Clowed types

These are the cloud types, there prity interesting. Alto and stratuse clouds are good they mean high pressure and god wether. Cumulus clouds are a shin of pressure dropping and bad wether on the way and nimbostratus means low pressure and rain!

Moveable feasts

This book isnt as good as the one below as it takes a little more skill involdved, like building a fire and stuff, but it gives really good, simple, student freindly recipies.
I'd highly recomend this book for fellow campers or true picknicker's. Its got meany resipies that can be made from useing your camping stove. I think its awsome as it give's you ideas healthy food to eat and give's insperation fort houghs camping trip that super noodles really dont hit the spot.

The resipie for flap jacks are really good. My favrot is adding banana and rasins humm......

Brockenspectre

A Brocken spectre (German Brockengespenst), also called Brocken bow or mountain spectre is the apparently enormous and magnified shadow of an observer, cast upon the upper surfaces of clouds opposite the sun. The phenomenon can appear on any misty mountainside or cloud bank, or even from an aeroplane, but the frequent fogs and low-altitude accessibility of the Brocken, a peak in the Harz Mountains in Germany, have created a local legend from which the phenomenon draws its name. The Brocken spectre was observed and described by Johann Silberschlag in 1780, and has since been recorded often in literature about the region. It can be seen in any mountain region, such as the Haleakalā National Park on the island of Maui, Hawaii, or the Cairngorms, Scotland.

The "spectre" appears when the sun shines from behind a climber who is looking down from a ridge or peak into mist or fog. The light projects the climber's shadow forward through the mist, often in an odd triangular shape due to perspective. The apparent magnification of size of the shadow is an optical illusion that occurs when the observer judges his shadow on relatively nearby clouds to be at the same distance as faraway land objects seen through gaps in the clouds, or when there are no reference points at all by which to judge its size. The shadow also falls on water droplets of varying distances from the eye, confusing depth perception. The ghost can appear to move (sometimes quite suddenly) because of the movement of the cloud layer and variations in density within the cloud.

The head of the figure is often surrounded by the glowing halo-like rings of a glory, rings of coloured light that appear directly opposite the sun when sunlight is reflected by a cloud of uniformly-sized water droplets. The effect is caused by the diffraction of visible light.

Mark Twight is an alpine climbing ledgend, he's writen this book about his carazy alpine climbing ethics, were less is more, where taking the bare minimum to survive is the norm for him. For example having an energy gel very 30 minutes and drinking 4 leters of water an hour to climb some crazy loss hard climbs in the alps.

Makes me feel like a bit of a wimp.

A rout that took me and my freind 2 hole days to do he could do it in 4 hours!

BBC's

Event: BMC British Bouldering Championships

Britain's premier bouldering competition will take place over the weekend of 26-27 June. This year the British Bouldering Championships will be held the weekend before the Cliffhanger outdoor festival in Sheffield, to make way for the IFSC Bouldering World Cup the following weekend!

After entering the British Uin's compition in March and winning! I thought that just maybe I might be good enough to enter the BBC's this summer! I will be competing with Britens best boulders. Better get cracking with the training!

Outdoor Mountain Quillifications

Hopefully by the end of the summer I will have my: SPA and Summer ML assessed and possibaly MIA.

Wish me luck!

OUTDOOR FABRICS AND STUFF

PENNINE OUTDOOR - Sells outdoor fabrics

FABRICS - N - STUFF

RIPSTOP NYLON: 1.1oz ripstop nylon fabric: Ripstop fabric, sometimes called a sports fabric, is a woven, lightweight, nylon-threaded material that resists tearing and ripping.Ripstop fabric can be water resistant and is commonly used for camping equipment such as tents and the outer shells of sleeping bags. It is also used to make hang glider and parasail wings, parachutes, hot air balloons, sails, kites, flags, banners and sports clothes. The tough beating ripstop fabric can take makes it ideal for any application that requires material that won't fail under stress.

