3/18/2008
9:36 AM
Cottonwood Camp
Warm morning: everybody slept well. Ginger feels better. I’m wearing my kilt and t-shirt at 9:00 AM–a vast improvement over previous days! We cooked the rest of the bacon today, but fully half of it was consumed in a sudden grease fire. I washed the pair of pants that [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Outdoors'
Six Days in the Desert: Day 5
April 17th, 2008 · No Comments
Worth Bagley Bit the Dust (Day 4)
April 8th, 2008 · 1 Comment
In today’s edition, our intrepid heroes climb a mountain and hike through the desert to abandoned mines and the tomb of a desperado miner who died by the hand of a rival, fighting over a few scraps of land in the desert.
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Six Days in the Desert: Day 3
April 1st, 2008 · No Comments
From my hardcopy trail journal. Some of the first paragraph overlaps in content with the last post, but it moves on from there.
Monday, 3/17/2008 11:00 AM
The Sonoran Desert
Yesterday was angrily, bitterly cold.
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Day 2: Pot o’ Shit
March 23rd, 2008 · No Comments
Random Encounter in the Desert Table–Roll 1d8:
1: Unexpected Volcano
2: Abandoned Mine shaft with 1d4 machines lying around
3: Boy scouts
4: Jerky stand
5: Ghost Town
6: Man biking across desert
7: Old friend
8: Abandoned mine with full industrial works still standing
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Six Days in the Desert: Day 1
March 21st, 2008 · No Comments
This and the next several entries consist of a report and pictures of my spring break trip to the desert. I will post them sporadically as I get photos edited.
We arrived at Las Vegas McCarran on schedule, and to my surprise, Delta got all of our bags there on schedule as well. The only thing that didn’t go according to plan was that Thrifty was out of midsize sedans, so we got a convertible instead. Fun, but not so practical–after we got all of our gear and groceries, there wasn’t enough room in the trunk to put the top down! Still, Las Vegas was sunny and 75 degrees–perfect weather!
