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nklr: mountain marines
Posted: Wed Aug 11, 2004 10:53 pm
by Pat Schmid
Tonight on the Discovery Channel picked up a new show called Mountain
Marines. It shows the marines training for mountain warfare up at the
Mountain Warfare Training Center on Sonora Pass, about sis miles east
of its junction with US395.
I mention the show in part because it was neat to watch but also
because it shows off some of the country we wllbe riding through at
the Rendezvous which makes it kinda neat to watch if you are panning
on coming but have never seen the area. For the folks on the east
coast, all you can do is drool as you watch the scenery.
Part of the show shows night war games. I've been up in the area at
night, ghosting under a full moon and have been 'captured' and grilled
for the location of any enemy I might have seen. Actually I had found
some gyrene's wallet that night and stopped to make sure it got
returned, turned out the kid wsa in the 'enemy' company so they wanted
to know where I hound it and as the discovered I was a local got
grilled and the terrian between them and where the wallet was. Every
so often we get one of the instructors detailed to the base pop up in
my dirt biking crowd.
Pat
G'ville, Nv
nklr: mountain marines
Posted: Wed Aug 11, 2004 11:57 pm
by monahanwb
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DSN_klr650@yahoogroups.com, "Pat Schmid" wrote:
> Tonight on the Discovery Channel picked up a new show called Mountain
> Marines. It shows the marines training for mountain warfare up at the
> Mountain Warfare Training Center on Sonora Pass, about sis miles east
> of its junction with US395.
A smart person will go on this ride. He'll pass this place at least
a couple of times. It is located in a magical eastern Sierra valley.
The eastern Sierra has many many places of interest.
I've had way too much to do lately and I believe I am closing on a bit
of a dream house in a couple of days, which has precluded any travel
to speak of this year (it's been a long road to identify a property),
but I am definitely not goin to miss the Pat Schmid guided ride in the
eastern sierra. Pat knows his way around, and likes to have a good
time getting there.
Backroad Bill
nklr: mountain marines
Posted: Thu Aug 12, 2004 9:12 am
by robert bowman
On Wednesday 11 August 2004 22:26, Pat wrote:
> Tonight on the Discovery Channel picked up a new show called Mountain
> Marines. It shows the marines training for mountain warfare up at the
> Mountain Warfare Training Center on Sonora Pass, about sis miles east
> of its junction with US395.
Rather infamous place. First, you let the troops hang around Pendleton fat,
dumb, and happy then you put them in busses and take them to Pickle Meadows
for cold weather training. Cold? California? Oh, sure....
nklr: mountain marines
Posted: Thu Aug 12, 2004 2:45 pm
by denis@teachlinux.com
Very funny.. Having spent 7 years in the Marines I can understand why this
hppened to you..
Denis
On Thu, 12 Aug 2004, Pat Schmid wrote:
> Tonight on the Discovery Channel picked up a new show called Mountain
> Marines. It shows the marines training for mountain warfare up at the
> Mountain Warfare Training Center on Sonora Pass, about sis miles east
> of its junction with US395.
>
> I mention the show in part because it was neat to watch but also
> because it shows off some of the country we wllbe riding through at
> the Rendezvous which makes it kinda neat to watch if you are panning
> on coming but have never seen the area. For the folks on the east
> coast, all you can do is drool as you watch the scenery.
>
> Part of the show shows night war games. I've been up in the area at
> night, ghosting under a full moon and have been 'captured' and grilled
> for the location of any enemy I might have seen. Actually I had found
> some gyrene's wallet that night and stopped to make sure it got
> returned, turned out the kid wsa in the 'enemy' company so they wanted
> to know where I hound it and as the discovered I was a local got
> grilled and the terrian between them and where the wallet was. Every
> so often we get one of the instructors detailed to the base pop up in
> my dirt biking crowd.
>
> Pat
> G'ville, Nv
>
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nklr: mountain marines
Posted: Thu Aug 12, 2004 9:08 pm
by kdxkawboy@aol.com
In a message dated 2004-08-12 7:14:21 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
bowman@... writes:
> Rather infamous place. First, you let the troops hang around Pendleton fat,
>
> dumb, and happy then you put them in busses and take them to Pickle Meadows
> for cold weather training. Cold? California? Oh, sure....
