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  • Steve Appleton, Chairman and CEO of Micron Technologies jumps his dirt bike outside Boise, Idaho
    scf4327-378appleton steve 0001.jpg
  • Steve Appleton, Chairman and CEO of Micron Technologies jumps his dirt bike outside Boise, Idaho
    scf4327-378_Appleton Steve 0001.jpg
  • Steve Appleton, Chairman and CEO of Micron Technologies jumps his dirt bike outside Boise, Idaho
    Appleton Steve 0001.jpg
  • Steve Appleton, Chairman and CEO of Micron Technologies jumps his dirt bike outside Boise, Idaho
    Appleton Steve 0002.jpg
  • Experimental balloonist Bob Nungester of Cupertino rises in his lawn chair near Coalinga, California.  FAA regulations govern experimental aircraft flights like these which must take place away from high trafficked areas.
    scf4373-447_Cluster Ballooning 0025.jpg
  • Jim Clark, founder of Silcon Graphics, Netscape and Healtheon atop the 192' mast of his cutter rigged superyacht when it was being built in Holland in 1998.  At the time it was the tallest mast in the world.  <br />
Jim Clark, founder of Silcon Graphics, Netscape and Healtheon.
    Clark Jim 0001.jpg
  • John Ninomiya, a cluster balloonist rises to 4500 feet above the San Joaquin valley near Coalinga, California.
    Cluster Ballooning 0012.jpg
  • John Ninomiya, a cluster balloonist rises to 4500 feet above the San Joaquin Valley near Coalinga, California.
    Cluster Ballooning 0002.jpg
  • There was a convention of hazardous waste workers at a Holiday Inn where inspectors learned to work in these uncomfortable protective suits by playing games.  It made for some interesting looks for vacationeers checking in.
    Hazardous Waste Volley 0003.jpg
  • There was a convention of hazardous waste workers at a Holiday Inn where inspectors learned to work in these uncomfortable protective suits by playing games.  It made for some interesting looks for vacationeers checking in.
    Hazardous Waste Volley 0002.jpg
  • There was a convention of hazardous waste workers at a Holiday Inn where inspectors learned to work in these uncomfortable protective suits by playing games.  It made for some interesting looks for vacationeers checking in.
    Hazardous Waste Volley 0001.jpg
  • A barnstormer in a 1942 Stearman bi-plane performs an inside loop over Illinois farm land.
    scf4384-032_scf4399-153_Barnstormer ...jpg
  • Photographers near the edge of a several thousand foot drop off near Glencanyon Dam.
    scf4383-781_Horseshoe Rim 0001.jpg
  • Photographers near the edge of a several thousand foot drop off near Glencanyon Dam.
    scf4383-782_Horseshoe Rim 0002.jpg
  • There was a convention of hazardous waste workers at a Holiday Inn where inspectors learned to work in these uncomfortable protective suits by playing games.  It made for some interesting looks for vacationeers checking in.
    scf4327-307hazardous waste volley 00...jpg
  • John Ninomiya, a cluster balloonist rises to 4500 feet above the San Joaquin Valley near Coalinga, California.
    scf4373-434_Cluster Ballooning 0005.jpg
  • John Ninomiya, a cluster balloonist rises to 4500 feet above the San Joaquin valley near Coalinga.  Cutting Balloons away to descend and dumping water from water containers by his side to rise Ninomiya can control his altitute and to an extent, his direction of travel.
    scf4373-425_Cluster Ballooning 0003.jpg
  • John Ninomiya, a cluster balloonist rises to about 4200 feet above the San Joaquin Valley near Coalinga, California.
    scf4327-254cluster ballooning 0013.jpg
  • John Ninomiya, uses a global positioning system to keep track of his speed direction of travel and a variometer for his rate of climb.
    scf4327-252cluster ballooning 0011.jpg
  • John Ninomiya, a cluster balloonist rises to 4500 feet above the San Joaquin valley near Coalinga.  Cutting Balloons away to descend and dumping water from water containers by his side to rise Ninomiya can control his altitute and to an extent, his direction of travel.
    scf4327-250cluster ballooning 0003.jpg
  • John Ninomiya, a cluster balloonist rises to 4500 feet above the San Joaquin Valley near Coalinga, California.
    scf4327-249cluster ballooning 0002.jpg
  • Friends near the edge of a several thousand foot drop off near Glencanyon Dam.
    fct4383-784_Horseshoe Rim 0004.jpg
  • Friends near the edge of a several thousand foot drop off near Glencanyon Dam.
