Desert musings

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>> I guess I hale from the older days. Gosh that sounds old. I
>> knew Dave Seibert when he was just a single young man all
>> confused about who he should marry when the answer was right
>> in front of him. My family got to CVI and then CVA in 1971
>> and stayed until 76. I returned in 78 for one year and then
>> off to Laurelbrook through a curvy path. My oh my, them was
>> the days.
>>
>> Sitting here at PUC tonight listening to some old Dallas
>> Holm and Don Francisco that Linda just purchased on the
>> Apple iTunes store. "He's Alive" and "Rise Again" original
>> versions. I think back to all the growing up that happened
>> there and even after all the trips back to the desert I have
>> made there are still some things that I would like to do
>> with my 13 year old Mark.
>>
>> Climb Pariot mesa, I have only done it twice in all my
>> years.
>>
>> Climb the old "burro trail" up the north (river) end of
>> Porcipine ridge. Did that once with ken miller and camped on
>> top. We hiked the short hike over to look down onto big
>> bend. And maybe that trail could be made into a bike trail
>> and create a continous bike route from Moab to the valley.
>>
>> Ride a dirt bike, down, up the old road down into the wash
>> behind Castle Rock. When I was a kid it still looked like
>> you could drive down it, probably not now.
>>
>> I would like to prove once and for all if there are deer on
>> top of "the mesa". How did they get there?
>>
>> I would like to see the dinosour tracks on Fischer mesa.
>> Tromped over them so many times, never saw them.
>>
>> I would like to four x four up above miners basin with my
>> kid. I know the road is closed now and open to hikers and
>> pedal bikes but it sure was a fun drive in about 1974 with a
>> old military 4x4 with a flathead straight six.
>>
>> I want to try to gather some quartz crystals from above
>> beaver basin. And this one I still plan to do. I know it got
>> pretty cleaned out in the crystal craze of the 1980's but
>> there still must be some up there.
>>
>> and, while not a complete list, I would like to camp at
>> Werner lake with my family who has never been there.