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| Steve Silberberg |
 Posted: Tue Apr 04, 2006 10:50 am |
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If you are the type who picks up trash while hiking, and want to help
me with a practical joke, please be on the lookout for any spent mylar
balloons you find on or close to the trail that say "Happy Birthday".
I only need one, but I'll need it in the next week.
Thank you very much in advance.
Steve
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| the Moderator |
| Posted: Wed Apr 05, 2006 7:34 am |
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"Steve Silberberg" <steve.silberberg@alum.mit.edu> wrote in message
news:eh8532hrrvso6ioqt3drocj4cc9445jeic@4ax.com...
Quote: If you are the type who picks up trash while hiking, and want to help
me with a practical joke, please be on the lookout for any spent mylar
balloons you find on or close to the trail that say "Happy Birthday".
I only need one, but I'll need it in the next week.
Thank you very much in advance.
Steve
You are out of luck. I went through my extensive collection of mylar
balloons which I have picked up off the trail, but none said, "Happy
Birthday." |
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| pmhilton |
| Posted: Wed Apr 05, 2006 3:39 pm |
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Peter wrote:
Given the number we have found and the odds of finding
Quote: them, we calculate there are millions of them in the backcountry.
Now, if you're extra light on your feet, your movements, as with the
baloons, might be more directly influenced by prevailing winds. This
might skew things slightly more towards finding the blasted things.
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| Woof |
| Posted: Wed Apr 05, 2006 9:27 pm |
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I am the type who always picks up some trash while hiking (not referring to
my old, worn out hiking partners), but wonder, does ANYONE ever find mylar
balloons of any kind on the trail regardless of slogan?
Though, admittedly, I've come across some strange stuff, including about 20
cases for large computer tape drives at the trailhead to 100-Mile Wilderness
in Monson, but that was probably dumped off side of the road, rather than
hiked in.
I've come across a couple VCRs, though I'm not sure they work in the
backcountry, which might explain why they were smashed.
"the Moderator" <sparky@no_spam_engineer.com> wrote in message
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"Steve Silberberg" <steve.silberberg@alum.mit.edu> wrote in message
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If you are the type who picks up trash while hiking, and want to help
me with a practical joke, please be on the lookout for any spent mylar
balloons you find on or close to the trail that say "Happy Birthday".
I only need one, but I'll need it in the next week.
Thank you very much in advance.
Steve
You are out of luck. I went through my extensive collection of mylar
balloons which I have picked up off the trail, but none said, "Happy
Birthday."
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| Steve Silberberg |
| Posted: Thu Apr 06, 2006 10:35 am |
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On Thu, 06 Apr 2006 03:27:45 GMT, "Woof" <jamesdandrews@sbcglobal.net>
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Quote: does ANYONE ever find mylar
balloons of any kind on the trail regardless of slogan?
I found several in the Four Peaks Wilderness of Arizona recently. I
threw them all away though.
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| Peter |
| Posted: Thu Apr 06, 2006 11:19 am |
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Woof wrote:
Quote: I am the type who always picks up some trash while hiking (not referring to
my old, worn out hiking partners), but wonder, does ANYONE ever find mylar
balloons of any kind on the trail regardless of slogan?
We have found several balloons of different types in the Sierras, but
always WAY off trail. It always amazes us that we manage to stumble
across them. Given the number we have found and the odds of finding
them, we calculate there are millions of them in the backcountry. |
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| Ilja Friedel |
| Posted: Thu Apr 06, 2006 7:04 pm |
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In rec.backcountry Ed Huesers <ed@grandshelters.com> wrote:
Quote: We watched it float off and wondered if it had come
from California and where it was headed.
Nice story! Nearly each time I went hiking in the San Gabriels I saw a
balloon either in the bushes or flying high above me. On Mt. Pacifico a
heart shaped balloon flew maybe 100ft above us over the mountain. It helps
that the wind in L.A. comes mostly from the ocean. I wonder though how
many balloon are reased in the big city every day.
Ilja. |
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| Guest |
| Posted: Thu Apr 06, 2006 7:52 pm |
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On Thu, 06 Apr 2006 03:27:45 GMT, "Woof" <jamesdandrews@sbcglobal.net>
wrote:
Quote: I am the type who always picks up some trash while hiking (not referring to
my old, worn out hiking partners), but wonder, does ANYONE ever find mylar
balloons of any kind on the trail regardless of slogan?
