Eclipse of the Moon May 16

[skicdave]

Hi all. Had a great view of the eclipse tonight with only some periods obscured by :clouds: .

Tried to capture it with my digital. Had to use the digital zoom which I hate, but what the heck. 8 sec exposure. Worked out not too bad! :camera:

http://timefortuckerman.com/gifs/ecllipseofthemoon.jpg

[Skilasnow]

Nice shot Dave :cool: ! :envy: I was looking forward to that but it is all :clouds: here :(

[SkiStooge]

Again, ditto Skilas other post. Cloudy. Nice shot. Dittoing saves me a lot of keyboarding and then I am able to ramble on incessently! lol Have fun, be safe. Al :clouds:

[M@]

Took my 2yr Old camping at my sisters house in the country. Had a camp fire. Was cloudy 90% of the time, but it broke right as the moon entered the umbra, and then again around 11 just as it entered totality the clouds broke for a quick view. Very nice night.

M@

[DRPHIDDLEPHOS]

IT WAS AN INCREDIBLE NIGHT IN B-TOWN. ME AND THE BOYZ WENT TO THE MATRIX LAST NIGHT (INCREDABLE FIGHT SEENS) AND THE MOON WAS ABOUT IN TOTALITY, IT WAS AWSOME!!! GREAT SHOT SKICDAVE!

[skicdave]

Did anybody get a clear unpolluted view of totality? Supposedly just a dime copper view of the moon. :tube: (overlay imagination on top of this graemlin)

Must have scared uninformed sleep heads up at :shelters: .
They probably got a great view though!

Anybody ever hike up to the :shelters: by moonlight? Think M@ mentioned it once. I heard the ghost of :schlitz: hangs out with the boogie man on the Tuckerman Ravine :autoroad:

[<krasuskyp>]

Yup!

THAT is the only way to hike! Avoid the crowds, let the nite vision adjust, and it's like DAYLIGHT. Espeically if the trail is snowpacked. Nothing like it.

We *always* schedule our trips around the moon. Whoops. My little secret outta the bag?

-Paul in CT... no Tuck's this year...

[elwood]

Nice pic dave! Didn't even get too grainy with the digital zoom!!! I will be sending you some pictures of our adventure this weekend for sure!

[M@]

Yeah, I been hiking by full moon for 3 years. It is just like daylight, even if there are some clouds. I usually pick the weekend with the thursday closest to the full moon closest to MayDay. (Got that formula? There will be a quiz.)

Hiking up Thursday by moonlight, and you have fresh legs for a whole day friday, and fresh legs for a whole day saturday. Nightlife up there is pretty fun too. Random, but fun. The key word is share.

M@

[BillF]

Awesome shot of the moon Skidave. Speaking of orbiting solar bodies I have been noticing that the sun moves above the ravine on the T4T home page, nice touch. Back a few years, I lived in Park City, and skied Park West before it became the Canyons, We would hitch snow cat rides from our ski buds to the top of the hill and hike over to a just out of bounds south facing slope off of Murdock peak, appropriately named 'hundred turns'. On full moon cloudless nights three or four of us would wind down through perfectly smooth corn, around shoulder high sage brush through 100 turns (yes 100 turns, we counted them) to where it emptied back on the the resort. I remember remarking at the time that the moon was so bright that we could make out some colors. Wow, what great memories. I wonder if anybody had come down the headwall under a full moon. Not improbable. See ya, Bill :skifemcool:

[skicdave]

Hey Bill,

Thanks for noticing the home page. Visit at night and its a night shot with moon in various positions. I do believe I programmed quarter, half, full moons but it probably doesn't align with reality.

Maybe :ma: has ventured into the ravine by moonlight

[M@]

Never been in the ravine by moonlight, but here's a story. We were sitting on HoJo deck one friday night by the full moon, watching the stars set into the bowl, and watching two guys with headlights climb up the bowl. We could tell excatly where they were by their headlamps. They were headed right up the waterfall and we were all talking about which route they should take. I went back to the leanto for a bit, and when I came back they had made it over the lip and were goign towards lion's head. Ya know that little notch you can see perfectly from HoJo's? Well, I told the guy next to me, "Hey look! He's peeking his headlamp through the notch!" But it turned out it was just a star setting right at the bowl, and I felt kinda stupid. Then a couple min later, they guy DID poke out of that little notch, and the whole deck let out a yell. I'm sure the guy heard it. I think it was 2000 or 2001, not sure. I've never been up to that notch myself, maybe next year.

M@ :ducttape:

[elwood]

Great story M@! Thanks for sharing!