Nommery
Considering sie weather, this week's race fodder will be of the handheld variety: hamburgers and veg-burgers. Handcrafted by a psuedo-Mexican and then covered in some sort of wrapping for your single-serving style enjoyment. It is highly encourage that you show up with bags o' fries as none will be provided by the race organization.
South end of Greenlake, Friday 2/26 @ midnight.
12:00 Pre-snack and drink, talk about racing
12:15 Actually race.
12:30 Woo-woo: fancy ceremony honoring the winners.
It'll be wet and possibly cold so we're starting off at midnight, if we get a nice Friday in the coming months I'll see about talking Grill McShoulder into having a lengthy cookout pre-funk at the lake.
I think there's something else going on too, but my aging hipster mind can't quite recall. Anyway: I'll have spoke cards and, in a slightly upscale Ito style, burgers out of a messenger bag.
I'm taking suggestions on the post-race contest.
Winners!!!
1st place: TorreyK
2nd place: Max
3rd place and DFL: Freddie! (figure that one out)
Only Lady with a bike, even though she didn't actually race: Kristen!
Woo! And that proved the old adage, if you wish to win the race go on shitty days especially when the rest of bike club something to do like go to hipster Jeff's band's show.
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corpusjuris
Posted: Wed Feb 24, 2010 9:48 am
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Greenlake isn't man-made. It's a glacial lake which, according to the infallible wikipedia, has been around for approximately 50,000 years. However, it's natural inlet/outlet streams have been cut off by development and it is now primarily fed by storm runoff and (artificially) the municipal water system.
That is all.
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Posted: Wed Feb 24, 2010 10:28 am
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corpusjuris wrote:
Greenlake isn't man-made. It's a glacial lake which, according to the infallible wikipedia, has been around for approximately 50,000 years. However, it's natural inlet/outlet streams have been cut off by development and it is now primarily fed by storm runoff and (artificially) the municipal water system.
That is all.
Yep, a common misconception about Green Lake. It is not a man-made lake.
Some sources say that the lake has been around for about 14,000 years, give or take a few thousand. A glacier dug the basin for Green Lake, along with Lake Washington, Lake Union, Bitter Lake and Haller Lake.
Credit for Green Lake's discovery goes to a man named David Phillips, who was working on behalf of the U.S. Surveyor General in 1855. He spotted the lake which was about a mile wide and surrounded by a forest of fir trees. Phillips named it "Lake Green" because algae blooms gave the water a greenish tint.
And that is all that and some more, and yeah, might be there depending on how terrible the weather gets...
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greenlake _is_ heavily man-modified, though. it's not that the natural outlet (ravenna ave) just dried up, the lake shore used to actually extend all the way to the current bordering roads. in the early 20th century they drained water out of it to permanently lower it by 7 feet.
this was around the same time they lowered lake washington by 9 feet, which if you think about how fucking huge lake washington is you'll realize that is a shit ton of water. something like 60 billion gallons.
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Posted: Wed Feb 24, 2010 11:18 am
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corpusjuris
Posted: Wed Feb 24, 2010 11:47 am
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lantius wrote:
greenlake _is_ heavily man-modified, though. it's not that the natural outlet (ravenna ave) just dried up, the lake shore used to actually extend all the way to the current bordering roads. in the early 20th century they drained water out of it to permanently lower it by 7 feet.
this was around the same time they lowered lake washington by 9 feet, which if you think about how fucking huge lake washington is you'll realize that is a shit ton of water. something like 60 billion gallons.
I've been slowly reading a book (Passport to Ballard) by the local historical society about, well, Ballard, and the chapter on the evolution of the locks is fascinating. I kind of wish they had just gone ahead and cut all the way through Beacon Hill, just to see that today. Apparently there was quite the debate about lowering Lake Washington, as the higher it was left the less dredging was required, but the more extreme the lockage would have to be. Apparently one dude in the 1870's got so pissed at the decades-long debate (Seattle process!) he started to dig the canal by himself. One man.
It didn't work.
That is all?
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lantius
Posted: Wed Feb 24, 2010 12:07 pm
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another big thing caused by creating the locks and making lake union navigable was the removal of the old bridges across the lake.
stone way:
shit was real out on the frontier.
latona:
plus the old fremont bridge, which really wasn't that impressive since before the canal was dug it was a bridge over a mill ditch.
corpusjuris
Posted: Wed Feb 24, 2010 12:29 pm
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Oooh, where'd those photos come from? I can feel my productivity dropping already!
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henry
Posted: Wed Feb 24, 2010 12:34 pm
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gsbarnes
Posted: Wed Feb 24, 2010 5:34 pm
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Green Lake also features the city's 2nd best set of athletic fields built on a former trash dump (the fields near the community center).
Also, that Beacon Hill 'canal' project was pretty clearly a scam designed to create fill for the tideflats. Not only is this clear in retrospect, but (from a biography of R.H. Thompson I recently read), it was clear at the time, and widely reviled as such. Someone got a law passed in the state legislature saying dirt from a canal-digging project could be transferred free of charge to a fill project, and voila, people with land grants in the tideflats suddenly got real interested in canal digging (with gullible investors' money, mostly, although they were also lobbying the feds for $). Until their plots were filled, and then they suddenly lost interest.
To round out my trio of strange-but-true facts, did you know Ravenna Blvd used to be 3 roads: the 2 current one-way boulevards, plus one down the middle (that I think may even have been sunken)?
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Posted: Wed Feb 24, 2010 7:18 pm
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Posted: Wed Feb 24, 2010 7:49 pm
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will be there, will be in full rain attire, will be racing, will have my wits about me. see y'all soon.
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