Dog with two broken front legs on a 45-degree snow couloir: Me saving a dog with two broken front legs from a 45-degree snow couloir:
Too late to edit, but in response to rep asking for more details regarding the above pics: The dog had fallen during a hike up the standard trail of Grays Peak, a 14,000-foot mountain in Colorado. The standard trail travels very near some formidable cliffs around 13,000'. The owner said the dog saw some sort of wildlife, dashed off to chase it and fell over. The dog was unable to be located despite a coordinated search and rescue effort. The next day, a buddy and I were climbing Lost Rat Couloir, a snow route that weaves through the cliffs in question. We knew nothing about the missing dog from the day before. We got up to about 13k and saw something on a ledge ahead of us, but had no idea what it was. As we got closer, we realized it was a dog. She couldn't walk and it took us a while for her to let us approach. My turkey sandwich helped, haha. I use a rock climbing sling as an ice ax leash (the yellow thing clipped to my waist strap in the above photo), so we rigged a system to carry her to the top of the couloir, from where we could intersect the easy standard trail. We were so close to the top of the couloir we figured that was easier than trying to backtrack. We were successful, but still had to carry the pup about four miles and down 3,000 feet to the trailhead. The last I heard from the owner, the dog is recovering just fine. The 100+ foot fall to the snow ledge broke both her legs, though. Amazing she survived both the fall and a frigid night out in the open.
Tons of wind storms around here, and there's a tree that's been overhanging some of my powerlines. Luckily, a phone call and a case of beer, and all is fixed. It really helps when you have a neighbour 500 yards away who has the right tools to get a job done. Somehow, the cable, block and tackle, and my Jeep just wouldn't have been quite the same. Potentially more entertaining, sure... but if it weren't 900amp power, I'd be less hesitant. Done.
I was in a play last month, and the guy putting it on has a prop room filled with all kinds of weird stuff. Well, Li'l Bandit found this action figure set that brings up so many questions... In case you didn't notice it, here's a closeup: And look at the age recommendations: At $1.95, at least it was a good deal. Has anyone ever heard of these characters before?
Unintentionally hilarious sign of the week: (For those of you who don't know, it's spelled "chihuahua.")
This was taken at what used to be a shitty gas station and now is a ghetto ass car wash. Remember kids: Stereotypes exist for a reason.
This is me 30 feet up in a bald cypress tree, trying to retrieve a boomerang that Li'l Bandit got stuck. If he does that again, it's staying up there....THough the climb was pretty fun...
My brother crashed the car I gave him. He walked away from the crash fine, and the car even drove to the dealership. Goddamned black ice. This was the third crash in the same exact spot that happened this year so far. Wild.
Just going through all my shitty cell phone pics and found this one. The tractor broke down, so it was in for repairs. That is a 20 foot container with 4 pods of fuel rods. That container is worth about 16mil. Just got off a boat that was from china. There were about 5-6 containers like that. They had to rent a whole bay on the ship, something like 125 40' containers. They were detained for some reactor in the mid west USA. Reason it comes through Canada is that on this particular route is that it is the least populated route and if something goes wrong it will have the least complications. Instead of going through Seattle or LA, that are 1mill+/12mill+ it goes through my little town that is 12K. If something goes wrong with the tractor, the driver does not leave the trailer.
Ever had an idea that kind of didn't work out to be the best one you ever had? I was thinking of getting around to fixing my lame and semi-retarded excuse of a carport I use for my Jeep, and thought I'd use a pop-up awning as a temporary shelter seeing as we're expecting a shit-ton of snow over the next few days. Needless to say, pop-up's aren't nearly as load-bearing as I thought they were, and the angles weren't conducive to "light fluffy snow sliding down the sides". Structural integrity has been successfully fucked up. Time for another beer.