Major Rescue of 6 in Snow Creek Area

[zippetydude]

All I've got to say is those poor guys are never gonna live this down back at the station. I appreciate the fact that they were out trying to make the wilderness that we enjoy safe so we don't get shot at by weed farmers.

You'd just think that with all the high res aerial photography available they could have save themselves a lot of trouble with a few fly overs and sitting down at a table in a nice cool office at high magnification, identifying what look like farms before hitting the ground at all.

Incidentally, there are programs to recognize human faces - how hard would it be to feed in photographic data to a program that was designed specifically to recognize telltale signs of a pot farm? The cops could then go over each possibility (which would be imperfect but vastly narrowed down) and then go check the ones that looked like sure things?

Just seems odd to be out there on foot hiking about hoping to find something.

z

[Wild]

All I've got to say is those poor guys are never gonna live this down back at the station. I appreciate the fact that they were out trying to make the wilderness that we enjoy safe so we don't get shot at by weed farmers.

You'd just think that with all the high res aerial photography available they could have save themselves a lot of trouble with a few fly overs and sitting down at a table in a nice cool office at high magnification, identifying what look like farms before hitting the ground at all.

Incidentally, there are programs to recognize human faces - how hard would it be to feed in photographic data to a program that was designed specifically to recognize telltale signs of a pot farm? The cops could then go over each possibility (which would be imperfect but vastly narrowed down) and then go check the ones that looked like sure things?

Just seems odd to be out there on foot hiking about hoping to find something.

z

Hey Z! I agree with you, although who's to say they had not already done that? Perhaps they knew exactly where they were going but some of the members were just overestimating the hike up. Why they wouldn't go down from the tram instead, well I don't know. Maybe they thought the location was unatainable from above?

Does anyone know where they Started their hike from?

[Perry]

They probably detected fertilizer downstream. These growers should just give up unless they switch to organic. Just kidding. Or maybe a climber pissed in snow creek, it was detected back at the water collection area, and they went to investigate... Actually I'm just making up stuff.

But on a serious note, anybody can get heat exhaustion wearing all that gear and full-length uniforms. Without it though, it's hard to bushwhack without getting cut up on bushes. 5,000 feet is very brutal! Some of us know from personal experience, and it's worse when it's not a well-traveled area such as snow creek. They may have been in falls creek canyon or chino canyon or west fork of snow creek.

[bluerail]

It is organic Perry...wouldnt have it any other way.

( watch, i'll get a knock on the door at 3 am. )

[bluerail]

sometimes my humour isn't that good.


seriously....i'm KIDDING !!!!


.....btw, couldnt they just pick it and sell it and work on the deficit ?

I mean...it's just weed.

undercover....hahahahahahahahahaha

[Perry]

You're funny Steve. But if they legalized it, it would be harder to make money off alcohol or pain killer meds.

I got an email from a friend forwarding this link. Curious what people think about the idea that some of these fires are being set by terrorists. According to the guy in the video, when they got Bin Laden, they discovered plans to start fires in the U.S.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFHM0rd9cX8

If this is true, then maybe the police officers were not investigating pot farms as most of us thought.

[Perry]

Looks like it's old news:
http://abclocal.go.com/kabc/story?secti ... id=8646527

[zippetydude]

Perry: On the (hopefully) good chance that no terrorists frequent this board, I've often thought how incompetent Bin Laden et. al were in their choices. If they had chosen to start fires, cause problems with food and water sources, and have a few random crimes occur in each city of America, they would have been much more successful. Perhaps not as much press initially, but the results over a two or three year period might have been incalculable, and they might well have gotten whatever it was they were asking for. I hope they haven't actually found an intelligent leader who thinks in terms of campaigns instead of battles.

That, incidentally, is the only reason the white people took the land from the native americans. The bravery and sheer audacity of the natives would have easily lead to their victory had they had a unified front and a real vision of the full campaign against them. As it was, the process was a series of relentless persecutions. I suppose even if we are on the wrong end, hope springs eternal. Some of the tribes have the chance to retake their land nowadays...by opening casinos and buying (or swapping) it back piece by piece. I doubt wed be given such a chance...but never say die!

z

[Hikin_Jim]

sometimes my humour isn't that good.

Sometimes?

btw, couldnt they just pick it and sell it and work on the deficit ?

I'm with you there. Raising revenue is a very good argument for legalization. We seem to have done all right with beer and wine...

HJ

[scottmac]

yep. pot. from the desert sun ...

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