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Maybe these should be the RED mascots?

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This footage for this edit was not filmed with the RED, but I WILL film these RED fish with the RED camera one day soon.

(to the link to the video)
http://www.mediamax.com/elizabeth0077/Hosted/-Sockeye movie.mov
 
Where did you shoot that?

There is a small river (Truckee River) that feeds Lake Tahoe and when the Salmon spawn I remember as a kid that I thought I could walk across the river and never get my feet wet. It was an amazing sight.
 
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Funny that you should say that ... as I type, I am one mile from the banks of the Truckee River ...

However these RED salmon (Sockeye) were filmed in a small spawning stream running into Kukaklek Lake in Katmai National Park on the Alaska Peninsula. This area hosts one of the last "intact" wild salmon fisheries left in the world.

However, the fish you're remembering are the Kokanee salmon, which are an introduced land lock Red Salmon that live in Lake Tahoe and spawn in the creeks. I believe that only a few creeks support the masses of salmon that you can recall; Taylor Creek on the South Shore is the most significant.

Being able to see this really does leave a lasting impression!
 
Taylor Creek...yea thats the one (on the South Shore near Emerald Bay). I remember hiking the trails and watching the bears feast.

I grew up in South Tahoe and that is my favorite memory as a child...either that or hiking up to Angora lakes and watching the older kids jump off the cliffs.
 
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I grew up in Squaw Valley ... what an incredible blessing it was to be a child there at that time, yes?

I have also gone into the Desolation and jumped the cliffs (naked).:clown2: :turned: :whistling:
 
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I am in Alpine Meadows in the same storm .. nice one! It is finally really coming down! Beautiful & worth the wait.

Ha! I just had a parallel thought that this is just how RED owners #101 - #300 must be feeling right now! For all the painful anticipation then waking up to 2ft of snow on Christmas morning and knowing with out any doubt that Santa Claus is real!

So Nathan, you worked with Jerry Dugan on the RED Reno shoot?
I have worked with him quite a lot in the past, but not for a while. I would like to hear about your impressions of the camera at work in the field. Note: I have read Dino's post about the cold factor, so you don't have to cover that ground. You can PM me if you want to talk over the phone.

Cheers! e.
 
Elizabeth said:
I grew up in Squaw Valley ... what an incredible blessing it was to be a child there at that time, yes?

I have also gone into the Desolation and jumped the cliffs (naked).:clown2: :turned: :whistling:
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yes...growing up in Tahoe was unbelievable (I went to school in South Tahoe from K-10th grade at South Tahoe High)

so you are the one that scared me as a kid...I have that image burned in my head.

I just spent a week at Angora w/ my family in the cabins on the upper lake. It was awesome reliving my childhood w/ my kids.
 
LOL! Yep! It could have been me (I was a pretty scary kid!) but I certainly was not the only one leaping and I was not the one jumping from the highest launch points. Growing up in the Sierra was great, I grew to really appreciate the wilderness and mountains of the world (Alaska)!

Where are you now?
 
I am in Louisiana...far away!

Its odd when I go back to South Shore...its like time travel, the town is exactly the same. The building moratorium froze SLT in time.
 
That is one of the joys of the place and also one of the curses.

I travel a lot but this area will ALWAYS be home! I love seeing the people I have known for so long ... deep roots and all that.

Yet at the same time, there are a few people at the local bars that have been sitting at the same bar stools for 30 years .. WOW! Try to get out more!

I will keep coming back.

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The place makes even a hasty snapshot look good!
 
The BEST!!
I've known the Hildinger family since I was a kid, Jim taught me and my sister music in elementary school. I have a bunch of his photography hanging on my walls too. Great family and a wonderful place to spend a week in the cabins (if you can get in)

Some pics from last summer:
 
Gloria was in my ping pong class in the spring. I was working with them for about 3 weeks before I got out of school, then I fell longboarding on ski run, and couldn't walk for a month... They are all really nice. What elementary school did you go to? I went to Sierra House. What year did you graduate from South Tahoe High?
 
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LOL! Growing up in the Sierra was great, I grew to really appreciate the wilderness and mountains of the world!
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I love your photos, Greg! Thanks. They illustrate my point perfectly. I personally think that every child should spend at least one summer swimming in the clear waters and climbing on the granite rocks of the Sierra. It teaches them right.

Your kids are so lucky you still get to bring them here.

Who knew that a silly edit of some red fish would evoke such a nice connection.

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Its funny, I tell my wife about the Salmon spawning and how I thought I could walk across the creek w/o getting my feet wet and she thinks I'm crazy. Every time I have taken her to Tahoe...no Salmon spawning.
 
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