[philmont] The old and the new

Speaking of pictures, does anyone have one of a plaque at Philmont dedicated to Zeke Palnick who served as Jewish chaplin for about thirty years and died in 2006? Mrs. Palnick started the summer working at Philmont but had left for health reasons before I got there in mid-July. I have a friend who knew the Palnicks growing up and I told him I would try to get a picture of the plaque while at Philmont this summer. Unfortunately, I didn't find it before we hit the trail and forgot about it after we returned to base camp.
Thanks,
Charlie Evans
ASM T-72
Fayetteville, GA
Lead Advisor 714-CV '07
Advisor 702-G '04

----- Original Message -----
  From: John LeBlanc
  To: philmont List Member
  Sent: Wednesday, August 22, 2007 1:52 PM
  Subject: [philmont] The old and the new

        I'm always looking at photographs of places at Philmont that are similar images to the ones I took in August 1959.

        For that trek, my dad splurged and bought me a then new Kodak Starmatic camera. It was size 127 film and had an electric eye to set exposure which he felt important as he never mastered guestimation of light values.

        He also bought me 8 rolls of B & W film and 2 rolls of color film for a total of 120 pictures, a mere sampling by todays digital cameras for a 12 day trip.

        I saved one roll of color film for the top of Clear Creek Mountain, now Mt. Phillips.

        Several of the guys had their families 35mm cameras and that got me interested in those which I confess I still use. Photographs just don't get any better than those taken with the old Nikon F manuals.

        On our 2002 trip there, the camera I was carrying crapped out at Clear Creek so I have only a few shots from the top of Phillips courtesy Fred Muessler who I met on this list and at Philmont at Clear Creek.

        So, I'm always looking for pix to compare.

        The best photograph I have in my 48 year old album is one taken beside the trail near the top of Mt Phillips looking toward Clear Creek camp from which we came. It shows Baldy in the distance with the trail looking like it's heading straight for it.

        To see what it looks like, go to
        http://www.panix.com/~jederahi/PM/MYIMG/r619.jpg

        From this photograph I believe the photographer and I were probably standing only 20-30 feet apart when we took the pictures 45+ years apart.

        Now look at the above picture. Those same bushes in the foreground to the right of the trail are shown on mine, only a little smaller but not much.

        Look down the trail about 100 yards, the bush nearest the trail on the left appears in mine, only a little smaller.

        See the scattered small bushes starting about 30 feet out next to the trail and angling off at about 10:00 oc'lock , those small ones do not appear in my photograph. They are recent additions to the landscape.

        Changes in the landscape by comparing similar photographs from different times has always fascinated me. What we often think of as static and "solid as a rock" isn't quite that way.

        But one similarity, the cloud pattern is exactly the same. Maybe it's the same clouds you think?

        One of these days, I'll scan my old pix and post them for all to see, but until then you'll just have to take my word for it.

        John LeBlanc
       

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