Screen names & avatars

[noharleyyet]

....my screenname is Jose Cuervo. I fwd'd this to NHY to post for me. I picked the name because I had used every other possible moniker in the western world due to an obsession with reclusiveness as well as being banned innumerable times.

...the avatar is what I want to be when I grow up.

 

[2rocky]

My community gets its name from two prominent rocks on a hill known as Dos Piedras. It has a pretty neat history.

Dos Piedras goes way back to pre-Spanish days when the rocks served as a landmark and reference point along the ancient Indian trail that ran from Bodega Bay to the inland valleys and into the Sierra. The trails, tend to follow along the ridgelines and high ground because most of the flat land was swampy and muddy. Dos Piedras was referred to time and time again in the earliest annals of Native American migrations and seasonal travels.

The Dos Piedras trail was used extensively by the earliest Spanish explorers and settlers, traveling to and from Bodega Bay, the only seaport of any consequence between San Francisco and Fort Ross. This route was followed by such men as General Jose Figueroa, wisest and best-loved of all California governors, and the gallant and learned Don Juan Alvarado, who came in 1838, the year before he became governor. With the latter, came Mariano G. Vallejo who was later made commander of the northern frontier with the rank of general.

The old battle cry of the Spaniards was "Santiago"! (St. James was the patron saint of the Conquistadors.) When they built a military outpost in Two Rock, on the old Indian trail, they called it Santiago de las Dos Piedras, St. James of the Two Rocks. They believed that here they must stem the Russian advance with the settlement of this area.

General Vallejo’s duty was to settle and create a barrier of defense against the Russians who, by then, had become well established just to the northwest at Fort Ross. Taking the ancient landmark of the two rocks as central point, he granted four huge ranchos, all cornering at this spot.

To the south, lay the great Rancho Laguna de la Santiago, containing 25,000 acres and embracing the heart of Two Rock valley, with headquarters at Santiago, and all of Chileno Valley. This magnificent gift, of a kind unparalleled in the history of any government’s generosity to a single citizen, was granted to a soldier of the ranks, Bartolome Bojorques. His stepdaughter, Seniorita Talamantes, married a Chilean, who brought up his retainers from Chile when he came to manage the Laguna Rancho, hence the name Chileno Valley.

A young Captain, Juan Nepomisena Padilla, only 21 years old, was made guardian of these northern trails and to him was granted the great rancho which touched the two rocks to the east. It was called El Roblar de la Miseria, The Oak of the Misery. This rancho contained 16,000 acres, reaching from Two Rock, through Liberty and over to Roblar and Hessel.

General Vallejo must have had a special fondness for young Captain Padilla, for besides the princely rancho, he gave him the Rancho Balsa de Tomales, which cornered with the Blucher and Robler Ranchos at the two rocks. The name means "the Pool of the Tomales Indians," which Mrs. Rose Linebaugh, an early Two Rock historian believed referred to Burbank’s Lake.

Some of the boundaries of these ranchos are now difficult to trace, but there still remains evidence of the old Spanish ditches which were once used to mark boundaries. The Spanish loved open fields so, if they had to make a boundary, they made their men dig a ditch. These ditches were wide and deep enough to turn cattle. One of them is still visible on the Linebaugh place, which is now owned by Paul Valena.

The Blucher Rancho was granted to a Swiss saloonkeeper that made the first survey of the town of Yerba Buena, which later became San Francisco. He named the rancho for his mother, Madame Blucher, and soon sold it to Captain Stephen Smith of Bodega. Smith deeded half of it to his heirs in Baltimore, thus causing much trouble later when parcels were sold to the American settlers and title was sought.

Many other travelers of note passed between our two rocks during their early history. Three, surely worthy of mention, were the beautiful Princess Helena de Gazarin, wife of the last governor of Fort Ross. She became a permanent part of our history when the mountain and, later, the town of St. Helena were named for her. It is also well documented that in 1846 the great pathfinder, General John C. Fremont, galloped up the trail between the rocks with his wild band of horsemen, one of whom was Kit Carson.

Many of the early American settlers originally came from Germany, Denmark, Italy, Ireland, and Switzerland. Many of their descendants still live in the valley today.

