6PC Poll

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Cajun_Flyer said:
I'm going on strike til 6PC makes his return. The Onion thread is a clear indication of how lame this place has gotten in the long absence of our funny YouTuber. It's been like 48 hrs or something and it's start to smell foot in here. I'm out.

I expect I'll be replaced by a scab at some point, but whatever.
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Great. First we lose 6PC to concerns about his upcoming milestone, choosing to be represented on here by his lawyer, Atty. R. Lomax.
Now, Cajun has retired (and thus far has stuck with it for 31 minutes).

I'm hoping that the MC temporarily disables the "Like" function, and we can see who breaks first ;)
 
N3368K said:
At least it isn't SW Oklahoma. Spent several years in multiple assignments at Lawton/Ft Sill in my Army career. Hot, windy and dry.
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I've never been out to Lawton personally, but I've spent enough time in west Texas to likely approximate the landscape! The eastern and western portions of Oklahoma and Tejas are really worlds apart. Rolling hills and trees of the East versus the red dirt and flat lands on the West.

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SoonerAviator said:
I've never been out to Lawton personally, but I've spent enough time in west Texas to likely approximate the landscape! The eastern and western portions of Oklahoma and Tejas are really worlds apart. Rolling hills and trees of the East versus the red dirt and flat lands on the West.

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Used to fly into Lawton from DFW w/ the airline. It is very striking, at least to me it was, how the terrain and vegetation changes so drastically just west of Dallas from the green to the desert. And at night so many more stars are visible in western TX. I was at 6000' once going into Lubbock and felt closer to the ground than I was used to being at 6000', having flown mostly out of ATL and lower elevations in the east. Looked at the approach plate and saw Lubbock was at around 4000' airport elevation so I was indeed 2000' above the ground. Just wasn't accustomed to the high elevations in the west.
 
I spent 16 years in OK and TX...never in the green parts. I agree, the difference is striking. Having lived in Tennessee the last 13 years since retirement, it is shocking to visit such "burned" landscape now. I actually didn't mind Lawton too bad other than the incessant wind and 60 consecutive days over 100 degrees F each summer. My wife's dad stayed in private practice in Lawton after he retired from the Army, but they finally moved away a couple of years ago. Still have a several friends there, but don't go back much. I did get to fly a great deal there though.
 
Lawton is literally on the edge of green country. From there west is pretty barren and dry, and from there east is green and fertile. There is definitely some hidden beauty in the Wichita "Mountains" though. The Wichita Wildlife Refuge/Mount Scott area, just on the north side of Lawton/Ft. Sill is one of our favorite places for a Sunday drive and some hiking. About an hour from here.
 
OkieFlyer said:
Lawton is literally on the edge of green country. From there west is pretty barren and dry, and from there east is green and fertile. There is definitely some hidden beauty in the Wichita "Mountains" though. The Wichita Wildlife Refuge/Mount Scott area, just on the north side of Lawton/Ft. Sill is one of our favorite places for a Sunday drive and some hiking. About an hour from here.
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I'll have to disagree on that. Technically speaking, "Green Country" in OK doesn't even extend far enough west to reach I-35, and stops at I-40 to the south. However, in practice, I think it extends to the OK/TX border and stays from US-75/69 to the east. Having lived in Norman for a decent stint, it's nothing like the area 60 miles to the East. All that being said, I've found beauty in just about every place I've ever been, even in the flat, barren West TX sand, lol.

6PC must be working up something good . . .
 
OkieFlyer said:
Lawton is literally on the edge of green country. From there west is pretty barren and dry, and from there east is green and fertile.
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Must have been because I lived on the west side of town. :D

I enjoyed my time in SW OK, but the semi-desert conditions weren't for everyone. It was surprisingly humid for as dry as it was. I have run up Mount Scott on the road on a number of occasions and climbed it cross country a few times as well. I've even rappelled from the cliffs of Medicine Bluff on Ft Sill...where Geronimo is reported to have ridden off when he was drunk. I virtually lived on Ft Sill's west range just south of the installation boundary. I could see Blockhouse Signal Mountain from my house. Of coure, I also spent countless days on the range shooting artillery.

If you spent much time there, you must have been to Meers Store and The Old Plantation in Medicine Park for the burger and steaks, respectively. I'd like a Meers burger again. Getting hungry thinking about it. :D
 
N3368K said:
Medicine Bluff on Ft Sill...where Geronimo is reported to have ridden off when he was drunk
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"Empire of The Summer Moon" about the rise and fall of the Comanches, the most powerful tribe in American Indian history, and masters of riding the horse, using them in attacks. The area they roamed was from OK to maybe as far south in TX as San Antonio and Austin areas. Amazing history out there. Excellent book BTW.
 
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I'm wondering why we are worried about it.
 
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