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AbleGuy

Officious Intermeddler
Low hanging fruit

We drove our tiny camper van out to the old, historic farmstead here this week and spent the morning volunteering for the work crew.

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and helped clean up in the orchards.

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AbleGuy

Officious Intermeddler
Our compensation was plums, peaches and apples.

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We topped off the day by picking wild evergreen huckleberries along a thickly forested hiking trail and then got thoroughly scratched up snagging some fat blackberries out of the tangled canes discovered along the roadside as we headed home (and even found and harvested some tart wild salal berries too).


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(fortunately we had no competition from grizzly bears in picking these lower elevation huckleberries. In past summers, we’ve 4 wheeled into and hiked way up into the untrammeled wild Selkirk Mountains in North Idaho, close by the Canada border, or hiked in to pick them in Montana in the Northern Rockies, both areas well known for being grizzly bear recovery habitat. So it was pretty nice to find a more mellow place to pick the hucks this year)
 
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NevadaLover

Forking Icehole
We were enjoying the evening last night just before a dust storm rolled in, as we were picking up the dinner plates and glasses I saw the sun thru the dust, I'm not much of a photobug but I really wanted a picture of it.

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deserteagle56

Adventurer
We were enjoying the evening last night just before a dust storm rolled in, as we were picking up the dinner plates and glasses I saw the sun thru the dust, I'm not much of a photobug but I really wanted a picture of it.

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I was caught in the same dust storm, driving home from Midas! At times the visibility was only about 100 yards. Been reading the dust came off the Black Rock Desert - surface of the playa all tore up by the Burning Man festivities last week, and then those high winds Monday evening grabbed that dust and moved it east.

Caught this pic just as the sun was going down. You can see the dust rolling in at the lower part of the photo.P1009162erexpfrm9-4-24.jpg
 

NevadaLover

Forking Icehole
I was caught in the same dust storm, driving home from Midas! At times the visibility was only about 100 yards. Been reading the dust came off the Black Rock Desert - surface of the playa all tore up by the Burning Man festivities last week, and then those high winds Monday evening grabbed that dust and moved it east.

Caught this pic just as the sun was going down. You can see the dust rolling in at the lower part of the photo.View attachment 851017

Back in the 80's when the dust storms kicked up, my uncle used to say "well, looks like the black rock is moving east again".
 

Sebas

Adventurer
A view of Torres del Paine - Chile

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