Tuesday, August 17, 2021

July Travels to Visit, Climb and study History

Pictorial of my travels to California to see Shannon and visit mountains, family, friends and history. Hope you get something from it?  


Cherokee Visitor Center Oklahoma

                                                 

                                                    The descent from Mount Lindsey Colorado


      Hike in to climb Mount Lindsey    


                                                    
                                                           An Hour before the top of Lindsey


Blanca and Elingwood Point is to the right



Bennett Peak; Rio Grand County Colorado


On top of Bennett Peak




      Always a Carin; Bennett Peak


                                                                
                                                                The best of friends; Jon Holst



Newspaper Rock south of Moab


Ancient and more recent petroglyphs


On top of Mine Camp with White Pine Peak in the Background, Millard County Utah




Mine Camp Peak looking to the West


Trailhead to Notch Peak, Millard County; Utah's west desert


Lots of steep canyons and rock walls



Notch Peak has head walls that are near the size of El Capitan's in Yosemite


Notch Peak



Best camp of the trip; a lonely spot in eastern California 


Now a nature education center at Crane Flat Yosemite; but in 1968 and my first job in the government, it was for the "blister rust control checkers"

Bunkhouse is on the left and dining hall on the right

Made for one hundred CCC workers in the thirties to eradicate goose berries and currents but housed only four of us in "68"


Shannon and I at the Kern County historical museum



Christina, Shannon and I at Pine Mountain Club



Sego Canyon pictographs Eastern Utah



High point of Logan County Colorado; State Line Bluffs
Funny face but still a high point


Rock Creek Station pony express; Nebraska


Rock Creek station where Oregon Trail, overland stage and pony express operated 
Also where Wild Bill Hickok killed his first two guys


Memorial to George Roger Clark; Vincennes


William Henry Harrison home; Vincennes


Monument to George Roger Clark


Early American imperialism 



For what ever it is worth these are what I posted. I had some other photos but there are far to many anyway and some were videos that I couldn't transfer to stills, if Peter is reading this his beautiful image will remain a one second video. Thanks for taking the time to share my travels, just maybe you saw one or two things you were not aware of?