Palomar Mountain News

From: Julie McEntee and Peggy Cross

Everyone is welcome to our community evening of fun tomorrow night Thursday, December 9th!

Many elves have volunteered to help get ready to have a great time getting to know neighbors while spreading Christmas Cheer!

Thanks to Terri and Vandy Bailey and Crew that  will decorate  the Lodge for our Christmas Party!

Hooray to cement mason David Brooks who repaired two of the stairs. Glenn Borland will have the water and power on for us. Cecilia Borland and Lorne Moore cleaned off the tables and chairs and have everything ready for the Decorating Crew to wave their magic wands in the morning!  Ovens are warming up for homemade cookies and appetizers.  Ken, (Peggy’s husband) has his guitar tuned and will have a stack of songbooks to share.  Be sure and bring your flash light!

You don’t want to be out in the cold?  That is ok!  Robert and Anita Carlyle are not interested in being cold either so they volunteered to “tend the fire” at the Lodge and YOU are welcome there too after 6 pm.  They will have Christmas Music playing and you can join them relaxing by the fire.

Carolers can meet at the following times:

6:00 at the Cross’ home at the Conference Center 760 742-1937 

6:20 ish at the Phelps’ Square House on State Park Road where you can climb in Don’s horse trailer (dress warm and bring your blankets) and sit on bales of hay OR you can car pool with others in heated vehicles (ah, luxury)  760 742-1742

Then we are off to Bailey Meadow Road where we will Carol and maybe even pick up a few folks to come along!

Our next stop will be going up Crestline where we see lights on!  We’ll carol, and you can join us if you’d like.

We plan to end up at the Lodge (at the end of Crestline Road on the left) sometime around 8:30 for hot cider, hot chocolate, coffee (ok, decaf), appetizers and desserts.  There will be some fun prizes too! 

Hope you can join us!  Merry Christmas and God Bless you everyone!

Julie 742-3763  and Peggy 742-1937

Anyone out there have an old photo to share of Sam Striplin who lived down in Pedley Valley almost a century ago?  See note below from his great, great, great-nephew.

From: Tom Striplin

I am doing genealogy research on my family and my GGG uncle Samuel Striplin lived in the Pedley Valley on Palomar Mountain and once owned an old sawmill.  He is listed in some of the document works by Peter Bruggeman.  I was wondering if you ever heard his name and what I was really searching for is a photo of him.  I have been looking at quite a few documents and references but nothing yet.

Sincerely,

Tom Striplin  www.striplinfamily.com

  Merrily, Merrily!  Here we go a-Caroling!

Bundle up and join us on a caroling hay-ride

followed by fire-side fun at the Palomar Mountain Lodge!

This Thursday, December 9th

You have several options for hooking up with us:

6:00 Meet in the Christian Conference at the home of Ken and Peggy Cross and carpool to  

the Phelps’ Square House on State Park Road across from the County Road Station

6:20 Meet at the Phelps where you have your choice of riding inside a vehicle or on a trailer sitting on bales of hay.

 We’ll be caroling along the way and will arrive at the Lodge about 7:30

From the Lodge we will walk to a few homes for caroling and plan to be back to the Lodge about

8:30 We’ll have a warm fire waiting for us inside the Palomar Mountain Lodge – Everyone welcome!

Hot Chocolate, Coffee and some amazing home-made cookies

Bring: Your family, friends, a quilt for the hay ride, and flash lights.

Dress warm and come enjoy meeting your mountain neighbors!

And, have yourself a very Merry Christmas!

Thanks to Mike and Sue Stevens we have a Christmas Progressive Potluck Dinner planned for Saturday night, December 18th! 

It was Mike’s Big 5-0 a few weeks ago and they had such a fun birthday bash.  A few days later Mike called saying they would like to meet more of their mountain neighbors and host the main course of a Progressive Dinner.  Mike promises his homemade Venison Chili and Sue has authored a cookbook and has a cornbread planned for us to enjoy at their Upper Meadow Ranch.  Sounds good to me! Very good!      

This is where YOU come in!  We are looking for someone to host Appetizers and another home for Dessert.  Are you game?  It has been so fun in the past with different people bringing their favorite specialities to contribute…    

Appetizers could even be at a small cabin because it could be more of a come-and-go Open House.  Then we’ll have a set time to show up at Mike and Sue’s where they have lots of room for a crowd.  How about it?  And, who wants to host the yummy desserts?  Let’s talk about it!   

Bonnie and Don  760 742-1742

(Beautiful photo, isn’t it?  Taken on Palomar at Bel Sito by Mary Ann Robinson. Thanks Mary Ann!)

