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Jim examines the slime.
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Telescope Pk over Panamint Valley
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Climbing Pinto Peak
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Getting late going down
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But easier than going up!
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Out on the big flats behind Salt Creek
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Evening shadows
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Salt Flats, Telescope Peak
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Dune jumping in sandstorm
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Minor miner again
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Climbing Jubilee Peak
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Southern DV from Jubilee
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Three guys with hats
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BYO shade
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Old mine road near Skidoo
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July 2007 |
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Early start to Angels Landing
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Not sure I want to go up there.
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Canyon Overlook
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50 points for my ringtail!
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Brrr... Refrigerator Canyon?
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Cross bedded sandstone
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Going to the Narrows
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See why it's called Top Rock?
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Canaan Mountain
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Canaan slickrock
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Virgin Narrows
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Yesterday's rain, today's mud
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Swimming with ouzels
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King of the narrows!
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Willis Creek
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A long drop down
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Looking fresh in the morning
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Sunrise on the Hermit Shale
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Supai flower, bigger than Ben
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Widforss Point
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The Transept. Up early on a hot day.
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Tidepool guys
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Climbing Scott's Bluff
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Famous overturned strata
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Flowing water? Dam it!
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Windy Ridge, Mt. St. Helens
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That's how it erupted!
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It's dormant, right Jim?
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Well, not quite!
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Wildlife goes for the good stuff.
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Don't fall!
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Death Valley 2008
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Civet in a hole!
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Narrows of Lovell Wash
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Dad, about the car...
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Close the door behind you.
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Desert Gold!
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The rocks have measels
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Crepuscular valley
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A long ways down.
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The answer is blowing in the wind
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Ruin with a view
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I am not climbing to the top!
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Bowl of Fire.
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Aguereberry Point
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The Butte.
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To King Midas Mine
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Amargosa Narrows
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Zion 2008
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First rap.
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On top of Slickrock Land.
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Slickrock Land.
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North Fork narrows.
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Behind the White Cliffs
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Red Canyon
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The Barracks in Parunuweap
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Really dark!
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Hard to get off route here.
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Mommy do it string!
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Cross bedded sandstone.
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Parunuweap, lots of quicksand.
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Swirly rock slot.
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Watch the thunderstorms...
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Above the crowds.
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Horned lizard, happy Ben.
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"Not so scary."
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Slickrock explorer.
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Low tide on Second Beach
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James Island, sunset at First Beach
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Fast food for an eagle
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Tucson's multi-story castle
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Northern Yucky Seal
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Above Hole-in-Wall
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Sand Point picnic area
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Late day sun
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Spindrift
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Scott's Bluff
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Family on logs
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Twisty arch
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Lichen Head
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On the beach.
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White sands.
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Sunset from Jessie's house
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Man-of-wars and other beach trash.
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Sobriety test
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Zinc Hill, the "other" summit
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Really big timbers.
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Petros of Lake Manly jellyfish?
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Favorite sunset, Jaywhawker Canyon
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Hot soak with the BirdandHike Guy
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A pack of desert rats
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Ben takes the rental for a spin.
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Grotto Canyon in the rain
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Corkscrew Wash
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You take the high road...
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John Lemoigne's cabin
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Not my fault!
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Marble Canyon narrows
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Marble Canyon narrows
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Wirelettuce may be used as a sun hat
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Crawl under the bridge
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And through the tunnel
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This isn't the bypass
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Parunuweap |
June 2009 |
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Old cattle trail
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Sunrise from our camp
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A "horned toad" a day...
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Ready to go down there?
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Ghosts of the Rock
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Shards. I didn't break it!
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Esplanade alcove camp
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Full pack, full sun.
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Navajo sandstone
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Parunuweap "trail"
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Narrows
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They just painted on the color!
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Parunuweap straghtaway
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Mineral Gulch
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More red walls
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A bad place to be...
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...in a thunderstorm
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But a shadow of itself
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Cable Mountain
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Morning light at Bryce
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Orange rock and bristlecone pines
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The subway at home has an escalator!