A couple of times I have found mylar balloons while hiking in wooded
areas of eastern Mass.
Close enough to populated areas that it is no surprise.
Nothing in stock at present. |
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| Ed Huesers |
| Posted: Thu Apr 06, 2006 9:26 pm |
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Woof wrote:
Quote: ANYONE ever find mylar
balloons of any kind on the trail regardless of slogan?
Many years ago before the beard was gray, I was on top of one of the
taller foothills in the area with my friend and his family. We were
having a picnic lunch after climbing the mountain and my friend's two
little tikes were playing in the warm sun.
It was a very pleasant day and we were all relaxing and watching the
kids play when in floats a mylar balloon and lands not 10 feet from the
kids. The kids were beside themselves that a balloon should come down
out of nowhere for them to play with.
Well, they played with it for quite some time before they lost
interest and left it lay where we were all sitting around. About a half
hour after they layed it down, the balloon decided to grow wings and
take off again. It made it just out of the kids hands by the time they
noticed it rising. We watched it float off and wondered if it had come
from California and where it was headed.
Ed Huesers
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| Wild Monkshood |
| Posted: Fri Apr 07, 2006 5:44 am |
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Ed Huesers wrote:
Quote: Woof wrote:
ANYONE ever find mylar
balloons of any kind on the trail regardless of slogan?
Many years ago before the beard was gray, I was on top of one of the
taller foothills in the area with my friend and his family. We were
having a picnic lunch after climbing the mountain and my friend's two
little tikes were playing in the warm sun.
It was a very pleasant day and we were all relaxing and watching the
kids play when in floats a mylar balloon and lands not 10 feet from the
kids. The kids were beside themselves that a balloon should come down
out of nowhere for them to play with.
Well, they played with it for quite some time before they lost
interest and left it lay where we were all sitting around. About a half
hour after they layed it down, the balloon decided to grow wings and
take off again. It made it just out of the kids hands by the time they
noticed it rising. We watched it float off and wondered if it had come
from California and where it was headed.
Thanks for sharing that. I enjoyed that.......
Wild Monkshood
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| Ed Huesers |
| Posted: Wed Apr 12, 2006 8:06 pm |
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Ilja Friedel wrote:
Quote: Ed Huesers wrote:
We watched it float off and wondered if it had come
from California and where it was headed.
Ilja Friedel wrote:
The kid's hearts were broken until we convinced them that they had
some fun with it and now maybe it would make another kid's day somewhere
down the line.
Quote: Nearly each time I went hiking in the San Gabriels I saw a
balloon either in the bushes or flying high above me.
I remember one popping up from one side of Longs when I was on top,
it then floated off into infinity not twenty feet above us.
Quote: On Mt. Pacifico a
heart shaped balloon flew maybe 100ft above us over the mountain.
We need wolverine balloons.
Quote: It helps that the wind in L.A. comes mostly from the ocean.
The backcountry I hike in doesn't have any close metro areas to the
west where the prevailing winds come from. Ours would be the occasional
tourist or places as far as SLC or Vegas.
Quote: I wonder though how many balloon are reased in the big city
every day.
Well, funny thing, there was a happy birthday balloon caught up in
my blackberry bush when I got home today. I wonder if the OP was looking
for this one?
Ed Huesers
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| Eugene Miya |
| Posted: Thu Apr 13, 2006 8:03 pm |
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In article <Tmi%f.18$nS2.2035@news.uswest.net>,
Ed Huesers <ed@grandshelters.com> wrote:
Quote: Ilja Friedel wrote:
I'm at the Ath. on June 30.
Nearly each time I went hiking in the San Gabriels I saw a
balloon either in the bushes or flying high above me.
I remember one popping up from one side of Longs when I was on top,
it then floated off into infinity not twenty feet above us.
I have seen them at shoulder level while cruising at about 3,500 ft.
They are trash.
Holy cow, been there, done that.
Quote: We need wolverine balloons.
Trolling.
Quote: west where the prevailing winds come from. Ours would be the occasional
tourist or places as far as SLC or Vegas.
I wonder though how many balloon are reased in the big city
every day.
Well, funny thing, there was a happy birthday balloon caught up in
my blackberry bush when I got home today. I wonder if the OP was looking
for this one?
Oh, there might be an FAA web site on radar contacts for the aluminized
mylar ones.
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