    Horseshoe Rim 0004.jpg
  • Jim Clark, founder of Silcon Graphics, Netscape and Healtheon atop in the crow's nest of his boat mid-Atlantic.<br />
Jim Clark, founder of Silcon Graphics, Netscape and Healtheon.
    Clark Jim 0003a.jpg
  • Balloons rise into the dawn at Coalinga, California ballooning festival.  Special jets of propane light up the interiors of the balloons to produce a dazzling effect.
    Cluster Ballooning 0027.jpg
  • Jim Clark, founder of Silcon Graphics, Netscape and Healtheon in the crow's nest of the 192' mast of his cutter rigged superyacht. At the time it was the tallest mast in the world.  <br />
Jim Clark, founder of Silcon Graphics, Netscape and Healtheon.
    Clark Jim 0004.jpg
  • Cluster balloonist, John Ninomiya's balloons are not all directly tied to Ninomiya's harness. He has devised a system of eight color-coded webbing straps of differing lengths that lead to caribiners connecting the twine. That way, the balloons are neatly arranged above him in tiers enabling a safe and certain release.
    Cluster Ballooning 0008.jpg
  • Unlike mountain climbing, cluster ballooning isn't strenuous, yet it's easy to get lightheaded in the clouds.
    Cluster Ballooning 0007.jpg
  • John Ninomiya empties ballast above the San Joaquin Valley near Coalinga, California.  Cutting Balloons away to descend and dumping water from containers by his side to rise, he can control his altitute and his direction of travel.
    Cluster Ballooning 0004.jpg
  • John Ninomiya, a cluster balloonist rises to 4500 feet above the San Joaquin valley near Coalinga, California site of the 37th annual Whamobass (Whiskey Hill, Atherton, Menlo Oaks Ballooning and Sporting Society, the longest continuously running ballooning festival in the world.  Cutting Balloons away to descend and dumping water from water containers by his side to rise Ninomiya can control his altitute and to an extent, his direction of travel.
    Cluster Ballooning 0001.jpg
  • Cluster Balloonist John Ninomiya at Coalinga Ballooning festival.
    Cluster Ballooning 0033.jpg
  • John Ninomiya, a cluster balloonist gets help from voluteers at Coalinga, California.
    Cluster Ballooning 0017.jpg
  • John Ninomiya, a cluster balloonist gets help from voluteers at Coalinga, California.
    Cluster Ballooning 0023.jpg
  • John Ninomiya, a cluster balloonist gets help from voluteers at Coalinga, California.  Ninomiya uses 4ft balloons and 7ft balloons - these are the 4 footers
    Cluster Ballooning 0018.jpg
  • Ninomiya, who has flown with helium balloons more than a dozen times, needs the calm pre-dawn conditions for a successful flight, which will last a few hours and take him to 4200 feet.
    Cluster Ballooning 0014.jpg
  • John Ninomiya, a cluster balloonist gets help from voluteers at Coalinga, California.
    Cluster Ballooning 0020.jpg
  • Experimental balloonist Bob Nungester of Cupertino rises in his lawn chair near Coalinga, California.  FAA regulations govern experimental aircraft flights like these which must take place away from high trafficked areas.
    Cluster Ballooning 0025.jpg
  • Infernos from oil and gas rigs called “hellfires” are some of the most dangerous and expensive fires in the world to extinguish.  Their damage to life, the environment and corporate profits, can be enormous and fighting them are a costly specialty.  In this rarified field, Boots and Coots are considered the A-team, the specialists who are on call to be anywhere in the world in 24 hours when hell breaks loose.  When the Iraqis torched the oil fields of Kuwait during the Gulf War, Boots and Coots were called in to douse some of the most difficult ones.
    Boots and Coots.jpg
  • Experimental balloonist Bob Nungester of Cupertino rises in his lawn chair near Coalinga, California.  Called "Cloud-hoppers" these single person aircraft can rise and fall more quickly than a traditional hot-air balloons.
    Cluster Ballooning 0028.jpg
  • Cluster Ballooner John Ninomiya drifts by a hot air balloon in Coalinga.
    Cluster Ballooning 0032.jpg
  • A climber uses goggles to sooth himself to sleep during a climb to Danali National Park, Alaska.
    Alaska Climber 0002.jpg
  • There was a convention of hazardous waste workers at a Holiday Inn where inspectors learned to work in these uncomfortable protective suits by playing games.  It made for some interesting looks for vacationeers checking in.
    scf4327-308hazardous waste volley 00...jpg
  • There was a convention of hazardous waste workers at a Holiday Inn where inspectors learned to work in these uncomfortable protective suits by playing games.  It made for some interesting looks for vacationeers checking in.
    scf4327-307_Hazardous Waste Volley 0...jpg
  • Photographers near the edge of a several thousand foot drop off near Glencanyon Dam.
