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Bill Mountain 04

So the attempt at communication begins. Slowly. Because… well because. Little or Tiny Wiltshire may hold the big key or giant key.

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Give up building another Billfork, another Lion’s Roar, in favor of communication. But what is already there?

AND now… the communication from yesterday/today. The “before” pictures are mine from Sat. afternoon. The “after” pictures are by Edna at about dusk on Sunday. Drum roll please (because this may be a magic trick of high order).

Before:

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After:

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The old chair skeleton in the first photo had been moved about 6 feet forward and away from the saw.

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I’ve labelled identical trees in the scene A through H.

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Summary: It looks like basically *everything* in that junk pile has been moved in a significant way. The “computer”, as I call it (last 2 pictures above), has been moved and also turned over, and it’s pretty heavy. This was not a weak person. Note: the saw pictured in 1st 2 photos above was not moved.

Since I returned to the scene about 1 to 1:30 Sunday afternoon, the deed had to occur between about dusk Sat. (when I left) and then. So it was either Sat. night or Sun. morning, in essence. This person wanted to make his presence known (crashing sound in woods to my left as I was leaving the junk and heading up the road to a higher pasture area). This person *took* all the white stuff at the junk scene but seemed to leave about all the rest. The white stuff may have all been aluminum, perhaps from an old ladder.

This material stacked up at the edge of the road on Saturday…

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… seems to also have vanished by Sun. afternoon.

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Bill Mountain 03

Continued from Bill Mountain 02.

One more photo from Tiny Wiltshire…

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… before moving almost directly across the dirt road to an unnamed place with rock ruins, perhaps the sight of an old cottage or house. Notice the stacked bricks.

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Back to Rust Spot, as I’ve recently dubbed it, we have a kind of keyhole shaped depression near the same road, and just beyond the place where all the rusty objects were moved about by apparently alien hands this weekend (Rust Spot’s epicenter). It reminds me of the New Pietmond sinkhole, but I don’t think an art event should happen here now, what with all the aliens about. Bill Mountain, at least for the present, has become a no build zone for me. How tempting it would have been to create a new and improved Billfork or Lion’s Roar with all the junk material lying about in the Greater Rust Spot Metro Area. But it’s been claimed, apparently. I’ve met someone on the Other Side now, and have to respect their boundaries and what they’re trying to communicate to me. “We are here! This is *our* stuff. These are *our* shiny things!” (thinking again of how only the shiny objects were actually removed from Rust Spot over the weekend). Which brings us back to Red Dwarf and the alien Cat, who also appreciates and collects shiny things. Instead of Quagaars am I dealing with alien felines instead?? Interesting that the Cat mythology is most fully explained in the same Red Dwarf episode (“Waiting for God”) where Rimmer believes an old Red Dwarf garbage pod is an alien Quagaar capsule.*

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The aforementioned, unofficial hiking/biking road running on the west side of Bill Mountain. The alien was heard loudly stomping through the woods just to the left from my position on the road while taking this shot. It was *not* a deer. A bear, again, could be an explanation, but I’m pretty sure now that the alien wanted me to know he was there, and making a connection to the entity rearranging all the old rusty objects at Rust Spot: One and the same, in other words.

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Entrance into the keyhole shaped sink taken at about the same position as the above picture.

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3 objects on the side of the road not far from the keyhole sink, which, as mentioned in Bill Mountain 04, were removed by my return the next day.

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More objects in Greater Rust Spot, this time on the north edge of the same clearing bordering Rust Spot’s central region.

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Another mysterious object in the same area: the stuffings of an old chair ripped apart and strewn about? Bits of it were lying about in other places of the clearing as well.

