"Carl's Lounge" (Off-Topic Discussion, Traditional Knife "Tales & Vignettes")

Cool pics Mr. Jack! What is, and what was your impression of the knife to the far left with the slanted butt?
 
sitflyer said:
Cool pics Mr. Jack! What is, and what was your impression of the knife to the far left with the slanted butt?
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Scruff's Taramundi? Really nice design, a good, honest working knife. Shame it's stainless, but...! ;) :D
 
Great pictures Jack, looks like you had fun :)

I took these pictures today.
Unfortunately I live down there...
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And in the other direction it's just an endless sea of fog... (with a small disturbance in the distance caused by a nuclear powerplant ;))
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Great pics Sturzi... I also live under that thick wall of fog ;)

At least at night it clears up to make the roads and streets like mirrors :D :p
 
Sturzi, I hope you don't mind, but I just used your first photo as my laptops background! Beautiful shots of a stunning scenery! :thumbup:
 
Of course not Duane, if you want a higher resolution version just PM me ;)

I'm not sure if this weather condition is common elsewhere as well. On the ground it actually isn't foggy, it is just a layer of very low clouds, usually around 800m. The bad thing is that it's a stable condition, a week of this is not uncommon. The cold air on the ground is trapped under the inversion layer and lies there in the flat part of Switzerland between the alps and the hills in Germany. Above it it's often sunny, unfortunately today it wasn't.
 
sturzi said:
Of course not Duane, if you want a higher resolution version just PM me ;)

I'm not sure if this weather condition is common elsewhere as well. On the ground it actually isn't foggy, it is just a layer of very low clouds, usually around 800m. The bad thing is that it's a stable condition, a week of this is not uncommon. The cold air on the ground is trapped under the inversion layer and lies there in the flat part of Switzerland between the alps and the hills in Germany. Above it it's often sunny, unfortunately today it wasn't.
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Thanks Sturzi, it looks pretty good as is :) Interesting weather phenomena for sure. At least on some of your days off you get to hike up above the cloud layer and enjoy the splendor of it all.
 
When I lived in Fairbanks, Alaska we would get ice fog when the temps were down around -40F. A very thick fog with quite limited visibility. It was weird, interesting, odd, funny, however you want to put it, to say drive up the Steese Highway leaving Fairbanks and drive right out of the fog bank into bright sunshine and a balmy -20F. Like passing through a thin wall into another room. Clear and sunny above and a car length down the hill you could barely see ahead of you.

It was also fun to watch the convergence of the Chena River with it's clear, but brown, tannin tinted water mix with the glacier fed Tanana River it ran into. Milky bubbles coming up in the Chena edge, and clear brown bubbles pushing up in the midst of the milky, silty Tanana.

Regarding Alaska and similar far north regions, as Agent Coulson kept saying about Tahiti on the TV show Agents of Shield, "It's a magical place."
 
OK - Sturzi - not the same phenomen here. We have fog all day. But when rising to the higher parts of the hills (roundabout 500 metres) there´s the brightes sunshine. It´s a temperature around the freezing point whole day here. At day up the hills the temperature nearly reaches about 15 degrees and during night roundabout - 10 degrees.... Typical hillside weather here ;)

Though the cloudcover you are showing on your pics are just great looking . thanks for sharing (the not really winter weather at highwinter, for God´s Sake though)
 
Wow! That's the kind of sunrise that, if you were to paint a picture of it, folks would say "That never happens!!"
Beautiful photos, gents. :)
 
The only problem with enjoying the sunrise is that I have to get up to see it. I've greeted enough sunrises at double-time to the sound of cadence. Often being the guy calling it. It's taken me over a decade two quit having nightmares about being late for formation or only having two days to completely clear post.

Beautiful sunrise photo though. I do recall a few.

I've since lost it, but I had a beautiful sunset shot from the back of my quarters at Ft. Drum, right before I ETS'd. I had a broken collarbone and had to manhandle a Nikon F4s onto the tripod with one hand and just some assistance from other. The entire sky was rolling fire. Looked like lava fields.

Golden hour in the evening now is another story. I think early evening and nearing sundown are some of my favorite times to be on the motorcycle, or even in the cage.

What's that old saying.

Red sky at night, sailor's delight.
Red sky in morning, sailors take warning.
 
Amos Iron Wolf said:
The only problem with enjoying the sunrise is that I have to get up to see it. I've greeted enough sunrises at double-time to the sound of cadence. Often being the guy calling it. It's taken me over a decade two quit having nightmares about being late for formation or only having two days to completely clear post.
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Yeah, I hear ya on that, Amos!

Too many years of having to be up at the crack of dawn, if not before, has left me with a great appreciation of letting the morning wake me up. Even after the army, there was the trades, and machine shop managers like one little red headed so and so, demanding that he hear the machines being turned on right at 6AM starting time. Now nobody owns a single minute of my time, I'm not punching somebody's clock, and I ain't gonna get outa bed before it's daylight for nuthin'!

Carl.
 
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