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EP7 & EP8 : " You Look Ridiculous: I Don't Roll With The Punches, I Punch"
Chateau d If:
Okay, now I'm getting somewhere.
They built a new track after the Google image was taken. From their website, brought to us by Slowhatch, I found some images of the new track and spectator structure that the Weavers and Godlewskis are seen at.
The photo with the big crowd is showing the backside of the spectator structure. Our teams were looking out the frontside.
The Godlewskis were basically looking in the direction that the blue arrow is coming from.
The Weavers were standing near the tip of the steel barricade. At the end that is closest to the camera in the recent aerial shot.
What this means is that East is to the Godlewskis left (sort of, there is that angle in the barrier) The steel beams that support the roof in the Godlewski shot point to the south. They are perpendicular to the long white building in the Google Earth image.
That gives us our orientation.
For the Godlewskis, the sun is coming in right along that steel barrier. That's at about 125 degrees azimuth. That happened at 11:25 am plus or minus 10 min.
For the Weaver's, I can't call it so precisely. The bad news is that the sun is considerably more eastward for their shadow. That means earlier in the day. The shadow from Rachel/Rebecca's chin gives the best indicator that he sun is coming from an azimuth at about 90 degrees. That happened at 9 am. Call it plus or minus one hour.
Chateau d If:
Moved to previous post due to page break.
supsandalee:
Thanks for straightening that out Chateau. I sometimes forget how out of date Google Earth can be. It shows the house next door to mine as an empty lot and I think it was built about 4 years ago!
supsandalee:
Another possibility for the river rafting is http://www.greatwesttours.com/tours/rafting.html.
They're based out of Sedona and bring you to the Glen Canyon Dam to begin the float trip. This could be what ties in Sedona from the intro clips. In some of the vid clips it looks like the bottom of the raft is black like the River Adventure Boats but in this one it looks like the blue goes down to the water like the Great West Tours boats. It's hard for me to tell if I'm looking at black bottomed boats or shadows and water reflection. Opinions?
Chateau d If:
Those rafts look smaller that what we see in the promo.
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