Leaving Dakota

WI

Mr. P

Sorry for the delay on this one...

Cheddar

Goodbye Winter

Time to bid adieu, the Continental Divide, May 3rd.

4/26

My backyard this morning

So, to rejoice or say, 'Enough?'

Who cares, I'm going skiing.

Sometimes

Waking up everyday before dawn isn't a bad thing.

Back

to the one-word titles. Here you go:

OOOOOtah

Wondering what I'll do when the skiing stops, and with Flatlander Spring Breakers encroaching, Doug and I headed into Utah to check to see if the canyons were thawing out yet.



The answer, fortunately for us, was a no.












So besides one technical canyon, Baptist Draw, we saw The Great Gallery in Horseshoe Canyon, tooled around on the slickrock of the Robber's Roost Area and hiked up to Hanging Lake on the way back to the mountains.





All of our pictures are accessible from somewhere around here.





















Down the Rabbit Hole!

Going to UT

Disappearing for a bit.

Snow

Ten days back in Colorado, ten days skiing. I'm getting spoiled, but am leaving Sunday for Texas for some external blade repair. To those two of you wanting more photos, please click near the snow beard.





HERE!

Blue

Graves from the 19th century under machines that aren't totally figured out yet.

The sky is also blue - a change from the previous weather, which was redefining gray.

MO

Turbines in the Meth-capital of the world!

SC

Went back. Then left. Not bad.

P.Estin Hut

I will post more photos of life as a ski bum and the recent affinity for me and sunsets of Monument Valley soon. But for now...

12000'

Put your tin hat on

Quickly.

When the National Park Service begins to have a MONOPOLY! game based on their parks, I get a little nervous...

Now, everyone knows and agrees that unfettered capitalism works all the time. Sodexho already provides most of the food service in the parks, why not let the free market decide the fate of national flagships(which were, after all, mainly unable to develop or no important resource had been found prior to their establishment)? It just seems like a slippery slope to me.