks of the ground slip and tilt. The trees were torn down by the moving slide.
The size of the hills and vales makes me think it was a huge force that caused the slide.
I wonder if this slide happened because of the 1872 magnitude 6.8 earthquake at Lake Chelan? The website http://earthquake.usgs.gov/regional/states/events/1872_12_15.php says that this earthquake triggered large landslides. One even blocked the Columbia River!
Now to figure out when the landslide happened, you would need to dig up a tree from within the landslide that had been destroyed during the slide and age date it.
Interesting to note that seeing what happened in a past big earthquake gives you an idea what would happen should another come along! Get your emergency plans in gear - water, extra food, that tent and cushy sleeping bags... We hope we never have to use these things, but nice to be prepared. Ok, this is MUCH to preachy for Auriel, time for bed!
posted by Auriel Ragmon | 9:46 PM
5 Comments:
Preach on, Sister!
Preach on, Sister!
Preach on, Sister!
Could smaller donkeys be ridden at a younger age than your mammoths?
Smaller donkeys could not be ridden at a younger age because it is a matter of the skeletal framework maturing and the cartilage hardening. Maybe they could be ridden earlier by smaller people, though!
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