One of the favorite claims of the M.A.L.adies is that Marc Adamus isn't really, as he says, an avid outdoorsman, that he isn't a mountaineer, and that all his claims to go to great extremes of backpacking to get his images are merely more of his supposed "lies."
Well, personally, I'd be delighted to have that proven true! Since I am not an avid mountaineer myself, and am undoubtedly not in the physical condition for multi-week backpacking trips in the wilderness, I'd love to find out that those "remote" locations from Adamus's images are all easily reached by car, and that those spectacular mountain landscapes can, in fact, be photographed from the side of a convenient highway!
So, here's this challenge: Take a look at the following three Adamus landscapes (one, two, and three), all of which certainly appear to have been taken miles from nowhere. Identify where they are located. Let me know the nearest approach by paved road. And give me directions, and tell me the length and elevation gain of any hike to reach that location from the nearest paved roadside pullout or parking lot.
For the sake of fairness, if you can show that each of these is located ten miles or less hiking distance (one-way) from a paved road, and that said hike will have a total elevation gain of less than 1000', I will grant you that Adamus may be exaggerating his wilderness abilities. If, however, you can't show such a thing, you withdraw your claims that Marc Adamus doesn't really go to great distances (literally) to bring home his images. So, how about it? (Oh, who am I kidding? The gutless M.A.L.adies never meet their challenges...just as they never back up their claims....or show their own photographs...or...)
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I have been to two of those locations (approximately) and they ain't no joke! What a sicko!
ReplyDeleteNot to excuse the sicko at MAL, but Marc does occasionally exagerate his treks. So what, he still goes to great lengths to get his shots. The Rainier shot is within close range to a road, a paved road circles Rainier.
ReplyDeleteFWIW, while there are a circle of state routes encircling Rainier, the highest point you can get to by road is around 6,500 feet. According to the notes on that photo, it was taken at 9,000 feet. So, in other words, it was at least a hike with a half-mile vertical elevation gain, which qualifies as "strenuous" in my book. Also, it was taken at sunset, which would imply that either he camped up there overnight, or had a very tricky descent in the dark. (I guess my standard for a difficult hike is one that would leave me saying "no ****in' way!" to doing it myself.)
ReplyDeleteHey, we all love stories, so who cares if they are stretched slightly once in a while. For a large part, that is what story telling is about anyway. Don't people remember the fish stories? That sicko at the other site is just that, mentally ill. You don't have to go technical on everyone just because you are flooded with jealousy. Recently, the person(s) was all over Marc because Marc said he had backpacked into some dunes that were not a long distance from a road. WHO CARES you @!@#$%#$%*$^%*!!! You throw a backpack on, full of equipment, camera and tripod and you hike all over the place looking for photos. That is backpacking around to most. Only jealousy motivates such mentally disturbed people to hypocritically pick apart every word of someone and get so technical. A smear/slander campaign is all it is. I'm sure this person(s) is going to have to get even more "technical" in the court of law soon.
ReplyDeleteI'd like to investigate this "Marc exaggerates his wilderness adventures" idea further, if you'd ablidge. I'd like to see if anyone out there can find one single image story of mine that they think is 'exaggerated', and allow me to offer my input. Maybe we'll both learn something?
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Oh, there's a good one. The dunes backpack. Well, these dunes (you'll just have to look at a map) are a bit over 2 miles from the road. They are not well known. Backpacking (with camping gear) is also my preferred method of travel, as I'd rather spend time out under the stars and in the natural landscape than under the roof of my car. Backpacking was also no more than a footnote in my description of this trip, I should add. I've been known to backpack 1/4 mile and stay the night, but those treks generally go unmentioned.
ReplyDeleteAnd the Rainier shot: That one actually WASN'T more than 10 miles from the car. It was about 6. It was a 5000 foot elevation gain though, and taken on Ptarmigan ridge, on Mount Rainier (starting at Mowich Lake), crossing a smaller glacier and several steep talus slopes to get there. Not a tremendously grueling excerise, but a memorable one indeed. I could show you hundereds of images of mine taken 10 miles from the road if you were interested though.
Marc
Way to go Marc. Sorry these idiots are so repulsively deceitful.
ReplyDeleteProve it marc............post those proof shots. I think you are full of cr*p!!!
ReplyDeleteit's amazing that the sad and empty little man at MAL can find nothing better to do with his {by his own admission even} waking and breathing God-given life than devote it to such an innane waste. The reason he is so hidden & paranoid is because we'd probally find a lonely cubicle dwelling dork who never got picked for T-ball or dates, whose life grows increasingly dismal each morning as he looks in his compulsivly cleaned mirror and sees his belly expand while his chest sinks and his hairline receeds; all dreams of a meaningful life growing flaccid with each routine day. His co-workers mock him, his boss ignores him, his father never respected him or supported him. His life is that of the pathetic lonely pariah. He tried in a last ditch effort to be happy and to spend his income on photography cause it's not like his dance card was hoppin. He wanted to take "real" pictures to express his self-worth and mastery over a world that just wouldn't love him.Sadly his contrived captures proved as bland & ignored as his own life as art Always reflects soul. No one loved them save him. But ten, wot hey, this younger guy comes along with a life of support and grace and people flock to him! Shocking! The nerve of the world! People liking what they want to enjoy without consulting him!! Like the snivelling hated child he was, who always tried to get attention by correcting everyone right or wrong, this sad little man cannot get over his own wallowing ineptiude enough to admit that, yes... his photography does suck. His empty shell of a life easily became consumed with the parasitic rage of envy and he attacks Marc, all the while missing the irony that his ranting only distances him from the love and reality he used to crave. He is now enjoying his stolen "15 minutes", because hey, it's something. Beats going home and eating TV dinners alone while watching TNG reruns. And with a feverishly sick gleam in his eye and wet armpits, his original reason has become lost. He has become his own delusion. He even has a shrine to Marc at home... a shabby pile of information, garnered in laughably ignorant homoerotic zeal, because he can't even post it on his wall like a decent stalker. Sadly, none of this will make daddy come back or love him like he should have. In fact, if he bothers to look deep inside he knows his daddy is disgusted with this latest charade. But it's too late to stop now, huh, champ? Cause when you quit the Dark Side you will have nothing left but the knowledge that you've been nothing but a sad and smarmy little worthless douche. Yea. I can almost see your point and why you continue to nurture this laughable tirade. Sucks to be you, little man.
ReplyDelete(August 7 Post above)LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
ReplyDeleteDEAD ON RIGHT!
That person is downright dangerous. Hopefully they get shuttled somewhere were they can be of no harm or danger to anyone but themselves anymore.