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Dad's favorite light
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Mud pie guy.
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Roaming in slickrock land
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Shower room in the Subway. *
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Butt Crack Mountain in background.
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View from a wild place.
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Lunch break in the mud mines.
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Big red ramp to the Subway.*
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Subway tunnel, watch for trains.*
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Subway pools, tub time!
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Kanarra Red
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The Bowling Alley
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Famous Subway log.
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Last stop in the Subway.
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Canyon Junction, end of Orderville *
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Take a left at the petroglyphs.
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Second Beach
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A stupendous castle.
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Tilted strata of Mt. Angeles
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Happily approaching end of the hike.
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"We never find brittle stars here."
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Fording the mighty Ozette
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Good beach activity on a cold day!
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Airy view of the Hole
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Launching into orbit.
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Hidden cove.
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Rare sunny morning on Rialto Beach
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Monkey in the middle!
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2009 - 2010 |
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Pie Guy on Elephant Head
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Spikey head?
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Only in the Sonoran Desert Museum!
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Santa Ritas, next destination
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Madera Canyon
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Abandoned ocelot!
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We ate pie up there.
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Mt. Hopkins behind
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Mt. Wrightson sunset
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Useful flower stalk
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Devil's Cash Box
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Above Santa Cruz Valley
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Gang of Four on Mt. Perry
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Ben's mining cabin, needs a roof job!
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Sun sets behind Telescope Peak
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Where the palm civets live
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Above the red canyon, Argus range
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Turn around in Palmer Canyon
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Last rays above the valley.
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Above Lake Manly
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Ore Boy
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View from the window seat
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Back to the honey mines
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No one here but us burros.
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East Northgate Peak
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Definitely scary
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Scenic before the thunderstorm
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Dad's favorite light again
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Meanest guy on the trail
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Don't drip it on Mom!
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Sandstone streaks
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Admirable Boletus?
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On Deertrap Mountain
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Who are ewe?
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Like Bryce, but no people
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Older than Granny!
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Best travelled before dinner
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Spring Creek, but where's the water?
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Dad's favorite rock
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Armful of canyon
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Dark passage
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Quicksand corridor
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Star fog on Rialto Beach
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Don't trip over the seal pup!
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Who's down there?
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Fresh bear claw for breakfast.
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Mount Olympus
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Marmota olympus
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Gophers through the Hole!
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We otter remember this family.
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Fording the mighty Ozette again.
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Cats' multi-story castle
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Still chasing gulls!
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Lovely view for an eagle
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2010 - 2011 |
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Famous spiral petro, again
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Evening in the Sonoran desert.
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Don't step back!
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Thought we left the snow at home?
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A bit early for ocotillo.
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Snow melts fast here.
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I'm a little teapot...
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Kaleidoscope Canyon
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Bat, bat, come under my hat!
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Desert canyon waterfall
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The long corridor
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Do you have hall passes?
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Winch you were here!
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Fat, yes. Terrible? No. But sleepy!
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Lazarus the zebra tailed
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Long dead critters
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Rock critter
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Rock full of critters!
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Big empty!
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The White Rock beverage fairy?
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Climbers
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Climber
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Not climbing!
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Guys in a slot
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On the trail at sunrise.
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Yellow Rock with nicer weather.
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Arch above Water Canyon
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Peek-a-Ben
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Canaan Mtn. slickrock land.
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Moki marbles
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Parunuweap is down there.
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River otter.
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Up to the White Hoodoos this year.
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Behind Crazy Quilt Mesa
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Don't tread on me, Mom!
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Them's the (Cedar) Breaks!
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Hissing junebug
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Matching colors
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Just another Zion view
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On the Missing Mountain
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The Box of the Paria River
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Looks about eagle sized.
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Red Teepees
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Balancing act
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Velvet ant
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Glaciers on Mt. Olympus
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Late snowmelt means August flowers.
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Cute little vermin.
