A Chuckle From Before

As in the past life of working and the chuckles are at the expense of a friend. We both laugh hard about this. My regret is that the conservative side of me said for the longest time said no to this technique and what a huge mistake that was - huge! It's like many things - use it in moderation and it's fine. We worked so much harder than we had to. This is for problem tires only.

And a sacrifice was made.

So just how hot was it? I don't think the small explosion made the valve stem that hot but the air in the tire was and it happened when the air was escaping that it got real hot quickly. You need to stop the air or else the tire will come back off the rim which was the problem in the first place. I do not miss this at all!

Art On A Ledge Too

This was fun to find. I think this video does better than the pictures as the ledge is too narrow to get very far away. There were one set of old foot prints. No many are going to make the effort to get to these and others that I came across let alone look for and find out of the way presents left from the past.

Butler Wash Ruins

This is a ruin seen some time ago and wanted to get close to it by coming up the drainage. Did that last week and this turned out to be one of the easiest climbs of several I did last week around Cedar Mesa in Utah.

The easy came after I quit thinking about the best way to get there as it was hard till then.

Pagoda Cemetery Along The Williams Fork

A picture post done at OTC on 11/16/08 that was titled "Pictures And Video From Today". There are also pictures from a museum started by a man that lived here. He moved the Pagoda store to that museum and talk about a walk back in time. I am unable to make these pictures larger so you have to click on them to see them better. At the very bottom is a video of a huge elk named Clyde. Clyde killed a man a few years ago who was feeding him. He was just doing what elk do. That was a bad deal all the way around.


Here is a video just sent to me with people who are not very smart getting close to bull elk in Estes Park. It's scary and some are very lucky they did not get killed as well. 



It was so nice today I should have been wearing shorts. Not much color but I like this area a lot. The rich have found it. This is the east fork of the Williams Fork River south of Hayden,CO.


An interesting little cemetery that rivals any I saw along the Mississippi.





There's a very nice picture of this women on the headstone.





If ever I was to build a house it would have a command post on the top like this one and that's where I'd be hanging out.



This is inside the Wyman Museum.  I had never visited until today and I was impressed. This museum is fun and informative.




One can spend several hours here without any problem.





This guy will be up on Saturday.






A bit of reverse engineering for moving hay. The building on the left behind the muffler was the Pagoda store which was located across the road from the cemetery and moved to the site of the museum.

A 360 degree video showing just where this cemetery sits.



Here is Clyde the pet elk who was bugling  but not when I did this. He is one big boy.

Good Times Fishing

The first movie ever done by me as almost identical to this one except that some of the pictures are different and the song is the same. That was uploaded to Google video years ago. Google video is a thing of the past.

I do have a new camcorder that does Hi-Def videos that I can't wait to use when some colors appear that are not white. One of the benefits is that the changes made to Windows Movie Maker enhanced any pictures used in a video as well to such an extent they look almost as good as if I was viewing them directly from my picture file on my own computer screen.

To see that effect click on the far right icon to get a full screen and click on the numbers to the left of that icon and choose 720. Let it load a bit and then view. I think it looks pretty decent and wonder what you think and how it played for you.

You may not see the numbers until the video is started. How I wish I would have had this camera this summer but they just came out with it. 

Dinosaur Slickrock

From this weekend something only done one time before and that was the first WM Maker movie I did a long time ago until now. Meaning set to music. Didn't remember this song and there are a couple lame areas that may be taken out later but for now left in because the music is so good and incredibly fitting. At least it seems that way now.

I'll Miss This

Some of the best fishing I've ever had has been at this place. There's another spot that rivals this but this is my favorite. The other place is hard and dangerous for me alone. This spot is very easy with levels like these. We're talking give or take 150 in an afternoon. Of course not every time but it happens. Have to say myself there's a fair amount of action here and I can't tell you enough how much fun it is to see these fish come up after a dry fly and you can see that pretty well in this. It just doesn't get much better! Watch closely.

Mostly rainbows and they don't get much bigger than this. Next time you go it might be all brookies and you can catch a cutthroat if you're lucky. The other place you can get the other one which is a brown and when that happens that's way too cool.

McConkie Ranch Vernal Utah

Putting this video at the top because it gives a much better perspective than pictures I think in this case.

Like to thank the owners of this property for allowing the public to enter and view these incredible art forms.

There's something about the last picture. It  reminds me of a certain Star Trek episode where the crew is observing a culture of people from a cliff face that uses a hologram. The hologram breaks and they are exposed. I just do not know where these artists got their ideas for such strange drawings when their world was so very small.

Fantasy Canyon

Located south of Vernal,Utah Fantasy Canyon is unique. I hope if you ever visit you have a map that is correct. This place is worth a visit.

Here is a illustrative video to give a better idea of what this area is like. It's hard to capture with pictures at times.

Pictures From Today 5/23

Out in the middle of nowhere. That is the east fork of the Williams Fork river on the county lines of Routt and Moffat.

There was no way to see a date and has been here a long time.

This is at the Pagoda cemetery just down the road. There are several other pictures here. ( a couple pictures are missing and don't know why but leaving the link up anyway) Not a bad place to be interned at all.

This is yours by the way.

So is this.

Not this but it's on the boundary of the BLM andYampa River bottom in Moffat county.

This cemetery is in Craig. Had not been here before.

There will be more of pictures like this that will be much better. They are from where I grew up and you can check it out here. It's actually worth watching because at times they are not too kind about religion. It's a place for some very interesting pictures although many have a religious theme.

Same place. Note the power plant. This is coal and gas country more so than oil but there is that too.

This is another plant in Hayden less than twenty miles east.

More Yampa river bottom just east of Hayden.

Now don't be afraid. Not a good picture at all and most of the above are nothing special that is for sure. It was bland outside without much sun.

Just look at the size of this a thing. You just never know what you're going to run across.