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Topic: Water Hike - June 27th |
bigjohn
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Views: 35161
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Forum: Hiking, Backpacking & Camping Posted: 7/2/2009, 12:43 pm Subject: Water Hike - June 27th |
Wow, it's pretty good!
The video in the middle really
jazzes it up a lot. |
Topic: Water Hike - June 27th |
bigjohn
Replies: 98
Views: 35161
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Forum: Hiking, Backpacking & Camping Posted: 7/1/2009, 1:01 pm Subject: Short movie of life at the "pool..." |
I've put together a [url=http://positioniseverything.net/temp/beaver/wetbeaver_media/wetbeaver.wmv]WMV movie taken at the pool in Wet Beaver Creek. It's 15MB so it might take a bit of time to download ... |
Topic: Wanted: your funny trail incidents |
bigjohn
Replies: 15
Views: 17323
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Forum: Photos, Literature, Art, Websites Posted: 3/16/2009, 11:39 am Subject: Wanted: your funny trail incidents |
He ate it , dirt and all and licked his boot clean.
Feeling queasy...
But, it shore is a good 'un! |
Topic: Wanted: your funny trail incidents |
bigjohn
Replies: 15
Views: 17323
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Forum: Photos, Literature, Art, Websites Posted: 3/15/2009, 8:57 pm Subject: Wanted: your funny trail incidents |
That tale about the rolling rock and the big fall reminded me of an
incident I mentioned in my first Sierra trip report on my site. Here's
the relevant part:
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Topic: Wanted: your funny trail incidents |
bigjohn
Replies: 15
Views: 17323
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Forum: Photos, Literature, Art, Websites Posted: 3/15/2009, 10:55 am Subject: Wanted: your funny trail incidents |
I always thought Wet Beaver Creek was a funny name!
Oooo. Now THAT'S what I'm talkin' about! |
Topic: Wanted: your funny trail incidents |
bigjohn
Replies: 15
Views: 17323
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Forum: Photos, Literature, Art, Websites Posted: 3/15/2009, 10:24 am Subject: Wanted: your funny trail incidents |
Meredith and I are planning to write a humorous little piece of fiction
that has a hiking group go through all the mistakes and mishaps we
can think of, along with lots of punny place names. Sort ... |
Topic: Black Mountains harbor mysterious delight... |
bigjohn
Replies: 7
Views: 2729
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Forum: Trip Logs & Trail Descriptions Posted: 3/3/2009, 2:23 pm Subject: Black Mountains harbor mysterious delight... |
Mer and I led a hike in there last weekend and we all had a great time.
http://www.wanderlucky.com/images/current/blacks-1mar09.jpg
As you can see the place is fairly spectaular and it's a wilde ... |
Topic: Poetry in Motion...are you inspired by nature this Spring? |
bigjohn
Replies: 2
Views: 5632
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Forum: Photos, Literature, Art, Websites Posted: 2/25/2009, 5:59 pm Subject: Poetry in Motion...are you inspired by nature this Spring? |
I shared that hike at Thumb Butte with Mer,
and I too was inspir'd:
Parallel Love
My love and I upon a hill did walk
west'ring sun all amber and gold
stormclouds raced, we didn't talk
trad ... |
Topic: Do you know a great nature writer among us? |
bigjohn
Replies: 45
Views: 34969
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Forum: Photos, Literature, Art, Websites Posted: 2/25/2009, 5:38 pm Subject: Do you know a great nature writer among us? |
Fish food
Little fishy in the water, wants his early morning snack
Me and my girl swimming 'round there, suddenly he bites her back!
It's your space, okay, we know, all we wanted was a wash
Litt ... |
Topic: Northwest AZ XC hike in Warm Springs Wilderness March 1st |
bigjohn
Replies: 0
Views: 2130
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Forum: Events Posted: 2/25/2009, 2:34 pm Subject: Northwest AZ XC hike in Warm Springs Wilderness March 1st |
On March 1st I'm going to be leading a hike into a big
unnamed canyon in the heart of the Black Mountains in
the Warm Springs Wilderness, about 15 miles east of
Laughlin/Bullhead City.
This h ... |
Topic: Got poetry? (I meant this for Literature Section!) |
bigjohn
Replies: 17
Views: 4981
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Forum: Hiking, Backpacking & Camping Posted: 2/20/2009, 1:03 am Subject: Got poetry? (I meant this for Literature Section!) |
Got a poem here...
Hard high places, merely here on loan,
gain majesty from forces down below.
Wild butterfly storms make to flow,
fluids shape and shift the stone.
Hard and soft, they work ... |
Topic: Do you know a great nature writer among us? |
bigjohn
Replies: 45
Views: 34969
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Forum: Photos, Literature, Art, Websites Posted: 2/16/2009, 8:03 pm Subject: Do you know a great nature writer among us? |
All this literary talk has me thinking. Why don't we start a nature poetry thread and see who's got the muse? I'll contribute! |
Topic: Xmas Snow Trip 2008 |
bigjohn
Replies: 10
Views: 3311
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Forum: Hiking, Backpacking & Camping Posted: 12/28/2008, 11:46 am Subject: Re: Xmas Snow Trip 2008 |
Okay, I finally managed to get an album made, altho I had to delete
all the pics and reload them because of the fact that auto resizing is
on by default and I spent a long time sizing them nicely. ... |
Topic: Xmas Snow Trip 2008 |
bigjohn
Replies: 10
Views: 3311
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Forum: Hiking, Backpacking & Camping Posted: 12/27/2008, 9:05 pm Subject: Xmas Snow Trip 2008 |
This last week I took a long car trip around the state with my main
squeeze to hit a few high spots (and do some hiking too). Well, we
hit the jackpot. A big winter storm struck on Christmas day,
... |
Topic: Best Sedona Hike? |
bigjohn
Replies: 11
Views: 4321
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Forum: Hiking, Backpacking & Camping Posted: 12/27/2008, 8:34 pm Subject: So new album posters need not apply? |
I just tried to post a new photo album but became very frustrated
because I couldn't find the "new album" link. Finally I noticed that
I have to beg an admin for permission to do this, b ... |
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