Photo of the day

Drove on Saturday afternoon down to Pinedale Wyoming for a charitable event and then went out the next morning exploring in the Green River Valley area of the Sawtooth range. Came across this great lake just outside of Pinedale and hope to go back in the fall.   Larger image here. (click on the image […]

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Thursday night flight from ABQ to Phoenix so we could be on a 6am flight on Friday out of Phoenix. Rented the car and drove for a long time to get to one of the most beautiful places that I’ve been to, here or in Europe.  I suspect that only New Zealand might surpass this. Early morning […]

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Busted up to the top of the mountain in my best time yet – 3.5 hours for 7 miles and 4,000 feet.   Sunday saw another 8 miles but that day was an up-and-downer – just kills my knees.  But on that trip I looked for hidden treasure, so to speak, and was partially successful. […]

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No fireworks tonight, at least not at the local country club. It was great however, to be up on the roof and watching the horizon explode in every quadrant with flashes and booms and all the noise that is the celebration of the 4th. We, my hiking friend from Michigan and I, are very tired. […]

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This is the second day in a row that I’ve climbed the Sandias.  Yesterday was a brutal climb up the chimney route and today was the more usual route up the LaLuze trail.  Took no images yesterday that qualify for recording here, maybe in a log of the trail, but nothing to memorialize. So today we […]

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