salmon jumping falls

"rw" wrote in message
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I uploaded to YouTube a short video of king salmon jumping Dagger Fall on
the Middle Fork of the Salmon River:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dRnxKgZJws4

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It's great - what kind of camera did you use?
Bob

Bob Patton wrote:
"rw" wrote in message
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I uploaded to YouTube a short video of king salmon jumping Dagger Fall on
the Middle Fork of the Salmon River:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dRnxKgZJws4

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It's great - what kind of camera did you use?

It was a Pentax, but I don't recall the model. I lent it to a close
friend, Jared Spear, who was into extreme sports -- rock climbing,
whitewater kayaking, and backcountry skiing and snow boarding. He was a
talented video artist but he couldn't afford a good camera.

Last July, Jared was a day late from a solo backcountry snow-boarding
trip to Castle Peak, near Stanley. A group of his friends (he had many)
went to look for him. I took climbing gear, a medical kit, and oxygen on
my horses. If you get into trouble in these mountains you'd better have
friends to depend on, because Custer County Rescue won't do ****:

http://tinyurl.com/pm7du

When we found him he was dead, with a broken back, a broken pelvis, and
a ruptured spleen. He'd crawled quite a ways. Tracing his trail back, we
found my video camera, all busted up, but still able to playback. The
last clip was of Jared's last run. The camera ran out of tape lying in
the snow. The last I heard of the camera Jared's parents had it.

The next day I left for the Western Clave. I don't have a video camera
any more.

I used that camera to make a tape of a previous Western Clave in
Gardiner, Montana, and I sent a copy to everyone who requested one. It
came out pretty good, if I do say so myself.

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