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  Topic: Water Hike - June 27th
bigjohn

Replies: 98
Views: 35019

PostForum: Hiking, Backpacking & Camping   Posted: 7/2/2009, 12:43 pm   Subject: Water Hike - June 27th
Wow, it's pretty good! Very Happy
The video in the middle really
jazzes it up a lot.
  Topic: Water Hike - June 27th
bigjohn

Replies: 98
Views: 35019

PostForum: 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: 16607

PostForum: 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! Razz
  Topic: Wanted: your funny trail incidents
bigjohn

Replies: 15
Views: 16607

PostForum: 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: 16607

PostForum: 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! Wink
  Topic: Wanted: your funny trail incidents
bigjohn

Replies: 15
Views: 16607

PostForum: 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: 2726

PostForum: 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: 5356

PostForum: 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: 33807

PostForum: 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: 2117

PostForum: 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: 4940

PostForum: 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: 33807

PostForum: 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: 3294

PostForum: 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: 3294

PostForum: 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: 4284

PostForum: 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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