PERTEX- High performance nylon microfibre.

Condensation free. Quick drying. Wind, down and fibre proof. Very high abrasion resistance. Uses: Inner tents, sleeping bags, wind and showerproof clothing. Ideal for making "Slide Sheets" for moving patients. This fabric should be washed at a maximum of 40 degrees.

MAKE YOUR OWN SLEEPING BAG

This is Rob Marco vershion of a home made sleeping bag, 1999

http://www.backpacking.net/makegear.html

rp_marco@yahoo.com

On his website he's made every thing form sleeping bags, hammocks, stoves, rucksacks and more!

again they all look very profeshonal.

SLEEPING BAG

This is the desing that I'm going to base it on: From Roger's website.

It will be a mummy shape, made from microlight pertex fabric and will be filled with goose and down fethers. Hopefully all in all it should way MAX 1000 grams

DIY MY DESINGS- SLEEPING BAG

This summer I was going to fork out a small fortune on a light weight down sleeping bag, however when trolling through the enter-net I have found a man that makes his own.

designer Roger Caffin

r.caffin@tpg.com.au

http://www.bushwalking.org.au/FAQ/DIY_RNCDesigns.htm

On his website he has also designed his own tents, rucksacks, pillows and sleeping bags!

They all look really perfeshonal. This has inspired me to make my own.

Photography tricks

I like the texture of the one: think it capurts the emotion of the charater

A long shutter speed

would be cool if my weather box could do this with people walking past it. Hummm..... that would be cool

Stevie Hurrell

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7598766885311070574

This is a video of Stevie talking about his work- Beneath and Beyond which was held at the Tramway. Where he got live data of vibrations/ earth tremmers that were hapeeaning live. He had to speed up as the frequncys of the tremmers as they were very low, just so we could hear them. He had many spekers around the room so that the sound would travel around it. On the video it made it look pritty eary as it was dark with these booming/cracalking noises coming form around the room

He's also got a cool website:

http://www.hurrelvisualarts.com/docs/

Surface pressure charts

http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/uk/surface_pressure.html

Weather Webcams

City of Nome, Alaska - http://www.guilliam.com/alaska.htm

New Zeland, Auckland beach/harbor - http://www.tourism.net.nz/listings/nztg/visitor-information/106480?from=http://www.tourism.net.nz/region/auckland/visitor-information/web-cams/

Canada, Vancover North-East- http://www.vancouver.com/webcam-display/36_vancouvercom-north-east/