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Mt. Baker from Mt. Angeles
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Eagle with food court in distance.
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Late day light.
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Dinner?
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Sure, why not? Yum, fungus guy!
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The classic viewpoint
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A Quillayute Needle?
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Colors.
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Red Legged Frog? Yes!
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Dramatic light
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Speaking of arms...
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We otter tell yet another otter joke.
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Line up for TK's hot dog stand
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Eight of those = big octopus!
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The elusive nudibranch
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2011 - 2012 |
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What's on Wasson Peak?
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Hunting aquatic life forms
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Desert grasslands
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Yummy, at least to a deer
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Never touch a cactus!
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Windmill Suites Motel?
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Ah cool feet (clean too!)
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On top of the Little Elephant
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Just another desert sunset
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Crested Cactus Wren
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We found Tucson's mother
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Fall colors Sonoran style
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Ben deciphers the Petro Code
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Sleepy baby Chuck.
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Borax Benchmark
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In Redwall Canyon's curvy guts
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Should be a fossil, but isn't.
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Source of the Sand Canyon sand.
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Door jamb to Room Canyon
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Don't steal the petros!
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Amazing Redwall light
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Old Martin wasn't Crossing.
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Blue mountain. Really.
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Badwater
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Stunning colors.
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The Red is just painted on the Wall.
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Two guys on the "easy" dryfall bypass.
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Two guys in the slot
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No guys in the slot
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Above the badlands
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Southern end of Second Beach
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Above the Straits
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The fabled tree octopus!
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Scotts Bluff
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Foraging for sea food
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Foraging for canned food
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Sand Point
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Wedding Rock petros
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Magical Light Bay
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Who's boardwalk is this?
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I guess I'll go around.
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Another day, another deer!
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2012 - 2013 |
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Happy New Year!
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Male coatis are solitary
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Water pool?
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Dead Boy Scouts Saddle
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The magic coral bean
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Spreading the seeds
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Fading Martin Crossing sign
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Bah Bah Bighorn Sheep
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Baaah Bighorn Ben
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Going into the red?
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Dad peels off the wall
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Eye of the knitting needle
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Dad can still walk!
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Zig-Zag
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Deep into the red
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Ben declares victory over the dunes
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Laid back hikers
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Hold on, Spiderman!
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Crescent Bridge
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Seeking the lost borax haystacks
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Inyo Mine, super sized
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The gang on Tucki
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Vast, but hard to get lost!
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Boring pink rocks.
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A fun slickrock scramble.
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"Coral Orange" sunset dunes
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Friction is your friend
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Looking pretty sharp
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Can it rattle when wet?
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Through the Cockscomb
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Art from the Triangle Tribe
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Slickrock, slickrock, everywhere
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Hackberry Cyn., behind the Cockscomb
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Can we handle another arch?
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Dark and wet and cold
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Above the Center of the Universe
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Montana 2013 |
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Geysers spewing everywhere.
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Imperial rarely stops.
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Lone, Star of the park.
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Just happened upon Riverside spewing.
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Fumaroles growling.
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Old favorite Morning Glory.
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Miles of meadows.
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Why it's called "Big Sky Country"
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The Montana I came looking for.
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Stone cold firewood.
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Northern Yellowstone vista
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Yes the flowers were out!
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Grizzly Ben sharpens his claws.
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Do Proghorns have horns or antlers?
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EEEP!
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Elk Boy
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Glutton of the meadow.
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Coloration courtesy of algae.
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Ben has grown more than the mountain.
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What does the fox wear?
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The glacier cracks us up
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Lupine hillside
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Mouse on a stick
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EEEP!
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And then the fog came...
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Giants' Graveyard
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Wedding Rocks
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Angel Wings
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Slithering on the beach
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Long haired trees
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Back to the Hole
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There is always a red one.
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2013 - 2014 |
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On top of Elephant Head.
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A cactus sort of evening.
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Javalina
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On the east side of town.
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Bears don't hibernate here.
