salida canyon hike: COLORADO

mid january with crissy, jeff and 4 dogs.






crissy and a super old cedar


ridge top

mzr: back on the ranch

crissy and i took a walk. we found a bone yard. walked on a frozen river and got caught in a blizzard.





here's jeff's porcupine friend pooching around the yard eating some stuff. he looks like a sloth and has a bad leg that was broken.

YESSSSS!

you will be judged by what you build, not what you destroy.


44 baby

frisco, co...9000 feet and ice cold

maddox petting the doggie: they played ball all night.




me with dustin and maddox: coffee run.

we like to party

neilio helps out the flaggers

fishy fishy

last days in CA. lots of fishing, not so many steelhead.


a bay tree in flower.




a windmill farm near tahachapi, ca. on the way back to the big az!

red rocks hike

mcdowell, our fearless and fast leader, took us out of flagstaff to enjoy the volcanic formations of red rocks. we lost the trail and hiked over the icy snow, occasionally falling through the packed trail into the powdery depths of the white precipitation. we also thought there would be little to no snow up here at 8000 feet so we didnt wear any appropriate clothes. looks like we were wrong!



so we lost the trail and ended up onto this hill with a great view.




then we had to slide down this hill to get back to where we were supposed to be.


a close up of the volcanic rock.



inside the cinder cone. neil, addy and creasy.



red rocks.


pinon pine and juniper forest transitioning to ponderosa pine

neily hoists a peace sign

we helped Helen re-light her son's peace sign. you can see the lights all through town.


neil climed up, lowered it down and we restrung the whole thing.



check out the size of this pine!


the man admiring his work.