Very nice! Is the pup a pointer of some kind?
A day in the back yard
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driller
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Koda, the dog is a full size standard poodle.Wandering Sagebrush said:
montana-moods
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Very inspiring. Make's a person want to do some wandering.
I have to admit that at first I read it "Dinosaur tracks and old fart" and I wondered how that was preserved all this time.
May be time for some new glasses.
I have to admit that at first I read it "Dinosaur tracks and old fart" and I wondered how that was preserved all this time.
May be time for some new glasses.
mitch h
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Hey driller nice pics. Are the dinosaur and fart tracks in Zion? We are going back west in september and would like to check that out, thanks Mitch
Koda looks like a great pup!driller said:
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driller
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Mitch, The dinosaur tracks are about 10 miles from the house in Warner Valley. You can get to the tracks by car with 1/4 mile walk.mitch h said:
Smokecreek1
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Been meaning to comment on this since I first saw this post! Maybe 20 years ago some country road guy came into my office and said that he found a bunch of "Dinosauer" tracks up in a canyon in Skedattle Mountains, north of Honey Lake, when he was out hunting-showed me some pictures he took and they sure looked like dinosaur trackes to me. So, we went up and took a look, and they were just as impressive as his photo's showed. They were in a large boulder that had broken in half and here were these impressions that looked just like the ones in your pictures-one side indented, the other the reverse. This boulder was pretty big and broke when it fell down the hill. Now we have some areas that contain fossils around here- more mastodon tusks and Pleistocene stuff, not that much in the way actual dinosaur fossils, so this find was pretty interesting.
I'm an archaeologist (and have worked with fossil bones and deposits before-but I'm not an expert), so I called my paleotologists friends over at U of Nevada and they headed right over. We spent the day out analysinig them. I mean something about them just didn't look right, but they sure looked good (I have been looking for pictures I took of of them , but have had no luck. Finially the paleontologist figured out what was wrong-they had five toes not three/four like a dinosaur should have! It seems that these perfect foot prints were just the result of bubbles forming in the mud when the boulder was formed and became exposed when the rock cracked(we have allot of gerothermal activity around here), so it seems logical. But they sure looked good (just like your pictures) , five toes not three/four-you learn something every day, the road guy I think still isn't sure about that! Probably still out there, might be even worth a trip some day!
Five toed Smoke
I'm an archaeologist (and have worked with fossil bones and deposits before-but I'm not an expert), so I called my paleotologists friends over at U of Nevada and they headed right over. We spent the day out analysinig them. I mean something about them just didn't look right, but they sure looked good (I have been looking for pictures I took of of them , but have had no luck. Finially the paleontologist figured out what was wrong-they had five toes not three/four like a dinosaur should have! It seems that these perfect foot prints were just the result of bubbles forming in the mud when the boulder was formed and became exposed when the rock cracked(we have allot of gerothermal activity around here), so it seems logical. But they sure looked good (just like your pictures) , five toes not three/four-you learn something every day, the road guy I think still isn't sure about that! Probably still out there, might be even worth a trip some day!
Five toed Smoke
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I agree. While cross country trips are amazing, I am still discovering what is in my backyard.Wandering Sagebrush said:
Lake Lenore State Park (A unsuspecting park that has some cool caves and overviews)
Lions Rock
Manashtash
EDIT: I am new at this. I will read the photos thread and fix the thumbnails.
driller
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Thanks.Enjoyed your "backyard"
Thinking about our trip to the Bryce area last year at this time.
What a beautiful area.
Frank
Thinking about our trip to the Bryce area last year at this time.
What a beautiful area.
Frank
BobM
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I just back this week from a 2 week 2700 mile SW trip. Since I went to Bryce and Zion last year we skipped those and did the Horseshoe bend, Grand staircase, Escalante (Petrified forest), Capitol Reef, Arches, Canyon lands, Mesa Verde, Gallup, Albuquerque, Santa Fe, The Meteor crater in AZ as well as a lot of route 66 etc. Favorite road was hwy 12 from Escalante to hwy 24(road to Capitol reef. It was amazing, more amazing than Bryce or Zion. So many awesome views, then you go over Hogs back ridge http://vimeo.com/5253843 which is totally out of this world. Also took a back road from hwy 40 back to CA. I took 66 to 95 then 62 through 29 palms. Very few cars and so relaxing.
My takeaway is that Utah is the most beautiful state in our country and the Mormons knew what they were doing.
My takeaway is that Utah is the most beautiful state in our country and the Mormons knew what they were doing.
