![]() ![]() “From the peak of Clouds Rest.” – Photo by Andy Fortson Planning Holy smokes! That means this section of switchbacks is going to be a quad killer on the way back down. Well, brace yourself a single mile of the hike eats up 1,000 feet of that elevation change. Spread out over more than five miles, this isn’t so bad, right? The entire hike has an elevation change of about 1,775 feet. The trailhead sits at 8,150 feet, and the peak scrapes the sky at 9,926 feet. What’s interesting is the elevation profile of this hike. By distance alone, it deters many from attempting Clouds Rest. Watch your step!” – Photo by Andy Fortson Difficulty Summaryīrace yourself for a seriously intense hike. ![]() Pay attention to your footing and only hike in dry conditions to avoid a spill. Seriously, a fall off of this would result in a pile of broken bones and worse at the bottom. Near the peak, there is a vertigo-inducing section of trail that demands focus and caution. In late summer it’s easy to skip across the meager trickle of water, but during wet periods the water can be high enough (knee-high and higher) you’ll need to slosh through it. This is not a hike for folks looking for a leisurely stroll! The trails passes through meadows and forests, but expect to tackle very rocky, ankle-snapping sections of trail.Įarly on in the hike, there are some watery obstacles. “Now that’s a mountaintop the peak of Clouds Rest.” – Photo by u/klm14. It is east of Half Dome and south of Olmstead Point while you’re in Yosemite, take a hike up Olmstead Point to get an incredible view of Clouds Rest. The peak is south-centrally located in the park. Bunnell claims the Battalion gave it that title because the clouds settled down and rested upon the peak. The Battalion’s medical doctor Lafayette H. The mountain earned its name from the Mariposa Battalion, a mid-19th century California militia. From the peak, you can see an enormous 360° swath of Yosemite, with Half Dome standing prominently in the distance. Its hair-raising ridgeline is called an arête, a rock ridge separating two valleys typically formed by glaciers. Like much of Yosemite, the peak is composed primarily of granite. Hikers enjoy (or suffer through) 1,775 feet of elevation gain in a location where the weather turns faster than a chihuahua chasing its tail. The most common route to the top is an out-and-back trail, 6 miles one way making for a 12-mile round trip total. See that guy rock-hopping to the left? Yeah, don’t do that.” – Photo by Aniket “Dreamy-looking Half Dome in the distance. Lower Chilnualna falls trail, pioneer village, swinging bridge.The trail offers up everything that makes for a good hike: switchbacks, rocky trails, and ridgelines to traverse, all complete with sweeping views of Half Dome and beyond. My only concern is hiking 7 miles the day before my long hike, but I think this will be doable and seems to fit a bit better.ĭay 1: Flying into SFO getting in around 3pm – Stay at Wawona Hotel (at the moment, I have both Wawona and Yosemite Valley Lodge booked for this nightĭay 2: Check out of hotel - Mariposa Grove 7 mile hike early hike. Thank you all so much! Sounds like I can't go wrong with my choice for my long hike.īased on comments, etc - I think I am going to tweak the itinerary a bit and do Mariposa Grove on my first day. Check out Lower Chilnualna falls trail, pioneer village, swinging bridge.ĭay 6: Morning in valley check out of hotel - Back pack night (hired guide and rental equipment) - Pohona Trail to Dewey Pointĭay 7: Hike back to Tunnel View - Drive to San Jose CA for next part of adventure Rest of day hang in valley and get everything prepped for next day.ĭay 3: Hard hike day - Either Clouds rest or 4 mile to Panorma - plan on starting hiking a bit before 7amĭay 4: Recover day with possible drive to Olmsted point and lighter hikes or stay in valley depending on how we are feelingĭay 5: Mariposa Grove 7 mile hike early hike. I know we won't be able to accomplish both.ĭay 1: Flying in to SFO getting in around 3pm - driving to Yosemite staying at Yosemite valley lodgeĭay 2: 9 am bike to hike 2.5 hour tour leaves from Curry village. We will be there for a few days but just one of these hikes on their own will be challenging for my wife and I. I will heading to Yosemite around Labor Day. ![]()
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![]() In my Outlook, all PDF attachments that people sent me also show the Chrome icon. Everything was fine before with Adobe being the default PDF viewer, and then suddenly all my PDF files have the Chrome icon beside it. ![]() This issue just came up for me today out of the blue. So if anyone out there knows how chrome is doing this, when I can't even get around it as a sys admin, or can help fix the root cause of this issue, I would greatly appreciate it. So obviously there is a serious FLAW in Microcraps plan to protect and keep a users default application file associations. However in settings, apps, default apps, view apps by file types it listed chrome and all shortcuts to pdfs had a chrome icon and opened in chrome. I scrubbed through the registry on the computer and NOWHERE was there an association between chrome and pdf files, in fact it was quite the opposite every pdf file association and userchoice key was set to Adobe as it should be. A short time later goes to open a pdf file and it opens in CHROME!!! They logged on to their computer, my GPO did its job set the default pdf viewer to Adobe Reader, the user opened/closed several pdf files no problem. I just had another user with this issue today. If MS can't successfully allow for optimal functionality between both then perhaps they need to have two lines of products one for business where sys admins are allowed to do their jobs and one for stupid home users. These types of controls might be fine for stupid home users, but not for business. That would be FAR MORE SECURE than MS deciding that their stupid piss poor browser is the best options if a registry key that controls it is changed. I've been working on this for months now and it is really piss poor that Microsoft does not let sys admins control the default file associations to the degree they are doing it now. ![]() ![]() xml file ONE TIME at a computer login or a user login via GPO, HOW IN THE WORLD DOES GOOGLE CHROME REPEATEDLY KEEP CHANGING THE DEFAULT PDF VIEWER TO ITSELF FOR MY USERS? Since Windows 10 ONLY allows me as a sys admin to set a list of default application associations via an. Ok, first of all I DON'T WANT suggestions on how to change my default applications, I'm a very seasoned system administrator and I'm well aware of how to do it. ![]() ![]() ![]() Ammo may be limited, but you never have to worry about reload times, so firing off an uninterrupted stream of bullets is completely feasible, especially since you don't have to worry about weapon recoil. You can carry a near-limitless amount of weaponry, and a wide range of firearms, melee weapons, and throwable objects are at your disposal. 