Thisamalgamation of sounds was created without too many frills, actually on an old 2008 Macbook pro. We wanted to find out how he did it and he explained in a new How It Was Made feature. This one is a bit different without any photos from Little Snake, just words, but he breaks down the process, journey and more that this album went on.
In its essence, this entire project was working from absolute rock bottom up. I really made every effort I could with the little I had in order to make it not only the most fitting I could possibly get within the timbre of the album and the individual tracks, but as conceptually advanced as I could in the production techniques themselves.
Within the last year of finishing it, I upgraded to Live 9, 10, and recently 11. They all have amazing groundbreaking utilities within them, but I can only be as thankful for them as I am for knowing this program inside and out due to extreme lack.
In terms of a lot of the technical theory, it was the most ambitious project to date. I studied Curtis Roads, inventor of granular synthesis theory, and swore by his work. There was rarely a sample in the project, and a lot of it was experimental both technique and theory, even accidental. There were so many times I had the Ableton quantization grid turned off and was arranging sounds grain by grain, millisecond by millisecond. It was draining, but tenfold rewarding.
This is perhaps the oddest of the little flower bed snakes. A worm snake has smooth, shiny scales, reduced eyes, and a small pointed head that allows it to burrow rapidly through loose soil hunting for earthworms. They are really very pretty little animals, with glossy scales, dark chocolate brown back, and pinkish belly, brighter in some specimens than others. Worm snakes are hardly larger than a big earthworm, and unsuspecting gardeners might actually mistake one for a worm. In fact, they can burrow and disappear so rapidly that unless you are paying attention, you could dig them up all day and not notice them. To catch one, I usually grab a handful of the soil or mulch that the snake has disappeared into, and then sift it between my fingers to see if I was successful.
Smooth earth snakes are about the same size as worm snakes and have very similar habits, but they not appear to be as specialized for burrowing. Their eyes are larger than those of worm snakes, and they look more like typical little snakes. Their glossy bodies can be either dark gray or pale gray with dark spots.
Brown snakes lurk in loose mulch but do not seem to burrow in soil. Like worm snakes and earth snakes, they are inoffensive and never attempt to bite. One year, the kids and I kept a brown snake for several weeks and fed it slugs, which it consumed enthusiastically. Clearly, this is a useful snake to have around the garden.
Depending on where in the piedmont you live, you may also find several other small snakes in your flower beds. Rough earth snakes (Virginia striatula) are reported to be common in some vacant lots in Durham and Raleigh, and I have seen a southeastern crowned snake (Tantilla coronata) that was caught in a Durham city park. If your garden is adjacent to a creek or moist woodland, you may find a redbelly snake (Storeria occipitomaculata), which resembles a brown snake with a bright orange belly, or perhaps a ringneck snake (Diadophis punctatus), surely one of the prettiest North Carolina snakes. Keep your eyes open.
Thanks, John. I hope to have part 2 posted in a couple of days. We also have a legless lizard in North Carolina, the glass lizard (Ophisaurus ventralis), but they live on the coastal plain, not in my part of the state. Our local grass snake equivalent, the eastern garter snake (Thamnophis sirtalis) does visit the garden, but they prefer a nearby stream where they can catch frogs and salamanders.
Hi, I'm a Brit coming over for a brief trip to the area. Really really want to climb Snake Dike, but the only time I can is a week on Saturday (or maybe the Sunday). The wilderness permits for Little Yosemite Valley are all booked up for then. The website says extra "first come first served" permits are available from 11am the day before your trip.
Anyone got a feel for how quickly the first come first served permits for Little Yosemite Valley get snapped up?
And just to check I've understood, if I wanted to camp overnight on the Friday night then the permits first start being available from 11am on the Thursday?
And in general any tips appreciated! Really looking forward to it!
Thanks
Rachel
why not just wake up early and climb it all in one day ?
If you are set on camping out though I would just pose your question to the rangers in Yosemite , call them up .
Best of luck with Snake Dike , it's definitely do able in one day .
I'm just a bit slow as don't get much of a chance to do multipitch, so want to get out early so can actually enjoy it rather than be stressed about getting down ok, and also want to get up before the rush so not holding up others once it gets busy...
