cra3ig

cra3ig t1_j6f4t2r wrote

Guy I met & 'assisted' (as an available friend, not hired) for a couple of years in Florida was involved with murderball & that movie through a foundation he and his also disabled wife had set up decades back.

Tigers. Unstoppable. He'd been a C-3 quadriplegic from a diving accident four decades earlier (at 21 years old). But through sheer grit had gotten enough use back in his arms to drive a specialty van, was rarely at home, went everywhere, ran a business, and was of the opinion that a motorized chair would be the death of him. Even did limited Qigong with us weekly.

She was every bit as tough. Tigers, I tell ya.

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cra3ig t1_iukb8hs wrote

It does seem to make more sense that way, but OP is right.

Summers, you're pushing the warmest air down at you. But it's the breeze effect that directly cools you, and accelerates the evaporation of sweat. Same as any other fan. The displaced air near the ceiling is replaced by air coming up alongside the perimeter walls.

Winters, you don't want that. By drawing air upwards, it spreads across the ceiling - displacing and driving the warm air there outward and then down the perimeter walls, mixing with and warming the room air there. Reducing temperature stratification with no draft.

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cra3ig t1_iqtshab wrote

Outta Boulder (Co), didn't take climbing gear with us on a spring break trip to Canyonlands, 1976. At a ranger hosted campfire talk, mentioned access limitations to him, he told us about Goblin Valley.

Neither he (nor we) were aware of recent new road in, he directed us to an old 4WD double-track near Wild Horse, through scrub & dunes. Blasted through in a Dodge Coronet 440, ranger at the station (what was then was a single-wide trailer) couldn't believe we made it in on the 'old' road.

Was #86 on original visitor log. Saw maybe six other people there all week. Hooked. Following year, played capture the flag through the hoodoos with kids from BYU, who it turned out were on the same Purple Microdot LSD as we were. Good times . . .

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cra3ig t1_iqtm408 wrote

Go back there right after a good snowfall. Been several times, starting back in the mid-1970s, but the one when everything was frosted was truly unique. Plus, had the place all to ourselves.

Been to Grand Staircase/Escalante, or Capitol Reef? Well worth it, and if magnificent solitude appeals to you, can't be beat.

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