Re: RC: Solstice Full Moon

[Nancy DuPont <Htrails@Earthlink.net>]

>Date: Sun, 12 Dec 1999 20:59:06 -0800
>To: Teddy Lancaster <teddy@runningbear.com>
>From: Nancy DuPont <Htrails@Earthlink.net>
>Subject: Re: RC:   Solstice Full Moon
>
>The Juan Bautista De Anza National Historic Trail is designated a national
millennium Trail.  It starts in Horcasitas, Sonora Mexico to Nogales, Tubac,
Tucson, West to Yuma, San Diego County, Anza Borrego Desert, Coyote Canyon,
Anza, Hemet, then to Riverside, ONtario, Los Angeles, then up the coast
following the Missions, finally to San Francisco then to Contra Costa
County.  Captain Anza led 268 colonists from Mexico (then called New Spain)
to California to found the city we know as San Francisco The Presidio and
Mission Dolores. It passes through many Indian Reservations along the way.
>
>At 02:33 PM 12/12/99 -0500, you wrote:
>>Where is this trail?  I find this wonderfully fascinating.  Makes me wish I
>>lived back then...a simpler more honest life.
>>
>>Teddy
>>
>>Nancy DuPont wrote:
>>
>>> Regarding the Solstice, I learned in Yuma at the Indian Ceremonial Grounds
>>> that Indians were very wise and informed about the solstice.  This
>>> ceremonial plateau had a trail track with rocks at each end and if you stand
>>> in the middle of the track, the moon rises at one end of the track above the
>>> rocks and the sun at the other.  VERY Eerie. There were more than 2500
>>> educational petroglyphs on the rocks that told of earth's beginnings and
>>> they used these to teach their young.  The archeologist that took us there
>>> was concerned that no motorized found this area, as one tire would destroy
>>> 2000 years of impressions on this plateau. This is on the Anza Trail.
>>>
>>> At 05:10 PM 12/11/99 -0800, you wrote:
>>> >For those Ridecampers who like to look UP as well as at  the trail ahead
>>> >(;-)),  the full moon at the winter solstice (Dec. 22) is the first such
>>> >joint event since 1866.   NOT ONLY THAT!   The moon is at lunar perigee
>>> >(point in moon's irregular orbit that is closest to the earth), so that
>>> >it will appear 14% larger than it does at apogee (point in orbit farthest
>>> >from earth).  PLUS -- the earth is closer to the sun in our winter
>>> >season, so sunlight striking the moon will be a few percentage points
>>> >stronger, thus brighter.  (Night riders should guard against moonbeam
>>> >burn <G>)
>>> >   As a historical note, in December 1866 the Lakota Sioux took advantage
>>> >of the full solstice moon to stage a devastating retaliatory ambush on
>>> >soldiers in the Wyoming Territory.
>>> >   Looking ahead,  the January  full moon will go through a total eclipse
>>> >-- not exactly a "riding moon."   Regards,  Connie B
>>> >
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>>--
>>Teddy Lancaster
>>AERC# 139422 - Member since 1974
>>6000+ career miles
>>
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Nancy DuPont, Executive Director
Heritage Trails
1350 Castle Rock Road
Walnut Creek, CA 94598

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