    Horseshoe Rim 0001.jpg
  • Photographers near the edge of a several thousand foot drop off near Glencanyon Dam.
    Horseshoe Rim 0002.jpg
  • John Ninomiya, a cluster balloonist gets help from voluteers at Coalinga, California.
    scf4373-444_Cluster Ballooning 0022.jpg
  • John Ninomiya, a cluster balloonist gets help from voluteers filling a bouquet of 4ft in diameter and 7ft in diameter balloons.
    scf4373-443_Cluster Ballooning 0021.jpg
  • John Ninomiya, a cluster balloonist rises to 4500 feet above the San Joaquin valley near Coalinga, California.
    scf4373-434_cluster ballooning 0012.jpg
  • John Ninomiya, a cluster balloonist rises to 4500 feet above the San Joaquin Valley near Coalinga, California.
    scf4327-251cluster ballooning 0005.jpg
  • John Ninomiya, a cluster balloonist rises to 4500 feet above the San Joaquin Valley near Coalinga, California.
    scf4327-249_Cluster Ballooning 0002.jpg
  • Jim Clark, founder of Silcon Graphics, Netscape and Healtheon atop the 192' mast of his cutter rigged superyacht when it was being built in Holland in 1998.  At the time it was the tallest mast in the world.  <br />
Jim Clark, founder of Silcon Graphics, Netscape and Healtheon.
    Clark Jim 0003.jpg
  • Jim Clark, founder of Silcon Graphics, Netscape and Healtheon.
    Clark Jim 0002.jpg
  • John Ninomiya, a cluster balloonist uses several hiking water bladders strapped on his side to control his rate of descent.
    Cluster Ballooning 0006.jpg
  • A barnstormer in a 1942 Stearman bi-plane performs an inside loop over Illinois farm land.
    Barnstormer 0001.jpg
  • "It's something I thought about as a kid,” says Ninomiya, a 42-year-old actuary. “One of the things kids think about is how could they personally fly.”
    Cluster Ballooning 0010.jpg
  • John Ninomiya, a cluster balloonist, preps his balloons at the Coalinga, California.
    Cluster Ballooning 0024.jpg
  • John Ninomiya, a cluster balloonist rises to about 4200 feet above the San Joaquin Valley near Coalinga, California.
    Cluster Ballooning 0013.jpg
  • John Ninomiya, a cluster balloonist makes a last minute preflight check before flying over  over Coalinga, California.
    Cluster Ballooning 0016.jpg
  • John Ninomiya, a cluster balloonist gets help from voluteers at Coalinga, California.
    Cluster Ballooning 0022.jpg
  • John Ninomiya, a cluster balloonist rises to 4500 feet above the San Joaquin Valley near Coalinga, California.
    Cluster Ballooning 0005.jpg
  • John Ninomiya, a cluster balloonist gets help from voluteers filling a bouquet of 4ft in diameter and 7ft in diameter balloons.
    Cluster Ballooning 0021.jpg
  • John Ninomiya, uses a global positioning system to keep track of his speed direction of travel and a variometer for his rate of climb.
    Cluster Ballooning 0011.jpg
  • John Ninomiya, a cluster balloonist is attached to some 82 balloons using only
    Cluster Ballooning 0009.jpg
  • John Ninomiya, a cluster balloonist gets help from volunteers at Coalinga, California.
    Cluster Ballooning 0026.jpg
  • A climber uses goggles to sooth himself to sleep during a climb to Danali National Park, Alaska.
    Alaska Climber 0002.jpg
  • There was a convention of hazardous waste workers at a Holiday Inn where inspectors learned to work in these uncomfortable protective suits by playing games.  It made for some interesting looks for vacationeers checking in.
    scf4327-308_Hazardous Waste Volley 0...jpg
  • Balloons rise into the dawn at Coalinga, California ballooning festival.  Special jets of propane light up the interiors of the balloons to produce a dazzling effect.
    scf4327-255cluster ballooning 0027.jpg
  • John Ninomiya, a cluster balloonist rises to 4500 feet above the San Joaquin valley near Coalinga.  Cutting Balloons away to descend and dumping water from water containers by his side to rise Ninomiya can control his altitute and to an extent, his direction of travel.
    Cluster Ballooning 0003.jpg
  • John Ninomiya, a cluster balloonist makes a pre-flight check before soaring above the San Joaquin valley near Coalinga, California.
    Cluster Ballooning 0015.jpg
  • John Ninomiya and associate make a pre-flight check before lift off in Coalinga.
    Cluster Ballooning 0019.jpg
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