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Slydell said:
Not sure they have anchors that strong.:)
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you're right... i'll stay here!
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besides.. it's hard to take enough beer up el capitan.
 
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rmsmith said:
you're right... i'll stay here!
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besides.. it's hard to take enough beer up el capitan.
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Yeah, I'd go with that place over the anchored sleeping on the side of a martha focking mountain. Gets windy up there. I pitched a tent on top of a mountain in Yellowstone and before I could put some gear in it, it took off like a freakin' kite.
 
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Slydell said:
Yeah, I'd go with that place over the anchored sleeping on the side of a martha focking mountain. Gets windy up there. I pitched a tent on top of a mountain in Yellowstone and before I could put some gear in it, it took off like a freakin' kite.
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wow.. that had to suck..
 
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Here's a few pics from camping in Montana.
 

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JTrainDavis said:
Big piles of rocks. That is what struck me about the Mojave. The heat was over blown.
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There's a show, or was, in Cali called California Gold. It's hosted by a hillbilly from Nashville named Huell Howser. He would do hour long shows of extremely interesting thing in Cali. I traveled to where it spoke of just to experience the events. He had several on the Mojave and some intriguing facts concerning the Mojave area and the Mojave river-above ground and underground.
 
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Slydell said:
There's a show, or was, in Cali called California Gold. It's hosted by a hillbilly from Nashville named Huell Howser. He would do hour long shows of extremely interesting thing in Cali. I traveled to where it spoke of just to experience the events. He had several on the Mojave and some intriguing facts concerning the Mojave area and the Mojave river-above ground and underground.
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Interesting, had to look it up and glance over an article on it. Fort Irwin was my desert experience, it would have been nice to poke around the area.
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Did you drive the Ft. Irwin road to get beer or did you imbibe on base. That, no pun intended, was a killer road.
 
#8,695
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Indeed. Army's land, everyone else can pass through lol.

I'd have hated to be stationed there, it seemed like an hour to the nearest town (Barstow?)
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JTrainDavis said:
Indeed. Army's land, everyone else can pass through lol.

I'd have hated to be stationed there, it seemed like an hour to the nearest town (Barstow?)
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Barstow is probably 45 minutes away. There's crosses on the Ft. Irwin road where where people have gone off going from Barstow back to base. Also, on that road, there's a unique mirage on the East side, where a harbor with boats appear. Only it's desert.

I lived about 50 miles south of there. If you drop down to Barstow and take 40E a few miles, you can go off road and wander through some cool lava fields for hundreds of miles. You can see the old volcanoes with the tops chopped off where they spewed out thousands of years ago. I used to take my Jeep up through there. To the SE of Barstow, you can go off road and skirt around the Opal mountains for a hundred miles or so and be in the middle of nowhere with no signs of life whatsoever. Just mountains, valleys and sand dunes. No power lines, etc. Nothing. I used to go there to get away from civilization. I'd take the Jeep for hundreds of miles and not see anything other than scenery from 100's of years ago. I'd wind my way down to El Mirage (Eddie's Garage) dry lake bed and then back to the house in Phelan.
 
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That mirage, and everything else, sounds awesome. Its impossible to appreciate the vastness of the country out there without experiencing it.
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Slydell said:
There's a show, or was, in Cali called California Gold. It's hosted by a hillbilly from Nashville named Huell Howser. He would do hour long shows of extremely interesting thing in Cali. I traveled to where it spoke of just to experience the events. He had several on the Mojave and some intriguing facts concerning the Mojave area and the Mojave river-above ground and underground.
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I've seen that show before. I noticed that the host talked with a twang and wondered where he was from!!
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JTrainDavis said:
That mirage, and everything else, sounds awesome. Its impossible to appreciate the vastness of the country out there without experiencing it.
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Well, you nailed the West experience. I, or we, can talk about it but no one will understand it unless they travel through the West. I can put up all the pictures, but the photos still don't tell the story. Driving through the desert in that area, you can't explain the story. The vastness of nothing but sand and brush weed. Going over bridges with nothing but sand underneath. Unless, you live there and see the rivers materialize and then disappear. Most people can't imagine going off the beaten path to experience a spot where there is no sign of civilization. No houses, power lines, cars, nothing! Much of Utah and where I travel is that way. I choose it as such. I'd rather see things close to the way they used to be rather that what the civilized world has thrust upon us. When we drove up through northern Utah and into Idaho, all I could imagine was how it was. Before the slab superhighway. Towering mountain ranges to the East and the West. Big valley in between. No houses, no power lines, no jet contrails. Only the mountain men and the Buff. Add the Blackfeet in for the mix.
 
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