What did you do on your Summer Vacation?

[Jady]

Class, now that we're back in school (we are here anyway!) your assignment is to tell us what you did on your summer vacation.


My name is Jady. I went to Lake Powell. That's in Utah. It's very pretty there. I had a good time. We lived on a houseboat for a whole week! It was big! It had 5 bedrooms downstairs and a jacuzzi on the roof!! And a slide!!

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This is called Oak Canyon. We stayed here for 4 days.
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This is my friend Cayuse Kate and our friend Bev going for a hike.
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[Jady]

This is what Lake Powell looks like. It is pretty.

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[Garnet Rose]

That sure brought back memories. Looks like you had a wonderful time!

[Jady]

Sometimes it got cloudy and rainy.


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But after it was real pretty!

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[Jady]

The sky was beautiful at night. That's called a sunset.

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[Jady]

We had a good time. I can't wait to go back someday!

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[Fannie Kikinshoot]

Jady, the picture of the sunset with the rainbow is AWESOME!! You need to blow that one up to a large size, frame it and hang it somewhere in your home.

[Aspen Filly]

Man...that brought back lots of great mermories. I LOVED being there.....hubbie wasn't impressed with it much though......long story told another time. We've talked about having a 'girls trip' to Powell......anyone game????????

[Coffee Em]

Grade for Jady's report:

A+



Now do your math homework! :rofl :rofl :rofl

[Ida Hands]

WOW! FANTASTIC PHOTOS! You ladies look like you had the world on hold! Thanks for the pics.

[Nellie Blue]

Looks like you had a wonderful time! My favorites were the rainy sky photos! :lool :lool :lool

[Four-Eyed Buck]

We stayed one weekend at my son's camper. Got to see the the Persid meteors without ambient background light( was out on the lake at night, neat). Sorry, no pics...............:faint :go :lool

[Slick Vic Ulster Ranger]

Started of going to Poteau in Oklahoma to visit a friend i hadnt saw for 24 years, stayed for a few days then we drove through O.K., the panhandle of Texas and on to EOT some 730 miles.

Here is one of Belle Starrs husbands Sam Starr
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Tracked down Belles grave but it is in private land, well really in an over grown patch very much neglected and soon will be forgotten.

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Got to visit William H Bonnie .And he is still in Jail!!
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And these people wanted to get their pic taken with me. Dont know why!!!
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Then to keep the peace Joyce and i went to Crete( well i promised if i got to eot and a promise is a promise)

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[Jady]

Then to keep the peace Joyce and i went to Crete( well i promised if i got to eot and a promise is a promise)

I like the way Joyce thinks... and after all, fair is fair!

I should have tried that myself... "Well, honey if you get to choose a trip to Lake Powell, then I get to choose a trip to New England/Canada"! (I always have wanted to cruise the St. Lawrence Seaway!! ...in the Fall!!)

Thanks for the great pics, Slick Vic!

[Allie Mo]

:ty to both of you. Great photos.

Vic, my mom would love the grave photos. She loved to visit old cemetaries.

Regards,

Allie Mo

[Slick Vic Ulster Ranger]

Hi Allie Mo, here are a wheen more pics .

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I took these last year while on hols in C.A. when i asked the location of Clayton Moores grave the lady refused to tell me. I told her i had come 7000 odd miles and what did she think i was going to do ,DIG HIM UP and take him with me. However she did tell me where the statue of David was so i worked it out from there. Where there is a will there is a way.

[Ida Hands]

Thank, Mr. Ranger for those GREAT pics! The gravestones were a real kick!

[DogWoman]

It's way too hot to go to the west desert and red rock country around here in the summer. I cheated a bit and call it our CELEBRATION THAT WINTER IS FINALLY OVER!

The first is of the sunset in the west desert near Skull Valley, Utah.
The second is for you Kid! A very NICE proghorn buck.
Then the last, WARNING FOR FANNIE!!! A very harmless bull snake. They "pass out" if you walk up to them. This one is getting ready to go down.

[DogWoman]

Then there's our annual 'red rock fix' to southern Utah. This year we focused on canyoneering in the Goblin Valley area. As a caveat: MAKE SURE YOU KNOW YOUR SKILL LEVEL AND HAVE GOOD EQUIPMENT WHEN GOING IN THESE CANYONS!!! We found out by experience that this can be a very dangerous encounter with Utah's back country. We have done canyons in the 3 and 4 ratings. Ding Canyon was a 3 and Dang is a 4. Little Wild Horse Canyon (LWH) is a 4 and we 'thought' we did LWH so why not DANG???? They should have named this something FAR more appropriate (but not appropriate for those pre-legal age of consuming alcohol).

We don't have pics of Dang. I had the sense to leave the very expensive camera at home. I should have left my very sore legs and arms at home too!

Here are some pics of the canyon country of Utah! If you ever do decide to venture forth into these areas: have maps, water, food, water, appropriate gear (people have DIED in these canyons), did I say WATER???

#1: Crack Canyon (easy hike)
#2: Little Wild Horse Canyon. If you came at the Temple Mountain site, you can access the canyon entrance by a mile walk from the camp area. OR you can drive to the mesa directly across from it and knock off a mile. Either way, it's a nice hike through the Reef. As always, bring plenty of water, food, and use common desert sense. These canyons get pretty nasty in flash flood conditions.
#3: Farnsworth Canyon pothole. One of the delights of camping in the desert in the late spring are potholes. Our German Shepherd LOVED swimming in them. I have to admit that Irish Jack and I also soaked in them.

Our summer vacation is Hell On Wheels and Utah War.

[Tatted Lady]

:ty Beautiful pics. Love to see the country,,,all around the world...


You need to put a snake alert up for Fannie though, because she might shoot up her computer!!!!:faint