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And now we (thankfully!) move away from Rust Spot and into a different space, taking a barely traceable path from the clearing to the stream tumbling down Bill Mountain’s northern side. I don’t have a name for this stream yet, but according to the Bill Mountain map I created yesterday, I do have a name for this particular place depicted in the next several pictures: Twin Falls. The name was chosen because 2 drops in the stream of about the same height (approx. 3-4 feet) occur about 50 feet from each other here. Immediately to their south is some kind of inactive spring or well (2 below pictures). I’ll report back when I’m able to revisit the area.

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The more upstream of the twin falls.

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* Quote from wikipedia’s article on Red Dwarf’s “Waiting for God” episode:

…. Holly tracks an Unidentified Object and brings it aboard. Rimmer believes it to be a stasis capsule carrying a dormant member of an alien race. He even invents a name for this race, “the Quagaars”, and convinces himself that they can give him a new body. After a closer inspection, Lister discovers that the capsule is actually nothing more than a jettisoned Red Dwarf garbage pod. The pod’s lettering was partially obscured by space dust. When he asks Holly why he didn’t tell Rimmer what the pod really was, Holly replies “Well, it’s a laugh, innit?” Lister decides not to tell him either.[6]

And then immediately following this in the article, we have a summary of the main plot of the episode:

Lister learns more about the Cat people’s god, “Cloister the Stupid” who was “frozen in time” to save the Cat race, and informs the openly skeptical Cat that he is their God, only to subsequently become depressed when he learns that the entire Cat race destroyed itself in holy wars over minor details of ‘Fuchal’- the Cat heaven, really based on Lister’s plans to open a hot dog and doughnut shop on Fiji-, and that they lived their lives according to five sacred laws of which Lister himself has broken four. Later, the Cat, who is known to go “investigating”, goes off on one of his excursions, and Lister follows him, deep into the cargo hold. There Lister discovers an old blind cat priest, the only one of their race left other than Cat, who is dying and proclaims that he has lost his faith, feeling that he has wasted his life following Cloister. The priest takes his hat off, asking Cat to burn it. In his final moments, Lister shows up and convinces the priest that he has led an admirable life and has served Cloister well, and as such will reach ‘Fuchal’. Lister takes the hat back from Cat and puts it back on the priest’s head. Convinced by this “miracle”, the Cat Priest joyously exclaims that this is the happiest day of his life and promptly dies.[7]

“Waiting for God” video:

http://www.reddwarf-x.com/portfolio/red-dwarf-s01e04-waiting-for-god/

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Chat

“Bill is friendly. Don’t build on Bill. Bill is a mountain. Billy the Mountain.”

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Thanks Hucka D. I obviously have many questions. How many can you answer?

Hucka D.:

Bill is a psychic entity as you’ve guessed. Knows your photos (smiles). Wanted to let you know he was there… in the woods. But also that he is psychic. It is a he.

bb:

Obviously… well not obviously I suppose, but perhaps we can run to Bill if something dreadful happens in the world. A catastrophe.

Hucka D.:

Attempt to communicate with Bill at the pine trees… get a name for the place. Bill turned over the rock, true, but that’s another photo you took[ and then discarded].

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Hucka D.:

You’re not going to be able to figure out Bill[ right now]. Just don’t build a type of Billfork, a type of Lion’s Roar, on his mountain. He’s doing the same.

bb:

Anything else?

Hucka D.:

You can ask more questions if you like. Not often you make contact like this.

bb:

How old is Bill?

Hucka D.:

Old as the hills. What did you want me to say? (smiles again)

bb:

What’s your involvement with Bill?

Hucka D.:

Intermediary.

bb:

Does Bill have a computer?

Hucka D.:

No. But he wants one.

bb:

Is Bill just me in the future? Giving myself messages?

Hucka D.:

Not really, no.

bb:

Did Bill actually come from Wiltshire, since I’ve just yesterday or so decided I am A. Marlborough Mann?

Hucka D.:

That could play a part.

bb:

I mean, is this a creature or whatever from Savernake Forest, say?

Hucka D.:

Not really. Give credit to the area you live in.

bb:

This is a *response* to Wiltshire.

