User talk:Douglas1908

Infomation about your photo
Hey @Douglas1908, could you provide some information about your photo you added to the Tulainyo Lake‎ article? It's really great and is a great addition to the article but it might be nice to know more about the person in the photograph etc. If you need help with editing on Wikipedia feel free to leave a note on my talk page and I'll be more than willing to help.  Dr vulpes  (💬 • 📝) 15:33, 10 June 2023 (UTC)


 * Dear Dr Vulpes, In 1997 my friend David Moore and I hiked from the Mt Whitney trailhead above the town of Lone Pine, California, and after 2 days reached the shores of Tulainyo Lake. I'd been wanting to scuba dive this lake for 20 years and finally at the age of 45 I decided to do it. We used small "pony" bottles of air and only stayed underwater for about 15 to 20 minutes. We were afraid of getting the bends at that altitude. We hiked back to Lone Pine that same day, got a pizza and drove home to the Monterey Peninsula. David had an auto detailing business and I was writing for magazines. Look at the Wikipedia page, "Altitude Diving" and at the bottom references you see my article for Sport Diver Magazine, "Tulainyo Lake, up and under in the Sierras." At the time Tulainyo was thought to be the highest lake in North America. A few years later some researchers in Colorado discovered, Pacific Tarn lake to be a few hundred feet higher, (all my checking said Tulainyo was the highest). 20 years after our dive in Tulainyo, a man named John Bali dove in Pacific Tarn. Our record dive held for 20 years. I should have written Guinness, but it never occurred to me. Oh well. I hope that answers you question. If you need more info, let me know. PH Douglas1908 (talk) 20:19, 10 June 2023 (UTC)
 * PS: I was the only one with an underwater camera (Nikonos 2) that's why only David is in the underwater photos. Something me and Sir Edmund Hillary have in common (he wasn't in any summit photos) Douglas1908 (talk) 20:23, 10 June 2023 (UTC)