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These pipes were used to get water from Rainbow Lake to the Kosciusko Chalet / Hotel in the early 1900s.
From the top down - one of the original wooden water pipes with coiled steel wire wrapping over pitch (and fibre blended with the pitch?)
Then steel with concrete lining and, LBNL Asbestos Cement pipes.
Post below will have shots of scenes along our walk towards Mt Kosciuszko.
Warmest
Tim Bailey
Skeptical Measurer & Audio Scrounger
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The first picture shows the range rising up to Mt. K and the tiny little Seaman's Hut. Built for a shelter from sudden storms and named after a group of young men who died in a blizzard nearby.
The second shows another part of the main range to the East and North of Mt. K.
The third is the next North East view.
The 4th is even more east and closer to Charlotte's Pass, taken on the return walk, and you can see on it the North Eastern arm of the Main Range walk as it climbs up out of a deep valley cut by the Snowy River.
Our walk went along the South Eastern 'return arm' back to Charlotte's Pass along the last but now closed part of Kosciusko Rd. Only used by Rangers and rescuers. We simply walked West along the old road and back.Taken last Wednesday, there was quite a brisk cold Westerly wind throughout. Didn't take any shots of us or the other couple, might get some of theirs, which I took for them.
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Tim Bailey
Skeptical Measurer & Audio Scrounger
Edits: 05/03/16
His partner Frank Wells never made the top of Everest, but got close to making it a 2-man victory of the 7. Frank's wife invoked emotional blackmail, saying that if he went to Everest he might die, so she would leave him. She wouldn't be there if and when he got back. Dumbest logic ever recorded in print, but there it was. It would have been Frank's second try at the summit, but he gave in to the blackmail and didn't go.
Bass saved Mt K for last so family and friends could join in the completion and celebration. Dick died in 2005. Frank went earlier in a plane crash. Their story is documented in Dick's book, "The Seven Summits". A fascinating read.
Thw wood stave pipe looks exactly like that found here in northern New Mexico in the old Spanish land grant settlements, built at least a century ago, probably more, and still flowing water. They are called acequias. People came up from Spanish Mexico in the 1500-1600's with the conquistadors and catholic friars to settle the new frontier of Spanish America. These families are still intact in this region; the land rights handed down through generations, even though we ain't part of Spain no more.
New water, same old pipes. New Mexico; not a whole lot different than old Mexico.
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