Hucka D.:

Yes. In a way. Little Witshire[ out there on the side of Bill Mountain].

bb:

Should I attempt to communicate with Bill? Perhaps through Tiny Wiltshire?

Hucka D.:

Tiny… better. Go back to Tiny Wiltshire. *Don’t* disturb anything else there. Think of a reply. Look at the photos you have.

bb:

Thanks!

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Hucka D.:

Don’t build on his mountain. He is paranoid. He has been hurt. He has abilities. Rocks.

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Bill Mountain 02

Continued from Bill Mountain 01…

Echoing those classic Ronco gadget commercials, I say: “But wait, there’s more!” Like this self sharpening knife… sorry, this line of what might be equal spaced pecan nuts with an attached dangle of 3 pine cones. Notice there are no other nuts in the immediate area, nor anywhere nearby that I recall (but I admittedly didn’t check real close for this particular aspect of the phenomenon). Is this some kind of message about the star system that Bill came from, kind of in the spirit of these mid-90s “Galaxy formation” crop circles? If so, is there even a more direct relationship implied, like the nuts are *planets* themselves?

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Another Tiny Wiltshire shot, with the uncrushed bottle pictured in Bill Mountain 01, accompanied by a bone, glinting in the background.

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One of several Tiny Wiltshire humps or mounds projecting from its flat terrain. Should all these have names as well?

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Who knows what messages may still lie hidden within the vast pine needle weave?

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Bramble separating parts of Tiny Wiltshire.

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Broken pine tree branch on western edge of Tiny W.

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And here’s another, central mystery: an overturned T. W. rock that I’d taken pictures of perhaps a year or two ago, but which didn’t turn out well enough to include in my blog. But the thing is, it *wasn’t* overturned at the time. This is another example of something I’d taken a snapshot of, and then was physically tampered with by what have to be human or humanoid hands in the meantime. I don’t think deer could remove the rock. Maybe a bear, but why?

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I turned the rock over to its top side for this picture. Amazing microcosm, eh? And a stark contrast to its bottom side, which appears very plain. Do these rock patterns represent another type of star map? I can’t count this possibility out. Not coming from wild, fantastic Bill Mountain I can’t.

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A larger rock near the formerly overturned one pictured above. This is near the southern end of Tiny Wiltshire, I believe.

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Below this, or just further to the south, we come to the end of Frank Park itself and the beginning of civilization again. Amazing, then, that such magic as Tiny Wiltshire contains is so close. But perhaps it draws at least some of its energy from this proximity; hafta think about that possibility more.

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Some sunset shots from Tiny Wiltshire. Notice the “photograph spirit” in the second picture especially.

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Bill Mountain 01

And so it begins… the road that led to possible contact with an alien being. Quagaars? Well, possibly related. But… anyway let’s get to it.

So the below picture comes from just next to the possible place of contact, which I’ll get to right afterwards. These appear to be old signs of some, identical type. Perhaps now they give the directions (or non-directions) to a type of abyss inside or outside time and space.

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Right behind the signs is this shallow pit containing numerous empty beer cans. All seem quite old, perhaps from the 60s or 70s even. I’ll try to remember and take some pictures of specific cans soon.

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And here we are at The Place itself. It’s just a large pile of old rusty junk — some folding chairs, cabinets perhaps… but what subsequently happens to it in the next 16 hours is the story. See the post Bill Mountain 04 just above.

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More alien-type weirdness: Is this the remains of a beer can? A cup? Hard to tell. The physics in this area didn’t seem to be operating normally.

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A nearby, rock-topped knoll.

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Meadow across the dirt road. This is not a public road of any kind but people do employ it as a sort of unofficial walking and biking trail. I’d say on any given weekend you may have half a dozen visitors to this road.

