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.
Firefox Mobile has "reader mode" button right at the URL box.
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)
#42Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
To be fair, what happened doesn't meet the definition of "rain": https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/rain The closest would be: "a heavy fall // a rain of arrows", but even that implies multiple things coming down over an area, not a single plane crashing. And all the weed was in close proximity to the plane, not like it was being dumped out as the plane flew overhead and spread out over a large area. It's sem…
Re: Remembering the time it rained 6k pounds of marijuana on Yosemite (2019)
#43in the comments section > ... Those photos are mine and yet no one contacted me for any information.
I saw the same thing. I was going to upvote this link but changed my mind due to that detail. It's an interesting story, but I don't want to promote a website which uses photos without consent from the author.
Re: Remembering the time it rained 6k pounds of marijuana on Yosemite (2019)
#44rumor 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.
Just a nitpick: it's Yvon Chouinard, Yvonne being the feminine version of this first name.
Re: Remembering the time it rained 6k pounds of marijuana on Yosemite (2019)
#45rumor 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.
also 'Camp Four'
Re: Remembering the time it rained 6k pounds of marijuana on Yosemite (2019)
#46Earlier quoted context omitted.
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 som…
Chouinard founded both Black Diamond (called Chouinard equipment at the time) and Patagonia. He sold the hardware business to the employees when he didn’t want to deal with the liability anymore, and they renamed it Black Diamond. He kept Patagonia which was a safer business and grew faster. Patagonia popularized polyester fleece and long underwear among climbers and skiers. Tom Frost was a Stanford-trained engineer…
this sort of innovation was rife in California in the mid to late 70s (Lucasfilm, Genentech, the Dead). It's one of the things that set up the bay are of today.
Re: Remembering the time it rained 6k pounds of marijuana on Yosemite (2019)
#47Earlier quoted context omitted.
Well, it fell from the sky into Yosemite. I feel like it's an appropriate headline, even if it's not literally true.
I don't know, I was disappointed by the title. "Crashed" would have made more sense than "rained". I was waiting for the part where a storm rained the weed all over the valley, but that didn't happen.
More of one big marijuana hailstone.