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Next go down to grade 6 in the light shaded section, and move across to until to come to the intersection at step H. Go to the section marked "From Grade 4" and move across to step H. Example, an employee is promoted from a grade 4, step H in schedule-2 to a grade 6 in schedule-2. Move across to the right from the grade to which promoted, and down from the step from which promoted, and assign the intersecting step.In the shaded 'To Grade' section immediately below the section identified above, move down to the grade to which the employee is being promoted. ![]() In the shaded 'From Grade' sections, find the grade and step from which the employee is being promoted.Note: The charts in the ELM and some other places are outdated and not in use. The USPS payroll systems should be reprogramed to reflect this information. These charts are current, correct, and agreed to with the Postal Service. 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On Friday, according to CNN’s Kaitlan Collins, Biden told reporters that “the reason for inflation is that we have a supply chain problem that is really severe.” Some economists, as well as President Joe Biden, take the view that the pandemic - and the pandemic-snarled supply chain - are the primary culprits, and inflation will ease as the US keeps combating the pandemic and implements supply-chain fixes. But US consumers simply haven’t stopped buying, and that demand-supply disjunction has caused record inflation. That means most goods, from game consoles to oranges, are more difficult to get to store shelves for one reason or another, whether it’s a lack of critical tech components or a backup at ports due to labor shortages. Some of the causes are fairly self-evident: Entering the third year of the Covid-19 pandemic, the US - and much of the rest of the world - is grappling with a supply chain crisis. In Washington, there’s sharp disagreement about what exactly is responsible for surging inflation, and what the government can - or should - do about it. What is, however, is how worried everyone should be. “Essentially across the board,” as Vox’s Rani Molla and Emily Stewart write, everyday purchases from food to gas are costing more, and it’s going to be an expensive holiday season. The price of consumer goods rose by 6.8 percent over the past year, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported on Friday, the biggest increase since the 1980s. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Generally an IQ test consisting of more questions will have a higher reliability than shorter tests. The latter is then called culture-fair because of that.īoth classic and non-verbal IQ tests make for valid and reliable IQ score measurements, although their definitions of intelligence do vary. An IQ test that primarily measures abstract reasoning, either inductive or deductive, will often be a non-verbal IQ test. 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IQ scores are based on comparisons with other people who took the test: the norm group. The average IQ score is always 100, and your personal score tells you your IQ ranking compared to the average. ![]() If you achieve a score higher than 100, you did better than the average person, and a lower score means you (somewhat) performed less. It’s an estimate also, there will always be a given amount of measurement error.Ī person’s IQ can be calculated by having the person take an intelligence test. So, OK, but what is IQ? The IQ is a measurement of your intelligence and is expressed in a number. IQ is an abbreviation of Intelligence Quotient. 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The idea of a professional Tracy (complete with Cosby sweater and reading glasses) was terrific, but they never really sold Liz forcing herself to be more like Tracy. ![]() For every gag that worked (Pete warning Liz not to accept the Race Card), there were one or two that didn't (I'm a fan of slapstick, but Liz's long battle with the water cooler never clicked for me). Plus, her delivery of the line about how you can't say no to a Florida man who can drive after dark was perfect.Īs for the rest of the episode, I found Liz and Tracy's rivalry hit-or-miss. When Jack and/or Liz get to occasionally show some humanity and vulnerability inside the otherwise cartoonish "30 Rock" world, it makes everything around them that much more interesting. But that moment with Jack, when she shared her own version of the many departures of Jimmy Donaghy, then realized what her son has been carrying with him all these years, was just impeccably played by both Stritch and Alec Baldwin. It always feels like the writers believe Elaine Stritch is so innately funny that they don't have to give her much to do to get a laugh, and I don't share that belief. ![]() But while "The Natural Order" had a number of funny things in it, what elevated the episode above the "collection of amusing gags that never quite come together" level of so much of this season was the straight dramatic scene between Jack and his mom.Ĭolleen has never been one of my favorite recurring characters. You could get away with crazy plot twists, because audiences were so much less sophisticated." -LizI've been using the phrase "funny forgives a lot" in my reviews of this very uneven "30 Rock" season. 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