Trail Log 1995-1997 - Lamar at Colorado State University

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Huge streams pour off the rock in a good rainstorm. August 18. Sunday. Up at 5.00 a.m. Set out on the climb of Uluru at 6.40, with dozens of others. Up the rock and soon onto the chain. A steady climb, and then reach more rounded dome. Then up and down over the rock and erosion features. It was so windy on top that I could hardly stand up. Sunrise as I was nearing the summit. I could see the shadow of the rock far out onto the plains. I turned around a little short of the summit in gale force winds. Return was easier than I thought. Perhaps a thousand people were climbing it from all nations, lots of Japanese. 1.6 km one way. Between 1931 and 1942 only 22 people were known to have climbed Uluru. In 1969, 23,000 people visited the area. In 1976, 65,000 people, and now there are almost 300,000 a year (Lonely Planet) Plane to Sydney at 10.45. Flew over Uluru. Flew over lots of red desert. Flew over Lake Eyre, a huge dry lake. John Eyre made the first east-west crossing of Australia in 1841. It took five months and his companions died. Lake Eyre filled in the 70's, and again in 1989, only the third occasion in European memory. Donald Campbell tried to set the world land speed record here in the 1960's. When it fills it averages about 3 meters deep. In paleontological times there was a freshwater lake here three times as large. When it does fill, fish are carried downstream, and gulls and pelicans come and fish there. Two creatures are permanent: the salt lake louse (Halomniscus searlei) and the brine shrimp (Artemia salina). The louse stays alive in mud beneath the dried up crust; the shrimp survives as eggs with a tough skin. There are frogs that go into suspended animation for years. Reached Sydney. Gemini Hotel, in Randwick area. Took bus to the city, and went back to the waterfront and The Rocks. Supper in hotel. Thunderstorm and lightning. In 1788, when Europeans arrived, the aboriginal population is estimated at about 300,000, mostly on the eastern and southern coasts and in Tasmania. They spoke 300 languages and were in 500 - 1,000 tribes. They fought each other regularly. They had no written language. Many of them wore no clothes. August 19, Monday. Flight back to the U.S. Up and out 7.00 a.m. to get some breakfast from a nearby Coles. Walked around a shopping center and spent the last $ Aus 50 on books. Flight to L.A. at 12.45. On the return, we spent August 19 twice, having missed July 2 entirely! End of Australia trip.
Sept. 7-8, 1996. Backpacking to Miller Fork, alone. Not trying to push it, as I hadn't been packing all summer, due to Finland and Australia. Left Saturday, 9.00, on trail about 10.00. Reached the Signal Mountain turnoff about 11.00, and took an hour to descend the rather steep mile, reaching Miller Fork at 1.00. Ate lunch and set up camp. Nice day. Walked down the Miller Fork trail to discover that it hits a road not shown on the map about a mile and a half down. Returned, napped, supper. Baked cornbread, worked real well. Campfire. Sunday, out about 7.15, and sun reached campsite while I was eating breakfast. Did the loop, taking the Donner Pass trail upstream, then climbing to where there is another trail back down to Miller Fork. Flushed a grouse about where I left the campsite area. Packed out. Steady climb and I didn't take it too fast. Lunched past the top where you get a good view of Long's Peak and Twin Sisters. Out about 2.00, and drove round to find the road I had discovered yesterday. The mountains over on the lower Miller Fork are honeycombed with cabins. Home about 4.00 p.m. Nice weather. September 21-22, 1996. Backpack into Hague Creek, stayed at Desolation Campground. I had a permit for Mummy Pass Creek, but there was snow so I headed lower. Nice day, though there was often 2-3 inches of snow underfoot, with some areas cleared. I pitched camp in Flatiron, the furthest up, but a couple showed up with a permit, so I moved to Flatiron. Cooked cornbread in the backpacker oven. One bull elk in the meadow after supper, and some bugles heard off and on in the day. Not all that cold that night, and up the next morning to cook breakfast out in the sun below the campsite. Packed out without event. About 6 miles of hiking. Spent several hours browsing around the Never Summer Mountains trailhead at La Poudre Pass. Try the trail up Neota Creek from here. October 27, 1996. Sunday. Hike loop from Upper Beaver Meadows and Beaver Mountain. Alone. Somewhat stormy forecast and overcast previous day, but I set out anyway and had blue sky all day. Drove to Upper Beaver Meadows but gate was locked, so walked in. Took Ute Trail, first dry underfoot and later with about an inch of snow. The Ute Trail goes up Windy Gulch, but before that the Beaver Mountain Loop cuts off. Good signs here. Horses seem to use this trail in summer,
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Trail Log 1995-1997 Holmes Rolston,
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1995 January 4, 1995. Wednesday. Ad
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"Winnow" - the root is wind, vent,
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Worker's Directory. He gave me a co
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7 year. Leaving the hospital comple
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9 Bougainvillaea. Many kinds, all w
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11 Gerenuk - a very long necked ant
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13 I took a bird walk on my own, as
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15 francolins egret, unidentified e
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17 2 males, old males 3 females, wi
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19 somewhat better on the return tr
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21 mahogany trees wild fig trees ga
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Continuing, we crossed a long, flat
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25 50 zebras 1,000 zebras on one si
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27 impala giraffe and baby zebras c
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29 Robin chat stone chat northern d
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31 We drove back around in the lake
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33 small park. Jane Goodall's resea
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35 July 6. Thursday, continued. Met
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37 July 10. Monday. Drove to Kruger
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39 The guides go first, Jan up fron
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But it was getting dark and we didn
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43 Lions roaring as we got up in th
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45 little egret giant kingfisher pi
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47 At Skukuza, I separated from Joh
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stand your ground. Be bold and nois
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51 Red-billed woodhoopoe, with call
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53 we found a rhino horn (pix), whi
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55 giant kingfisher darter (anhinga
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57 distance away to the four winds.
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59 We were visited that evening by
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61 the township with an enrollment
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63 University of Cape Town. Lovely
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65 the trashiest of all. Afternoon.
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Page 89 and 90: lawn). A near relative is Araucaria
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Page 93 and 94: track in the snow. We left about 11
Page 95 and 96: 4 coyotes in snow. 1 immature bald
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Page 101 and 102: Australia July 1 - August 19, 1996
Page 103 and 104: July 10, Wednesday. Drove to Laming
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Page 109 and 110: QUT. Elizabeth Saxon, sat beside me
Page 111 and 112: Eucalyptus trees here are often dea
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Page 120 and 121: it later deteriorated. Wombat kille
Page 122 and 123: Seminar at 2.15 p.m Chris Mortenson
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Page 134 and 135: ut not all that messed up. Turned a
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Page 138 and 139: much better in the lower, protected
Page 140 and 141: To Tower Junction, then to Tower, l
Page 142 and 143: Back to the ranch. The coyote was a
Page 144 and 145: crows are unusual inside Yellowston
Page 146 and 147: as a bell in contrast to yesterday.
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Page 150 and 151: Siberia and Lake Baikal June 15-29,
Page 152 and 153: Russia has an 80-year old system of
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Page 157 and 158: Reached Zilovo, about 10.15, about
Page 159 and 160: City tour on a nice day. Population
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Page 165 and 166: Thalictrum foetidum Grimmia calcare
Page 169 and 170: Walk to Shaman Rock. From the rock,
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Shuttle back to Missoula, arriving
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Polygonum viviparum, Alpine Bistort
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