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bajapablo
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I think any male who has visited the area probably has a picture standing near the "feature"
Where exactly is Topaz mtn? It sounds like a good family adventure. All of my kids love looking for cool rocks. We even found a matate (sp?) when
we were out looking for arrowheads and pine nuts one fall. It is the rock that corn was ground on to make flour. I have never been to Cannonville
but your memories sound awesome. I really like exploring and my kids and wife fortunately do also. Sometimes I wonder why I am becoming so obsessed
with baja when I have all of this cool stuff so near, and then I go there again and realize that my obsession is not unfounded.
\"changes it lattitudes, changes in attitudes\"
J.Buffet
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bajalou
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Last summer my wife and I worked at a RV park in Hatch UT. Visited Kodachrome and Cannonville. Took our F250D down Cottonwood wash to hghy 89 near
Page AZ. Great trip - some of the road reminded me a lot of some of the Baja back roads. Topaz mtn is just west of Ely off hghy 50. I too have a few
I picked up therea few years ago. And the old mining towns - Hamilton - south off 50 in the same general area. In my time it was a ghost town,l
working mine, then a ghost town again. The petroglyphs in Thompsons canyon, and south of greenriver. A dinosour footprint in the rock. That a
place.
No Bad Days
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\"The trouble with doing nothing is - how do I know when I\'m done?\"
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jrbaja
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Wow Pablo
That's friggen awesome.
Doug is workin on the posting pics. problem that we are all having.
Spent two weeks backpacking Escalante/ Coyote Gulch probably around 1973. There was a group of about 12 of us that went from Jackson Hole. Two had
been before so we had guides and the only other people we ran into the entire time was 4 German guys that were there for the climbing.
One of the best hamburgers I ever tasted was at the only cafe in Escalante when we got out of the canyon after backpacking food for two weeks.
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| Quote: | Originally posted by jrbaja
One of the best hamburgers I ever tasted was at the only cafe in Escalante when we got out of the canyon after backpacking food for two weeks. |
JR, isn't it amazing how you can remember things like that? I can remember the best breakfast I ever had, which was in the late 60's while passing
through Ocala Florida. Large black woman in the kitchen, white cloth rapped around her head and a cigarette hanging out of her mouth as she sang
Baptist hymns while she was cooking our breakfast. I'll never forget it.
Bob H
The SAME boiling water that softens the potato hardens the egg. It's about what you are made of NOT the circumstance.
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bajapablo
Thanks for that link and story and photos!!
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bajapablo
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No problem mon
it helped me dig out some good memories...
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David K
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and back to Shell Island...
from the ground, looking north... it's low tide and a couple Nomads are looking for goodies in the distance (Feb.,04)...
[Edited on 7-30-2004 by David K]
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David K
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New Year's Day 2001
Photo taken by Lorenzo de Baja of me and my almost new truck on Shell Island...
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Mexray
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Topaz Mt Info...
I searched a bit and came up with this neat site that gives the low-down on topaz Mt, UT....
http://www.utahoutdooractivities.com/topaz.html
It describes the area just as I remember it some 25 years ago...hasn't changed much, it seems!
According to my clock...anytime is \'BAJA TIME\' & as Jimmy Buffett says,
\"It doesn\'t use numbers or moving hands It always just says now...\"
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jrbaja and bajapablo,
My current wife :-) Marian, who drove the length of Baja in 1967, hiked Coyote Gulch, UT also, her story:
In 1974 my then husband, Don, and our 3 year old son, David, plus our two Samoyeds (dogs) backpacked from the 50 Mile Road down Hurricane
Wash and Coyote Gulch to the Escalante River and Stevens Arch. Took three days and two nights. Little David was a real trooper and hiked the whole way
down and back (I think round-trip was about 21 miles) carrying a little pack of his own. The dogs also carried packs containing their dog food.
In 1978, I hiked down the Escalante River, starting at about mile 25 (on the 50 Mile Road), then up Coyote Gulch and back to the road. That
was a 7 day/ 55 mile backpack - in and out of the river countless times (wet feet; wet boots). My feet hurt for several months after that trip.
I'd like to see Coyote Gulch again if I could get Neal to go too, but we haven't done any backpacking in several years. Guess we're getting
too old. However, we do a lot of day hiking in Utah, especially around Bluff, Blanding and Moab.
We also lead free 4 wheel drive trips for the Desert Explorers (desertexplorers.org) all over the west and Baja, plus NW
mainland Mexico.
My motto:
Never let a Dragon pass by without pulling its tail!
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bajapablo
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Topaz and beyond
Thanks, mexray for the link to Topaz. I think we will make a weekend jaunt in the fall. Neal, thanks for the story. I am ready to do coyote again
after having the fire rekindled. DK sorry for intruding on your thread and thanks for the info on playa santa maria on calacowbows thread
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I apologies for my earlier post saying Topas Mt was W or Ely NV. Crossed up on different rocks - thinking of the Garnet field W or Ely. Sure glad
no one is silly enough to follow my directions.
No Bad Days
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\"The trouble with doing nothing is - how do I know when I\'m done?\"
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David K
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| Quote: | Originally posted by bajapablo
... DK sorry for intruding on your thread and thanks for the info on playa santa maria on calacowbows thread |
Not a problem Paul, it is Bajalou's thread, anyway... sometimes things are mentioned that creates new conversations... and that is great!
De nada on the Playa Santa Maria thing... One of the new photos added to http://choralpepper.com shows Erle Stanley Garder at the Santa Maria Sky Ranch, which had clam shells covering the roof.
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bajalou
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Just bringing back a thread of my first trip to Shell Island
No Bad Days
\"Never argue with an idiot. People watching may not be able to tell the difference\"
\"The trouble with doing nothing is - how do I know when I\'m done?\"
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Barry A.
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Baja Nomads have a lot in common-----
I horse-packed down into Grand Gulch, west of Montecello, Ut for a week back in about 1975-----what a trip!!!! and what wonderful country.
For 4 years from 1968 to early 1973 I ran pontoon boats thru the canyons of the Green and Yampa rivers within Dinosaur National Monument----best 4
years of my life, and the best job I ever had----they payed me to do that. (-:
In 1987 my son and I canoed the Green River from Green River, Ut. to the confluence with the Colorado River, below Moab. Trip took us a week. Tex
McClachy came down river from Moab in his jet boat and hauled us back to Moab. More wonderful country.
Been back to that country so many times since, it is like a second home to me. Almost as wild as Baja.
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bajalou
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That it is Barry, I love to go thru that whole area - but the winters are a bit cool for me now.
No Bad Days
\"Never argue with an idiot. People watching may not be able to tell the difference\"
\"The trouble with doing nothing is - how do I know when I\'m done?\"
Nomad Baja Interactive map
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