Mission Peak Regional Preserve: 绝对高度780米,相对高度750米, TRAIL 5.7MILE
Perhaps the denizens of this valley are so accustomed to the sight of Mission Peak that they fail to appreciate the dignity and individuality which it gives to the landscape. Whether the outlines, snow-capped may be, are sharp and distinct on a clear, frosty morning in winter, or overspread with the purple afterglow of a summer sunset; whether rising grim and rugged against black storm clouds, or emerging into sunlight from unwinding fog wreaths, the mountain has a majesty of its own. The rain torrents of winter have for ages beaten upon it, the scorching heat of summer suns has fallen upon it, but unmindful of the elements, of changes wrought by men, this grand old peak stands overlooking the entire valley, a giant sentinel forever on guard. - Stanford University Press
虽只有浅浅的一水相隔, 似乎南湾和东湾夏天或者是说旱季的山景却是迥异。从没想到去爬对岸远望去光秃秃的焦黄的“火焰山”, 得知是王医生风雨无阻每周必登的高峰, 也动了爬这山的念头。没有一丝的云彩, 整个trail 也几乎没有树荫的遮蔽 . 在正午烈日的暴晒下, 登上了顶端!风凉凉的, 颇有些高处不胜寒的感觉。。。 应该春天时再来, 或者是月夜里。。。
山下是硅谷密如蜂巢的房子和永不停息的车流
插在顶峰的标志!还有比这更别致的吗?
多么快乐的登顶记录啊!
美丽的秋天的问候
一束束的阳光照在干枯的草上。。。
山顶上见到了2 条蛇
- posted on 10/02/2007
***刚刚有人说这蛇是: California night snake
和大家聊天, 才知道我拍的蛇居然是响尾蛇, 拍的红叶居然是 posion oak。我怎么偏偏和有毒的东西结上了缘!:)
在网上看有关Rattlesnake的介绍, 吓得魂飞魄散, 实在是后怕...
今天和同事聊了一下, 得知 Baby Rattlesnake 是更可怕的, 因为它们还没学会dry bite! 今天再看蛇的圆眼睛, 有丝丝的寒意!
晚上找出SAS Survival Handbook: How to Survive in the Wild, in Any Climate, on Land or at Sea 在看!想想也许只有坐在家里看书, 看电影,写博客, 做饭, 绣花最安全!
Approximately 8,000 people a year receive venomous snakebites in the U.S., 9-15 victims die. (FDA)
25% of adult rattlesnake bites are dry, with no venom injected. (Brown, 1997)
Rattlesnakes can only strike a distance equal to 1/2 their own length - Re: 响尾蛇 & Mission Peakposted on 10/02/2007
Beautiful!
BTW, no need to be afraid of snakes. They are very shy animals and usually never initiate an attack unless threatened. So if you don't step on them, they won't bite.
- Re: 响尾蛇 & Mission Peakposted on 10/02/2007
在那里打工时爬过一次。Boring to death.
附近其它有趣的山峰多了去了。
没想到也有响尾蛇。 - Re: 响尾蛇 & Mission Peakposted on 10/03/2007
天,Lucy 你用的是啥高级相机?那条蛇,怎么说呢,逼真,清晰,象博物馆里动物园中摆设的。你靠它那么近干吗?万一它金蛇狂舞起来怎么办?建议印出来加框,然后,若是你老板欺负你或不涨工资的话,送给她/他,以示警告。
第一张好看,荒草(干了?)和密麻的房子对比。远处好象还有一摊水?你没个更棒的相机拉近点看看那水脏不脏? - Re: 响尾蛇 & Mission Peakposted on 10/03/2007
谢谢! 谢谢你的介绍!
ying wrote:
Beautiful!
BTW, no need to be afraid of snakes. They are very shy animals and usually never initiate an attack unless threatened. So if you don't step on them, they won't bite. - Re: 响尾蛇 & Mission Peakposted on 10/03/2007
春天大约好点!:)
longspeak wrote:
在那里打工时爬过一次。Boring to death.
