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Mittersill opens chairlift for first time this season
Doug Hitzeman of Nashua skis Mittersill regardless if the lift is running. But he said he was thrilled the lift was running after a foot of fresh powder fell last week.
FRANCONIA — Backcountry skiers can rejoice because on Friday the Mittersill area at Cannon Mountain opened its chairlift for the first time this season.
Skiers and riders enjoyed natural skiing on throwback New Hampshire trails and glade skiing at Mittersill without having to hike "over the saddle" from Cannon Mountain.
Mittersill is natural backcountry skiing steeped in rich history for intermediate and advanced skiers. Its ungroomed trails do not have snowmaking, so only when Mother Nature dumps a big pile of snow is the area officially opened and the chairlift at the base of Mittersill operating.
Lift service is not that important to many fans of Mittersill who hike over from Cannon Mountain to enjoy the powder and rugged terrain. On a nice day, a line of adventure skiers and riders can be seen from afar hiking up to the top of Mittersill and skiing to the bottom or taking advantage of a cutoff that allows them to ski down to the Tuckerbrook lift.
"Hiking over there is fun. As long as there is good snow, I would hike to the top and ski down," said Holly Rivard of Gofftstown, who says it's only about a 10-minute hike from the Upper Hardscrabble trail junction.
With 12 inches of fresh powder last week, the timing was perfect to open Mittersill where Lisa Segal was found skiing most of the morning.
"It was awesome. There was plenty of great snow, and I couldn't wait to ski there."Some of the old trails on Mittersill, such as Baron's Run, are still in good condition and wide open, offering tremendous skiing. The many acres of glades adds to the Mittersill adventure.Doug Hitzeman, of Nashua, will ski Mittersill anytime, lift spinning or not, but took advantage of the ride up the mountain.
"I'm here because there is a foot of fresh powder and with Mittersill opening up, I better take advantage of it because I would rather have a lift under my butt than hiking. I love skiing Cannon, and it's great to get backcountry skiing with a foot of snow. It's throwback skiing, no snowmaking and no grooming, I love it."
Hitzeman skies Mittersill about five to 10 times a year. On Super Bowl Sunday, he hiked with his 12-year-old son, Nolin, over the saddle to Mittersill. It was Nolin's first backcountry experience.
"We'll keep Mittersill opened as long as it is skiable," said Greg Keeler, director of sales and marketing. Cannon and Mittersill received a foot last week.
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Fighting apatosaur art #5: Mark Witton
September 28, 2015
If we accept that the distinctive ventral projections of the gigantic and ventrally displaced cervical ribs of apatosaurs were likely the base of some form of soft-tissue rugosity — such as keratinous horns like those of rhinos — then does it follow that those necks were used in combat as we suggested?
Maybe, maybe not. As scientists, we are always open to other hypotheses. We're looking for the simplest, most parsimonious model — the one which best explains the facts.
That's why we like Mark Witton's "neck-velcro wall-climbing" hypothesis, as shown in this actual scientific life restoration.
As Mark explained to me, apatosaurs may have used their neck-hooks for more than passive clinging. They may also have been used for inching up the rock-face: first one side of the neck advancing and then the next, in the manner of the "pterygoid walking" that snakes use to progressively swallow large prey.
This is why it's important to present early-stage work at conferences (and as preprints). Otherwise, you may never hear about important alternative hypotheses like this until after the paper is out and it's too late to include them.
Fighting apatosaur art #4: #MikeTaylorAwesomeDinoArt
September 27, 2015
I mentioned last time that, as I sat next to Bob Nicholls in an SVPCA session, I started sketching an apatosaur combat in the hope that my horrible drawing would provoke Bob to do a good one. That worked admirably, which means there is no good reason for me to subject you to my own sketch.
So here it is.
I think the main lessons to draw from this piece are:
- I can't draw heads.
- I can't draw limbs.
- I can't draw torsos.
- I may be just about capable of drawing tails.
In defence of this picture, it does have something of a How And Why Wonder Book of Dinosaurs quality to it, which people of a certain age may find nostalgic. (See also: How fat was Brontosaurus?)
During a break, I asked for Bob's advice on how I can do better. I know I'll never be an artist, but it's fun to sketch (especially during mammal talks) and I'd like to improve a little. The main point Bob made was to think about where the light is coming from. Be consistent about that, and you get an immediate improvement in realism.
So here's what I sketched the next day, with that in mind:
So what have we learned this time?
- I didn't consciously do this, but I ended up with a composition kind of similar to what Bob came up with, but worse.
- In my desire to achieve the intertwined-necks pose, I made the necks too long and thin.
- I still can't draw heads.
- Let's just forget about the hindlimb of the one on the left.
- Uh, and let's forget the torsos, too.
- But at least the light is coming from top right!
In short, as Stephen Sondheim put it, art isn't easy. I wish I had more time to put into it.
The real moral of this story is: if I had a crack at drawing fighting apatosaurs, you definitely can. Let us know if you do — leave a comment. We'll gather people's contributions in a future post.
(See also the previous Fighting Apatosaur Art posts: Brian Engh #1, Brian Engh #2, Bob Nicholls. More to come!)
Fighting apatosaur art #3: Bob Nicholls
September 25, 2015
On the morning of Tuesday 1st December, on SVPCA day 1, I gave my talk about apatosaur neck combat. In one of the afternoon sessions, I sat next to Bob Nicholls, and found myself thinking how awesome it would be if he sketched some apato-combat.