Subject: RX on Palomar Mountain
Just wanted to inform you that we are going to do a prescribed pile burn in the Palomar Observatory Campground on Dec. 2nd and 3rd.  

Alberto Lara
Engineer 36
Palomar Ranger District
Cleveland National Forest
alara@fs.fed.us
Work (760) 742-3491 (Summer)
Alt. Work (760) 782-3472 (Winter)

Everyone is invited to an evening of Christmas Carols on the Mountain.  Dutch Bergman will be leading with his guitar and has song sheets for you to sing along or just enjoy the music ushering in the Christmas Season.

Sunday Evening, December 5th, 2010

6:29 pm at Round House Ranch  760 742-5022 

Directions: From the Summit, take the road to the left which is State Park Road.  Go just over a mile.  You will see the big metal buildings on the left of the County Road Station. On the right is a round sign: Fern Meadow Road.  Turn right and drive to the top and turn right at the big stone wall.  Drive up to the Round House. Lots of parking. Come one, come all!

Subject: [PMVFD] Next Board Meeting and Agenda

The next board meeting, will be held on Saturday, December 4, 2010, at 10:00 a.m. at the fire station. Everyone is welcome to attend.

Click for the agenda:  PMVFD 120410 AGENDA

Palomar Mountain Volunteer Fire Department
21610 Crestline Road
Palomar Mountain, CA, 92060

I turned around a message recently from Jim Billups and for fun clicked on his website.  WOW!   From his home workshop on Palomar, Jim produces products that have gone into space!  Dutch Bergman has done the welding at his barn  on the Mountain.  Isn’t that cool!?!  I asked Jim for a little more info to share with you.  Keep reading to learn about what he creates and check out the You Tube video!  Very fun!

From Jim:   

Building a calibration mechanism for the POLAR BEAR telescope currently.  Was built by UCBerkeley, UCSanDiego, and many others.  Was at White Mountain, up on the east side of the Owens Valley; currently being moved to one of the telescope sights in Chile,  the Atacama Desert in fact. 

Also have a small series of solar arrays which will fly in Antarctica late this month, the BARREL project, UCBerkeley and Dartmouth.  If that is successful we will provide another 200 solar arrays to the project over the next couple of years.  Dutch Bergman welded all those for us.  Also, he welded the frames for the SUNRISE project, NCAR Boulder CO and Max Planck, Germany.  Those were good size frames.  Along with some frames for the CREAM project which has been flying in Antarctica (separate yearly flights) for the past five years.  SUNRISE flew out of Sweden. 

Haven’t update my site for about 6x years; many links are not there.  Been meaning to revamp the site, but I am using old MicroSoft FrontPage, fairly obsolete.  Even my server in the Bay area, does not support it any longer.  Have to pick up some bare bones software, no frills.  Just have not got around to it yet.  Maybe when there is a couple of feet of snow on the ground, I will feel the ‘nudge’.

This will give you an idea of what these balloons are all about.  At float, 130Kft into the stratosphere, the balloon will expand to 450ft in diameter; pretty big when you think about a 300ft football field.  They, NASA, launch these balloons from Texas, New Mexico, Antarctica, Australia, and Sweden.  The Antarctic flights are circumpolar, the US born flights are just 24-48hrs.  Australian flights go from Alice Springs to the coast,  Swedish flights terminate in Western Canada. 

Typically, these are astrophysical instruments: studies on black holes, solar magnetic fields, Cosmic Microwave Background (Big Bang), etc. 

This is a clip of the SUNRISE launch in Sweden last year.  Typical launch.  We build the power system, including the solar arrays noticeable at launch with Dutch Bergman’s welding talents.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d4Rz7c0NJSE

Jim Billups

760.390.3065

www.meer.com

From: Rebecca Schultz

You are invited to drop off your All Green Electronics Recycling for FREE

Saturday,  Dec 4th

9am-4pm at Pauma Valley Country Club

Rebecca Schultz
Promotions and Events Coordinator
All Green Electronics Recycling
www.AllGreenRecycling.com
Office:   (800)780-0347   Mobile:  (949)606-4717
Fax: (949)859-7313
15561 Del Amo Ave.
Tustin, Ca 92780
e-Steward Electronic Recycler

Please watch these videos to learn about the importance of All Green’s e-Stewardship:
http://vimeo.com/10383952
http://www.youtube.com/watch? v=cVORBbZBbOk

There are more and more turkeys out and about these days!  Here is one that is escaping the table sent to us by Mike Stevens.  Thanks to Mike who also sent this link about turkeys in the back country!

Happy Turkey Day to All!

Bonnie Phelps