Posts Tagged ‘golden gate park’
Monday, June 17th, 2013
OMG, they’re breeding again. It’s just like Jurassic Park.
All the deets:
David Cruz is a San Francisco wildlife film maker and founder of Natures Lantern. He is currently working on a SF Bay Area Black Bear documentary and a local awareness media campaign for Bay Area Mountain Lion street crossing safety.
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Cruz has followed this group of coyotes for 3 years. This is the second year he provides breaking unique news photographs that prove these coyotes have reproduced in San Francisco, Golden Gate Park. Historic photographs and background of pups and park coyotes of past years also available.
Taken today Friday June 14,
Natures Lantern

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I’ll tell you, San Francisco Chronicle writer CW Nevius has been fretting about these critters for a while now. And yet it’s always dogs that be biting and killing people, not no coyotes.
Tags: "Mountain Lion", 2012, 2013, Animal Care and Control, bay area, bear, black, Black Bear, c w nevius, california, chronicle, coyote, coyotes, david cruz, David Cruz i, Deb Campbell, Diane Whipple, golden gate park, Haley Bratton, nature's lantern, Nevius, newspaper, Nicholas Faibish, pit bulls, PRESA CARNARIOS, San Francisco, San Francisco Chronicle, VEVIUS, Writer
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Friday, June 14th, 2013
Not a pretty blue, an unnatural blue.
Other times, these ponds look more green or aqua.
I guess it’s because Rec and Park or whomever wants to cut down on the amount of light going in, but I can’t prove it to you.
Anyway, this pond looks blue to me IRL, if not so much in this photo:

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Tags: 2013, algae, algal, aqua, bay area, bloom, Blue, california, color, dye, dyed, fish, frogs, golden gate park, green, kill, lake, lakes, natural, park, pond, San Francisco, sunlight, unnatural, zooplankton
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Wednesday, June 12th, 2013
Ready!

Camera!

Action!
Tags: 2013, action, bay area, bicycle, Bicycle Spielberg, bike, california, fell, film, golden gate park, lane, movie, oak, panhandle, path, San Francisco, Spielberg, steven director
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Tuesday, June 11th, 2013
Golden Gate Park Panhandle, Saturday, June 8th, 2013.
Note the wireless headphones:

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You know, like this from last year.
Tags: 2012, 2013, ashbury, bandshell, bay area, california, dj, djs, fell, frisco, gif, golden gate park, Golden Gate Park Panhandle, haight, headphones, imated, masonic, nimby, nimbys, oak, panhandle, panhandle bandshell, San Francisco, silent, Silent Disco, Silent Frisco, street, upper, Upper Haight
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Thursday, May 30th, 2013
I think I saw an ad for these A2B bikes just today in the SF Weekly.
They were never very popular but I did my best to discourage purchases, to the dismay of the Ultra Motors people.
These days, Ultra Motors is gone but A2B bikes are making a comeback aided by more realistic pricing.
Thusly, as seen with a flat tire:

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IMO, you’re better off with a regular bike, one with puncture resistant tires and theft-hardened parts.
But that’s just me.
Tags: 2009, 2010, 2013, a2b, a2btm, assist, battery, bay area, best buy, bicycle, bike, Brent Meyers, california, Chris, Chris Deyo, co-founder, costco, cyclist, day, Deyo, electric, electric assist, electricity, excel, founder, full suspension, Golden Gate Bridge, golden gate park, jay leno, Jon Bowman, Jon p Bowman, legal, license, market, metro, moped, moped. golden gate park, motor, octavia, panasonic, president, rent, rental, Sales Manager, San Francisco, scooter, Shelby Nielsen, street, sucks, test drive, throttle, trek, ultra motor, um, um 44, um44, urbanmover, usprite, velociti, velocity, worst, Worst Consumer Product of 2009
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Tuesday, May 28th, 2013
All I know about this is from FunCheapSF – see below.
A quick scrimmage before yesterday’s big final in GGP:

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Cf. Hooverball.
All the deets:
“Footbag is an alternative to alternative sports, combining volleyball nets with tennis-like scores, and balls like hacky sacks you play with your feet.
2013 Green Cup Schedule | May 27, 2013
Peacock Meadow, Golden Gate Park, San Francisco
- 11am – Open Doubles 5-8 Playoff
- Noon – Semi-Final – Open Doubles – 1 vs 4
- 1:15 pm – Semi-Final – Open Doubles – 2 vs 3
- 2:30 pm – Bronze Medal Match – Open Doubles
- 3:45 pm – Championship Match – Open Doubles
- Green Cup Presentation and Awards
- 8 pm – Player Party (location TBD)
Tags: 2013, bay area, california, day, dept., Footbag, FunCheapSF, golden gate park, Green Cup:, Hacky Sack, May 27, meadow, memorial, monday, net, parks, peacock, peacock meadow, recreation, rpd, San Francisco, tournament
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Monday, May 20th, 2013
1. THE TOP OF HAYES STREET HILL _ISN’T_ THE HIGHEST POINT OF THE BTOB FUN-RUN. JUST CHECK THE ROUTE PROFILE:
“Here’s your route profile, starting from the SoMA near the bay going all the way to the breakers of Ocean Beach. See that big incline just before mile marker three? That’s the vaunted Hayes Street Hill. (And actually, the highest part of Hayes Street on this part of the course is near Pierce, not “at Fillmore and Steiner“ and not ”between Fillmore and Sutter.”)