But yeah, if necessary I suppose fair point :)
What vincent L said, get up early and do it in a day. There's one bolt protected 5.7 move, and a fair bit of 5.4 and easier low angle slab after that. Between the low angle, the easy climbing and the lack of pro the climbing goes pretty fast. If you end up finishing late, walking down from Half Dome in the dark would be a lot easier than some of the after dark descents that I've done.
I found doing Snake Dike in one long day to be much more satisfying than doing it as an overnight outing.
I've done it both ways and enjoyed it very much either way. We got a wilderness permit and just hiked off the trail a bit and found a flat spot to make camp - plenty of places to do that once you leave the main trail and begin to hike toward the climb. I think you are supposed to be a mile from the trail to qualify for a wilderness permit but I didn't measure ;) I'd give an edge to doing it in a day because you carry sooooo much less stuff without all the camping gear.
It really depends on how fast you hike, we woke up at 3 am and were back by 8pm but were rather slow about the whole thing. If you don't goof around it can be done much faster and still be able to enjoy it.
It is a very easy climb to do in a day. We were a party of 3 with one climber that was barely more than a beginner and got it done. We woke up at 5:30 and was at the car again at 9:00.
You spend more time hiking than climbing.
My wife and I started hiking at 3am and were back by 2pm. We are by no means fast hikers. I felt we moved at a moderate pace on the trail and the wall but knew the directions very well before heading out. The amount of gear is absolutely minimal and you can ration your water well by taking iodine tablets or a Steri-Pen to fill up in the river on the way there and back. Doing it in a day was absolutely one of our most memorable climbing days together, especially since the approach past the waterfalls, in the dark, made it feel like we ascending straight into Mordor!
I too have done it both ways several times. Something to note - if you get a permit for Little Yosemite Valley, you have to camp at the little Yosemite backpackers campground. It's illegal to camp on the way there, behind half dome near lost lake, regardless of permit. This means that you wind up hiking about 1.5 miles out of the way to get to LYV the day before which you have to reverse the next day to get the the climb. And, in my opinion, the most time consuming and tiring portion of the approach (especially for first timers) is once you leave the Mist Trail which you can't avoid on climb-day if camping at LYV. What I'm saying is - camping at LYV doesn't save as much time or energy as you might think and you'll be dog tired carrying all your backpacking gear up the Mist Trail. Better to do it in one-day.
Oh - and I'm not sure about 11am. Check that time. It used to be that the first come permits were available at the Yosemite wilderness station at 8am. If you weren't in line before 5 am...you'd be out of luck. They may have changed the time, but you'll still need to get there at the crack of dawn to secure a permit.
I've done this route in a day, two different times. Once with my wife. Once with my brother. We are all fast hikers, but not particularly fast climbers. Each time, we started hiking about an hour before dawn. Both times, I got to the top of the climb between noon and 2 PM. Got down in daylight.
I am planning on taking my 14 year old niece up Snake Dike next week and was planning on sleeping at the base of the route with her the first night. After reading some threads, I am worried about the permit situation. My plan was to hike to the base with her the evening before our climb without a permit. Is it legal to climb the route and sleep near the summit if we pursued that option our first day without a permit? Any recommendations? Thanks
Thanks, I don't think it would be a good idea to try in a day with her. 15 miles of hiking with the climbing would be too much. Do I need a wilderness permit, and if so, what is the best way to get one?
Seeing that there is somewhat a active community here, I'll be giving away my adminship to anyone that comments. I'm not interested in LBS anymore, and there's no reason for me to be Admin of a of a wiki I'm no longer interested in. If you want to become Admin, then reply below.
I randomly got 1 hour vip upon logging in. is it a rebel reward? my friends were hunting the rebel when i had to suicide (ran into the bushes at the end of the map) because i had to go. idk if they killed the rebel after i died, but maybe they did soon after i died and logged out and i got it that way??? im pretty sure it was also a high score round but u cant get vip from high scores plus ive gotten more than that score with no vip
I consider myself to be pretty good at this game, as I kill the rebel nearly every day or more, And yet for some reason I feel like I have made no progress making my way to Duke (I am a marquis.) It says I need to improve 10 of my records, but I get new records all the time. I have been a Marquis for ages. Looking at my records they are all from the past 14 days (I suppose that is because they delete after that)... I am confused? What does "improve 10 of my records" really mean? I improve my records all the time! Does this have anything to do with level? I am somewhere around level 105.
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