Fedoras afield

[Tukwila]

Wow, that got messed up. It seems the system has changed since I last posted a pic...

I've found if i crop and save my pics, then post, they situate correctly.

 

[Blackthorn]

I've found if i crop and save my pics, then post, they situate correctly.

Thank you, I'll try that.

 

[Blackthorn]

Weird, but I'll take it, Thanks Tukwila! Here I'm wearing my Akubra Coober Pedy, in Genoa Thirst Parlor, built in 1853, the oldest saloon in Nevada.

 

[Blackthorn]

Sitting in front of the saloon, built 100 years before I was born, and I'm 65. What a history! This is widely rumored to be the saloon used in the filming of The Shootist, but that's not true. I have no idea where the rumor began:

Sitting in front of the saloon

 

[Blackthorn]

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[Hurricane Jack]

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If I lived near a real Saloon like that & it wasn't just a tourist trap, I would be a regular there all the time sitting at the bar just soaking up all that history!

 

[Blackthorn]

If I lived near a real Saloon like that & it wasn't just a tourist trap, I would be a regular there all the time sitting at the bar just soaking up all that history!

Me too! I thought about that as I sat there sipping a brew and absorbing the atmosphere. I can't think of another place like that, and we had just come from Virginia City, my previous favorite.

 

[Hurricane Jack]

Me too! I thought about that as I sat there sipping a brew and absorbing the atmosphere. I can't think of another place like that, and we had just come from Virginia City, my previous favorite.

I saved your interior pics to enlarge & study. I read on their website that all the original gaslights have been converted to electric except for one which they light every New Years Day. I remember seeing a brand of gas lamps (Hitchcock?) that have a wind up clock spring with a butterfly key at the bottom. The spring turns a slow fan which helped with the draft for the flame & heat distribution. Thought I saw one of those lights in the pic.

 

[Blackthorn]

Yes, I had forgotten that. They have a brochure available for free there on the bar that gives all of those details. My wife read it out out loud while I listened. I'd love to be there on New Year's Eve, but given that I no longer have a 4x4, I know I never will be. That town, Genoa, has a direct pony express route to Hangtown (Placerville) through the mountains. It's amazing how connected all those towns were, back in the day. I was in Placerville a few weeks ago, not realizing they had a connection to Nevada.

 

[Hurricane Jack]

Yes, I had forgotten that. They have a brochure available for free there on the bar that gives all of those details. My wife read it out out loud while I listened. I'd love to be there on New Year's Eve, but given that I no longer have a 4x4, I know I never will be. That town, Genoa, has a direct pony express route to Hangtown (Placerville) through the mountains. It's amazing how connected all those towns were, back in the day. I was in Placerville a few weeks ago, not realizing they had a connection to Nevada.

It would be a vacation for me to fly in, get a room nearby & just spend 3-4 days sitting at the bar & talking with the proprietor. If I owned a place like that, once a month I would have a night where everyone had to dress the period to be admitted. New Years Eve would be fun!

 

[Blackthorn]

It would be a vacation for me to fly in, get a room nearby & just spend 3-4 days sitting at the bar & talking with the proprietor. If I owned a place like that, once a month I would have a night where everyone had to dress the period to be admitted. New Years Eve would be fun!

Yes it would! If I were single, I'd join you there on NYE! But I wouldn't want to pay for 2 plane tix.

 

[Yamahana]

Pest Control Advisor job security Afield

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[Yamahana]

Surfin Some Sorghum Stratton Milan Afield

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[Tukwila]

Mmmm.... sorghum. My mom's favorite molasses... and her maiden name... Stratton.

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Mmmmmmmmm....

 

[Garrett]

Fellow photographer @alanfgag can appreciate.

Hat by none other than Black Sheep Hat Works

Born and raised on the Oregon Coast - my mother and I together for the first time in 10 years on the original stomping grounds.

Amanda, my parnter in crime is seen in the first photo.

History - the Peter Iredale wreck still has bones since her grounding in October of 1906. Here she is today but 5 minutes from my birth house on the Pacific Ocean:

 

[Garrett]

A few more from the trip:

 

[hatsRme]

A few more from the trip:


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Great shots, Garrett. Looks like you had fun!
Super lids, of course!!

 

[Garrett]

Great shots, Garrett. Looks like you had fun!
Super lids, of course!!

Thanks, Charlie - we had a great time. Funny thing is that's the same hat the whole trip. Blew into the ocean in Cannon Beach. It does have a wind trolley but I only had a short sleeved shirt that day. Now its got a few battle scars and stories to tell

 

[Willybob]

Technically not a "fedora" but it is afield. Pinecrest Lake Ca. on my birthday.

 

[deadlyhandsome]

Definitely not a fedora, so I’m taking some liberties. Today’s hat is a Bailey 3X Beaver, and it certainly did it’s job.

Up at 0400 for a day of fly fishing. The heat dictates high elevation (I fished both sides of the Sonora Pass that is just below 10,000 feet). Clark Fork of Stanislaus River, South Fork Stanislaus River, Mill Creek, and the West Fork of the Walker River.

You know you’re up high when there is still snow in August. The Walker River has a lot of glacial silt and the fishing was uncharacteristically slow. The Walker produces some big fish, but not today.

This is a part of California most don’t get to see. The military has also recognized the area’s potential, and they still allow access to the river!

Bridgeport on the eastern slope near Nevada:

I’d definitely lose some weight if I had to subside on what I caught, but I wasn’t skunked and I had a blast.

Bowen, you’re up!


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