Walkin' man

[BigV]

What if you slipped a camouflaged ramp onto a camouflaged treadmill in front of it?

[xoxoxoBruce]

Or a ski mask and take the food.

[Griff]

Soon there will be a robot to consume the food as well.

[glatt]

Thinking about this a little more, this robot is just plain dumb. It travels the same speed as walking man. Instead of a 5-10 minute delivery time by a dude on a moped, it's gonna be more like half an hour. The food will be cold. And you will have to go down to the sidewalk to get it because the robot can't climb the steps to the door.

[glatt]

That mural on the Ben's Chili Bowl wall is coming along. It looks like he colors in the faces last.



The alley is barricaded off, so I won't be able to get close ups of the other end for a while.

[sexobon]

Is that because the file name of the first picture glatt posted is harriet tubman?

[xoxoxoBruce]

No, because she holding a lantern in the dark. Truth would have been in the light, probably on a stage maybe with a lectern.

[Gravdigr]

Originally Posted by sexobon

Is that because the file name of the first picture glatt posted is harriet tubman?

[glatt]

Do a Google image search for her. They all show her with a lantern.

[Gravdigr]

Originally Posted by glatt

Do a Google image search for her. They all show her with a lantern.

I thought so, too.

But, not a single lantern.

[glatt]

I did a lot of walking the previous two weeks, so I figure this thread works for my travelogue.
To refresh your memory, I had been planning for almost 2 years to be going to Philmont Scout Ranch in New Mexico. It’s a 12 day back country high adventure trip where the group of Scouts hikes much of each day, rolls in to camp each afternoon, and then gets to participate in some sort of activity, like shotgun shooting or rock climbing. Well, a couple weeks before we were supposed to go, Philmont burned down and our trip there was cancelled. I scrambled and found an alternative place in Montana that had a slot for us to fill the second half of our trip, and the other dad found a slot for us in the Black Hills of South Dakota to fill the first half of the trip.
We did it, and it was a blast. I took over 3,000 pictures and have eliminated about 99% of them to bring you the following.
We landed in Denver in the evening and drove in our two minivans up to Cheyenne, WY to spend the first night. We decided at the last minute to swing through Nebraska on the way up to the Black Hills the next day in order to stop at Scott’s Bluff for a hike and also check out the Oglala National Grassland.
Here I am at the tail end of the hiking group coming back down the trail from Scott’s Bluff. Scott’s Bluff was the perfect stopping point to eat a picnic lunch and stretch our legs.

The Oglala Grassland was also pretty impressive, but we just drove through it, and it wasn’t easy to get a good picture of it. Picture mile after mile of rolling hills covered in a flowering grass blowing in the breeze.
We arrived at Medicine Mountain Boy Scout Ranch, and it was pretty nice. They were a little confused by our arrival, even though they had cashed our big check. The main office knew about us, but every time we showed up somewhere for an activity or to get food, the people were questioning just who the hell we were. I was happy though, because I brought coffee and a backpacking stove to make it.

We went on an outing our first day and saw Mt. Rushmore:

And Crazy Horse, where Scouts get in free.

[glatt]

After getting back to camp in the early afternoon, we convinced the boys we should take a hike. The Black Hills of SD are really gorgeous. The elevation was an adjustment though. I was huffing and puffing hiking up those hills. I live at sea level and this is 7,000 feet.

There was a lot of down time in that Medicine Mountain camp, and the boys played a lot of cards and Frisbee. It was nice to see them all getting along so well with one another. Some of them did mountain biking for two days, and some of them did rock climbing for two days. I didn’t get any pictures of that because I was sitting in my camp chair, reading.
We spent 3 full days and 4 nights at Medicine Mountain, and then it was time to start making our way to Montana.
First stop was Wyoming and Devil’s Tower. My son got this pic as we were getting close.

We scrambled up the fallen rock pile to the base of the cliff and hung out up there for a while. Came down and hiked the easy paved trail around the base.

We saw a fair number of rock climbers on the thing. My sister had climbed up there a few years ago with her partner and sent me a picture from the top so it was cool to see other climbers doing it.

[glatt]

The place we were going has many names. It’s MOHAB, or Montana Outdoor High Adventure Base, or the Theodore Roosevelt Memorial Ranch, or the Boone and Crocket Club, or the Rasmuson Wildlife Conservation Center. A little confusing, but it’s all those things. See, Teddy Roosevelt founded this club, called the Boone and Crocket Club. The club was responsible for lobbying congress to establish among other things, Yellowstone National Park, and both the National Park Service and the National Forest Service. In recent years they bought this huge ranch near the Bob Marshall Wilderness area to study methods of ranching being able to co-exist next to a wildlife so that the natural resources can be conserved. They built this educational center that doubles as a retreat for wealthy benefactors, and they opened it up to the Boy Scouts in the summers to run a high adventure program called MOHAB.
What all that means is that the facility is awesome to cater to those benefactors. It’s the nicest Boy Scout facility I have ever seen. The front door actually has a sign asking everyone to take their shoes off when they enter. The floors are amazing finished hardwood, and the building is really nice.
Exterior:

And the lounge chairs by the picture windows looking out at the mountains.

Our first full day there, there was lots of preparation. Route planning, and dehydrated backpacking meal preparation and packaging. They took us on a steady paced shake down hike with our full packs. It was standard fare for our group, because we had been doing a lot of training, but the other crew there from Georgia was complaining the entire hike. Fortunately, we were going in different directions on our treks.

The next day we drove 2 hours on mostly gravel roads to get to the Benchmark trail head along the Continental Divide Trail. The boys wanted to see two features along this one segment of the CDT, so we wound up on the CDT for most of our adventure. This is the view from the trail bridge a few hundred meters from the trail head.

[sexobon]

But I think she will be lanternless on the $20 bill.

I wonder if that will be painted on the side of the building?

[fargon]

Kool pix, what are you going to do next?