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  1. xjblue

    Exp.Ut. Southern Utah Traverse, Sept 09'

    Day Six I had slept out under the stars again while Adam was getting good at his arrangements in the JK and Jan was always pretty much ready to go waiting on us to re-pack again. We made easy work of the road over Gunsight Pass, taking the right turn for NPS 633 taking us to Hite in very good...
  2. xjblue

    Exp.Ut. Southern Utah Traverse, Sept 09'

    Thanks again for getting the ball rolling on this Kurt, remembering that first meeting we had, and how it should be your turn to do this one, soon I hope! Thank you. Your welcome and thank you.
  3. xjblue

    Exp.Ut. Southern Utah Traverse, Sept 09'

    Day Five I tried a self heating breakfast which was palatable but took longer to fix than expected. When combined with plenty of shade to the East that meant for a little bit later start. Still we made good time driving the well graded roads up the Henry Mountains. There was a lot of...
  4. xjblue

    Exp.Ut. Southern Utah Traverse, Sept 09'

    Day Four Sunrise light on Durffey Mesa greeted us We enjoyed an early morning drive along the Burr Trail taking an easy pace then turned off on the Wolverine Loop below the Circle Cliffs. 0909SUT-D4_05 by xjblue, on Flickr Then we discovered the Joy of driving down Horse Canyon. Forget...
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    Exp.Ut. Southern Utah Traverse, Sept 09'

    Day Three 0909SUT-D2_59 by xjblue, on Flickr Moonlit Lake Powell Camp at sunrise Our third day on the traverse was pretty simple. Leave Alstrom Point and take the Smokey Mountian Road to the Grand Bench, see Twitchell Canyon while out there, explore up towards the Grand Bench Neck if...
  6. xjblue

    Exp.Ut. Southern Utah Traverse, Sept 09'

    Came up with a map of our route on day 1 c&c welcome.
  7. xjblue

    Exp.Ut. Southern Utah Traverse, Sept 09'

    Your welcome, I am hoping to get some maps up shortly to go along with this. Thank you.
  8. xjblue

    The black and white thread (film or digital)

    Little Sahara Sand Dunes another conversion shot using b&w setting in camera
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    The black and white thread (film or digital)

    Corona Arch manipulated colors prior to conversion then made additional adjustments. Horseshoe Canyon similar post processing as Corona Arch. Hidden Canyon, near Moab I was about to delete this one, decided last second to try a conversion first, and found a keeper.
  10. xjblue

    Exp.Ut. Southern Utah Traverse, Sept 09'

    Day Two Our second day started early, we took the Divide Trail north then turned west paralleling Gould Wash between Little Creek Mountain still on our right and Gooseberry Mesa behind Hwy 59 on our left. We soon found ourselves in a brand new golf coarse community just getting started, then...
  11. xjblue

    Exp.Ut. Southern Utah Traverse, Sept 09'

    I've been meaning to post this here for quite some time, I'll have to do some extra credit for turning it in late. Southern Utah Traverse 2009 Border to border traverse of Southern Utah completed successfully by three members of Expedition Utah (all logged here on the Portal too) and their...
  12. xjblue

    Arizona Strip - 64 gallons later

    Looks like some great out of the way places to go. Thanks for your report!
  13. xjblue

    Hole-in-the-Rock Adventure 2010

    Thanks for the memories Randy, that was a good trip!
  14. xjblue

    Panoramic Shots

    Thanks 08whitex, sad to say I still need to break in to the wide world of having prints made from digital, you have reminded me of a new years resolution I need to re-engage.
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    Panoramic Shots

    Thanks guys, appreaciate your comments. I've been using a simple stitcher I found a couple years ago called Hugin. http://hugin.sourceforge.net/
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    Panoramic Shots

    A couple of sunrise panoramics.
  17. xjblue

    STUCK pictures

    After all that mud how about some nice clean sand.
  18. xjblue

    Panoramic Shots

    Utah Valley from Mt. Timpanogos saddle learned; little ultrapod doesn't quite hold with a 12-60 2.8 after a certain amount of zoom, esp. with a breeze. From the passenger seat learned; squirm too much to get that last shot on the left and loose alignment of the mirror, maybe start from that...
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