附近其它有趣的山峰多了去了。
没想到也有响尾蛇。 - Re: 响尾蛇 & Mission Peakposted on 10/03/2007
不知道它有毒啊! 不过很小! 我穿的高帮的登山靴子, 但还是后怕的!
现在是旱季! 中间是BAY 也就是所说的湾区啊!水是脏的! 很遗憾!
鹿希 wrote:
天,Lucy 你用的是啥高级相机?那条蛇,怎么说呢,逼真,清晰,象博物馆里动物园中摆设的。你靠它那么近干吗?万一它金蛇狂舞起来怎么办?建议印出来加框,然后,若是你老板欺负你或不涨工资的话,送给她/他,以示警告。
第一张好看,荒草(干了?)和密麻的房子对比。远处好象还有一摊水?你没个更棒的相机拉近点看看那水脏不脏? - posted on 10/03/2007
lucy wrote:
***刚刚有人说这蛇是: California night snake
和大家聊天, 才知道我拍的蛇居然是响尾蛇, 拍的红叶居然是 posion oak。我怎么偏偏和有毒的东西结上了缘!:)
在网上看有关Rattlesnake的介绍, 吓得魂飞魄散, 实在是后怕...
今天和同事聊了一下, 得知 Baby Rattlesnake 是更可怕的, 因为它们还没学会dry bite! 今天再看蛇的圆眼睛, 有丝丝的寒意!
晚上找出SAS Survival Handbook: How to Survive in the Wild, in Any Climate, on Land or at Sea 在看!想想也许只有坐在家里看书, 看电影,写博客, 做饭, 绣花最安全!
Approximately 8,000 people a year receive venomous snakebites in the U.S., 9-15 victims die. (FDA)
25% of adult rattlesnake bites are dry, with no venom injected. (Brown, 1997)
Rattlesnakes can only strike a distance equal to 1/2 their own length
呵呵,无知者无畏:))) Lucy难道你没看见那大三角的头部?从小看过很多蛇展,但就记住一条,三角形头部剧毒,椭圆形的无毒。我要是距离如此近,早就腿软了,面对别的猛兽还可以壮胆,但对蛇最没脾气,邪气太重。 - posted on 10/03/2007
那Poison Ivy/Oak很普遍,散步时轻碰一下不会有什么的。
不用被网上的图片吓倒。
那小响尾蛇,拍得够可爱。象Ying说的,不用太担心。我童年长大的
地方,蛇也太多了,当然蛙也多,此不表。
去年秋有一回在山顶岩石上仰卧,听贝多芬。一醒来果然有一条小蛇,
它也仰首沐阳。我看了它许久,它也没有觉察,我动了一下,它溜走
有一首英文诗写蛇的,蛮有意思:
Snake
D. H. Lawrence
A snake came to my water-trough
On a hot, hot day, and I in pyjamas for the heat,
To drink there.
In the deep, strange-scented shade of the great dark carob-tree
I came down the steps with my pitcher
And must wait, must stand and wait, for there he was at the trough before
me.
He reached down from a fissure in the earth-wall in the gloom
And trailed his yellow-brown slackness soft-bellied down, over the edge of
the stone trough
And rested his throat upon the stone bottom,
i o And where the water had dripped from the tap, in a small clearness,
He sipped with his straight mouth,
Softly drank through his straight gums, into his slack long body,
Silently.
Someone was before me at my water-trough,
And I, like a second comer, waiting.
He lifted his head from his drinking, as cattle do,
And looked at me vaguely, as drinking cattle do,
And flickered his two-forked tongue from his lips, and mused a moment,
And stooped and drank a little more,
Being earth-brown, earth-golden from the burning bowels of the earth
On the day of Sicilian July, with Etna smoking.
The voice of my education said to me
He must be killed,
For in Sicily the black, black snakes are innocent, the gold are venomous.
And voices in me said, If you were a man
You would take a stick and break him now, and finish him off.
