A bonanza of Bonanza Peak photos
mi...@sushi.com
panorama shot from a 50mm lens.
http://www.lazygranch.com/images/bonanza/bnzwide.jpg
Besides the images I put in the other Bonanza post, here are some
images that contain more than rocks. Don't let the names mislead you.
Nothing hear is confirmed.
This looks like Bald Mountain:
http://www.lazygranch.com/images/bonanza/bnz_bald.jpg
Buildings, or maybe targets that are set up to look like buildings:
http://www.lazygranch.com/images/bonanza/bnz_buildings.jpg
A zoom in on the above photo:
http://www.lazygranch.com/images/bonanza/bnz_buildings_zoom.jpg
A wiggly road to the south of the buildings:
http://www.lazygranch.com/images/bonanza/bnz_wiggly_road.jpg
A bit south of the above image. Looks like there are targets to the
south of the wiggly road:
http://www.lazygranch.com/images/bonanza/bnz_wiggly_road_2.jpg
The stuff in a line looks like a convoy, but who knows:
http://www.lazygranch.com/images/bonanza/bnz_convoy.jpg
There are specs on either side of the main line.
This is way south, so I'm guessing Corn Creek:
http://www.lazygranch.com/images/bonanza/bnz_corn.jpg
A dry lake in the distance:
http://www.lazygranch.com/images/bonanza/bnz_lake.jpg
Another dry lake:
http://www.lazygranch.com/images/bonanza/bnz_lake2.jpg
The main guts of the NTS (Mercury Highway, etc.):
http://www.lazygranch.com/images/bonanza/bnz_nts.jpg
Two shots of the same area both produced a white spec that could be an
outpost, or perhaps and entrance to the underground base:
http://www.lazygranch.com/images/bonanza/bnz_outpost.jpg
The white spec is about a quarter of the way from the right and midway
in the vertical axis.
Bombing targets around the bottom of the image, both in the left
corner and midway:
http://www.lazygranch.com/images/bonanza/bnz_targets.jpg
Clearly the flat soil near the bottom looks suspicious. It is probably
due to an underground base beneath it:
http://www.lazygranch.com/images/bonanza/bnz_underground_base.jpg
I don't have vectors on any of this stuff. It was a quick and dirty
shoot with just a monopod. With the wide image and Google Earth, you
can probably identify locations.
Hiram
> If you want to examine the view shed of Bonanza Peak,
Thanks for the pictures. Can you give me coordinates for camera position?
Underground bases? :)
Lumpy
> Underground bases? :)
The individuals and groups that were protesting that
Las Vegas water project over in Tikapoo valley were
actually grays, morphed into USNPS and BLM representatives.
They don't want to see their primordal ooze pit get depleted.
Steve Medlin is actually a lizard man.
Lumpy
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Hiram
>
> Steve Medlin is actually a lizard man.
>
As long as he's not homosexual.
obviouslydelusional
On Oct 20, 11:51 pm, "m...@sushi.com" <m...@sushi.com> wrote:
> If you want to examine the view shed of Bonanza Peak, I have created a
> panorama shot from a 50mm lens.http://www.lazygranch.com/images/bonanza/bnzwide.jpg
>
> This looks like Bald Mountain:http://www.lazygranch.com/images/bonanza/bnz_bald.jpg
Yep, that's Bald.
> This is way south, so I'm guessing Corn Creek:http://www.lazygranch.com/images/bonanza/bnz_corn.jpg
The structures are the DNWR HQ, and you're looking straight up Mormon
Well Road.
> A dry lake in the distance:http://www.lazygranch.com/images/bonanza/bnz_lake.jpg
Should be Dog Bone Lake.
> Another dry lake:http://www.lazygranch.com/images/bonanza/bnz_lake2.jpg
This is just a slight pan to the left from your previous shot. Also
Dog Bone lake.
> Bombing targets around the bottom of the image, both in the left
> corner and midway:http://www.lazygranch.com/images/bonanza/bnz_targets.jpg
And Papoose Lake in the background.
Lumpy
> > Bombing targets around the bottom of the image, both in the left
> > corner and
> > midway:http://www.lazygranch.com/images/bonanza/bnz_targets.jpg
>
> And Papoose Lake in the background.
I'm having a hard time seeing how it's Papoose.
The sightline from Bonanza would mean that we're
looking directly up the long axis of Papoose lk,
at maybe 350 degrees true.
In Miso's photo, there's a pretty wide and clearly
visible road coming from the eastern most piece of
the visible lake. That would have to be around
the tongue, and Bob's chop shop. I can't see that
road, going in that direction, on GE.
And if that is indeed the sightline, does that put
the targets around 36.727952n 115.802246w ?
Any other identifiers in the pic(s) that help suggest
that it is papoose?
Craig 'Lumpy' Lemke
obviouslydelusional
Well, shit. I hate it when other people are right. You are indeed
correct, it's not Papoose. It's Groom.
I didn't pay close enough attention to the mountains behind the lake.
In the overall panorama they are a bit faint, so it's hard to see the
precise ridge line. Bald is just out of the frame to the right.
Papoose is apparently out of sight. All part of the plan.
mi...@sushi.com
I don't have any vectors, but since you can see Papoose from Stirling,
you should be able to see it from Bonanza, right? I will try to dig up
the overlays, but I did the overlay for the peak, not the saddle where
I took the photos.
The contrast is cranked up big time to get around the haze. I don't
think you could really get better images under the circumstances,
though I should invest in a 400um lowpass, which would get rid of some
of the haze. But I'd probably go back with a telescope anyway and do
some better photos.
One thing you would want to do is take vectors at night. I'm sure
there are all sorts of things blinking in the hills, or at least
putting out light.
mi...@sushi.com
mi...@sushi.com
mi...@sushi.com
Distance to targets is 24.8 miles. Vector is 354 true.