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Still in the pod.
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Follow the red gravel road...
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...deep into the red...
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...in over our heads!
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Heaven for the claustophobic
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Unfortunately, not alive
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Sucking oxygen on Wildrose
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300 M year old lepidodendron bark
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Above Nemo Canyon
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Favorite flower: Desert Five Spot
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Hike's end
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Very Stretched pebbles
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Timeless view.
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A bit of vertical relief?
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Artist's Palette defeated us.
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Bacon Rocks
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Snake say "Keep back!"
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Off the old cowboy route
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Blobs at Bacon Flat
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Love those slickrock bowls
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Ominous sky
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Bah, just taking it easy
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Angels on the Landing
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First we had to climb the spine
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Fractures
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On the edge
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Relaxing on the Martian landscape
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We did find the red sandstone
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Big civet in the hole!
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Ben meets the V-boys in Snake Gulch
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Red zombies on the wall
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Wrong peak, great view
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A mighty jumper
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Slickrock climber
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Sharp edges
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And then the rain came...
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Making a move on Dad's hiking stick
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Even nicer without HAPE
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That's close enough, marmot!
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We found what we were looking for
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Breath-taking, literally!
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Cold waters before the storm
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Arapahoe Pass
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Must be another ptarmigan nearby.
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Another must-see flower
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Who elk is up here?
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Cold and windy on the tundra
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Pawnee Pass
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Looking for the Ramshorn sheep
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They're at the petrified stump
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One for us too.
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Petrified?
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Elk on the other side of the divide
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Big meadows at Windy Pass
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Very red place
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Whose trail is this?
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Tortured strata, happy hikers
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Bridgers from across the valley
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A good flower year
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Crazy (Mountains) Meadow
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A Plummer'ing we will go!
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Hoary Marmot
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Eeep!
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Clearly it's Grand Park!
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Plenty of goats
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Glacial ice
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The elusive leopard nudibranch
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Thrice the fun
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Beach selfie
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Fogbow
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Velella velella
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Too many arms to count
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It is not time to wake up yet.
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Weather changing for the better.
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Run little piggy!
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Saguaro with a view
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In the cactus garden in the morning
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Shaggy desert mushroom
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| Gold Butte 2015 |
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Bennett Peak
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No Ben.
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Necrophiliac sidewinder
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Colville Ridge
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Put me down now!
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"Epic" scree climb
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The "H" guys
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Gold Butte gold
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Not in a hurry
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Newspaper Rock
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Fin Face
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Falling Man
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Never too much red slickrock.
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Ha ha made you jump!
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Spooky in the Narrows
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Stranger when lit up.
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White bowl
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Red gash
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Parunuweap blue
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Parunuweap red
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Grand Staircase red cliffs
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Grand Staircase white cliffs
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On the mesa top
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Molly's Nipple out there
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Red wall, green trees
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High point of the trip
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Ben's bald eagle composition
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Flowery ridge
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Strata stand as stright as we do.
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Marmot with a view
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Mt. Blackmore peaks
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Yesterday's snow behind us
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Windy Ridge open sky
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Roller coaster trail
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Busy trail but what scenery!
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There's a trail here somewhere...
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...Just like coming through there.
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Back to the Big Mountain
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EEP!
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Where there's smoke...
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Momma marmot (hoary)
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Smokey high meadow
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On top of the Olympics
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We're not in Fukushima anymore
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Independent fearless young siblings
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At the end of Second Beach
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Cross the Dragon's back
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Wedding Rocks
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Just another beach day in Washington
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Melendrez Pass finally
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Sun on a cold morning
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Sea of grass
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McCleary Peak after many years
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Let's rock!
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Tough climb up here
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Ben catches his lunch
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Quest for the Blue Mountain
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Finally found a route!
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Bah bah Ben sheep
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Unexpected flower location
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Bowl of Fire
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Superbloom!
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Laid back hiker
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Fossils
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Does it look like a thimble?
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The Gang of Four
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Red light district
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Phacelia. Don't touch?
