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[*] posted on 10-7-2013 at 01:44 PM


buddha - thanks for the info. I'll have to spend some time in that area looking for dino gizzards! HA! I think you should lead a band of Baja Nomads on an epic winter adventure!

"... a graded red-dirt road miles from no-where, unable to move until the road surface mud finally froze up about 3 am and I could resume travel."

HA! That happened to me once after a trip to Fable Valley in Manti La Sal. Rained for two days and I was sliding all over the road. Decided to wait until the next day and spent the night at a trailhead on Salt Creek Plateau. Rained all the next day too, and snowed during the night. Finally a ranger came by and told me the best option was to drive out at first light while the ground was still frozen. I did that, praying the whole way, still sliding around - but made it out in 4WD Low. That mud is treacherous.
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[*] posted on 10-7-2013 at 02:06 PM


I so enjoyed these pictures, what a great trip! it is such a scenic area, brought back a lot of memories as I use to spend a lot of time around there 20 years ago. I gotta get back there soon!



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[*] posted on 10-7-2013 at 03:04 PM


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buddha - thanks for the info. I'll have to spend some time in that area looking for dino gizzards! HA! I think you should lead a band of Baja Nomads on an epic winter adventure!


Are you NUTZZ?? That's why i'm coming to Baja in a week... epic winter adventure indeed!!! That place gets colder than my ex-wife's heart in winter (and she still lives there)... Monticello Ut is a literal FRIZZER. On the San Juan River i've been snowed on THIS WEEK. Ain't enough gizzards or projectile points in all of 4 corners to get me back there in winter... even southern NM is too cold for me now.

Check w/ me next May-ish though... i did professionally guide there full and part-time since 1978, might be fun to meet either in Bluff, Blanding or Monticello and do a little more Moki-Pokin' and dino-dunkin'. So many choices, so little time..... ;D




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[*] posted on 10-7-2013 at 06:59 PM


wilderone, great story and pics, I have spent two or three decades exploring the back country in Utah. You just can't go up a canyon without seeing some sign of the Old Ones. I consider Bluff my second home and have hiked most of the Comb Ridge canyons. Anyone visiting Bluff should stay at/visit the Recapture Lodge as they are back-country and archeologically knowledgeable.



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[*] posted on 10-7-2013 at 07:01 PM


LOL! Yeah, actually it got to 28 in the canyon we were working in. OK - think about Spring, y'all.
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[*] posted on 10-8-2013 at 05:20 AM


Great job Cindy!!!
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