But must I confess how I liked him,
How glad I was he had come like a guest in quiet, to drink at my water-trough
And depart peaceful, pacified, and thankless,
Into the burning bowels of this earth?
Was it cowardice, that I dared not kill him? Was it perversity, that I longed to talk to him? Was it humility, to feel so honoured?
I felt so honoured.
And yet those voices:
If you were not afraid, you would kill him!
And truly I was afraid, I was most afraid, But even so, honoured still more
That he should seek my hospitality
From out the dark door of the secret earth.
He drank enough
And lifted his head, dreamily, as one who has drunken,
And flickered his tongue like a forked night on the air, so black,
Seeming to lick his lips,
And looked around like a god, unseeing, into the air,
And slowly turned his head,
And slowly, very slowly, as if thrice adream,
Proceeded to draw his slow length curving round
And climb again the broken bank of my wall-face.
And as he put his head into that dreadful hole,
And as he slowly drew up, snake-easing his shoulders, and entered farther,
A sort of horror, a sort of protest against his withdrawing into that horrid black hole,
Deliberately going into the blackness, and slowly drawing himself after,
Overcame me now his back was turned.
I looked round, I put down my pitcher,
I picked up a clumsy log
And threw it at the water-trough with a clatter.
I think it did not hit him,
But suddenly that part of him that was left behind convulsed in undignified haste.
Writhed like lightning, and was gone
Into the black hole, the earth-lipped fissure in the wall-front,
At which, in the intense still noon, I stared with fascination.
And immediately I regretted it.
I thought how paltry, how vulgar, what a mean act!
I despised myself and the voices of my accursed human education.
And I thought of the albatross
And I wished he would come back, my snake.
For he seemed to me again like a king,
Like a king in exile, uncrowned in the underworld,
Now due to be crowned again.
And so, I missed my chance with one of the lords
Of life.
And I have something to expiate:
A pettiness.
Taormina, 1923
当然,他是D. H. Lawrence喽:)
&&&
有一年初春散步,看到路边一只仰首的蛇。停了一下,等它游过路去
,造些动静,没用。走近,那是一条出来晒太阳的腹蛇,也许阳光不
够劲,象又是被冻僵。
前天还看到一只幼龟,仰首沐阳。只是在路中间,怕被人踹着,我把
它搬到路边,它缩紧了头。
春秋间的冷血爬行动物都渴望阳光。或者象海子说的:
“你来人间一趟/你要看看太阳”
&&
谢谢Lucy这两照“毒之花”照!
WOA wrote:
lucy wrote:呵呵,无知者无畏:))) Lucy难道你没看见那大三角的头部?从小看过很多蛇展,但就记住一条,三角形头部剧毒,椭圆形的无毒。我要是距离如此近,早就腿软了,面对别的猛兽还可以壮胆,但对蛇最没脾气,邪气太重。
***刚刚有人说这蛇是: California night snake
和大家聊天, 才知道我拍的蛇居然是响尾蛇, 拍的红叶居然是 posion oak。我怎么偏偏和有毒的东西结上了缘!:)
在网上看有关Rattlesnake的介绍, 吓得魂飞魄散, 实在是后怕...
今天和同事聊了一下, 得知 Baby Rattlesnake 是更可怕的, 因为它们还没学会dry bite! 今天再看蛇的圆眼睛, 有丝丝的寒意!
晚上找出SAS Survival Handbook: How to Survive in the Wild, in Any Climate, on Land or at Sea 在看!想想也许只有坐在家里看书, 看电影,写博客, 做饭, 绣花最安全!
Approximately 8,000 people a year receive venomous snakebites in the U.S., 9-15 victims die. (FDA)
25% of adult rattlesnake bites are dry, with no venom injected. (Brown, 1997)
Rattlesnakes can only strike a distance equal to 1/2 their own length - Re: 响尾蛇 & Mission Peakposted on 10/03/2007
Lucy 的照片越来越棒了!
