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    Maggiolina Fabric Removal and Reinstallation to replace zipper

    A couple of years ago one of the zippers on our Airlander started to fail. All attempts to fix the zipper failed as the teeth were already jacked-up. Now the zipper stops about nine-inches short of closure. Last year I got a replacement zipper from Autohome USA but haven't been able to find...
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    For Sale: African Outback 1/2 Roof Rack for 80 Series Land Cruiser

    Used African Outback roof rack purchased from Slee Offroad. Original price +$700 For sale: $450.00 picked up near downtown Los Angeles. Measures 49" x 47" (Sold as a 1.3m x1.3m). Invoice says it will fit 60/80 series but sold with 80 series fit kit; the brackets that connect the rack to the...
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    How Ford plans to phase out the best-selling E-Series

    This should be interesting for Sportsmobile. http://www.autoblog.com/2011/12/08/how-ford-plans-to-phase-out-the-best-selling-e-series/#continued
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    Basin and Range – Nevada September 2010

    Thanks to everyone for their comments! Share away--that's why I put these reports together! Who/What are the ExpeditionNevada folks? I first learned about Heizer while in architecture school in the late 80s, that's when we first visited Double Negative. I should have mentioned Hot Springs...
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    Basin and Range – Nevada September 2010

    Basin and Range – Days 18 & 19 Day 18 -20 September 2010 Departing Little Cappadocia we continued southeast down McCann Canyon and into Stone Cabin Canyon where we ran into four more Pronghorn Antelope, Including one that was a little too curious for his own good. Pronghorn Antelope After...
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    Basin and Range – Nevada September 2010

    Basin and Range – Days 16 & 17 Day 16 - 18 September 2010 Pine Creek hike with North Summit beyond On our second day we hiked up Pine Creek where Cima scared up a sizable Bighorn Sheep. Day 17 - 19 September 2010 T o q u i m R a n g e • M o n i t o r V a l l e y After two restful...
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    Basin and Range – Nevada September 2010

    Basin and Range – Days 14 & 15 Day 14 - 16 September 2010 P i n i o n R a n g e • S u l p h u r S p r i n g s R a n g e • G a r d e n P a s s Leaving Elko we headed west on I80 to Carlin then south on Route 278 and made a quick detour to Palisades, where two railroad lines thread a narrow...
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    Basin and Range – Nevada September 2010

    Basin and Range – Days 12 & 13 Day 12 - 14 September 2010 B i g I s l a n d • J o h n s G u l c h Back into Jarbidge we stopped for gas (at a fair price!) then crossed Corral Creek where it meets the Jarbidge River. We climbed along a narrow shelf road until we were atop the towering buttes...
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    Basin and Range – Nevada September 2010

    Basin and Range – Days 10 & 11 Day 10 – 12 September 2010 D e v i l s P a s s • T i j u a n a J o h n P e a k Dawn above camp [Holga 120N/Fuji Provia] Decamping we decided to backtrack and see if we could get to Devils Pass from the south, we drove to the edge of a burn area we had...
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    Basin and Range – Nevada September 2010

    Basin and Range – Days 8 & 9 Day 8 – 10 September 2010 S t a r r V a l l e y • C l o v e r V a l l e y • G o s h u t e V a l l e y Still stuffed from the Basque family style dinner the night before, we departed a rain soaked Elko and moved east on Interstate 80. Back in Los Angeles when I...
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    Basin and Range – Nevada September 2010

    Basin and Range – Days 6 & 7 Day 6 - 8 September 2010 S p r i n g V a l l e y • M o u n t M o r i a h • W h i t e C l o u d W a s h With a long day ahead of us, we hit the road early, dropping out of Great Basin National Park and into Baker for fuel and supplies. Nineteen miles northwest...
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    Basin and Range – Nevada September 2010

    Basin and Range – Days 4 & 5 Day 4 - 6 September 2010 S c h e l l C r e e k R a n g e • S p r i n g V a l l e y Nevada Northern Railway Museum After our third visit to the Nevada Northern Railway Museum in Ely we made the one-hour drive to Baker, NV then up the hill into Great...
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    Basin and Range – Nevada September 2010

    Basin and Range – Day 3 Day 3 – 5 September 2010 R a i l r o a d V a l l e y • W h i t e P i n e R a n g e Pancake and White Pine Ranges from Green Springs Concrete Barn and Hay Derrick [Diana F+/Fuji Pro160] M o o r m a n R i d g e • J a k e V a l l e y Leaving Green Springs I...
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    Basin and Range – Nevada September 2010

    Basin and Range – Days 1 & 2 Day 1 – 3 September 2010 M o r m o n M e s a • V i r g i n R i v e r Los Angeles to Las Vegas, then easterly to Overton, NV, then off pavement to the top of the Mormon Mesa to revisit Michael Heizer’s monumental earthwork Double Negative. My wife and I first...
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    Basin and Range – Nevada September 2010

    Last month my wife and I made a bombing-run like drive from Los Angeles to Ketchum, ID and then back to Los Angeles four days later. I was a painful drive, piloting our car up U.S. Route 93 from Las Vegas, along the eastern edge of Nevada then returning to Ely, NV then west towards Bishop...
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    Camp fire pit.

    Brent's Sputnik in Anza Borrego c.2007
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    Carrizo Mtn Camping & Rockhounding for Petrified Wood: Dec 2010

    Great shots! We tried to get up there several years ago but didn't know about the annual closure. We'll need to get back.
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    Multi Desert Trip CA AZ NV

    That thing's a boat mold. When we saw it we figured someone thought it would be funny to drop in the middle of nowhere. No easy task though!
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