Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/06/23

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Subject: [Leica] IMG: OT Equip - Lime Kiln Park
From: crbirchenhall at googlemail.com (Christopher Birchenhall)
Date: Mon Jun 23 04:34:25 2008
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Bob

A fine set; I think Rock Around is my favourite.

Chris B

2008/6/23 Bob Adler <rgacpa@yahoo.com>:
> After Yosemite in April/May, attention turned back to Big Sur. About an 
> hour south of the town of Big Sur is a California State Park, Lime Kiln. 
> If you drive in and walk down to the ocean, it's completely uninspiring. 
> The first time we did that and just got back in the vehicle and continued 
> on.
>
> Next time, on a tip from a co-worker, we went the other way, deep into a 
> beautiful redwood forest with at least 3 major streams. One ends at a 100 
> foot high waterfall which I didn't shoot. It's not a regular waterfall 
> with a couple of torrents showering down; it has about 100 little falls 
> that fan out from the top so the bottom of the falls is as wide as the 
> falls are high. Jim Brick has some good shots of it, after climbing like a 
> mountain goat which I wasn't about to do.
>
> Another stream goes up to the lime kilns. These are mammoth kilns built in 
> the late 1800s to extract lime from the limestone. There are 3 of them, 
> each about 30 - 40 feet high; steel turrets falling apart in these 
> beautiful overgrown redwood forests. How they built these monstrosities 
> way up on this hill in the middle of nowhere and how they got the lime 
> stones up and resultant lime back down is beyond me.
>
> The third major stream is just a beautiful walk going nowhere; my kind of 
> place...
>
> http://www.raflexions.com/LKP
>
> Hope you enjoy these. Certainly worth a walk if you're ever in the area,
> Bob
>
> P.S. - Tech stuff: Hasselblad (flex and 203), Velvia 50 and FP4 taken with 
> various combinations of apprx. 40lbs of gear muled around on my back...
>  Bob Adler
> Palo Alto, CA
> http://www.raflexions.com
>
>
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