I Hope you enjoy the photos as much as I enjoyed taking them....

"Going to the mountains is going home." John Muir

. . . "To him who has once tasted the reckless independence, the haughty self-reliance, the sense of irresponsible freedom, which the forest life engenders, civilization thenceforth seems flat and stale. Its pleasures are insipid, its pursuits wearisome, its conventionalities, duties, and mutual dependence alike tedious and disgusting. The entrapped wanderer grows fierce and restless, and pants for breathing-room. His path, it is true, was choked with difficulties, but his body and soul were hardened to meet them; it was beset with dangers, but these were the very spice of his life, gladdening his heart with exulting self-confidence, and sending the blood through his veins with a livelier current. The wilderness, rough, harsh, and inexorable, has charms more potent in their seductive influence than all the lures of luxury and sloth. And often he on whom it has cast its magic finds no heart to dissolve the spell, and remains a wanderer and an Ishmaelite to the hour of his death."..............Francis Parkman

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Updated as often as time and adventures allow......Enjoy!!!!

Wednesday, July 29, 2009

Rocky Ridge Lake




Weitas Lookout











Candy of the Forest

Wild Strawberries

Huckleberries

Monday, July 20, 2009

North Fork Country July 2009

Kelly Creek



Kelly Creek

Timber, Pointing out the Cutthroats
Burned Cedars in Black Canyon

North Fork, in Black Canyon, Sunrise
Water fall in Black Canyon



Elizabeth's Finger, Black Canyon

Wildflowers in Black Canyon


Sunset over Pot Mountain