Tsiangkun Tzu -Unearthed Chronicles

richardabshire · Post by **richardabshire** » 26 Jul 2006 13:55

Awesome pics. What happened to the Thundering Warrior? That beer was the best. It could win the Sam Adams brew contest. When you come back down to San Diego, bring some more of the magic brew. Richard

Tsiangkun · Post by **Tsiangkun** » 26 Jul 2006 13:59

Thundering Warrior was packaged incorrectly for the brewing contest.

I pretty much only have one beer ready for the contest, and luckilly it's a very good one.

I'll be sure to bring something good with me next time I'm in town. It will be several months before there is any warrior going around again.

Tsiangkun · Post by **Tsiangkun** » 28 Jul 2006 18:29

Just scored two corny kegs for $20 apiece.

15 gallon maximum capacity, on tap.

I guess I need to aquire 3 more to have enough to fill the keg-o-rater
and have a spare on hand.

Tsiangkun · Post by **Tsiangkun** » 02 Aug 2006 11:02

Well, the kegs are full and the system works as intended.

Strawberry wheat, blackberry cream, and malt liquor are now being
served on tap at The Bend.

Tsiangkun · Post by **Tsiangkun** » 08 Aug 2006 10:52

The anticipation is killing me.

I leave thursday night. I have no destination. I will return monday.

I can't wait to see what this trip turns out to be.

Tsiangkun · Post by **Tsiangkun** » 14 Aug 2006 10:53

woooo !

that was a good trip, ending it all with back to back back-country half marathons through desolation wilderness.

We started out thursday night with a midnight hike into the eldorado forest. We just layed out on the ground, watched some meteors, and dozed off, dispite the full moon being very bright. I'm glad we left the tent in the car.

Friday morning, we grabbed our wilderness permit and went to the trailhead, had a brief lunch of cream of rice, and began our ascent to desolation . . .

Exiting the forest, 8 toes were sporting duck tape, one treking pole was killed, and a boot had lost part of it's sole.

Tsiangkun · Post by **Tsiangkun** » 18 Aug 2006 16:49

A few shots from the desolation wilderness trip. 8miles, 15 miles, 15 miles.

Here we see the view from our campsite on lake Aloha, 8200'. An evening to ourselves, mosquito free, and high action meteor shower later at night.

Dick's pass, 9400'. After walking down to 7000', we finished our day
with 1200' over a mile to the pass. What an awesome campsite.
Spectacular panoramic views of the whole wilderness area. A fitting
end to a strenous day. We met lots of people who said we couldn't do it,
especially at the end of a long day. I think we powered up dick's in
about 45 minutes. I then vomitted for an hour and a half, took some
medicine, drank some pain killer, ate some dinner, and laid out.
Another spectacular night of meteors, satellites, and moonlit expanses
of wonderment.

Ma ! Wudya look at that tree, it's bent !

lake aloha, coming down from dicks pass.

Me, self portrait, standing on snow in august, when it's 90F+ outside, just
enjoying the views.

Tsiangkun · Post by **Tsiangkun** » 06 Sep 2006 11:15

self portrait from Ansel Adams wilderness

I should have started taking self portraits on my trips a long time ago.
These are turning out pretty damn fine. I certainly don't get shots of myself
this good when other people are working the camera.

Tsiangkun · Post by **Tsiangkun** » 15 Sep 2006 15:28

Just another shot of one of my "campsites".
This one was right next to a good size waterfall at hemlock crossing.

Tsiangkun · Post by **Tsiangkun** » 15 Sep 2006 16:43

Self portait of myself hiking at night.
It has been 10 hours since I last saw a trail,
and I still had a trek ahead of me before I would
stop to setup camp for the evening.

I decided after this trip that I work too hard not to carry at least
a 35mm camera. (mine is only slightly larger than 16mm)

Once I get my new camera, I'm off to go sasquatch hunting in oregon.

Tsiangkun · Post by **Tsiangkun** » 19 Sep 2006 10:01

I just picked up my camera from the post office.

Everything seems to be in working order, and I'm in the final stages of preparing for the sasquatch hunt.

I think this will be another solo trip. Two people tend to walk, break and talk, which will warn, and potentially scare away, the saquatchi.

Oh, and I wesson grabbed a reverse swirl, sealed with a drifter.

Tsiangkun · Post by **Tsiangkun** » 27 Sep 2006 17:52

re-occuring visions of being caught alone in a blizzard.

Solo trip in one week.

Bad Omen, irrational fear, or the subconscious making the conscious aware of the reality of backpacking solo in october ?

Tsiangkun · Post by **Tsiangkun** » 28 Sep 2006 13:00

The last sunset of summer, complete with grit somebody left all over the scanner.

So much more pleasant than being screwed out of my first author position on my paper.

the Executioner · Post by **the Executioner** » 28 Sep 2006 20:57

fuck man, great photos. i need some wilderness action like that.
whenever you're offering "barters", automatically drop me a line. I'm always up for bartering money for your beer.

Tsiangkun · Post by **Tsiangkun** » 25 Oct 2006 15:11

I misexposed every single shot, but if you were there you would have seen what I saw.

but

I survived subfreezing temperatures, rain, sleet, snow, and dense fog while solo trekking in the lower trinity alps with no shelter but my hammock. Oh well, here is the contact sheet of the storming coming in along the south west ridge on a sunday afternoon.

Tsiangkun · Post by **Tsiangkun** » 22 Nov 2006 16:19

My winning streak in darts came to an abrupt end this week as my left hand
completely dominated my right hand in a cricket match.

Playing left vs right is so strange. It feels just like playing another person, emotionally and mentally. I feel it is sometype of milestone to have
defeated my strong hand with my weaker arm. It was a really good feeling
to be able to close the deal quickly and not let the momentum get away.

max · Post by **max** » 23 Nov 2006 08:10

Props on your ambidextrous darting feats! Another variant of cricket which is a bit longer is "Mickey" which you might have heard of under a diff. name. It's from 12-20 any order (but you have to call it unless going down from 20 to 10) and you also have to hit 3 doubles 3 triples and 3 bulls. And for ex. a triple 1 when aiming for twenties does not count as a triple (but a triple 20 would)..

Anyway yeah, maybe you're taking this footbag both-sidedness too far no?

Tsiangkun · Post by **Tsiangkun** » 10 Jan 2007 12:47

Hello 2007 !

I took some pictures of my hometown while vacationing for the holidays.
I didn't play any footbag, it just wasn't on my mind much.

I grew up in a small town, and so we had a very small castle.

in our park we have this little church preserved for wedding ceremonies.

This is view coming into the west side of the city.

Images shot with a ricoh five-one-nine, 400sp B&W film, 45mm objective,
f/16, 1/500s exposure time.

HG · Post by HG » 10 Jan 2007 15:54

Just curious cam, where do you have darkroom access? I have always enjoyed using the dark room, but i havent used it for my own personal photos ever.

Tsiangkun · Post by **Tsiangkun** » 10 Jan 2007 16:06

I work in a lab, so we have dark rooms for developing x-ray film and such. It's one of the perks of working here.