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in reply to: Reports from the 48 Flagsites! #48758
Made this thread a sticky to keep it at the top of the forum…
in reply to: "After the Flags" Album? #48780Hi Max. God point. Yes, I could always create a new gallery if the album grows to big. In fact, I can even move the old pics to a new gallery.
So…who needs access?
in reply to: "After the Flags" Album? #48778One more thing. Should this be set up as a separate Gallery like the Flags gallery, which can contain indivdual sub-albums from various locations? Or will simply adding one sub-album to the existing Flags gallery suffice? I suppose it depends on how many folks have pics and how many different locations there are. Thoughts?
in reply to: Reports from the 48 Flagsites! #48754@SuperDave wrote:
Yup…I just got the film developed last night, and I should have a chance to scan and upload them in the next day or two.
Great! I already gave your username access permisions so you should be able to create an Adams album in the Gallery. See this thread for more info.
in reply to: Mount Madison Movie #48771@Jayne wrote:
Too bad it didn’t have sound 💡 Next camera….
Ha! “Next camera” will be a ways down the road. 😉
in reply to: Reports from the 48 Flagsites! #48751Bummer. I wish we looked for it again before we left. I think the last time we looked was prety close to 1:30 PM. Any pics?
in reply to: Reports from the 48 Flagsites! #48749Came across this post on the rec.climbing newsgroup and thought I’d share it:
From: Guido
Subject: “Flags atop the 48” – TR
Newsgroups: rec.climbing
Date: 2002-09-15 05:50:58 PSTFunny how few coincidences are truly coincidental.
Weeks ago, I had encountered this effort on the web, off a newsgroup, but
had let it go once I realized that all the good summits had been
volunteered.The object was to fly a flag atop each of New Hampshire’s 48 four thousand
footers on Saturday, September 14th in honor of those perished in the WTC
disaster.Saturday morning, Susan and I were packing up at the Cog railway’s
Marshfield station when, at last option, I tossed my clarinet into the pack
with thoughts of a quiet summit rehearsal. A mile later up the Ammonoosuc
trail, I exchange good mornings with a Maine man with 5 foot aluminum poles
protruding from his pack. And before he could explain the poles, it struck
me. It was “Flags atop the 48” day, and we were along for the ceremonies!Atop Mt. Monroe, as Garret unfurled his 3′ x 5′ old glory, hoisted it atop
the 15′ mast and guyed it down in the 5-15 mph southerly, I cranked up
mountainous renditions of Star Spangled Banner and God Bless America. As
folks wandered across the summit over the noon-to-2 p.m. flag time, funeral
dirges and blues from the clarinet haunted hikers’ hearts as clouds
threatened summits everywhere.Garret’s high school had lost 19 individuals in the WTC disaster; mostly
NYPD firemen who responded. He had driven from Kingfield, Maine to honor
his classmates, to do his due this day.The two hours passed like a storm at sea. Day and thru-hikers, 12 Canadians
and even a family from Dresden paused atop to take it all in. Hikers in the
Presidential range heading south passed our regards to Eisenhower, and north
to Washington where other flag raisers resided this day. The naked eye
could discern flags only atop Eisenhower and Jefferson, and hinted at its
presence atop Isolation. All others required binoculars and a parting of
clouds.After one more Star Spangled Banner, we sounded taps at 2 p.m. and lowered
the flag. As we descended and passed upcoming hikers, we thought what a
different summit Monroe had been for those two hours. A memorial service of
a high order had been quietly marked, on a smokey overcast day atop a
founder’s hill. The service left no trace, discernable anyway, on the
hilltop. But in our hearts and memories, images will last a lifetime.G
Is this the same “Guido” that started this thread?
in reply to: Afterthoughts #48776@RJ wrote:
I would like to extend my personal thanks to all the hikers who participated in this event and a special thank you to Greg and Frodo for making this event possible. Well done!
Likewise RJ. You played a key role by offering to accept signups. You did a tremendous job and things wouldn’t have went so smoothly without you. Thank you.
in reply to: Afterthoughts #48774I didn’t fully realize how this event would impact me until the past few days after seeing all the peaks with flags in the Gallery. On a mountain like Madison, we knew our best chance for spotting a flag would be Adams (sorry we missed it SuperDave). We were wondering what the turn-out on all the other peaks would actually be. With all the activity on the summit, chatting with friends and passersby, the two hours passed so quickly. I didn’t get as much of a chance to reflect on why we were doing this as I would have liked to. Seeing all these great photos has given me that chance.
I feel the event was a huge success. Every single participant, whether you carried pieces of a flagpole cleverly constructed from PVC pipe, flew a flag kite on Lincoln, or just stopped for a second to appreciate what we were doing, you were truly part of something special that demonstrated unity as hikers and Americans.
And yes, there was some negativity about the event. I received an Email condemning the event, but what do you know, it was just another knee-jerk reaction from someone that didn’t have all the facts and thought we were going to leave the flag displays on the summits. And of course there were the threads on the AMC forums, most of which seemed to use this event as springboards into political debates. As I saw it, we were not making a statement; there was no political agenda; and we were certainly not trying to change the world. It didn’t really matter whether you are a Republican or a Democrat; a Left-wing Liberal, a Right-wing Conservative, or somewhere in between. We’re all Americans and the patriotism and unity demonstrated on Saturday is what makes this country so strong.