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Spooky gravel ghost
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Rediscovering the Sierra
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Big Sur
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Sure do grew 'em big around here!
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Lots to hike around here.
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And this was a dry winter.
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What's that marmot digging for?
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Mono Lake
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Is this a "live" oak?
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Cathedral Peak
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Why are you staring at me?
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Where's the other half of the Dome?
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Room to roam out here.
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Near Daly Pass
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Petrified stump
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No bears in Bear Basin
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Another day, another peak
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We saw elk in the same spot last year
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Endless mountains
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Contrasting rain shadows
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On Eaglehead Peak, but no eagle
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Favorite view, Ramshorn Peak
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Bighorn Peak, long hike
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Yet more mountains in Mountana
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Mountain goats this time, not sheep
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Posing with the Big Mountain
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Old Snowy, we got to the top.
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On top of Old Snowy, plenty of snow.
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Comet Falls, seen from afar last year
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Hold on tight, Ben.
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Far sighted view
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August and there's still ice...
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...and snow.
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Bistort mountainside
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Mt Gilbert from a great viewpoint
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Having fun on a long beach walk
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Always enjoy seeing the needle.
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Still smiling after a long climb
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Distant Santa Ritas
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Good night big cacti
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High grasslands
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Unsettled but scenic
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Desert water is always a treat.
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| Gold Butte 2017 |
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Gang of Four on real Mt. Perry
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Corkscrew Peak
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Brown Horned Toad likes brown rock...
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... and grey likes grey (same species)
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Snowy Sierra
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High country
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Gold Butte views
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Globe Mallow
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Rocky summit
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Princes Plume
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A few mountains
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A few flowers
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High Heel Arch
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Mt. Hepworth
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Buckskin Gulch straightaway
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Kolob Arch
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East Temple shoulder, plan B
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Paria Canyon
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East Zion endless slickrock
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Slickrock going down
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Slickrock going up
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Tight squeeze
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Fallen block in Paria canyon
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Wall of petroglyphs
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Up early!
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Wirepass, if you can fit
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Bear Basin from the old trail
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Ouch! Best experienced below treeline
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Below Hyalite Peak
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Ross Peak, a bit gnarly
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Montana goats
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Divide Peak
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Looking south over the Bridger Range
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A good flower year.
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Bridger Range
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Elephant Mountain
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Gallidaria, a local favorite
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Basin below Divide Peak
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Crowded but classic Chasm Lake
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I'm bigger than you!
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Mount Ida
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Wouldn't be Colorado without pikas
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Pawnee Peak without thunderstorms
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Elusive monkshood
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Essential Colorado
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Mt. Audobon just before the storms
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Seen only because it clucked.
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Arapahoe 35 years after first attempt.
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So what if we're in your trail?
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Lake Dorothy and Arapahoe Pass
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Back to the Big Mountain
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Calm water
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Candy Stick!
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Little brother Adams
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Human scale
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Ten minutes before totality
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Osprey's view of the beach
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On the PCT
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Eye of the needle
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Tiny Bird's Nest fungus
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As I was going to Mt. Ives...
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We thrashed up Goat Island Pk.
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Haleakala morning
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Nenes skipped the conference too
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Found here only
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"Ropey" lava
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End of a day hiking the crater
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Hawaii greens
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East side Santa Ritas
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Ben's coati friend
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Snow up on the crest
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Always find the crested saguaros!
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Long hike to Douglas Spring
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Late return
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Classic ram!
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Three cold hikers
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Another Pinto.
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Palm oasis
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Skull Rock
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Serious mine works
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Basin & Range 2018 |
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Greenwater Valley grass
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Atlas
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The whole gang's here.
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Brown Point
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Venus and Mercury
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Jubilee Pass
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Summit family
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Birdcage Evening Primrose
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Gold Butte color
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What's that tree been smoking?
