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stevew

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I work on oil platform off the coast of Los Angeles, Ca. The weather the past few weeks has been awesome. Normally, coastal California is either clear or foggy. Seldom do we have cloud structures like stormy regions experience. Ansel Adams shot frequently in nasty conditions and the results can be great or miserable. Well, we have an unusual amount of stormy weather this year!

The platform decks are 50 to 100 feet above the water, so I look down on the "landscape". The sunlight bursts through the clouds and lights up the water, or Catalina Island, or the rain falling, and I hate having to work. I want to run around with a camera and shoot. For someone who loves the landscape, the fleeting patterns distract me to no end. I guess the family needs to be fed, so I'll keep working.
 
Not this week Peter. I sometimes bring my D70 or FE. I'm waiting on a lens for the Leica MP I bought and then I will bring it some. I probably would be better off just bringing one of the Olympus Stylus I have because I could leave it in a belt pouch and pull it out quick.
 
Yea I mean the weather sounds like it's asking you to shoot it so the thing to do is have something like the Stylus that you wouldn't be too concerned about. I mean you don't want to drop an MP into the briny do you? 😱

If you do manage to get some shots post them in your gallery and give us a reminder to look in this thread! 🙂
 
One of the guys I work with was raised in Boston. He's been out here 30 years so he would have a hard time going back. A few years ago, a guy on the motorcycle sidecar mailing list, talked about riding his sidecar rig all year in Boston. He used to love riding along in a blizzard, and wave at the Yuppies in SUV's slid off the side of the road. He was tougher than me, I don't like it when it gets below 70 deg.
 
You do look miserable LOL! I'm separated from my roots too. Where I come from - Manchester in England, it rains all the time. Manchester is notorious as the rainiest city in Britain but statistically it isn't of course, it just seems that way.

Likewise, the winters aren't that bad here in Boston... 🙂
 
HA!
Rain, you wanna' talk Rain? I'm just south of Seattle, we know rain, very well - LOL.
Yes, a Stylus or even a super-cheap Trip would do well in a zip-lock riding in a pocket pouch.
BTW- Lompoc a great area for motorcycle riding. Then up the coast on Hwy 1 to Big Sur, with an overnight'er just south of Hearst Castle ~ ; - )
 
Washington riding.

Washington riding.

I was on a motorcycle trip to Canada in 95. I dropped down in the eastern corner of Washington on my way to Pendelton, Or. to meet a friend.

I started thinking about Oysters and the Puget Sound. So I rode across the North part of the state (I think it was Hwy 2) to Anacortes. Had a dinner of Oysters on the halfshell and Oyster Stew. The next morning I rode back across the state (I took a road that cuts off above Seattle and runs diagonally down to Yakaima, don't remember the number, beautiful) and met my friend in Pendelton.

Those are my kinds of rides, beautiful country and spur of the moment decisions.
 
i once rode from edmonton to vancouver, b.c., through the mountains on the trans canada highway.
i was raining like crazy, i got soak through & through even with wearing my outrageous orange rain suit. the day after i rode through the mountains the road was closed due to mud slides.
man that was fun.

speaking of fun-- answer me this...why after riding all day in the rain does a biker jump into the shower as soon as he hits a motel?
😉
joe
 
Right! To stave off frostbite.
I remember one of those rides. Got in the motel room, threw the leathers on a chair by the heater and jumped right in the shower.
Then to the nearest tavern with a fireplace, HOT food + and a good scotch.
 
I was on a ride eastbound in Canada on my Honda 750 years ago and stopped for the night at a city campground in Moose Jaw, Sask. The gent that ran the place was really nice, opening up one of the old unused cabins for me and putting my 750 in his tool shed next to his Honda Step-through 90. He used his Honda around the grounds, pulling a small utility trailer with it.

He told me of his great motorcycle adventure, driving that little 90cc bike from Moose Jaw to Vancouver, raining all the way there and back. That takes guts and determination... and a willingness to suffer!

Come to think on it, I had my Olympus 35RC with me that trip... wonder if I shot any photos in Moose Jaw, Aug 1970.
 
Rain!

Rain!

My son and I camped in the Kananaskis region in 98 for 4 days. It rained the whole time. We rode into Calgary one day to see a friend I made in my 95 trip. They had a barbque for us and we spent the night at their home. Then back to the campground, packed up our gear and rode up the Icefields parkway to Jasper. It rained and hailed the whole day(we never saw the Icefields, so we rode back down the next day under clear blue skies). We camped outside town and I remember reading a book in the tent at 10pm.

It was strange getting in to camp, setting up, having a brew, thinking it must be time for dinner, looking at my watch and being suprised it was 9pm. We rode over to Revelstoke, camped and did laundry at the KOA. I looked at the machine, didn't know what to put in the machine, asked a woman what it took to do laundry, she said "It takes a looney" I replied "well I'm pretty looney, but how much money do I put in the machine".

We headed south through the Lake areas, which I really love. Riding along the shore for 50K, coming to deadend at the lake, taking a ferry across, and riding another 50K on the other side. Fantastic memories and fantastic people.
 
You guys are giving me Spring Fever...and there is three feet of snow on the ground where I live!

A recent trip took me south through Tulsa at night heading towards Memphis with a fantastic lightning storm following me all the way (a really great light show). Since I was staying ahead of the storm I pressed on through the night, barely ever getting wet. Memphis was my turn-around point and then I was going to cross Texas and New Mexico to attend a rally in Arizona. I grabbed a room in Conway, Arkansas and turned on the Weather Channel: there had been tornadoes in Oklahoma that night and the forecast for the area of Texas I was supposed to ride through was for 70mph winds and golfball sized hail -- I decided to stay put for awhile, go to Graceland and drop down into Mississippi; the rally in Arizona could wait until next year!

How much longer before spring? Yesterday while driving some friends to the airport (Boise airport, about a two hour drive) most of the talk seemed to center around good roads for motorcycle riding...and now this thread! Last year we had a false spring -- about two weeks in March when the temperature was in the 70's, it was a great break for early riding.

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Great riding.

Great riding.

Repost:Speaking of motorcycling, I've ridden Hwy 12 a couple of times, what a blast. Galena Summit is nice and riding along the Salmon River, crossing over the pass that leads to Missioula, back over Lolo and down 12 to Lewiston. Of course, it's not too nice in winter, except on a snowmible I guess.

In Santa Barbara, were bummed when we get 15 days of rain a year.
 
Re: Great riding.

Re: Great riding.

stevew said:
Repost:Speaking of motorcycling, I've ridden Hwy 12 a couple of times, what a blast. Galena Summit is nice and riding along the Salmon River, crossing over the pass that leads to Missioula, back over Lolo and down 12 to Lewiston. Of course, it's not too nice in winter, except on a snowmible I guess.

In Santa Barbara, were bummed when we get 15 days of rain a year.
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Steve,
Yes, that's all very nice riding. Here's a shot of that area around the 1st of November this year (fortunately not on the scooter)🙂

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Here's a shot of the Clearwater River on Hwy 12. Goldwing with sidecar with trailer carrying our camping gear. I don't like to suffer camping:lawn chairs, cookstove, barbque grill, dining canopy hammock, tent are essentials.
 
Your shot, Steve, made me think of Highway 2 along the Wenatchee River approaching Leavenworth WA. I liked to travel light, just a luggage box... sleeping bag & a tarp.
 
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