WOA wrote:
我要是距离如此近,早就腿软了,面对别的猛兽还可以壮胆,但对蛇最没脾气,邪气太重。
呵呵,路遇女贼都有哨棒伺候,怎么碰上小蛇腿倒软了?:) - Re: 响尾蛇 & Mission Peakposted on 10/04/2007
That's a wonderful poem by D. H. Lawrence (even though the snake is used as a symbol to represent... well, many things :))
Encountering creature in the wild is always a pleasure/privilage for me. I feel lucky that they don't mind my presence, as if they consider me as part of their world. So when I see people attacking an innocent snake (or any wild life), my heart aches. Let them be... - Re: 响尾蛇 & Mission Peakposted on 10/04/2007
今天坐在这想了想! 我已经历了许多现在一想腿就软的事情!
谢谢指点!:)
WOA wrote:
呵呵,无知者无畏:))) Lucy难道你没看见那大三角的头部?从小看过很多蛇展,但就记住一条,三角形头部剧毒,椭圆形的无毒。我要是距离如此近,早就腿软了,面对别的猛兽还可以壮胆,但对蛇最没脾气,邪气太重。 - posted on 10/04/2007
静静的读完了这首诗歌!谢谢xw, 你总是让人感动。。。
xw wrote:
那Poison Oak很普遍,散步时轻碰一下不会有什么的。
不用被网上的图片吓倒。
那小响尾蛇,拍得够可爱。象Ying说的,不用太担心。我童年长大的
地方,蛇也太多了,当然蛙也多,此不表。
去年秋有一回在山顶岩石上仰卧,听贝多芬。一醒来果然有一条小蛇,
它也仰首沐阳。我看了它许久,它也没有觉察,我动了一下,它溜走
有一首英文诗写蛇的,蛮有意思:
- posted on 10/04/2007
Encountering creature in the wild is always a pleasure/privilage for me.
我也一样。。。
ying wrote:
That's a wonderful poem by D. H. Lawrence (even though the snake is used as a symbol to represent... well, many things :))
Encountering creature in the wild is always a pleasure/privilage for me. I feel lucky that they don't mind my presence, as if they consider me as part of their world. So when I see people attacking an innocent snake (or any wild life), my heart aches. Let them be... - Re: 响尾蛇 & Mission Peakposted on 10/04/2007
要说Poison Oak,还有Poison Ivy,既不是栎,也不是常春腾,都
是漆树科同属(Rhus)的姊妹。
漆树科植物都长得有些令人生畏,但秋天的红叶极美。北美最鲜明要
算Staghorn Sumac(Rhus typhina L.)。漆树科植物多有些毒性,
这点和茄科相似。
漆树科除了提供人类生漆以外,还有两种常见的果:芒果,腰果。
《庄子*人间世》中有:
山木自寇也,膏火自煎也。桂可食,故伐之;漆可用,故割之。人皆
知有用之用,而莫知无用之用也。
- posted on 10/04/2007
lucy wrote:
今天坐在这想了想! 我已经历了许多现在一想腿就软的事情!
谢谢指点!:)
WOA wrote:
呵呵,无知者无畏:))) Lucy难道你没看见那大三角的头部?从小看过很多蛇展,但就记住一条,三角形头部剧毒,椭圆形的无毒。我要是距离如此近,早就腿软了,面对别的猛兽还可以壮胆,但对蛇最没脾气,邪气太重。
呵呵,原来是我在冒充好汉,关键时候就腿软:) Lucy不要介意,我说话属于无畏者无知:))
浮生 wrote:
WOA wrote:呵呵,路遇女贼都有哨棒伺候,怎么碰上小蛇腿倒软了?:)
我要是距离如此近,早就腿软了,面对别的猛兽还可以壮胆,但对蛇最没脾气,邪气太重。
另外浮生同学,在我的字典中,女贼和猛兽属于同义词,壮壮胆都可以蒙混过关的:))
- posted on 03/06/2011
今天又爬到顶上去了。 天气很好, 很轻松。
在顶上看山的背面是一条非常大的fault--比响尾蛇更吓人。。。湾区在在最近25年有大的地震的概率非常高!!!
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