>
>
Out in the that neck of the woods, winter temps drop below 0. Top of Sonora
Pass, 9600'+, gets over 20' of snow in winter. At the base, come Thanksgiving
you don't see the ground again until the spring thaw. Winters up there are
rugged. Snow gets deep enough that they start clearing the highway in April and
are doing good to have the road open by the end of May.
Pat
G'ville, Nv
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nklr: mountain marines
Posted: Thu Aug 12, 2004 10:26 pm
by D Critchley
This "cold weather training" bit is hilarious from here in the Great
White North.
One time in the Whiteshell Forest Reserve near Winnipeg ,Man, our
training was cut short because we were training to scrap with the
Russians, who rely on tanks a lot, and it was too cold for tanks to
operate. When we came out of the tents that morning it was minus 42 F,
(which is about the same as minus 42 deg C).
I ran into some Marines in Sep 1967 at Gagetown New Brunswick. They
were from Georgia, stopping over for a couple of days, then to Alaska.
We felt sorry for them.
DC
kdxkawboy@... wrote:
>In a message dated 2004-08-12 7:14:21 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
>bowman@... writes:
>
>
>
>>Rather infamous place. First, you let the troops hang around Pendleton fat,
>>
>>dumb, and happy then you put them in busses and take them to Pickle Meadows
>>for cold weather training. Cold? California? Oh, sure....
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
>Out in the that neck of the woods, winter temps drop below 0. Top of Sonora
>Pass, 9600'+, gets over 20' of snow in winter. At the base, come Thanksgiving
>you don't see the ground again until the spring thaw. Winters up there are
>rugged. Snow gets deep enough that they start clearing the highway in April and
>are doing good to have the road open by the end of May.
>
>Pat
>G'ville, Nv
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nklr: mountain marines
Posted: Thu Aug 12, 2004 10:54 pm
by kdxkawboy@aol.com
In a message dated 2004-08-12 8:27:07 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
pentax@... writes:
>
> This "cold weather training" bit is hilarious from here in the Great
> White North.
> One time in the Whiteshell Forest Reserve near Winnipeg ,Man, our
> training was cut short because we were training to scrap with the
> Russians, who rely on tanks a lot, and it was too cold for tanks to
> operate. When we came out of the tents that morning it was minus 42 F,
> (which is about the same as minus 42 deg C).
> I ran into some Marines in Sep 1967 at Gagetown New Brunswick. They
> were from Georgia, stopping over for a couple of days, then to Alaska.
> We felt sorry for them.
> DC
> kdxkawboy@... wrote:
>
>
Of course your tents were properly set into the snow so you only slept in 32
degrees (0 degrees by your thermometer).
Pat
G'ville, Nv
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nklr: mountain marines
Posted: Fri Aug 13, 2004 9:13 am
by robert bowman
On Friday 13 August 2004 05:16, DCwrote:
> This "cold weather training" bit is hilarious from here in the Great
> White North.
A friend of mine who was in the Corps in the quiet time between Korea and Nam
did his cold weather training before spending his entire tour on Okinawa.
After Korea, specifically the Chosin Reservoir, the Corps didn't trust Asian
adventures too much. By the late '60s, they were fairly sure it didn't snow
too often in Nam, so I think most skipped the Bridgeport trip unless they
were headed for some other area.
Fortunately, I live in the Montana Banana Belt and it seldom gets lower than
-20F. Everything becomes a major production at those temps.
nippondenso temperature sensor/fan switch
Posted: Fri Aug 13, 2004 12:27 pm
by tinelman
Probably a whole lot less pissed than paying 5x for an OEM part from a
Kawi dealer only to realize he'd have to buy the cap and switch too.
--- In
DSN_klr650@yahoogroups.com, bigfatgreenbike
wrote:
>
>
> conniestoga95@y... wrote:
>
> > They should have my
> >buddy's A6 which was totaled due to a deer incident.
> >The fan switch on that bike is the new one I got last
> >year. I'll bet if you sweet talk Eddie, you might be
> >able to trade your bad switch and a few bucks for the
> >good one.
> >
> >
> And there, in a nutshell, is why I never buy parts from salvage yards.
> The guy who buys the bent radiator expecting at least a cap and fan
> switch is going to be pissed.
>
> Devon