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04/07/11:  I believe that the various links that were  (necessarily) broken by retrofitting thumbnails to the folders have now been fixed. Please inform me of any that are still broken.  In particular the links in the individual CLIMBER  pages now work.  The too-wide spacing of the thumbnails in the YankeeBoy folder has been fixed.

04/07/06:
We have been gathering material for about a year. The time has come to organize it.

The website html code has been drastically restructured to avoid superfluous downloading. The main page should download in a few seconds now, even with a slow connection.

The number of top-level folders has been greatly reduced.

 THUMBNAILS now supplement the traditional image indexes on the UCMC website!   [Mike Fain and Rich Goldstone made me do it.  ]

This means that in addition to the traditional alphabetically-by-filename indexes to the images, there are  clickable thumbnails in almost all folders (e.g.  some CLIMBERS subfolders that contain less than four entries have not been thumb-nailed).

A screen-full of thumbnails will only require about the same download time as one normal-density full-screen image. And once triggered (by clicking on zThumbnails.html) the thumbnails for that folder will be generated as a background task until all are displayed. This should substantially reduce the time needed to browse the images casually.

When you visit a thumbnailed folder, either directly of via a link in the main webpage, you will find three entries: zImages (a subfolder containing all the target images), zThumbnails (a subfolder containing all the thumbnail images), and zThumbnail.html which contains the HTML code that generates the clickable thumbnail links dynamically. To use the thumbnail indexing, click on zThumbnails.html [not zThumbnails]. To use conventional indexing for the same folder,  open the  zImages subfolder and you will see the standard alphabetical-by-filename index.

The current UCMC folders are here:  UCMCpioneers image folders


 Please report any broken links or other problems with the website. 


HALLELUJAH! Rich Goldstone has uncovered about 160 slides in his attic. He has written up captions for about 80 of them, he says. The slides may arrive here within a week / ten days.

Aud Fain is sending me a box of slides to digitize, from her adventures in  China, Japan, Mexico, Honduras, Guatemala.  Some of these images will be posted here.





03/25/06: The Bob Schluter UCMC slide collection in its entirety is posted on the UCMC Pioneers website here: Schluter UCMC Slides. Descriptive filenames have been added.  The website images are nominally 1280x960 (horizontal format) or 640x960 (vertical format); your browser will resize to fit its window.  Downloading times can range from a second or two on  cable broadband to thirty seconds or more  via unaccelerated dialup connection.  The slides were taken during the trips to No Name Basin / San Juan Needles,  Westcliffe Basin / Crestone Needle & Humboldt peaks,  Yankee Boy Basin / Sneffels-Teakettle-Potosi-Stony peaks.

03/14/06: A number - 91, actually - of fine photos of the Grand Canyon have been posted on the UCMC website here:  Grand Canyon Photos

03/11/06: Aerial pictures of  the Tetons taken by sailplane (soaring) enthusiasts give good overview of seldom-photographed  "back country" (Western approaches) and North / South views of GTNP.
Sailplane views - N, S, looking East - of GTNP

03/07/06: The Kaylor UCMC Collection is now cataloged with informative filenames, grouped by  activity / area and available on the UCMC  website as follows:

Sampler (from all categories)
Banff_Jasper_Athabasca (Canada)
Bugaboos (BC, Canada)
Devil's Lake (Wisconsin)
Glacier National Park (Peace Park)
Grand Canyon National Park
Grand Teton National Park
Mesa Verde
Rocky Mountain National Park
San Juan Mountains - Needles
San Juan Mountains - Yankee Boy Basin
ShipRock, Painted Desert
Skiing

[As always, for best image:  max the browser / image-editor window, and then full-screen the image (function key F11).]

03/04/06:  Richard was good enough to send four pix of him doing 5.9 - 5.10b at the Gunks.  A daunting view of what this standard of climbing entails.  His letter and the pix are posted here:   Richard climbing 5.9-5.10b in the Gunks


02/28/06: The Kaylor Kollection - 489 slides and 8 prints - has been scanned, the images burned in CDs, and all originals and the CDs are in the mail to the Kaylors. I will be posting  selections from the Kollection from time to time over the next couple of weeks as I tweak the images and assign filenames and revise the Mountaineering Section to accord with the images.

Received a letter from Rich Goldstone replying to my request for his favorite climb with a list of candidates -  comprising, of course,  some of the finest rock climbs in the country.  Scroll down to  his climbing page to read his letter.