Comments on: Potato, Moon http://asymptotia.com/2008/03/24/potato-moon/ Sun, 20 Jul 2008 21:07:13 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Stacey http://asymptotia.com/2008/03/24/potato-moon/#comment-113135 Stacey Tue, 25 Mar 2008 20:57:19 +0000 http://asymptotia.com/2008/03/24/potato-moon/#comment-113135 Sounds lovely...oh, how I long for a vacation! Sounds lovely…oh, how I long for a vacation!

]]> By: Jude http://asymptotia.com/2008/03/24/potato-moon/#comment-113128 Jude Tue, 25 Mar 2008 16:16:33 +0000 http://asymptotia.com/2008/03/24/potato-moon/#comment-113128 My daughter studied invasives at several forest fire spots in Death Valley last year at this time (April to July), so I checked out the Morning Report http://www.dvnha.org/morning_report/Morning.pdf most days to see how much she was roasting. The sand dunes I worked at decades ago, Great Sand Dunes in Colorado, has an intermittent stream, Medano Creek, with interesting physics because of the surge flow. http://www.nps.gov/grsa/planyourvisit/hiking.htm If you're ever in southern Colorado in May or June, you should check it out. Back in the 1980s, we used a 1966 topographic map to plot the best route to the highest dune. Although the dunes are constantly changing, the basic structure remains the same decade after decade, so you can use an ancient topo map to find the best ridgeline to scale. My daughter studied invasives at several forest fire spots in Death Valley last year at this time (April to July), so I checked out the Morning Report http://www.dvnha.org/morning_report/Morning.pdf most days to see how much she was roasting.

The sand dunes I worked at decades ago, Great Sand Dunes in Colorado, has an intermittent stream, Medano Creek, with interesting physics because of the surge flow. http://www.nps.gov/grsa/planyourvisit/hiking.htm

If you’re ever in southern Colorado in May or June, you should check it out. Back in the 1980s, we used a 1966 topographic map to plot the best route to the highest dune. Although the dunes are constantly changing, the basic structure remains the same decade after decade, so you can use an ancient topo map to find the best ridgeline to scale.

]]> By: IrrationalPoint http://asymptotia.com/2008/03/24/potato-moon/#comment-113127 IrrationalPoint Tue, 25 Mar 2008 16:10:52 +0000 http://asymptotia.com/2008/03/24/potato-moon/#comment-113127 Oooh you made me hungry for yams and hiking just thinking about it. Sounds lovely. Hope you had a good spring break. --IP Oooh you made me hungry for yams and hiking just thinking about it. Sounds lovely. Hope you had a good spring break.

–IP

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