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| Picnic at Cedar Breaks National Monument |   A cute little park model RV at Star Valley, where we took a trip with Dave and Sandy. |   A little baggie I made from a fruit bag | Barbara, Tom, and their kids, we're having BBQ together at the Salt Lick restaurant outside Austin. |   This is where the magic happens | Parents of the prospective UATX kids |   Elkhorn - my first earth skills gathering. My tent was flooded out a day or so after this picture. The setup is definitely not perfected - cooking was difficult. | There were quite a few teepees. |   I helped butcher a sheep |   The cooking area | Dutch oven cooking |   Central fire pit aera. | Class schedule |   Some very unique vehicles | Trapping class |   I took a little ike | In line for dinner |   Canning chicken | Lots of wall tents |   The water rose in this pasture, where I was camped - I needed to move my tent | Trade blanket |   These neighbors of mine had a great setup | Lots of people were living in vans - one lady showed me hers |   Eric visiting his parents in NC |   Peter playing piano at the ward talent show |   This hike (with John Gallant's meetup group - Red Rock Hiking), in the Lee Valley area - was stunning. |         At Cove Fort historical area |   Eric on my innovative pool sun pad | Hike with Joel C - the "red man" area - close to Fort Pierce |   Interesting rocks on the opposite side of the canyon | Dave and Joel |     The first time I ever saw a drone air show |   St George Rodeo |   Mariann went with to the dino tracks |   On the other side of the Red Man pictograph, with Dave. Lots of interesting rocks. |     Emile, our warm showers guest from Quebec. |   The Babylon Arch area with Bruce and Roz |     Kanaraville Falls with Leanne |     The highpoint of the Jones Bones trail |   Vortex trail with Celeste and Brett |   At the Senior Games, the square dancing event | My camping table setup |   The new comet Tsuchinshan-Atlas was nicely visible from the top of Stone Cliff |   My hotel cooking kit. Works well! | Trip to Lake Tahoe/Carson City. |     The water is so beautiful and clear |   We took a train to Virginia City |   The old schoolhouse had this glass-enclosed room for typing class |      This conductor was a great story teller. | Eric about to head into the 737 simulator |     A hike up to the ridge to the east of Shinobe Kibe |   Felix from Warm Showers. Nice guy. I gave him a haircut. |   My diy ultralight chair, reconfigured wiht the aluminum poles | Some remnants of the plane crash that occurred just south of the airport. Luckily everyone got out. |   At the Birdsong earth skills gathering, just across the border with Nevada, in CA. I had a hard time getting the tent up with the wind. | There were some pet pigs around the place, and lots of other animals |   Never seen this kind of compressed feed before |   These kids helped with the fire building class |   Chase watching while Tamra makes fire |     A hike along the Virgin River gorge, great petroglyphs |     Stopped at the new Smiths, they had a great sale on beef! | Our warm showers guest Heike, we hiked up Shinobe Kibe |   Tessa and Laura came for a visit |   A beautiful moonrise | On a hike to Hamburger Rock - a view of Ship Rock, on the other side of I-15 |   Interesting rock formation. | This guy was a counselor in one of the wilderness therapy companies. |   Hamburger rock |   Another view of Ship Rock |   Walk at the lava rock area, around the Black Rock Resort | Buckskin Hollow/Winchester hills hike, with Dana Smith |   Made this wreath for Christmas, from cedar branches that we cut down around the Red Mountain Overlook trail | Day after Thanksgiving - Black Friday - HUGE crowds at the mall - we went just for fun. |   With John Gallant's hiking meetup group - Red Rock hikers, at the Babylon area petrified wood hike. |   Mieko and a big petrified log |   There was actually a little running stream here! |   This rock became a comfortable chair | Old pipes - wooden, bound with wire |   Hike led by Dana Smith, Snow Canyon petroglyphs. Great little hike. |     We skirted the edge of some very large homes |   Shipwreck rock |     At the top of Mollie's Nipple, visible from all around |   Rikka gave away gilded pickleballs for Christmas |   Ken and Ann visited for Christmas, this is around the Town Square |   At the Brigham Young Winter Home | At Snow Canyon |   Birthday |       A scenic drive up Kolob Terrace road |   As I was taking a photo, I happened to capture a driver coming in the other direction, taking one as well. |  | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||