North West Scotland - http://www.mwis.org.uk/webcams.php?cam=3

Brazil, Porto De Galinhas - http://otenpc2.dyndns.org:8082/

Weather stations and Ballon's

Susumu Shingu

Saturday, June 17, 2000 Sculptures that capture the mysterious rhythms of nature By JENNIFER PURVIS The press release for the sculptor Susumu Shingu's "Wind Caravan" project opens charmingly with a quote from Christina Rossetti: "Who has seen the wind? Neither you nor I, but when the trees bow down their heads, the wind is blowing by." Rossetti is not alone in noting what may be the obvious to other more prosaic souls: The wind blows, things move. Japanese sculptor Susumu Shingu, 62, who initially trained as a painter in Italy in the early 1960s, became fascinated with the movement of wind and water after hanging a painting on a tree to photograph. At first irritated by the wind blowing the picture this way and that, he soon found himself so mesmerized by the spinning that it became his life's work to invent mechanisms with which to capture the action of air and water. "For more than 30 years," Shingu says, "I have been making sculptures which move by the natural energies of wind and water -- the most characteristic phenomena of our planet. My sculptures are made with the most advanced skills of technology and include delicately balanced parts and precise rotation systems with bearings. "Yet once they receive the energy of wind and water, they move elegantly and dynamically as if they were alive. The movements are various and never the same. They are devices to translate the invisible movements of wind and the concealed power of water into visible motion, and antennae to capture the mysterious rhythms of nature." Shingu's work is known worldwide, with over 200 wind and water sculptures made for public buildings and spaces, and he has often collaborated with the great Italian architect Renzo Piano. Shingu's kites float high above travelers in the vast ceiling of the Kansai International Airport, designed by Piano; "Dialogue with Clouds" is five 10-meter-high sculptures that sit atop Piano's Centro Meridiana apartment complex in Lecco, Italy. A more recent work is a water sculpture based on the traditional bamboo pipes used by Japanese farmers for irrigation, in Piano's shrine to Padro Pio, the Italian monk who was beautified by the pope last year. Shingu also recently collaborated with Issey Miyake for the Paris Spring/Summer 1999 Collection, creating a stage set of many small kinetic metal sculptures, so sensitive to air flow that as the models filed past them they would echo their movement. "The Wind Caravan -- Observation of Our Planet" is an ephemeral project to find out how to live in harmony with nature and find "true happiness through artistic activities and cultural exchange with local peoples." In collaborating with Professor Izumi Ushiyama, scientist and researcher of wind and solar energy, Shingu hopes that this project will also help promote the use of wind as an energy source. Shingu's 21 lightweight metal sculptures will travel to six remote places over the globe, beginning in the rice paddies of Japan in June, then to a small island off Auckland, New Zealand in November; over to an ice field in Finland in February 2001, then on to a village in Morocco in April; to the steppes of Mongolia in July; and finally to the sand dunes of Brazil in November, packed in a specially designed container that will also act as a windmill, using the energy from the wind to light the sculptures at night. The sculptures will be displayed at each site for two to three weeks. "My intention is to visit six of the most characteristic natural environments on our planet, install the sculptures temporarily, and stay there awhile and observe nature at each site by way of the sculptures," Shingu says. "I also intend to exchange ideas with the local people, especially children . . . initiating discussions, lectures and workshops. Study and research will be done on both the nature of the site and the culture which has developed there, and many of my creative friends have agreed to participate in 'Wind Caravan' as lecturers -- including Renzo Piano, Pierre Restany, Jiri Kylian, Frans Krajcberg, Issey Miyake and Tadao Ando, among others." Shingu has an inspired belief in the ability of art to have real impact on the psychic being of our world, and consequently an impact on our physical environment. He especially wishes to impart this knowledge to children, who will be the focus of all workshop activities in each place. The opening ceremony for this project's first exhibition was held in the rice paddies outside Shingu's studio in Hyogo Prefecture. It began with a traditional rice planting ceremony by the local children, many of whom had never planted rice before. The 21 wind sculptures appeared to stride down the paddy fields among the planters and guests, languidly spinning in the sluggish breeze. They were lit up at night with power generated from the windmill generator, which gave them an eerie and majestic presence, compounded by the absolute silence in the movement of the white cloth-covered metal sails. The symposium was also held outside, on "What Can We Do for the Earth Now," with guest speakers Frans Krajcberg, an artist from Brazil and a rain-forest activist; Pierre Restany, an art critic from France and founder of New Realism; the leading Japanese architect Tadao Ando, and Shingu himself, with art critic Yusuke Nakahara acting as moderator. Much lively debate was heard, with Restany as the optimist for the future, Krajcberg seriously worried about the state of art and the environment and all agreeing on the importance of art as a force for change. A performance of Okura-style kyogen by Senzaburo Shigeyama, Genjiro Okura and others later in the afternoon was truly magnificent in this setting. As night fell, the festivities concluded with a performance by two traditional musicians floating on a raft on the lake near Shingu's water sculptures. Both musicians and the slowly bending sculptures were all reflected in the still water, surrounded by steep tree-covered hills, an experience of peace beyond words. "Wind Caravan" kinetic sculptures, at Sanda City, Hyogo Prefecture, until June 25. For more information call Wind Caravan Executive Committee (03) 5394-5083, fax (03) 5394-5070 or see the Web site at www.wind-caravan.org