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I should also add here that I’ve taken pictures of this road for the old Baker Blinker Blog, and featured the higher meadow bordering it (about a quarter mile south of the one pictured above) in the post Seven Stones from back in June 2009. And here’s one more old post about the road, from way back in Spring 2008 now, but with only minimal text involved. And that’s all the posts I have for this area. Surprising, since it’s always been one of my favorite walking places in either park. High time, then, my attention shifted to it for blog purposes. But now there’s the, er, Bill Problem to deal with. First Michael Too, now Bill.

With the below photo, we’ve arrived at a second, fascinating place on Bill Mountain, and possibly another contact site, although of a much more subtle nature at least to this point. This is what Hucka D. and I have decided to call Tiny Wiltshire, after the famous English county that Edna and I plan to partially move to when we get a bit more older and grayer, perhaps when I’m about 65. Wiltshire County is one of the most amazing places on Planet Earth for certain, being home to an incredible quantity and quality of crop circles during the spring and summer months of each and every year, no exceptions. I’d estimate that 50 percent of all the world’s crop circles have been found here.

What does this have to do with so-called Tiny Wiltshire in my immediate neighborhood? Well, a considerable number of crop circle enthusiasts feel that the circlemakers, as they are popularly called, are attempting to make a safe and meaningful link between humanity and their own, extraterrestrial or extradimensional culture through patterns in grains. Likewise, Tiny Wiltshire may be a place of contact with Bill, another possible alien entity. My first clue about the latter contact came through this juxtaposition of a plastic bottle and bone underneath one of the many pine trees in the designated location. Almost all of Tiny Wiltshire is enveloped in a bed of brown needles fallen from these trees, and also the area is quite flat in comparison to most of the surrounding terrain. Perhaps this makes the location a natural gathering place for blown-in objects such as the bottle pictured below…

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… and also this more crushed bottle not far away. But I wouldn’t bet on it. The bottle below seems unnaturally crushed, for example, as if all the air had been sucked out. More evidence of that Bill Mountain weird-o physics perhaps?

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And what of this bottom half of a beer can nearby, seemingly twisted and wretched from its larger top part instead located in a neighboring patch of needles? Does this seem like the actions of a normal forest?

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Continue to Bill Mountain 02.

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Far Western Frank Park

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Middle Trident Stream 02

Nice shot of First Cascade, as we’ll call it, described in Middle Trident Stream 01.

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And here’s Second Cascade from a similar angle, with the actual cascade in this case hidden or tucked within a diagonal fissure. Although it doesn’t surfacely appear as impressive as First Cascade from these photos, it’s actually considerably larger, and probably the most significant and important of the 4 cascades as a whole. This day, I decided not to re-visit the lower 2 of the 4 in this series.

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Small pool at the bottom of 2nd Cascade, not as impressive as the one that 1st Cascade empties into.

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Rock pilings at the bottom that seem to indicate past human intervention. Again I must reinforce we are in a quite remote area of Frank and Herman Parks, perhaps the most remote taken as a whole. I doubt these cascades have received many human visitors. Which makes these rock pilings more curious.

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We now move to a totally new find, a previously unknown tributary or second fork of Middle Trident Creek I call the Foreign One or perhaps The Arab or simply The Fourth. It may represent the most remote stream in the parks, and a source of extreme mysteries. This stream meets up with Middle Trident Ck. not far upstream from The Cascades. The below picture is of a small drop of water defined by a quartz veined rock at the bottom.

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This larger drop is a couple 100 feet more upstream, and is also highlighted by rocks with prominent quartz veins. I believe I’ll call it Quartz Cascade, and I was originally tempted to name the involved stream itself Quartz Creek before just then settling on Foreign One (or Arab or Fourth). In total, I hiked several football fields worth of length up Foreign One, following its siren lure and then breaking the trance luckily before it was too late. The trip down was rougher than expected, as is always the case when following upstream siren lures. I should know better by now. But I’m here, writing these words, back safe in Blue Mountain with my wife and cats and comfortable house and job. I made it back.

