Some Books on the Appalachian Trail

 Here are some great books on the Appalachian Trail for your off-season reading.  You can also take the paperbacks on your hike. Most are out of print, but a search will find a used book seller.

In no particular order. But starting with my favorite cover.

and more

The "bible" of the 1970s:

find this one:

Need more?, check out this bibliography.

and of course, my book.

Available from the AT Museum.

Threat of AI?

 Well, nothing new.

Want to watch a film where computers take over the world?  

Try Colossus: The Forbin Project

Pretty good one too.

See the trailer here (after a commercial interruption of course).

Prepare for world domination.

Sea level rise and climate change

Remote Sensing Image (Google Earth) of Ocean City, Maryland.

The break in the barrier island was caused by the 1933 Hurricane. Here is a pretty neat video of the storm.

So, you can see that coastal areas are prone to natural and human caused disasters.

Check out this map for North Carolina.

HI Erosion Imagery

Don't buy coastal real estate. 

Global patterns in sandy beach erosion: unraveling the roles of anthropogenic, climatic and morphodynamic factors

Amazing, this is still found online and hasn't been taken down by the King.

Coastal erosion is more severe under climate change | U.S. Geological Survey

and a toolkit too.

More science on the issue here.

While not coastal, here is a paper I wrote highlighting the issue of climate change and river flows.

Travel behaviour substitution for a white-water canoe race influenced by climate induced stream flow

ABSTRACT

The World Tourism Organization, the United Nations Environment Programme and the World Meteorological Organization have identified one of the consequences of climate change is an interference of normal precipitation. This research investigates the changes in travel patterns by participants and spectators at an annual canoe race as influenced by variable stream flow. Given that stream flow varies seasonally, one might hypothesize that should a permanent reduction of water flow take place in the future, a decline or shift in water-based recreation might be expected. Using data collected over two years at the Annual Westfield River Wildwater Races, interviews were conducted at the staging area as participants waited in the queue. Observers of the race were also interviewed. The two sampling years represent a low flow season and a normal flow season and yield a sample of 142 parties. During the low flow season, one that is projected to become the norm under climate change models, expert paddlers travelled a greater distance characteristic of destination substitutability while spectators decreased travel distance and this suggests a reduction of interest in observing the race.

RÉSUMÉ

L’Organisation mondiale du tourisme, le Programme des Nations unies pour l’environnement et l’Organisation météorologique mondiale ont identifié qu’une des conséquences du changement climatique est la modification du régime des précipitations. Cette étude analyse les variations dans les habitudes de déplacement des participants et des spectateurs d’une course annuelle de canoë, telle qu’influencée par la variation du débit de la rivière. Comme le débit de rivière varie selon les saisons, on peut anticiper un déclin ou un déplacement des loisirs aquatiques, advenant une réduction permanente du débit. À partir de données recueillies lors de deux éditions de la Annual Westfield River Wildwater Races, des entretiens ont été réalisés dans la zone de préparation tandis que les participants étaient dans la file d’attente. Des spectateurs de la course ont aussi été interrogés. Les deux échantillons annuels correspondent à une saison de faible débit et à une saison de débit normal et l’échantillon total est constitué de 142 éléments. Au cours d’une année de faible débit, qui devrait devenir la norme selon les modèles sur le changement climatique, les experts pagayeurs se sont déplacés sur de grandes distances, ce qui est caractéristique de la caractéristique de substitution de la destination, tandis que les spectateurs ont réduit leur distance de déplacement, ce qui suggère une baisse d’intérêt pour l’observation des courses.

16mm Movie Collecting

 It all started about 25 years ago.  I mean, when people were shifting from VHS tapes to DVD, I went backwards to 16mm films.

I bought my first projector, a Bell and Howell 2582 projector on eBay for something like 25 bucks and another 25 bucks for shipping.

My first film was Reptilicus.  It had turned red, but the monster was still great.

I then had access to my college catalog of old educational films that were being surplused since the films had been replaced with VHS titles. (Now it is likely to be streamed.)

Here are some fun titles.

and of course, some interesting scenes from others.

Social Guidance

Star Trek

Old Dracula

Warning

Creeping Terror

Night of the Living Dead

I visited the opening scene of the Evan's City Graveyard with my brother.

Front lawn at Westfield State.

and inside in cooler weather

Oblong Box

and even more

Andromeda Strain

For some of the titles, once I watched them, I would resell on eBay to buy another film.

After 20 years of collecting I ended up with this list.

Then, last year, we had an unexpected fire in our pole barn, and lost the entire collection, plus six projectors and supplies.

Slowly I am building up the collection with two refurbished EIKI projectors (plus an Elmo that needs some work).

My list, so far is.

Try Jason and the Argonauts for size.