It also is a play on words since I like to hike, run and hunt in places that are "Too Rocky"

 

[Horn Seeker]

When I got on the forums in about 1999, I was obsessed with finding a good bull or buck..including sheds...and I sucked at it, so instead of being horn finder or anything else like that, I went with Hornseeker. It doomed me though, as in all those years I have struggled to find good horns!!! (or antlers...but antler seeker sounded lame)

My avatar is one of my two exceptions to not finding good horns... my 383 bull from 2010! The other exception was my moose from 2011... This year I did NOT continue my roll....

 

[Dinkshooter]

....my screenname is Jose Cuervo. I fwd'd this to NHY to post for me. I picked the name because I had used every other possible moniker in the western world due to an obsession with reclusiveness as well as being banned innumerable times.

...the avatar is what I want to be when I grow up.

............my screen name is AZ402. I fwd'd this to dinkshooter to post for me. What actually happened was I had been hacking, packing and doing bong hits all day and I transposed the 0 and the 2. What time is it? 4:20 man!!!!

……………the avatar is some road kill I found outside of Flagstaff.

 

[mhungerford]

Mine is kinda lame first name is Marc last name Hungerford. The picture is of my mule deer from 2009.

 

[Mudranger1]

Well 17 years ago when my parents got our first computer and Al Gore discovered the Internet at my house I was drive my jacked up ford ranger and somehow came up with the mudranger for email. My first lope is my picture

 

[Z Barebow]

Tried to come up with something unique.

Last name is Zastoupil. (Not too many Z's out there)

I shoot Barebow. (Not many people shoot fingers, much less barebow).

I don't think people are lined up to steal my on-line name.

 

[Big Slick]

I picked Big Slick because it is a Texas holdem' hand (Ace/King), not because I work in the oilfield. Luckily I do not work for BP. My avatar is a crappy pic of my best mule deer to date, I was by myself when I got him so no hero shot. Just a in the back of the truck, oh yea I shot a deer pic.

 

[spook12]

Spook one two, not twelve. Call sign i picked up while in the forces.

 

[sluggo6850]

My screen name(sluggo) was a nickname given to me by a hunting buddy who is now deceased, and the rest (6850) is the year I graduated and the year I was born. My avatar is the best muley I have shot to date. Love this forum and all of the stories that you guys tell.

 

[Sawtooth]

Spend a lot of my free time hunting and fishing in the Sawtooth Wilderness Area of central Idaho. Avatar is of this years Idaho bull elk.

 

[sweetnectar]

My current avatar is chosen for Jose.

 

[The Hedgehog]

Jose likes pineapple juice & you like Jose?

 

[Bowhuntrben]

My name is Ben, and I enjoy bowhunting Avatar is an archery deer from MN.

 

[sneakem]

............my screen name is Dinkshooter. I fwd'd this to sneakem to post for me. I picked the name because the self proclaimed lengendary guide and my bestest friend, Mike Brownlee, hunts in my favorite unit, killing all the biggest deer, leaving me only the small ones, hence the name Dinkshooter...

……………the avatar is a picture of me and my boyfriend playing guitar hero. :hump:

 

[noharleyyet]

............my screen name is Dinkshooter. I fwd'd this to sneakem to post for me. I picked the name because the self proclaimed lengendary guide and my bestest friend, Mike Brownlee, hunts in my favorite unit, killing all the biggest deer, leaving me only the small ones, hence the name Dinkshooter...

……………the avatar is a picture of me and my boyfriend playing guitar hero. :hump:

...chicken dinner

 

[Wapiti Warrior]

Wapiti Warrior,

my friends gave me that name because I always came back to camp with stories about being into elk, but didn't always get one. So they said I was a wapiti warrior because I didn't always win the battle. picture of me with my one and only big horn sheep shot with a bow.
John

 

[arffdog875]

arffdog875... Is the name I picked since I have been a airport firefighter for 22 years and my avitar is my lab molly when she was a puppy!

 

[putm2sleep]

putm2sleep i.e. euthanasia, 'er a nice way to say kill, and thought this was crafty.
also thought I was kind of a good oyoaer and hunter. don't hold a candle to some dudes on this site.
avatar is one of my favorite pics, and favorite times when elk hunting - the pack out!
note: this is the ONLY site for me. only avatar and name i own.

 

[Bwana]

My handle was given to me by my hunting buddies.