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Smiling fossil
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Wide open Basin and Range
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Above Cottonwood Lake
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Bitteroot
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Hyalite
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Alpine meadows in the Tobacco Roots
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Watch out for the thunderstorm!
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Snake love
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Wild Tobacco Roots
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Gravelly Range
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Always sought after
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Hollowtop, above the Tobacco Roots
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No horses on Horse Mtn.
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But goats nearby on Elkhorn
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Mt. Conness
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Kuna Crest from Mt. Gibbs
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Tioga Gentian
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Distant False White and friends
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Tufa towers, Mono Lake
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Northern crest
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Dana Plateau and Mt. Dana
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Obsidian
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Cathedral Peak, clear morning
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Approaching False White Pk.
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Typical afternoon smoke
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Saddlebag Lake and Mt. Conness
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Hidden Beach
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Sand Point, On top of the bay
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In an octopus's garden
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Early morning Rialto Beach
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Tiny and delicate
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First class light on 2nd beach
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Why they call it Paradise
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Above McClure rock
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Panhandle Gap
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Mouse on a Stick
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Skyscraper Mtn.
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Mt. Tamanos reds, distant Mt. Adams
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Distant Rincons
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Close up Catalinas
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Wrightson. Can I still get up there?
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Yes!
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En route to Douglas Spring
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Little Elephant Head, still a good view
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Pusch Peak
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Pusch Pig
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Rock Man!
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Cottonwood colors
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Getting out a bit late.
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Airy perch on Mt. Gibbons
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I am the alligator...
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Florida is just flat
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I prefer a rattle to that white flash.
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Morning mist
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Come swim and play with us!
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Flat Florida gets quite wet!
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Little Corkscrew Peak
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Go ahead, pick me up, make my day.
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Above the valley
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Borax BM
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Keane tramway
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Back to the Blue Mountain
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Petrified in Nevada
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Elusive petros in Snow Canyon
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Made it up Pictograph Peak!
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Bacon Blobs at Yant Flat
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White slickrock on Red Mountain
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Above St. George
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Still snowy at Campfire Lake
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Twice the excitement
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Saddle Peak
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Great Grey Owl made my day
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Horse Mtn. in the Tobacco Roots
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Arrow leaf balsam root
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Bridger Range
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Ascending the iconic Sphinx
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Snowshoe hare
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Storm coming over Mt. Wilson
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Mt. Blackmore
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Hardscrabble Peak
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West of Pawnee Pass
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Mt. Belford
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Arctic Gentian, flower of the tundra
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Mt. Yale, first 14er
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From Paiute Peak
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Above Pawnee Pass
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Quail Mtn.
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Mt. Elbert, 2nd highest after Whitney
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Mt. Elbert
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Mt. Belford, quiet 14er
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Rollins Pass from Skyscraper Res.
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Wonder how many of these I don't see.
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Near Mt. Shoshoni
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Solitude on a 13er (Pk. 13078)
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Mt. Angeles. Been up there.
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In search of First Beach tidepools
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Big beach north of Sand Point
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I'm not too big to beg, Momma!
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Clearing Rialto morning
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Bloody Tooth fungus, eew.
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End of Second Beach
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Ranier from Banshee Peak
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Columnar Andesite
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End of Emerald Ridge
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Rainier from Panhandle Gap
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Cowlitz Chimneys
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Go away, Bear!
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Classic Rainier
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Plenty of agua in the (Caliente) canyon
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Surprise visitor on Safford summit!
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Good hiking day for all.
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End of a long scenic Santa Rita day
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Grasslands
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View from Pusch Peak
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The neighborhood coati
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Way out on wild Saddleback Ridge
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But Paul and I went way beyond.
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Evening water and light
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Grassy Santa Rita hills
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Remote Enzenberg Well
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2020 |
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Old road west of Salt Creek
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The usual suspects
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Chloride Cliff
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Prehistoric T stop signage
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Big Bell Mine
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Colorado River
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Ben escaped school for the photo op
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Blackrock Well Petros
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"Niter" Beds
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Sunset near Gass Peak
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It's all fossils!
