Bell and I met some friends out at our favorite stomping ground for an eight mile hike from Sunset trailhead to Crab Eyes to Echo Pass up the south side of Elk Mountain to Apple & Pear and then Down Elk Mountain trail.
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It would be hard not to notice that I got a puppy. Her name is Bell. But she's not just any puppy, she's a puppy who loves the Wichita Mountains like I do. She's an adventure puppy. I am a proud dog mom.
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I took my new puppy Bell on her first hike today. We went up the Elk Mountain trail and wandered down to Apple and Pear and back around through the Valley of the Boulders.
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Angie had her first art show out of state so the three of us took the opportunity to visit Devil's Den State Park
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My friend Blake Batchelor invited me on a day road trip to Arkansas. The area had received a lot of rain during the week so he was suspecting some gorgeous waterfalls.
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The Big Hairy Crack. I won't tell you where it is in the Wichita Mountains, but maybe I'll take you there someday. Maybe not.
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Four of us went on a Sunday hike in the blistering cold. We chose an area that tends to be a little warmer than the surroundings. I had one scary descent that got my heart racing. De made it look so easy.
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On this particular day, five dogs pulled nine humans through Spanish Canyon just as we pulled them.
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Angie and I met De, Britney and all four dogs for an overnight at McGee Creek. We had a nice easy hike with the dogs the next day.
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A group of is went out to Spanish Canyon with Hank and Dot, De Cooper's German Shorthair Pointers.
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Before driving back from Santa Fe, Angie and I wanted to hike the beautiful slot canyons of Kasha-Katuwe Tent Rocks National Monument. It was an easy but fun hike. I’m pretty proud of the pictures. I can’t wait to check out the slot canyons of Utah and Arizona. We’re most likely going to make a little trip to Utah this Spring. It was the perfect way to end our trip.
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While we were in Santa Fe, Angie and I took a little trip over to Los Alamos to the Old Mitchell Trail to see the Natural Arch there.
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Angie and I love the arts and the outdoors, so we took a little trip Santa Fe. We wanted to get some hiking in so we drove up to the Santa Fe Ski basin, which is at an elevation of 10,350 feet and began our hike on the Windsor trailhead.
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The Jan One hike has become a tradition for me. This was my third year in a row. My friends Britney and Jessica joined me on a cold morning. I think it was 7ºF when we woke up that day.
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My best black & white shots of 2017.
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Angie LaPaglia and I got away from wrapping presents for a while and explored some new places around Spanish Canyon on Christmas Eve Eve.
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I was feeling under the weather Saturday and didn’t want to make any of my dirtbag friends deal with my snotty nose, so I drove down for a five-hour hike on an overcast day.
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A long 7.5 mile hike to Mount Mitchell Massif with Angie. We ran into the legendary rock climber Tony Mayse along the way. If you want to learn rock climbing from an expert go to guideforaday.com.
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I said it then and I’ll say it now, “Crapshoot is the funnest way down Elk Mountain.”
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Day Two of De Cooper and I scouting Crapshoot.
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