Friday, October 09, 2009

River 'Secting ....

Over all
Back in action. That was till my rim broke again. Last night. Anyways, about this last weeks job.

Beautiful skies and ginormous downpours accompanied by flash floods. Deep canyons and tamarisk. sometimes sparce, sometimes so dense and youre crawling on your knees and you cant see the sky and you start to lose your mind when you realise you have no idea where your going and the gps doesnt work in vegetaion this thick. I better pee on something. As soon as I hit a wall of russian olive Im done. I give.
One day I was out measuring a point when I heard something on a nice brisk breezy morning. I turn to my left and see a handful of pronghorn, huge antelope only 150 feet away. Down in the river I hear a lot of elk bugles. Pretty awesome birds too. And I got the Apocalypse stuck in leg deep mud and had to get chained out.


The start of a new day...storm enroute

Sometimes the caps Im looking for are a little hidden,
considerable since they were put in in 1949

And some get the base eroded right out from underneath em,
thus fall over and get buried

And then theres one that is really hard to get to, dirty SOB!!

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