SATURDAY	April 30, 2011
Jef and Hank just came up from San Diego on Saturday (departing SD 7:15am, arriving SD SUN 1:30am). All pix on this page taken by Jefe on his Olympus Tough -- only digital camera he's had that lasted a full year with no problems! However, just as cool fireworks commenced, battery died, so camera was only working 8 of 10 hours, but he did manage to capture a few good cannon shots and some good concert footage. He played with Movie Maker and used more features (in Version 2) than version 1 or last movies from 5 or so years ago. He is still working on editing content as he gets time, but most is represented here now. Notes on the ride up. Hank and Jef stopped at Astroburger, now a Mexican restaurant. The Astroburger is still on the menu, but is not the same and the price is now up to $8.50, too much for Hank, so they turned around and left the empty eatery on the busy weekend.
WIND Not much on Saturday, but very much so Friday night
Whirlwind on the dry lake	Raymo's shade blew over several times this weekend	PANORAMAS: Click on any of these PANORAMAS (or mid-sized panoramas below) to get a 200+° view of the camp
altho target is in this picture, as well as the entire camp, it is hard to distinguish it - near bottom of far ridge, just to left of near ridge at right camp as seen from cannon area
Bowling Ball Mortar M.C.: T. Cassidy
Gathering for BBM shoot Mojave Aster in foreground	This one is too tight a fit! Paco filing down circumference as others wait around new ignition backpack Marko test fitting new slimmer bowling ball	Hanging around near new BBM launch site After bowling ball gets airborne (getting shot up over 1000'), some smoking wadding comes back to earth
Cannons M.C.s: Flaco & Marko
L=Flaco's, R=Marko's Cannons located near shooting table View from cannons to 500yd target after near miss kicked up some dust Target after near miss Twilight gallery	Aiming Mark's cannon takes teamwork! Whack it with a hammer! Still working at it Gallery forming Not a big gallery. John & Raymo It's cannon shooting time! Cannon shot with a small gallery	After shooting View from main camp Shortly after Flaco's shot Shortly after Mark's shot Cannon shooting! These are first 4 frames of twilight shot.
Other guns Hank, et. al.
Hank's wife bought him this Moser for a gift in 2005...	... and just recently remembered where she hid it!	50 cal with illuminated ordinance ...after flash stopped at target
PAPA DON MEMORIAL and seek-and-find trip to target Hank, Jef, etc.
4 Lead miners lead the way - about 10 bullets were found on this trip Papa Don's memento buried directly under center of target	Never seen target damage before? Hank holding Papa Don memento. Jef suggested putting Hank's chip, signed by Papa Don, directly under the target, where it is now buried. He put a marker cannon slug (Mark's, with cone exposed) on top to mark it. Papa Don often went on one of these cannonball seeking trips. The chip was used as a $5 chip and was signed by Don to differentiate it from a 10 cent chip. RIP our poker playing buddy, Papa Don, who attended many cannon parties before boycotting them just after Rassmussen's wedding in Utah. Probably due to having too much contact with one or 2 who sometimes attended the cannon partys.	Chip next to 2 found bullets Flaco, Jefe (indicating Papa Don's ghost must be a rascally devil!), and Hank
WILDFLOWERS Wildflowers were still around due to rainy winter
Some kind of bristly gilia taken near target	Probably a "Goldenhead" Desert dandelion Local "belly flower" probably a Blazing Star	Mojave aster (taken near BBM) Trumpet eriogonum
SINGERS Flaco & Hank
Hank	Flaco	Tom Cowan? Mark Hank Paco
NIGHTFALL
Small firework going off	Gathering around one of the campfires	... as said above, this is when my camera ran out of batteries. Actually after a movie of a failed ignition of an exploding target -- actually succeeded after the battery ran out.