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18-Nov-2025 Dave

Climbing Mt. Geometry

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Canon Image Challenge25-Nov-2025 11:42
I'll keep my eye out for hawks, Jim. I usually see them along the highway near the building rather than around the building itself.

Dave
Canon Image Challenge24-Nov-2025 17:54
I think vultures are too hard to train. They also don't hunt in the air, and I would think you need a hunter to carry the end of a small rope up to the top.


Jim
Canon Image Challenge24-Nov-2025 12:16
Would you settle for vultures (too spooky?). They seem to be the most numerous bird of prey in the area.

Dave
Canon Image Challenge22-Nov-2025 03:22
Before drones - trained eagles. :-)
Though a good hawk would work as well. And they are easier to train.

Jim
Canon Image Challenge22-Nov-2025 03:13
And if it was hatched on the inside he’d need either a major ladder, scaffolding or most likely a lift to get up there to hook it up. I’ve used all of those more times than I can count and it would be a bear to setup and in that situation because you’d have to seal off and isolate the area for operator and occupants safety. That does make me think and wonder what about a drone? If so then how did they do it before drones. Paul
Canon Image Challenge21-Nov-2025 14:18
Re No Hatch - I am back to my trained eagle to drop the safety rope.

Jim
Canon Image Challenge21-Nov-2025 12:50
No hatch apparent from below.

https://pbase.com/image/175962390

Dave
Canon Image Challenge20-Nov-2025 18:34
T - I saw that too. Kind of a strange shape, though.
That is probably the way in and out.

Jim
Canon Image Challenge20-Nov-2025 17:08
Upper left appears to have a window pane that opens...allowing for the safety harness to be attached to the apex, IMO....Traveller
Canon Image Challenge20-Nov-2025 04:11
They were at it again today. I took another photo and placed it in Pending. I walked to that part of the building hoping to take a shot from directly below, but alas the space was off limits due to some kind of "private event". Maybe tomorrow?

Dave

https://pbase.com/image/175959498
Canon Image Challenge19-Nov-2025 21:53
Paul,
I was thinking of a similar question. All I could think of were crazy nonsensical answers. Things like he could be an expert with a lasso. Or he has a trained eagle to fly it up and drop a loop over the vertical bar. Or ....
Or maybe we don't see the steps up to the top which are on the backside of the roof that we can't see. Or there is an exit door on the backside out of our sight.

Jim
Canon Image Challenge19-Nov-2025 15:26
Since I’ve worked on roofs and in similar situations my strange thought process is how did he get to the peak to connect his fall arresting gear? Surely it’s not continuously left in place and he connects to it at the roofs edge, that in it’s self would be a risk since there wouldn’t be any way to inspect it for corrosion or wear prior to starting his climb. Paul
Canon Image Challenge19-Nov-2025 14:27
Great capture - and a perfect title.

Jim
Canon Image Challenge19-Nov-2025 11:32
It's another part of the same building. Once a large eating area, it is now divided up into several meeting and conference spaces (not too effectively, if you ask me).

Dave
Canon Image Challenge19-Nov-2025 06:09
That's plenty weird. What is it, where is it....the top of your atrium? Traveller