Mac’s story of his first son being born on 9/11 was touching and hits close to home as my wife and I are expecting our first. Mac, you were on West Bond that day, at least in spirit. By honoring those that no longer have the chance to experience how precious life is, I hope each of us now value life in new ways. I took a lot from this experience.
Thank you to all that participated.
in reply to: Flags on the 48 Image Gallery #48768The following URL can now be used to access the Flags Image Gallery:
That link is a little easier to deal with when notifying others of the Flags Gallery.
in reply to: Flags on the 48 Image Gallery #48767It just occurred to me that we will probably have images for one mountain from multiple sources. What I would like to avoid is multiple albums for the same mountain. Therefore if someone has already created an album for a mountain, please contact me and I’ll give you access to that album so you can add your pics. Thanks!
in reply to: Reports from the 48 Flagsites! #48745@SuperDave wrote:
Well, better late than never. I’d never hiked Adams before, and I chose to ascend via the King Ravine trail. What a hike! 😀 I had a great time, but it was pretty tough on my hiking partner. Our 8:30 start turned into a 9:00 start, and our 3.5 hour hike turned into 4.5 hours…by the time I reached the summit, it was just after 1:30 (Stephanie didn’t ascend the summit with me…by the time we’d reached the junction of King Ravine and Airline, she’d had enough and waited there for my return).
Once there, I raised my flag on an 8′ pole for about an hour. I received nothing but positive comments, and several people asked me to take their picture with it. It’s truly been an honor to be a part of this event…thanks to all who helped to make it possible.
Dave
Hi Dave. Did you see our flag on Madison? Were you directly on the summit? We kept looking for a flag but didn’t see one, but big ‘ole Adams was in the clouds much of the day…
in reply to: Reports from the 48 Flagsites! #48743@MichaelJ wrote:
…I’ll be submitting my photos once I go through them and pick out the best. For now, I temporarily put up three good ones here,
here, and here.That is AWESOME! You and Max definitely win the best flagpole award so far. You guys are insane! 😆
Please submit some to the Flags on the 48! Image Gallery.
in reply to: Flags on the 48 Image Gallery #48766Okay, here goes. First, start off by sending me a PM or Email me ( contact@alpinezone.com ) your AlpineZone Forum username and I will grant your username permissions to add an album to the Flags on the 48! Image Gallery. I will reply with a PM or Email when I do this.
Click on the Flags on the 48! Image Gallery link in the AlpineZone Gallery and then on the “Album: 2003 – Flags on the 48” album. Click [new nested album].
You will then see an Untitled and empty album. Click [properties]. Here you can assign an Album Title in the pop-up window. Please just use the name of the summit. Scroll down to the bottom of the pop-up window. Click Apply and then click Close.
Then click the [add photos] link to add your images. You can upload them directly from your computer or reference a URL (Web address). Click “Upload Now” or “Submit URL or directory” once you select your image file location.
Once the images are uploaded, you can change the captions by selecting “Edit Caption” from the drop-down list beneath each image. Selecting “Highlight Photo” will cause the respective image to be the one that highlights your album in the gallery.
I’ve started us off with the Mount Madison album.
If you need any other help, or if you experience any problems, please PM me or post here. Contact me if you need me to scan print images (I’ll return them) if you don’t have a digital camera. Also, many places (Walgreens, Rite-Aid, etc…) can digitize film pics for you and put them on a CD or floppy. Hope this helps!
in reply to: Reports from the 48 Flagsites! #48738Hello all! We, too, had a wonderful day. My brother David and I left the basecamp at the Bluff in the Great Gulf at 8:30 AM and reached the Madison Gulf headwall at about 10:30. It certainly was a challenge scaling Mad Gulf, especially with frame packs with five foot sections of antenna which would become our flagpole. We filled up with water at the hut and then made our way up the Madison summit come. I was pretty tired and running on fumes but was determined to get the flag raised as close to noon as possible.
Right around noon we reached the summit and the flag was raised soon after. A man and his young son (who checked another off his peakbagging list) asked about the flag and we let them know about the event. Two other woman came by and we told them about the event. They seemed very excited and asked if we’d take pictures of them by the flag. We chatted with a few other folks, including a WMNF ranger. He said he saw us coming up the summit and couldn’t imagine what the poles were for!
He indicated that last year they had to remove a lot of flags that we left behind and we indicated our LNT intention. He seemed relieved and even knew about the flag that Gail and company raised on Liberty last year. I told him that was the inspiration for this event.
Shortly before 1 PM Joe made it to the summit from Dolly Copp (via Pine Link/Howker Ridge). K and Mike D soon followed. A lot of people were on the summit enjoying lunch, the flag, and the weather. A number of people took pictures with the flag. Adams was in and out of the clouds most of the time, but we were not able to see a flag on the summit, even with binoculars. It was pretty hazy and we couldn’t see one on Washington amongst all the summit buildings.
We took the flag down shortly before 2 PM and made our way down Osgood Ridge to camp, while the others descended to Dolly Copp. Joe offered to take the poles with him which was a huge help. A great day, and worthwhile experience. We were glad to be a part of it.
Max – The flag was small (3′ x 5′) but was raised proudly for almost 2 full hours. It was on the north side of the summit cone.
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