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Karen²
A Real Canadian Girl
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Karen²
A Real Canadian Girl
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 Tue Nov 29, 2011 6:33 pm |
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| Scrooge wrote: | Get a group of circum-forty teenage girls together and you never know what's going to happen.  |
Heh. Better let the girls off the hook on this one. Ingunn is still in her 20's, Josie still in her 30's...I'm the "senior citizen" of the group. 
Ok here's some photos, a bunch more on my Flickr site.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/48937858@N07/sets/
Hopefully the girls will add some more.
The Narrows
 Josie in The Narrows  Trailhead  Come on in gals, the water is fine  The Virgin River  Ingunn explores the canyon  Hiker arrives at White Pocket  Josie in the giant puzzle  Cool rock formation  Sunset on Josie's Pond  Ah! My favourite time of day!  Swirly chaos  Checking out the bizarre rock  Coolest Landscape I've ever seen  Ingunn jumps the river  Josie admires the green and red  Coyote Gulch Oasis  Coyote Gulch waterfall  Joise plays happilly in the canyon  Enjoying the solitude of the sun rising over The Valley of Fire  Accomodations provided by Big Agnes @ Valley of Fire  I can see why it is called Valley of Fire  My Joshua Tree  Darwin award photographer Josie ascends into Peek-a-boo Canyon  The Hangover
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the Zachster
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Joined: 17 Jan 2007
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Location: dog training |
"May I always be the kind of person my dog thinks I am"
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ree
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ree
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Thu Dec 01, 2011 8:23 pm |
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What a fun trip! Gorgeous pics, as usual, K. I thought your video was funny and delightful. 
Isn't Valley of Fire neat? I imagine it gets ignored a lot because everyone wants to leave LV asap and head straight to Zion (or Bryce, etc.) I thought "Mouse Tank" was a pretty funny name.
Glad you had a wonderful trip with good friends. 
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hikermike
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Excellant report loved!! the vid.
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Pikawhisperer
Wag More, Bark Less!
Joined: 14 Sep 2011
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Location: Somewhere in a lookout |
AWESOME trip! I think this might be my next hiking destination....if I'm lucky  Looks fabulous!!
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Nomad
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Joined: 03 Mar 2004
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Fri Dec 02, 2011 6:50 pm |
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Wow! Looks like you had a great time. Excellent photos as usual.
"Of all the fire mountains which, like beacons, once blazed along the Pacific Coast, Mount Rainier is the noblest." - John Muir
"If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads." - Anatole France
"Of all the fire mountains which, like beacons, once blazed along the Pacific Coast, Mount Rainier is the noblest." - John Muir
"If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads." - Anatole France
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Ingunn
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Ingunn
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Thu Dec 08, 2011 12:39 pm |
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I had loaded up my Kindle with books for this trip (expecting long, sleepless nights in my tent), one of them being My Year with Eleanor, exploring Eleanor Roosevelt's advice to "do one thing that scares you every day". Little did I know that Karen's itinerary would allow me to do just that. 
1) getting up early enough to catch a 7 am flight (okay, I might be confusing "scares me" and "pisses me off" here).
2) hiking in waist-deep, 46° water without a drysuit (and then converting it to Celsius so I would actually understand how cold that is).
 Brr!  I finally hiked the Narrows!  The current must be stronger than I thought  Turn and smile!  See, there's light in even the darkest of canyons.  'round the bend  The serene smile of hypothermia  Kanyoneer Karen  Sunshine ahead  Canyon ghosts  Junction  On the road to nowhere  I said carry-on, not carrion  Whoa!  K2 approves  So worth the drive  Mukmuk's pool  Hiking in a dream  Vortex  Last light  Swirlyglow  Josie's Pond  Sunset somewhere in outer space  She's always got her nose in a book  Moonshine  So many knobs, so little time  Rockin' (or just stoned?)  Good morrow!  Venus and Mars  Desert moguls  Lovely lumps  Karen²  Sensory overload  BRAAAAAAAAINS.  I thought this was supposed to be grippy  Next stop: cesspool  The primordial ooze  It's better to look up than down at the muck.  The Three Canyoneers  Good thing we had finally showered earlier that morning.  Peek-a-boo  Still likin' that birthday present?  Corkscrew Jo  Jaws of Peek-a-boo  Spooky Gulch Mukmuk  ...I'm supposed to squeeze through that?  Stuck, eh?  Canadian bridge  Trailhead camping  Entering Amanda Knox Canyon  Coyote Gulch  Sunshiny canyon  Josie was the only one smart enough to bring water shoes.  Into the light  Jacob Hamlin Arch  I finally learned how to take fuzzy water photos (sorry Scrooge!)  Hopefully Karen will turn 40 (I mean 23) over and over again so we'll have an excuse to go back to Utah.  That's how it goes when you forget to bring your remote.  Sorry Go Jo!)
6) Vegas. Not so much fear, just loathing.
(Still hate it...but I know I'll keep coming back since it's the gateway to many a fantabulous Southwest adventure.)
 She burned her hand for this photo  Who you callin' slow??  It's a boy!  When in Utah..  Bryce Canyon  Morning dumbassery  Mukmuk would rather stay in Red Canyon than return to the world of toques.  Yeah, that's creepy.  The road trip takes a bad turn  O HAI  Valley of Fire, my favorite campground  Mukmuk honing his rope skills after his experiences in Peek-a-boo Canyon.  Turtle power!  'twas a rough night in the Mojave
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Scrooge
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Scrooge
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Thu Dec 08, 2011 10:54 pm |
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Something lost behind the ranges. Lost and waiting for you....... Go and find it. Go!
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