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Warm chuckwala
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North from Colville Ridge
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Tetracoccus Ridge (after a rare plant)
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Three up high, trying to be cool
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Crinoid reef?
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North from Bald Mtn., no trail found
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Collared Lizard
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Gnarled old timer
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Badwater from Colville Ridge
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In Snail Fossil Canyon
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Thimble Pk from Titanothere Pk.
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Titano-sheep
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Corkscrew Pk. from Titanothere Pk.
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Above Bear Basin
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Bighorn sheep... on Bighorn Peak
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Bighorn Peak, such a smokey trip
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White Bog Orchid
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Ross Peak from across Ross Pass
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Bitteroot flowers are hard to find
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Wild Hilgard Peaks
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Ritter/Banner and the Minarets
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Glaciar and lake, Mt. Conness
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Clouds Rest, Half Dome in haze
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Beyond Dore Cliff
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Budd Lake and Echo Ridge
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Plateau on Tioga Crest
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Tioga Peak and Mt. Dana (both climbed)
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Ascending Cathedral Peak
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High enough for non-climbers
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Conness and North (climbed)
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Passing storm behind the Cockscomb
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Lembert Dome
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Toulomne and Hoffman (both climbed)
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Saddlebag Lake from North Peak
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Third Burroughs Mtn
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Tatoosh Range
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From Mt. Ararat (not Turkey)
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Giving each other the eyeball
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Distant Adams is also snowy
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That's VanTrump Park
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Umtatum east in the rain shadow
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Above Sheep Lake
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On challenging Copper Mtn.
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Tatoosh and distant Adams
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Owyhi Lakes, climbed Barrier on right
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Eep! Pika parking lot attendant
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Wrightson ridge from the east side
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On Castle Dome
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Elephant Head and My Head
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Ocotillo with a view
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Wrightson from Pete Mtn.
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I always try to take this photo
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Thimble Peak back there.
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In the grasslands again
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Vultures roost on the saquaros
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Mt. Fagan South, cleared on arrival
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Always fun to find a crestate cactus
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Ventana Canyon
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SW Utah March 2022 |
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Progeny, our first Zion peak
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East Zion slickrock land
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Alone in East Zion
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Can you ever get too much East Zion?
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Guess not.
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It's Utah, so the mesa is named Smith
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Round and round
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Found the house, but no one was home
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Well hung!
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The elusive Yellow Man
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Above Keane Spring, DV
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Picasso face, Pothole Canyon
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Amazing Cottonwood Arch
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Walking over a fossil bed
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On Striped Butte
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Amargosa View
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Ubehebe colors
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Coffin Peak
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Elephant Peak
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Saddle Peak from Bridger Bowl
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Calypso Orchids
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Sunlight Pass
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Cautious
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Elkhorn Ridge, noisy Sandhill Cranes
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Red Mountain, summit this time
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Snowy Hilgards
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Distant Ramshorn Peak
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Table Mountain
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Iconic Sphinx, watching all
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The quick brown fox
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Minarets from Ediza Lake
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Echo Peaks from Echo Ridge
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Cathedral Pk from Tuolumne
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Tuolomne Meadows toward Cathedral
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On Tenaya Peak
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Young Sharpie. Or Coopers?
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Clouds Rest, Half Dome, from Tenaya
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Three burros near Excelsior
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Burro Lake, Lundy Canyon
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Matthes Crest from Echo Ridge
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Wild country north of Tuolomne Pk.
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Mono Lake Tufa
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Ritter and Banner, Shadow Lake
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Snow Lake from Mono Pass Pk
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Mono Pass Peak
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Cathedral Pk from Echo Ridge
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Ritter from Reversed Peak
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Matthes Crest from Tuolomne
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2022 |
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Calm
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Sand Point
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South end of Second Beach
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That is not a floating log.