And actually, that part of Hayes peaks at around 260 feet, not 215:

Now, here’s your winner. It’s the 270-something foot high saddle on JFK Jr. Drive betwixt Prayer Book Cross and Stow Lake / Strawberry Hill, where ”Kennedy” is written:

2. THE BTOB FUN-RUN IS A 12K, AND YET IT’S NOT A 12K – THE CLAIMED “WORLD RECORDS” ARE NOT, IN FACT, WORLD RECORDS
“Race organizers and media have reported that the course records set by Sammy Kitwara in 2009 and Lineth Chepkurui in 2010 are also world records at the 12 km distance;[31] however, the International Association of Athletics Federations, the international governing body for the sport of athletics/track and field, does not recognize world records or world bests in either an indoor or outdoor 12 km.[32] The Association of Road Racing Statisticians, a non-regulatory group that collects road running data, does recognize world records in the outdoor 12 km provided that the race course meets certain criteria.[33][34] In order to rule-out the possibility of wind assistancein point-to-point courses, the ARRS stipulates that the course must have “not more than 30% of the race distance separation between that start and finish”, or 3.6 km for a 12 km race.[34] Given that the Bay to Breakers is run on a point-to-point course in which the start and finish of the event are approximately 10.5 linear kilometers apart, the ARRS recognizes two other marks as 12 km world records: Kenyan Simon Kigen‘s 33:46 in Portland, Oregon on May 19, 1985 and Chepkurui’s 38:10 at the 2010Lilac Bloomsday Run.[33][nb 2]
3. MOST PEOPLE _DON’T_ PAY THE ABSURDLY HIGH REGISTRATION FEE. MOST PEOPLE YOU SEE ARE “BANDITS”
HERE’S THE OFFICIAL ESTIMATE: “…more than in the hundreds but less than tens of thousands.” THE REAL NUMBER IS TENS OF THOUSANDS.
“The Bay to Breakers is known for the large number of unregistered runners, or “bandits”, who participate in the race. Ross Mirkarimi, a member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, reported that over half of the 60,000 participants in the 2010 Bay to Breakers were unregistered.[19] San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom was among the runners in 2010 who did not pay the registration fee to obtain a race number.[19][22] Registered participation was 24,430 in 2010,[23] 43,954 in 2011,[24] 23,072 for 2012,[25], and approximately 20,000 for 2013.[26]“
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Friday, May 17th, 2013
I’ll tell you, I’m not exactly sure when the tow away signs went up for this year’s historic Bay to Breakers street party – maybe it was today.
No matter, hundreds of cars are going to get towed this Saturday and Sunday.
It’s going to be epic.
Here are the streets to not park your car upon.
Sometimes they give you a week’s notice, but not this year I don’t think.

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Let’s review.
Before we can have this…

…or this…

From hard-working Steve Nguyen
…we’re going to have to have this:
(I remember it as if it were just two years ago…)
“The Great Tow of 2011:

One car gets away in the nick of time, but three others aren’t so lucky:

Ted and Al’s had like ten yellow tow trucks ready to go late Saturday night, in the driving rain. (Note how Bank of America is protecting its windows – the IndyBay crowd got to them, smashy smashy, about a year or so back, unrelated to Bay to Breakers.)

Now, speaking of prêt-à-porters, this is the main body, this is the largest array for the Golden Gate Park Panhandle:

And here’s the second-biggest grouping, along Masonic:

And there are some on the other side of Fell, typically in groups of six on some of the blocks.
But that’s it.
Not sure where B2B is hiding their 1000+ portable toilets claimed for 2011, at this point, just hours before the Kenyans take off on their winning runs.
Oh well.
And there’s no sign of the fencing neither, except for what they have every year.
We’ll see.
The Great Fence of B2B100 is supposed to have upon it either images of Christ hand-selected by P. Anschutz or photos of people who ran the race before white NIMBYs moved into the Western Addition. (You’ll have to tell me about it…). Anyway, here’s the baby fencing they have on scene already along with, and isn’t this cute, a message from San Francisco Natives for a Fun and Buzzed Bay to Breakers. Apparently, the cops can’t arrest for an open container in San Francisco…

And doesn’t this just break your heart – this Vespa scooter has been forgotten on the slopes of the famed Hayes Street Hill, the second highest point on the “racecourse.” Will Auto-Return charge $700 for its return?

Remember, Transit First.
All right, have a great Bay to Breakers 100!
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Tuesday, April 30th, 2013
Oh, you are a sucker. Well, then be my guest – pay $48 for a number. And actually, and you’ll enjoy this, sucker, it’s already too late to get a good deal on registration for 2013. Prices be higher now.
Most people who aren’t professional runners don’t pay and here’s a good reason not to pay:
Your money goes directly to “Christian Billionaire” Philip Anschutz.
And then he takes your $$$$$ and uses it to, over the years, oppose the concept of evolution and fund anti-gay efforts.
(It’s funny that he even took an interest in this historic fun run and street party but he likes running so there y0u go.)
The reason that organizers won’t say how many “bandits” show up for the party is because they don’t want you to think that most people don’t pay.
But, IRL, most people don’t pay.
If you don’t believe me then take a NSFW look right here.
How many bibs do you see? Every year they say they will eject all these people and every year they don’t actually do it.
Now the San Francisco Nike Womens Marathon is different. You see, they give out coveted awards and people just can’t help themselves. And then stuff like this happens; “NO BIB NO BIB NO BIB!”
But B2B aint like that.
One difference this year will be a limit on the size of the bags you might carry.
It’s like the size of Fook Mi’s backpack, best I can imagine.

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All right, have a great 2013 B2B.
And if you want to pay money to somebody, just take whatever your reg fee is and give it to Pride or whatever.
End Of Line.
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Thursday, April 25th, 2013
From photographer David Cruz:
“Golden Gate Park before sunrise, coyote holds it ground and watches over its golf course.”

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Tags: 2013, bay area, california, coyote, coyotes, david cruz, golden gate park, golf course, hole, moon, night, San Francisco, sand trap
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