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Remembering the time it rained 6k pounds of marijuana on Yosemite (2019)

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Re: Remembering the time it rained 6k pounds of marijuana on Yosemite (2019)

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rumor has it the ganja hauled out and sold back in Berkley partially financed the startup costs of a number of now large outdoor equipment companies. as well as trips to europe for american climbers to climb in the alps and really step up their knowledge and skills.

Some more background here: Yvonne Chouinard, the founder of Patagonia, is one of the "Dirtbags" mentioned in the article - I can't recommend the documentary (the trailer is also in the article) Valley Uprising enough.

Re: Remembering the time it rained 6k pounds of marijuana on Yosemite (2019)

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That site is more cancerous than most, at least on mobile. Popups over popups, brings up the keyboard for some reason, blocks back navigation... I gave up trying to read it.

Try turning off javascript, maybe using an extension like NoScript.

Re: Remembering the time it rained 6k pounds of marijuana on Yosemite (2019)

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That title makes no sense whatsoever. In what way did it "rain marijuana"?

It fell from the sky. Also, people were able to pick it up out of a lake after it fell. Those are pretty rain-like attributes, and not often associated with packaged marijuana.

Yes, it happened to be inside a crashing drug-running airplane as it fell, rather than precipitating from a cloud of water vapor, but that's a minor detail.

Re: Remembering the time it rained 6k pounds of marijuana on Yosemite (2019)

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That site is more cancerous than most, at least on mobile. Popups over popups, brings up the keyboard for some reason, blocks back navigation... I gave up trying to read it.

iOS Reader Mode is a godsend in these situations

Re: Remembering the time it rained 6k pounds of marijuana on Yosemite (2019)

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What on earth is this trash website? For a supposedly enlightened community, HN sure seems to happily upvote low quality clickbait headlines that are barely accurate.

Well, it fell from the sky into Yosemite. I feel like it's an appropriate headline, even if it's not literally true.

Re: Remembering the time it rained 6k pounds of marijuana on Yosemite (2019)

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What on earth is this trash website? For a supposedly enlightened community, HN sure seems to happily upvote low quality clickbait headlines that are barely accurate.

I don't know friend, Yosemite climbers in the 1970s were really amazing hackers. They didn't have anywhere near the level of equipment available today but innovated in some key areas. As an example, Yvon Chouinard (one of the Dirtbags referenced in the article) founded Patagonia. One of his biggest innovations was recognizing that some of the equipment his first company manufactured damaged rock, so they invented some new tech, leading to a patent on Hexentrics in 1974.

Here are some references:

- https://patents.google.com/patent/US3948485

- https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/09/19/patagonias-phi...

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