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FRUMY
Trad climber
Bishop,CA
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Mar 25, 2019 - 11:03am PT
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It's a pleasure following your posts.
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glacial haste
Trad climber
the confounded range
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Mar 25, 2019 - 11:09am PT
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happie, you are absolutely beautiful.
you offer yourself, face first, love at last, heart open.
venerable, accepting, flawed, empowered.
all traits, adored.
thank you for gracing our church
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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Mar 25, 2019 - 11:59am PT
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hey there say, happygrrrl... wow, i just saw this...
had a sad morning, my dear parakeet, season, died... :(
i felt happy seeing this lovely adventure of yours...
after all, life is an adventure, and:
we'd never have those, and, or, things that we love, if we had
never had the adventures...
also, thank you dearly for the gift... and, i in turn, made
a little gift for a friend, that just had surgery...
love and prayers... will send you a
welcome home, 'little bit' when i can, in april...
hugsssssssssssssss, and pet the ol' little pup-dog...
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capseeboy
Social climber
portland, oregon
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Mar 25, 2019 - 05:14pm PT
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Moab is nuts busy and the nearby CG sites are very busy and $20. Go up La Sal Mtn about 20 mi out of town. You can stay at any pull out beside the road, or a very short distance off it that does not have a no camping sign. It's not wilderness, there are dispersed Mansions spread around the hillside. It's free and night traffic was minimal if any. Bring water. Only saw a couple other peeps last fall. Did not seem sketch at all to me. Easier to scope out in the daylight. Good luck.
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tradmanclimbs
Ice climber
Pomfert VT
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Mar 25, 2019 - 05:25pm PT
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season pass for the parks is the only reasonable option for a trip... You get hit hard just driving through otherwise...
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Happiegrrrl2
Trad climber
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Topic Author's Reply - Mar 25, 2019 - 07:01pm PT
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Here's a view from my campsite for tonight. This is the BLM land on the road heading into Indian Creek. Not only is it beautiful and quiet-I get a cell signal! Hahaha
Once in Moab I just urban bivy. Never saw a town more car-bivy friendly. Really, I need town amenities on a frequent basis. Post Office mostly, but also the library to work on pictures and listings for my shops and deal with marketing and customer service.
National Park Pass - With a dog, you can barely do anything in a NP. I still was going to get one but on the way out had no problem enjoying non-NP lands and didn't bother. Now I'm almost out of the range where is use it. Sure it would have been nice to go to Natural Bridges, Canyonlands and Arches, but my clock is ticking to get started east in some sort of quicker motion. I'm wanting to visit that place outside of Grand Junction, and maybe I will get a pass to do that. Need to do a little research about it. People say its very nice.
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Kalimon
Social climber
Ridgway, CO
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Mar 25, 2019 - 10:45pm PT
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Thanks for sharing your nomadic adventure Happie. Best to you on your journeys, great and small.
Plenty of land outside the Parks, ask the locals at the best breakfast place/coffee shops.
Keep in touch.
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ß Î Ø T Ç H
Boulder climber
ne'er–do–well
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Mar 26, 2019 - 12:43am PT
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Urban Dictionary:"happy trail"
A path of pubic hair that usually starts at the belly button and ends in your pubes.
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tradmanclimbs
Ice climber
Pomfert VT
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Mar 26, 2019 - 03:19am PT
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sometimes it seems like you need the pass just to drive through to get where you are going. BINTD Bella was good at being quiet and hiding under jackets etc. but we also got yelled at a few times....
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Happiegrrrl2
Trad climber
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Topic Author's Reply - Mar 26, 2019 - 07:35am PT
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Well, ever since I began working at the preserve and having people(as I like to say) *feed me $#1t and tell me its a brownie,* I just can't really stomach doing that to others. I'm now duly impressed by those who can just smile and not call people out on their stuff. I can't do it.
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tradmanclimbs
Ice climber
Pomfert VT
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Mar 26, 2019 - 09:19am PT
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The best was the time the campground manager was on the golf cart asking us if we owned a dog. Alex was in the middle of his plausible deniability act when the hosts cat ran by at full speed with Bella chomping at her heels....
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Happiegrrrl2
Trad climber
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Topic Author's Reply - Mar 26, 2019 - 10:09am PT
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Hahaha - My *best* was with Teddy. Someone whose name rhymes with Mod Borden, and another whose rhymes with Pucker Trek, and crew had taken a bunch of us out climbing on Geology Road. There were a good number of vehicles parked on the road and ranger thought perhaps a pirate guide situation.
When he started walking in, he noticed Teddy's patients and followed them to our group.
