Iztaccihuatl, September 1974

AMAZING photos from Iztaccihuatl, September 1974Iztaccihuatl:

Iztaccihuatl is the third highest mountain in Mexico, after the Pico de Orizaba (5,636 m) and Popocatépetl (5,426 m). Its name is Nahuatl for "white woman".The mountain has four peaks, the highest of which is 5,230 m above sea level. Together, the peaks are seen as depicting the head, chest, knees and feet of a sleeping female figure, which is visible from either the east or the west. Iztaccíhuatl is a mere 70 km to the southeast of Mexico City and is often visible from the capital, depending on atmospheric conditions.

Wind Cave National Park

Wind Cave National Park, South Dakota:

American Indian stories dating back centuries speak of a "hole that breathes cool air" in the Black Hills. Cowboys came across a breathing hole in 1881 and the exploration of Wind Cave began. In 1903 Wind Cave became the first cave anywhere in the world to be designated a national park. Cave explorers are still finding new rooms and passages in Wind Cave, the fourth longest cave in the world. The cave is well known for its outstanding display of boxwork, an unusual cave formation composed of thin calcite fins resembling honeycombs.

Dennis Linde

Dennis Linde wrote Elvis' "Burning Love" and that Dixie Chicks tune "Goodbye Earl." There were many others in between, but those are the two we all know and love. Sort of. I secretly think the Dixie Chicks are great, but that's for another time.Back in 1970, Linde made his first solo album and he called it Linde Manor. I've posted some songs from the album before and man oh man is it a fine one."Burning Love" on the back of a horse:MP3: Dennis Linde - Call Me HoneyMP3: Dennis Linde - I Don't Want Nobody 'Ceptin' You

Meteor Crater

NYT:

About 50,000 years ago, a 150-foot lump of iron and nickel, a renegade from the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, sliced through the sky out of the northeast at seven miles per second. When it hit it tore up the landscape in an instant, excavating several hundred million tons of dirt and rock and flipping layers of sandstone like pancakes.

MP3: Gentlemen Jesse and His Men - I Don't Want To Know

Theodore de Bry

Theodore de Bry:

In 1590 Theodorus de Bry and his sons published a new, illustrated edition of Thomas Harriot's Brief and True Report of the new found Land of Virginia about the first English settlements in North America (in modern-day North Carolina). His illustrations were based on the watercolor paintings of colonist John White.

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John White

John White:

John White (c. 1540 – c. 1593), was an English artist, and one of several early "Virginian" settlers who sailed with Richard Grenville in 1588 to the modern day coast of North Carolina. During this journey he made numerous famous drawings with watercolour of the landscape and native peoples. These works are significant as they are the most informative illustrations of a Native American society of the Eastern seaboard, and predate the first body of "discovery voyage art" created in the late eighteenth century by the artists who sailed with Captain James Cook. They were later engraved by Theodore de Bry and became widely known; all the surviving original paintings are now in the print room of the British Museum.

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Mount Washington

NYT story on the mighty Mt. Washington:

Our destination on this cloudy mid-December morning was the top of Mount Washington in the Presidential Range of New Hampshire. At 6,288 feet, Mount Washington is the highest peak in the Northeast. Thousands of hikers make the ascent in warmer months, most often starting, as we did, at the Appalachian Mountain Club’s Pinkham Notch Visitor Center on the east side of Mount Washington. In winter, the four-mile hike to the summit, which gains about 1,000 feet of elevation with each mile, attracts a hardier lot.But it’s not the height or the steepness of the mountain that impresses most people — it’s the weather. The mountain has a long and infamous reputation: Hurricane-force gusts are typically recorded several times a week in winter, with the winds topping 100 miles an hour at least weekly. In 1934, the Mount Washington Observatory measured the fastest wind speed recorded on the earth’s surface, a stunning 231 m.p.h.

Tarpon

In 1973, Richard Brautigan, Tom McGuane, and Jim Harrison went down to the Florida Keys to fish for tarpon. Christian Odasso and Guy de la Valdene filmed it and then asked Jimmy Buffett to make some music to go along with the footage. I haven't seen Tarpon yet, but my oh my do I want to. You can see what it looks like here and, if you'd like, you can get much more information here.Thanks Kalen.