But I didn't want to come right out and say "Hey, Bob, how 'bout you spontaneously illustrate our palaeobiological hypothesis?" So instead I used a tactic that Fiona often uses when she wants me to do something: she starts to do it herself, badly, and waits for me to take over. (This is often how I find myself cooking in the evenings.) In the same spirit, sat next to Bob, I started a horrible sketch of wrestling apatosaurs. Sure enough, Bob, saw what I was doing, internally decided it ought to be done properly, and produced this:
What I love most about this (beside the casual way he knocked it out in fifteen minutes) is the sense of heft about the apatosaurs. These are big, solid animals. Someone's gonna get hurt.
What is my mystery baby bird?
September 23, 2015
Here's my newest specimen: a tiny baby bird, maybe 5 or 6 cm from wingtip to foot. This one came from my next-door neighbours: apparently it had been sitting on their car for several weeks before they thought to lift it off and give it to me.
As you can see, the specimen is extraordinarily well preserved — more or less mummified, I suppose by wind-drying. Like a Chinese duck, though less appetising.
Here is the slightly flattened left side:
So I have two questions:
- What is this? Beyond the level of "a bird of some kind".
- How can I prep it down to just a tiny skeleton? The only idea I have, really, is to slightly moisten it, and leave it in a tub with a hole in the top for inverts to get in. Can I do better?
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Here's that cat-skull multiview you ordered
September 22, 2015
The process of reassembling my cat skull continues. I now have the sphenoid and both nasals now back in place, and the time has come for the now-traditional multiview. (Previous examples: pig skull, wallaby skull, sheep skull.
Click through for seriously high resolution (9602 × 7642).
And here it is on a black background:
As though you need to be told: the top row shows the dorsal view, the middle row (from left to right) shows posterior, right lateral and anterior views, and the bottom row shows the ventral view.
Fighting apatosaur art #2: Brian Engh again
September 20, 2015
Last time, we looked at some of Brian Engh's preliminary sketches of pieces to illustrate our fighting-apatosaur hypothesis. But there's more: some way into the process, Brian also came up with this very rough sketch, illustrating a different style of combat:
All the pictures in the previous post show various forms of ventral-to-ventral combat, but we've also been thinking about possibilities, and an important one is ventral-to-dorsal.
That could work in at least two ways. We can imagine a wresting match, where each animal tries to get its neck above its opponent's, and to force it to the ground. There is precedent for this in the behaviour of various extant animals. (Or perhaps I should call it postcedent, since apatosaurs came first.)
But other extant animals have a much more violent combat style, based on striking blows rather than exerting steady force. Notably, giraffes do this, using their long necks as levers to crash their uncharismatic, highly fused mammalians heads into each other.
Could apatosaurs have done this? Not exactly: their heads were far too small to be effective clubs, and far too fragile to survive being used in this way. But the necks themselves would have been formidable weapons: we're confident that apatosaurs striking blows would have done so with their necks, bringing them powerfully downwards on their adversaries.
Brian liked this idea enough to work the rough sketch above up into a completed drawing, which we also plan to include in the paper (and which, by the way, I unreservedly love):
So what style of combat did apatosaurs use? Ventral-on-ventral shoving? Wrestling to the ground? Striking downwards blows with the neck?
My best guess (and it's only a guess, necessarily) is that among the half-dozen or so recognised species of apatosaurine, all these styles were likely in use. And this may explain the variation in cervical morphology that we see between species (though of course ontogeny and sexual dimorphism may also be at work).
In short, I think all of these scenarios are credible — and therefore perfectly legitimate subjects for palaeo-art *hint hint*.
Fighting apatosaur art #1: Brian Engh
September 19, 2015
In putting together our thoughts on how apatosaurs used their necks, we were motivated by genuine curiosity — which in Matt's and my case, at least, goes back many years. (We briefly discussed the problem, if only to throw our hands up in despair, in our 2013 neck-anatomy paper.) We didn't land on the combat hypothesis because it's cool, but because it's where the evidence points.
That said, it is cool.
Brian Engh is on the authorship for this paper largely because of his insights into extant animal behaviour. But there's no denying that it's a real bonus that he's also an awesome artist. He's been putting together sketches to illustrate our hypothesis for some time, partly with the goal of figuring out which compositions to work up into finished pieces. Here, with Brian's permission, are some of those preliminary sketches.
First, a really nice sketch showing a ventral-to-ventral shoving match from down at ground level.
I really like this one, and would have been happy for it to be one of the anointed ones. I like the sense of huge beasts towering over the viewer. That said, I always love pencil sketches, often more than I do finished pieces, so I'm not too unhappy that the world gets to see this one in pencil-sketch form.
Next up, sketched more roughly, is a concept for a different form of combat in a different aspect. Here, we see two animals side by side, wrestling with both necks and tails.
I like the dynamism of this one, and especially that the one on the right is in the process of being pushed over. But there's nothing in apatosaur tail morphology that particularly says "combat", so I guess I'm not too unhappy that this one didn't make the cut.
The third sketch shows two individuals rearing into into ventral-to-ventral push.
Matt and Brian liked this one the most, so it got worked up into a finished and coloured piece which will be one of the figures in the paper when we get around to submitting it. Here is the current version — as I understand it, Brian plans to revise it further before it's done.
The craftsmanship here is superb, but I can't help regretting that the dinosaurs are rearing less than in the sketch. I feel it's lost some of the power of the concept sketch.
What you're seeing here, folks, is a bona fide instance of co-authors disagreeing. Happens all the time, but you usually don't see it, because it's all resolved by the time the paper is submitted. Brian is the artist, and ultimately it's for him to decide what to depict and how; but I'll always be glad that we still have the pencil-sketch as well as the finished version.


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National Half Marathon Recap
Date: March 27, 2011 at 9:06 am- by Ali- Comment(s): 49
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If you take one thing away from this post let it be my strong recommendation to go see The Book of Mormon on Broadway. I was beyond excited when my friend Alex invited me as her Plus One to opening […]
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