Posts Tagged ‘tam’
Wednesday, September 28th, 2011
Remember that Yak-50 what used to buzz about the bay area? Good times. (See below for some shots taken from the East Peak of Mt. Tam.)
Well this is better, this one’s a Yak-52 (Як-52). Hurray!
(It probably killed fewer pilots per hour than the single-seat Yak-50, so that’s nice.)
As seen from Land’s End:
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(In Soviet Russia, plane kill you!)
What kind of crazy airplanes will Mother Russia send over next?
“This Russian-made Yak-50 acrobatic airplane used to be seen all over the skies of the San Francisco Bay Area – buzzing Mount Tam in Marin County, checking out anti-abortion rallies along San Francisco’s waterfront, that kind of thing.
But here’s your take-away, babe: These things had a working life of just 50 hours back in Mother Russia, as the stress of all them 9G loop de loops and whatnot led to bad things, such as “main spar collapse.” Ouch.
Anyway, looks like fun:
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Canon 1D Mark II with 300mm 2.8 IS I and 2x extender – ISO 400 and lots of digital zoom:
Happy trails.”
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Tuesday, September 6th, 2011
How many hills do you know of what come with their own Yelp entry?
You ought to get on up there sometime to check it out:
“Hill 88 is a wild ghost town in the sky, hidden way up high in the Marin Headlands. It’s on Wolf Ridge, between Fort Cronkhite/Rodeo Beach and Tennessee Valley. You can barely see it from below, and it’s nothing like most of the old little rusty lifeless bunker sites. This is a crazy Cold War mega-complex teeming with tons of crows dancing in the whipping wind above huge expanses of the bay and SF. It’s part of the old Nike Missile program, officially SF-88C. Was apparently the radar and control center (aka the IFC, or Integrated Fire Control area) of the Nike Missile launch site that’s further down the hill to the east.”
So, those are some of the remnants of Project Nike on top of now-flattened Hill 88 in the foreground along with the three peaks of Mount Tam (with the West Peak also flattened by the Air Force) in the background.
As seen from San Francisco:
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Now, you Know Better Your Marin County.
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Thursday, June 9th, 2011
Well, here’s an update to this old post from 2008. The big change since then has been the arrival of the Presidio Landmark apartments. Enjoy:
In the foreground we see the Presidio’s now-abandoned Public Health Service Hospital (PHSH), site of the old U.S. Marine Hospital and Defense Language Institute.
On the left further back in Marin is Hill 88, former site of Integrated Fire Control facility SF-88C Wolf Ridge that used to house W31 nuclear warheads and Nike Ajax / Nike Hercules defensive missiles
And on the right up high is the West Peak of Mount Tamalpais, former home of Mill Valley Air Force Station.
Not much going on at these places these days.
Tags: 2011, bay area, california, county, Defense Language Institute, Hill 88, marin, Mill Valley Air Force Station, Mt., Public Health Service Hospital, San Francisco, tam, tamalpais, U.S. Marine Hospital
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Wednesday, April 27th, 2011
This atypical view of San Francisico with Sausalito in the background makes the 415 look a little like a village – evidence of Manhattanization is all to the left, so all you see is basically the same as what you would have seen in the 1930′s.
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Tags: bay bridge, coit tower, ferry building, fishermans wharf, marin, north beach, San Francisco, sausalito, tam, tamalpais, telegraph hill, waterfront
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Monday, January 4th, 2010
This Russian-made Yak-50 acrobatic airplane used to be seen all over the skies of the San Francisco Bay Area – buzzing Mount Tam in Marin County, checking out anti-abortion rallies along San Francisco’s waterfront, that kind of thing.
But here’s your take-away, babe: These things had a working life of just 50 hours back in Mother Russia, as the stress of all them 9G loop de loops and whatnot led to bad things, such as “main spar collapse.” Ouch.
Anyway, looks like fun:
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Happy trails
Tags: 50, acrobatic, aircraft, airplane, county, marin, mount, Mt., russion, san francsico, tam, yak, yak 50
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Monday, December 7th, 2009
If it’s colder than normal this AM and there’s some white stuff on the ground, well then I guess you could say it snowed in the San Francisco Bay Area. But back before the global warming the climate change, back in 2002, we had SNOW, baby.
As here, in ought-two up in Marin County on Mount Tamalpais, when I was out prospecting for gold with my donkey and/or on my Trek 8000 mountain bike (born 1991, Waterloo Wisconsin, died 2006, Civic Center, San Francisco). This is what it looked like in the afternoon ’til the rain melted everything.
Click to expand, why not? Heading to the East Peak with the Richmond San Rafael Bridge below:
Now that was snow, the most we’ve had since 1976.
So, nothing after 1976 has beaten 2002 for snow in the bay area. (I think.)
Stay warm!
Tags: 1976, 2002, 2009, 28th, 7th, bay area, cold, county, december, january, marin, mount, mount tam, Mt., San Francisco, snow, tam, tamalpais, weather
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Tuesday, December 1st, 2009
As seen from Mount Tam.
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Why are all the buildings on that side of the Golden Gate and not this one?
Tags: clouds, county, east, marin, Marin County, mount, Mt., mt. tam, peak, photo, Photograph, photos, pic, San Francisco, tam, tamalpais, view
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Tuesday, November 24th, 2009
Marin County is close, but oh so far away.
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Tags: clouds, county, east, marin, Marin County, mount, Mt., mt. tam, peak, photo, Photograph, photos, pic, San Francisco, tam, tamalpais, view
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Tuesday, June 17th, 2008
Only in Marin! That’s right, Marin County, the birthplace of mountain biking, and home to nuclear-tipped missiles, endangered deer, and marauding mountain lions (nee cougars), can’t abide you people building your own single-track MTB trails.
Michael Philip More is getting a ten-day jail sentence for illegally building a quarter-mile trail at the end of Robinhood Drive in San Rafael.
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Approximate path of the trail - the white line is a quarter-mile long
Does Michael More wish there were more singletrack MTB trails in Marin? Given that MTBers are mostly confined to fire roads in Marin County, signs point to yes.
Tags: arrest, arrested, bicycle, bike, china camp, community service, county, cycle, cyclist, illegal, jail, marin, Michael More, Michael Philip More, mount, mountain, mountain bike, Mt., mtb, pine, police, repack, robinhood, san rafael, single, singletrack, tam, tamalpais, track
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Thursday, May 1st, 2008
Some people think of Sausalito as a Portuguese fishing village and that’s kind of credible.
This atypical view of San Francisico with Sausalito in the background makes S.F. look a little like a village as well – evidence of Manhattanization is to the left, so all you see is basically the same as what you would have seen in the 1930′s.
Some people would like to construct tall buildings on the waterfront, but there’ll be a lot of fighting before that happens.
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Tags: bay bridge, coit tower, ferry building, fishermans wharf, marin, north beach, San Francisco, sausalito, tam, tamalpais, telegraph hill, waterfront
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