Now, Teddy had stolen my brownie from the farmers market, which was loaded with chocolate, and he was sick. I didn't know at the time what had happened, and honestly thought it was his last day on earth. So, Teddy was huddled in a little corner with his winter coat on, which blended into the rocks.
The ranger had apparently asked some of the first in our group that he came upon if we had a dog because he'd followed "quadriped trackea," but the stoners had forgotten there WAS a dog, and honestly said no.
That was about when I realized there was a ranger in our midst. He was kind of scouting because he believed he'd been handed a brownie[haha..just realized the connection] and he was looking for the dog.
I forced myself to be invisible and not so much as THINK about Teddy, and that guy walked right up and past me - and Teddy - and didn't say a word.
Dud he see poor Teddy there,huddled and ill, and decide to give us a pass? Or did we really blend right into the landscape? At the time, I thought the latter. Now, I'm not so sure.
I didn't learn my lesson from that incident, but now I know better than to put other people in a position of having to *tell me.*
I'm not saying I'm a goody goody and never do anything against the rules since then. I have, and am sure I will again. But the dog rules in NParks cause me consternation. I don't LIKE the rules, but I understand why they have them. And I just can't pretend I am ignorant of them, or give a flippant attitude or play coy if busted any more. Thus, I have a new affinity for National Monuments and places like Sedona.....
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capseeboy
Social climber
portland, oregon
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Mar 26, 2019 - 11:04am PT
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Once in Moab I just urban bivy. Never saw a town more car-bivy friendly.
Thanks for the beta Happie. A friend that lives there told me that the locals were fed up with people in car bivy mode, so I did not try.
They may be looking the other way because there isn't enough housing for the service people, just guessing.
Cheers and Happy trails to you.
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CascadeOtto
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Mar 26, 2019 - 12:16pm PT
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Happie, I really like your honesty on not wanting to fake out people about your dog. Thank you. And I really like my new chalk bag - didn't know a mundane piece of gear could be so beautiful!
Bill
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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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Mar 26, 2019 - 03:24pm PT
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Which place “outside of Grand Junction”?
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thebravecowboy
climber
The Good Places
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Mar 26, 2019 - 04:25pm PT
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Happie, the CO NM (not dog friendly btw) in GJ is worth a drive thru and west to east is going to be less exposure to big dropoffs from the roadway.
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Gnome Ofthe Diabase
climber
Out Of Bed
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Mar 26, 2019 - 04:37pm PT
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BRIGHT LIGHT
Once in a while
You get shown the Light
In the Strangest of places
If you look at it,,,
Right?
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If you're passing that way?
& Ohio has it in for you
& Need a spot to stop
let me know
Might know somewhere
& be able to land you in
at least a driveway-I think
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Happiegrrrl2
Trad climber
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Topic Author's Reply - Mar 26, 2019 - 05:29pm PT
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Oh man.... I meant the Colorado National MOnument, and was just talking to a couple from Grand Junction when I was in Blanding. I specifically asked if it was dog friendly and they said yes. I guess one person's dog friendly(you can have them in your campsite and walk along the paved roads) is another persons not dog-friendly(paying $20 for a day pass when I can only drive through and wish I could see things closer.
When I went to Bryce Canyon, and couldn't go "be amongst" the hoodoos, that was when I got a burr under my saddle about the national parks. Sure, it was a *nice* walk I was allowed to have Lucas with me, but it was paved for accessibility, and when I tied Lucas to a post so I could take a picture, I was IMMEDIATELY told by a ranger that was not okay. I mean as soon as the knot was tied.
I guess I won't be visiting the Colorado National Monument, even with the free excuse(can't lie, at least not with a planned in advance one.).
Oh well, I will do something out by Fisher Towers instead as my "Last hurrah" before getting on the way back home.
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thebravecowboy
climber
The Good Places
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Mar 26, 2019 - 05:35pm PT
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The views of the Wingate spires in the CO NM could be really worthwhile, but if you have not already done the Castle Valley/Fisher Towers thing, this would be a great dog-friendly alternative with a fun well-built main trail at the Fishers..
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Happiegrrrl2
Trad climber
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Topic Author's Reply - Mar 26, 2019 - 05:53pm PT
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Last year I camped at the climbers camp at Fisher Towers Trailhead. Did the Grandstaff Canyon hike, then camped there, and the next day was intending to hike Onion Creek but got sidetracked and walked up a 4wd road instead.
That would be okay again for one night I suppose, but it's a ways back to be doing hikes and coming back to it. So, would want to do something between Moab and there, and then maybe I would try the Onion Creek trail again the next day....and then one more day further toward Grand Junction.
Noticed a Mary Jane Canyon in some quick searches. That seems like it might be nice.
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