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Post by nowyo on Aug 14, 2019 19:18:46 GMT -5
Nice job on those. I especially like that Stoney Creek.
Russ
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Post by nowyo on Aug 14, 2019 19:15:30 GMT -5
All very nice. Amazing strides in a short time.
Russ
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Post by nowyo on Jul 25, 2019 13:55:09 GMT -5
That is a beautiful piece, Mike.
Russ
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Post by nowyo on Jul 6, 2019 21:48:16 GMT -5
NevadaBill that is a most excellent report. Great pictures and story-the geology itself is fascinating and finding purty rocks is a bonus. I was always a mountain guy, but the desert grows on a person, I' afraid that I'm turning into a desert rat. Russ Thanks for the nice comment, nowyo ! I am a mountain guy at heart (hunting, fishing, 4-wheeling), who is guy trapped in the desert right now. Hey, I was at a club meeting recently and we talked about a 4 day field trip in October for Fallon, NV! If I find myself being able to attend, maybe we could hook and find rocks for a day! That could be made to work. We'll have to plan on it.
Russ
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Post by nowyo on Jul 5, 2019 9:55:13 GMT -5
That's just awful. Hopefully his family can carry on and find some peace. Another lesson that our time is short, make every day count the best you can.
Russ
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Post by nowyo on Jul 3, 2019 18:56:22 GMT -5
Nice little barrel cactus there. I'm no expert, and there are folks on this board who know a lot more about desert plants than I do. The cacti in our yard bloom in the morning and close up towards evening. The barrel cactus in the kitchen window doesn't do that. I'm sure that different species/varieties have different life habits. Here's a shot of the Opuntia Polychrome in the front yard yesterday afternoon. The blossoms all closed up at the end of the day, today it had three new blossoms. Transplanted this guy from the wild last spring. Seems to be happy.
Russ
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Post by nowyo on Jul 3, 2019 18:39:45 GMT -5
Just now saw this. Great pictures miket. The Black Hills are a special place. Russ
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Post by nowyo on Jul 3, 2019 18:35:16 GMT -5
NevadaBill that is a most excellent report. Great pictures and story-the geology itself is fascinating and finding purty rocks is a bonus. I was always a mountain guy, but the desert grows on a person, I' afraid that I'm turning into a desert rat. Russ
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Post by nowyo on Jul 3, 2019 18:12:27 GMT -5
Nice job on the videos, Rob. It's always nice to see where other people go and different areas. Some nice finds in there.
Russ
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Post by nowyo on Jul 3, 2019 18:09:09 GMT -5
We travel through this area on occasion. On one trip we did a little hike to look at the Alamo Breccia.
We did see some stromatoparoids, crinoids and partial brachiopods in our wandering that day-didn't collect any. My pictures of megaclasts didn't turn out, guess I'll have to try another day. Thank you 1dave for an excellent presentation on this subject.
Russ
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Post by nowyo on Jun 21, 2019 10:48:20 GMT -5
Missed this- Great pictures! Love the train story, too. A little sad not more people showed up for the sesquicentennial. But, better for you. I'm used to crowds that take all the fun out of everything. They actually had a pretty decent crowd for a little town. When I took the picture folks were just kind of wandering over. That took place on the same day as the "official" celebration at Promontory where I hear they had 20,000 people. Also the same week that they ran the Big Boy from Cheyenne to Ogden and back, I guess that was a madhouse as well.
Russ
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Post by nowyo on Jun 18, 2019 8:29:44 GMT -5
Thanks all. Green is the word-wet winter/spring. Not a lot at once, but steady. Seems I sent most of my free time from January to March shoveling snow. Wheeler Peak is really neat. Haven't done the caves yet but it's on the list. Hopefully this summer. That was gold mining. Pretty much exhausted by 1920. Reworked some in the early '40's. Russ I highly recommend the tour through Lehman cave. The tourist traffic is usually light in this area and it's a beautiful drive up Wheeler Peak. A detour to the West toward Delta or Milford, Utah will put you in good rock hounding areas too. Nice remote area away from the crowds. Lehman Cave is definitely on the to-do list. You're right about the traffic in the area. We had to make a quick trip o Cedar City a couple of weeks ago. On Highway 21 from US 50 to Milford I think we met 8 cars. Nice drive and a beautiful area, haven't really had time to mess around much over there but it's on the short list as well.
Russ
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Post by nowyo on Jun 6, 2019 17:13:27 GMT -5
Looks lik yu guys did good.
Russ
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Post by nowyo on Jun 6, 2019 17:07:33 GMT -5
Looks like quite an interesting trip, Bill. Great photos, thanks for sharing them with us.
Russ
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Post by nowyo on May 16, 2019 11:27:44 GMT -5
Thanks all. Green is the word-wet winter/spring. Not a lot at once, but steady. Seems I sent most of my free time from January to March shoveling snow.
Wheeler Peak is really neat. Haven't done the caves yet but it's on the list. Hopefully this summer.
That was gold mining. Pretty much exhausted by 1920. Reworked some in the early '40's.
Russ
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Post by nowyo on May 15, 2019 20:07:22 GMT -5
Great pics, Mel. Thanks for sharing.
Russ
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Post by nowyo on May 15, 2019 20:02:04 GMT -5
Thank you for taking us along Russ Being a very visual person I love seeing what others see Thanks. I know that I always like seeing other folks trips.
Russ
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Post by nowyo on May 15, 2019 20:00:21 GMT -5
Thanks for taking us along on your wanderings. Great pictures! I like the desert flowers and the petroglyph pics, too, and the mountain pic is wonderful. Thanks. I should have said in my first post that the mountain is Mount Wheeler, second highest peak in Nevada.
Russ
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Post by nowyo on May 15, 2019 19:58:37 GMT -5
Nice pics, Russ! I especially like the petroglyphs(?) stone carvings. Those have always fascinated me.
Thanks for sharing your trip.
ETA - The scenery and the flowers pics are great, too. We haven't gotten out and about for some time now, nice to be able to live vicariously through the other forum members.
Thanks, Jean rockpickerforever. Petroglyphs are always cool. Hope you can get out sometime soon, although I suspect that your rockhouding season is ending as ours is starting.
Russ
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Post by nowyo on May 15, 2019 19:55:22 GMT -5
Thanks, all. Took a few pictures of some of the rocks we brought home. Sun and clouds weren't cooperating so the fist-sized stuff got done inside. later the sun came out a little so the last two were taken outside.
Thanks for looking.
Russ
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