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Tyler Peak, Olympics
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Where Kaya once played in ice caves
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Beyond Emerald Ridge
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Chutla, worked for this view
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Up toward Meany Crest
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Reflection Lake
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Above Indian Bar
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On Mt. Tamanos
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December 2022 |
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Table Mtn from Bigorn
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Up by Thimble Peak
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Above Sycamore Canyon
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Snowy sotol
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East side Santa Ritas
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Open window
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Rocky perch
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Warming up on a cold morn
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East side light
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Getting out late
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 |
Melendrez Pass view
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Above Cardiac Gap
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|
Springs March 2023 |
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Near Jubilee Peak
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Long sought Greenwater Pictographs
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Habitation site
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Kaleidoscope Canyon
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"Little" Bridge
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Across Panamint Valley
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Real Palm Springs
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Great to find a desert tortoise
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Up in the Panamints
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Geoglyph
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Visitor in our room
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Whee! Very steep canyon
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On top of the world
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Greywall Canyon bridge
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North Bridger Peak
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So many flowers at Teepee Pass
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Rubber Boa
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Burned out in the Tobacco Roots
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Distant Hilgards, real wilderness
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The iconic Sphix
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Up in the Bridgers again.
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Arctic Gentian
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Sunlight Lake from Tabletop
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Mt. Blackmore
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Sacajawea from above Shaft Trail
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Crazy Montana wild flowers
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Near the top of Cathedral Peak
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What the deer ran from
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Above Elizabeth Lake
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Cobalt Parker Pass Lake
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False White was really white!
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Epic Cathedral Peak view
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Tioga Crest
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Ritter, just like the simulated view
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Kuna Crest pretty snowy this year
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Eichorn Pinnacle
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Sand Tufa on hurricane day
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Dore Cliffs
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Big country north of Dunderberg
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Gaylor Lakes basin
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September 2023 |
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Gopher Snake mimicing rattlesnake
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Rattlesnake being itself
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Chilling young sea lion
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Quite a raft of sea otters
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Above the rainbow
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Classic Hidden Beach view
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The Quilieute Needle
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Rainier summit above
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Little Tahoma across Emmons Glacier
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Familiar places from Mt. Ruth
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Pika and its hay stack
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Goat Lake and Rocks
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Sunrise before the big storm
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Goat Rocks from a lovely summit
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Above Linda Vista
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Baldy Saddle
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North of Sycamore Canyon
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Three amigos on Elephant Head
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Motero holes
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Little Elephant Head from namesake
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Elephant Head view
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Mt. Wrightson, range high point
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Classic Elephant Head
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Above Pima Canyon
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Mt. Wrightson view
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Molino Peak North
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Ocean beach evening
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Just step over the gator?
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Lush
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Wood Stork and epiphytes
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Calm skimmers
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Finally found the Florida Scrub Jay
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Utah March 2024 |
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Daylight Peak
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Back to the Panamint Dunes
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Amargosa Valley from Ryan BM
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Easy peak near Monarch Canyon
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No name, just rocks
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Greenwater Valley from Ryan BM
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"Dante" Panel
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Toward elusive Crawford Overlook
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Gooseberry Mesa
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Wire Mesa, rain coming
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Canaan Gap "Cookie Cutters"
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Grapevine Canyon, Nevada
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Campfire Lake
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100 elk in that herd
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Chestnut Mtn, Goose Cr. approach
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Mt. Thompson, Tobacco Roots
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Flowery view up top
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Tobacco Root peaks in smoke haze
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Crazy North Bridger strata
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Lovely basin near Divide Peak
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West side of Ross Peak
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Sentinel, one of our first MT peaks
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Red stratum "road"
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Small summit above Campfire Lake
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The Minarets and Ritter
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Red hill toward Excelsior
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Steep route from Lundy Canyon
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3rd and 4th Recesses, Mono Pass Pk
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Pass by Tressider Pk
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Clouds Rest and Half Dome
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Mono Pass Peak
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Devil's Postpile walk in
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Elusive Burro Lake
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Twenty Lakes Basin
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Cathedral Peak
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No you don't see me.
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