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Middle Trident Stream 01

This amazing hike unfurled several weeks back. Apologies for the delay in generating the text for the photos here. On this weekend I decided to try out a section of a popular local trail that I usually don’t hike. The following weekend, I would return to the same section, but from the opposite direction, and meeting up basically where I ended this first excursion, as it turned out. But the trail is not the big story here, but off-trail excursions leading from it. The first major find was a flat ridge area — a platform as I have come to call them recently — that could be yet another site for a future campground or art event of some sort. The trail I mentioned before crosses this platform on its southern side, not far from where it starts to flatten out during its projection away from a parent mountain. Not unexpectedly, the northern end of the platform ends in steep descents on all remaining sides, but with only the western side relatively free of brush and rhododendron, or at least free enough to walk down to the rushing creek below. The creek is what I call Middle Trident, and as the name implies, there appears to be 3 streams of roughly the same size that gush from the extreme western slops of Frank Park, making their way down to a common flow. The streams fan out below this commonality, roughly forming the shape of a downward pointing 3 pronged trident or head of such, as classically associated with the Roman God Neptune. The names Lower Trident, Middle Trident and Upper Trident for these streams, north to south, is made more apt by the fact that tributaries merging into a single stream are often called prongs. This general area is possibly the wildest and most remote part of Frank and Herman Parks as a whole.

The picture below represents interesting fungi found on Middle Trident Creek, shortly before a sharp descent in 4 distinct drops or cascades. Collectively this descent represents one of the largest drops of water in Frank and Herman Parks. A truly amazing place.

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This is not one of the 4 cascades just brought up, but a smaller falls just upstream, and about at the same location as the fungi pictured before it.

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Here we have the first of the 4 major cascades, looking down from a perch near the top to a large pool dividing this from the next drop in the series just downstream.

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And here is a view from the top of the second and probably largest cascade. Difficult to capture in a photo how impressive these cascades are in person.

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Top of the second cascade again.

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A look back from the same spot toward the first and uppermost cascade.

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Middle Trident Stream 02.

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December 2012, Weekend 02

Sorry… a lot of time has passed since I took this hike; almost a month.

Below we have a sad story: the Red Queen hemlock next to TILE Creek in Herman Park, mentioned in several Baker Blinker Blog posts, has fallen down. Compare with a picture here.

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A beautiful Frank Park meadow close to Cache Creek.

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There’s an especially interesting, narrow ridge just off its upper end terminating in a rock face. I promise to come back soon for more photos.

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Moving about a mile or 2 west in Frank Park, we return to Gene Fade’s Mountain for more exploring. The big find of the day, as I recall, are some quite large rocks positioned in the middle of two batches I’d already known about. Again, I don’t have any proper names for these places yet, and once again I’ll get back here soon enough I’m sure. More stories then.

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In the distance of the below picture we have what I believe is a icosahedron shaped tent, most likely set up for deer hunting purposes. This lies outside the borders of Frank Park, but too close for comfort still.

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Another pic pertaining to the 80 fence post artwork discovered in November.

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O… M… G….

This is something that blew my mind. Remember all that talk about Michael Too in this new blog and also the Baker Blinker Blog? We’ll he just up and disappeared last year, and I went around coffee shops and such, asking where he was. He lived in the woods of both Frank and Herman Parks (2 different sites I stumbled upon at different times), and also created what I call the Dongoba stone temples beside the Norris stream, I believe, a very significant find for me last Fall. I mean, I’ve talked about him a *lot* in these blogs the past year and a half.

Just checked Yahoo news and this story came up at the top of the page. This is most definitely the same guy! SHOCKERS! No question about the identity, because the name of my Michael was Michael Smith as well, and… well, it’s *him*.

http://news.yahoo.com/mans-home-14-foot-canoe-boston-harbor-072630143.html

I’m sure I’ll have more to say about this later.

SHOCK.

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