Old Rag Signs 2014, PATC Old Rag Cabin Vintage Blog Post Fall 2010

 

Pictures and some text for now more text later.

 

 

This blog entry starts with Old Rag Signs from Summer 2014 and ends with some remembrances from Fall 2010.  

 

 

FRANK'S GINGER ALE STAND

GOOD STUFF

PATC's  future OLD RAG CABIN

PATC CABIN RENTAL SITE:

http://www.patc.net/PublicView/Cabins/PublicView/Custom/PATC_Cabins/Cabins.aspx

 

 

VINTAGE PICTURES FALL 2010

One of Old Rag's beautiful fall sunsets.  Fall 2010

ORMS (Old Rag Mountain Stewards) AND NPS PSAR packaging a patient using the Shenandoah Tie-In Fall 2010

Fall 2010 patient being extracted using Billy Pugh Net  (NPS and ORMS)

BECAUSE STUFF HAPPENS

In addition to ORMS providing backcountry stewardship/outreach on Old Rag Flora, Fauna, History, Outdoor Skills, Outdoor Safety, Outdoor Ethics, SNP Information, Trail Information, Truthful Tales and Yattered Yarns.....

ORMS volunteers train, prepare, plan ahead for mountain first response

Prepared, Proficient, Effective, Competent, Good Will, Good Folks, Good Works.

See the ORMS website for more information about this great program:

http://oldragmountainsteward.blogspot.com/

Saturday July 12, 2014 Bear & Supermoon & Ghost Plant

Saturday July 12, Bear & Supermoon & Ghost Plant

Bear behind Byrd's Nest Shelter 

Monotropa uniflora

myco-heterotrophic plants, mycoparasitic plants, or epiparasitic plants

http://botit.botany.wisc.edu/toms_fungi/oct2002.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monotropa_uniflora



Indian Pipe AKA Corpse Plant or Ghost Plant


NOT to  be confused with Corpse Flower


Amorphophallus titanium
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amorphophallus_titanium

Involved in a three way relationship.  This plant does not photosynthesize but rather gets its energy from a fungus which in turn gets its energy  from another plant.   A sort of ménage a trois.  For more detail check out the botit.botany.wisc.edu link above.



About 5 groups and twenty folks had gathered to take in the sunset and rise of a Super-moon.

Supermoon from Old Rag Summit



SUNDAY JUNE 22, 2014

 

PICTURES AND SOME TEXT FOR NOW

JUNE 22, 2014

 

 

 

LOOKING DOWN RIDGE

 



LILY

COLUMBINE

ROSE

MT LAUREL

HIKER ON SUMMIT

NOT FROM THIS WEEKEND

 

A VINTAGE PHOTO OF SOME OLD RAG MOUNTAIN STEWARDS(ORMS) TRAINING SEVERAL YEARS AGO.

 

INTERESTED IN POSSIBLY VOLUNTEERING? SEE THE ORMS WEBSITE.   A LINK TO THE ORMS WEBSITE CAN BE FOUND IN THE RIGHT HAND CHANNEL OF THIS BLOG

Pictures For Now More Text Later

 

 

Mountain Laurel Is Out

 

 

Saturday

National Trails Day Booths At Byrd's Visitor Center

 

 

 An Appalachian Trail Ramble

Fly Poison

White Oak Ranger Compound

SUNDAY

 

Old Rag Reverse Circuit



Old Rag Shelter

 

LUSH

 

Late Afternoon After The Rain Smokey  Misty Summit and Ridge Trail



Saturday&Sunday May 31, June 1, 2014

 

 

Saturday On Old Rag

Sunday Simulated Bear Victim WFA

Saturday, May 31, 2014 and Sunday, June 1, 2014

 

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SATURDAY

It was a gorgeous day.    When I arrived at the parking lot there were at least 60 cars overflowing into the neighbors pasture.    Lots of happy hikers on Old Rag on Saturday.  

 

 

 

 

 Wonderful Cluster Of Lady's Slippers

Lady's do not transplant successfully they require a very unique environment including having specific co-located fungus that they share a  symbiotic relationship with.    Please enjoy them Where they are.    There are  already trails which because of bad human behavior no longer have Lady Slippers when once they did.     Do disturb them in hopes that they will be there for future generations.   From USDA Forest Service Website....  

http://www.fs.fed.us/wildflowers/plant-of-the-week/cypripedium_acaule.shtml

......" In order to survive and reproduce, pink lady's slipper interacts with a fungus in the soil from the Rhizoctonia genus. Generally, orchid seeds do not have food supplies inside them like most other kinds of seeds. Pink lady’s slipper seeds require threads of the fungus to break open the seed and attach them to it. The fungus will pass on food and nutrients to the pink lady's slipper seed. When the lady’s slipper plant is older and producing most of its own nutrients, the fungus will extract nutrients from the orchid roots. This mutually beneficial relationship between the orchid and the fungus is known as “symbiosis” and is typical of almost all orchid species."

Bluetts

Pinxters

 

Sunset 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Dusk Shots

 

 

 

 

SUNDAY

I am all MOULAGED as a bear attack victim.   Slash wounds on head and back.   One finger missing.    The students did a great job on me and the two other patients who had even more serious injuries than mine.

Emergency Response Training LLC  of Frederick Maryland

 http://www.onthetrailfirstaid.com/

has been doing a great job providing Wilderness First Aid WFA and CPR training for the Potomac  Appalachian Trail Club for many years.    I like to try and help them at least once a year by volunteering to be a simulated patient for one of their classes.    I find it to be fun and I usually learn a lot by doing it.