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Um, does that really qualify as an outdoor activity? Tsk tsk

@kenj
Free parking?

Current world champion Analí Gómez playing around at Puerto Viejo, Peru.

Interesting! I have only visited the Bolivian altiplano. Hadn’t realised that Santa Cruz was politically different.

@rogerribuck
For the first few years after Morales came to power there was a serious possibility that the medialuna would succeed and Bolivia would break into two separate countries. The Santa Cruz autonomy movement was, and still is, very strong.

These appeared on lamp posts and walls around Santa Cruz in the wee hours of the morning of May 26,…[Read more]

@rogerribuck
There was actual armed conflict in Beni. Morales began infiltrating paramilitary Kolla supporters into the Department. They were massacred by the locals. Evo then sent in the Army, commanded by one of his most loyal ministers, to subdue the people, arrest the governor and rule the Beni under martial law.

@rogerribuck
Do these people seem like the Kollas from the altiplano?

@ccspencer No! They are acting more like Mexicans than like Altiplanéros. And not a charango in sight!

@rogerribuck
There is no love lost between the Kollas and the Cambas. Deep down they really hate each other.

If you look at the comments on that video, most are full of pride with the Camba heritage. But there is one hateful Kolla commentor, “eugenio bustamante” who, in typical Kolla fashion, insults the Cambas for being upity, miscegenation and…[Read more]

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@ccspencer OK Craig, you have convinced me! Unfortunately I’m unlikely to get to Santa Cruz. My next trip to Latin America will probably be to Chile in 2019 for the total solar eclipse.

@rogerribuck we just had one in August, in my yard, why didn’t you come to Nashville?

@kenj
Why didn’t you come to Paraguay?

September 27, 2015
Asuncion, Paraguay
Approaching Totality

@kenj Ken, if I had known that you were in the path of totality, I certainly would have visited you.

@ccspencer I’m not into it like Roger is. But it was a neat experience, I think we get another around 2024. Maybe. Roger is up for it.

@rogerribuck
It looks like totality misses — just barely — all the major cities of Argentina (Buenos Aires, Rosario, Cordova, Mendoza, etc.).

@ccspencer Thanks for the map, Craig. The southern reaches of Buenos Aires would be viable and convenient, except that the eclipse will occur virtually at sunset (the end of the stripe on the map) which may reduce the viewing quality. La Serena on the Chilean coast is a possibility.

For me, the reward/risk ratio of extreme hiking is better than that of extreme biking. This is pretty cool nonetheless, despite one concussion and two gunshots.

@rogerribuck
Here you go …

@rogerribuck that guys cracked noggin proved your point, glad he was fine afterwards. Probably needs a new helmet.

Beautiful! But at 4600 metres (15000 feet) not everyone gets there without altitude sickness.

@rogerribuck
Yeah, that’s why it didn’t even have a local name so they just used a sequence number.

@ccspencer I didn’t get above 4400 metres in Peru, but my daughter did make it to Lake 69.

Hedgehog Mountain at 2532 feet is about 780 meters. That isn’t a mountain! Its not even a hill. Perhaps its a hummock. 🙂 But NH is very pretty anyway.

@ccspencer its certainly a baby mtn, even in NH. which is why i took my young pup up his first “real” hike on it. NH has alpine zone, too, and its pretty amazing how quick you can go from 2500 to 6200. small but awesome.

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