On the Road

May 22, 2010

On our way to Dalhart, we swung by and saw Gran in Colorado City.  We found some sweet trucker hats from the 70s when our great grandparents owned Snead’s Premier in Ranger, Texas.  Gran was happy we found them and let us have them. We got to Dalhart around 8:30 and hung out with Dusty [...]

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Lockhart Basin Camp – 2004

May 19, 2010

This was our campsite in 2004, about 5 miles up Lockhart Basin Road from Scenic Hwy 211.  It’s just east of Canyonlands National Park.  You can see North and South Sixshooter Peaks with the Abajo mountains off to the left.  We’re going to camp somewhere around here on Saturday night before we head into the [...]

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Ready for the Canyonlands

May 18, 2010

My brother and I are about to make an ‘epic’ 10-day Canyonlands adventure in southeast Utah.  We’re headed out Friday and should get there sometime Saturday evening.  We’re going to start in the Needles and work our way around to Island in the Sky, Horseshoe Canyon and then maybe take a peek at The Maze. [...]

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Big Bend NP – Dodson Trail Panoramas (OML)

March 24, 2010

Crown Mountain and South Rim from Dodson Trail – Big Bend National Park South Rim from Dodson Trail – Big Bend National Park Fresno Canyon on Dodson Trail – Big Bend National Park Dodson Trail – Big Bend National Park Share

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Big Bend NP – Lower Juniper Canyon Camp (OML)

March 23, 2010

I made camp earlier in the day because it was getting into the 40′s fast. The north wind was coming strong off the Chisos, so I angled my bivy to face south. It rained a little bit on me over the night, but it was so windy that I could hardly feel the drops. Believe [...]

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Big Bend NP – Chisos Basin Panorama (OML)

March 22, 2010

This was taken the first day of my solo Outer Mountain Loop hike. I love the way the clouds are slowly creeping their way into the basin. The temperature that morning was a brisk 40 degrees, but it warmed up as I broke out of the clouds. Share

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