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Hiking Mesa Falls Trails
Fools following the marmots and deer
Wed Jul 20, 2011 0 Comments
© 2011 Brian Davidson/UnchartedPhotos by Brian and Michelle DavidsonThe thing about following game trails is this:Deer will go anywhere and climb up pretty much anything without giving a hoot or holler for who might follow them.It might not be deer. The trails we follow as we walk our way to and around Upper and Lower Mesa Falls on the Henry’s Fork of the Snake River may very well have been carved by generations of marmots, which are even mor...
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Hoover Dam
Art Deco. Very nice. But that's only one reason to visit the Hoover Dam.
Sat Apr 09, 2011 2 Comments
© 2011 Brian DavidsonThe Hoover Dam, like many famous people, is a lot shorter in person than you think they ought to be. When we saw the dam from the nearby Mike O'Callaghan-Pat Tillman Memorial Bridge, it looked tiny.That's illusory, of course, because the dam, finished in 1936, is big. Biggly big. Huge. It's nearly 727 feet tall – more than twice as tall as the Statue of Liberty from base to torch (305 feet); a hundred or so fe...
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The Mechanic-Priest
Once and a while, one of the places I visit helps inspire me to do a lit...
Fri Mar 18, 2011 2 Comments
By Brian DavidsonThe door opened suddenly, quietly, as if the entrant didn’t want the light from outside to stain the carpet. He pulled it closed as gently as he could, but it was one of those doors designed to shudder and slam and shoot echoes no matter how gently it was closed.He stepped off the patch of carpet at the door and walked, his feet clomping echoes across the cluttered, cavernous room. It smelled of oil and grease and dirt, but part o...
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Arizona Road Trip
Getting off the interstate and making a few stops along the way made the...
Sun Mar 13, 2011 3 Comments
Several years ago, I read an Internet travelogue written by a visitor to my home state of Idaho. No matter where this writer stopped, things just weren't good enough. The people were boring. The food was bland. And the scenery, well, this guy said you may as well make the drive in the dark.Well.Simpleton, I thought. Sure, never get off the intersate and you know what, barreling along at 75 miles per hour, you're not going to see much. Even if yo...
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