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| July 8, 2008 |
Added Photo GalleryThirty-Nine - Cabezon Peak and Vacinity
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| July 6, 2008 |
Added Photo GalleryThirty-Seven - Wheeler Geologic Area. Added Photo Gallery Thirty-Eight - Angel Trail & San Rafael Desert. Added Utah Forest Wilderness to Wilderness Section of Links Page
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| July 1, 2008 |
Added 2009 Cover to Calendars Page.
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| March 23, 2008 |
Added several images including a few large panoramic images of February 2008 trip to Colorado Plateau on trip reports page (more images to follow).
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| March 9, 2008 |
Added outline of February 2008 trip to Colorado Plateau on trip reports page (images to follow).
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| January 20, 2008 |
Added a link to "Archmillennium" in Colorado Plateau section of Links Page. The is Guilain Debossen'sssite based out of France. Guilain is an explorer/author who has a very good photo database of Colorado Plateau arches.
Added a link to "Joe's Guide to Zion National Park" in the Colorado Plateau section of Links Page. Joe is a photographer who has explored much of this great park. The site has a rating system for hiking/canyoneering routes and great photos with route descriptions.
Removed one of my favorite linked sites "Exploring the Great Basin" The site has been down for at least two months without explanation. If anybody knows the status of the site please email (mail@lightrainproductions.com ).
Added (8) web cams to Web Cams Page.
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| January 12, 2008 |
Added Web Cams Page to the site from the Colorado Plateau region. This page is meant to verify information from this site's Weather Page.
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| October 7, 2007 |
Added "Water Issues" section on Links Page w/ 8 links. Water issues particularly impact the West and will continue to be major problems. Added "Miscellaneous" section on Links Page w/ 5 links. Included my son's web page "Eric Ridge" in this section. (figurative painter) Added a link to "Google Earth" in the "Maps" section of the Links Page (Google Earth is not the Internet Google map site but a separate free downloadable program that in my opinion is the best free download on the Internet.) Added two new route descriptions from Moab, Utah on the Moab Mileage Page. Both new routes are from Moab to Zion National Park via very different roads.
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| June 11, 2007 |
Added 2007 Monthly Images to Calendars Page.
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| May 28, 2007 |
Added 2008 Cover and Backcover to Calendars Page.
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| December 28, 2006 |
Added 60 images to October 2006 trip to Colorado Plateau on trip reports page (more images to follow).
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| October 24, 2006 |
Added outline of October 2006 trip to Colorado Plateau on trip reports page (images to follow).
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| September 5, 2006 |
Added Photo Gallery Thirty-six to the Photo Galleries page. This photo gallery shows (40) images from Nevada and the eastern Sierra Nevada region of California including Lunar Crater, The Ancient Bristlecone Forest, The Alabama Hills & Mono Lake.
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| August 19, 2006 |
Added 2007 Calendar Brochure link to the Home Page. It will be available soon at Calendars.com or contact your local bookstore. Printed in the U.S.A. Distributed by Books West - Boulder, CO.
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| July 23, 2006 |
Added Travel Mileage Page This page contains mileage and travel times from point to point along a variety of routes to and within the Colorado Plateau region. Hyperlinks within the main page link to addtiional travel routes (More routes will be added)
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| July 16, 2006 |
Added Waterfalls on the Colorado Plateau to the Colorado Plateau FAQ Added Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico & Utah satellite map guide to the FAQ Added Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico & Utah counties guide to the FAQ
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| July 10, 2006 |
Added (6) images to the Almost Made the Calendar Page
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| July 8, 2006 |
Reformatted and added (85) links to Colorado Plateau FAQ
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| July 1, 2006 |
Added 2007 enlarged Calendar Cover to Calendars Page. Added 2007 Calendar Back cover & enlarged Back cover to Calendars Page.
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| June 26, 2006 |
Added a link to Rex Headd's Adventure Lives in the Mountaineering Section of the This is a newer site with some great content. Highly recommend the movie clip of the Gannet Peak Climb. This very well produced movie will show you just how great the scenery is in the Wind River Range.
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| June 17, 2006 |
Added Color Landforms of the United States to the Maps Section. This is a free site that contains shaded relief maps of all 50 states. The site also has several other maps of state related information (i.e 1895 maps of all 50 states & county maps of all 50 states & others). There are also some good map related links. o Reluctantly removed Chris Wetherill's Mountaineering Page from the Mountaineering Section. Chris's page has totally morphed into something other than a moutaineering site. Chris's page was a great resource on Colorado fourteener and thirteener climbs.
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| May 30, 2006 |
Added 100 images to March 2006 Trip to Grand Canyon. Added 2007 Calendar Cover to Calendars Page.
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| April 23, 2006 |
Added Photo Gallery Thirty-five. The "La Casa Grande Motel" on Route 66 in Crestwood, Missouri. Added outline of March 2006 Trip to Grand Canyon to trip reports- images to follow. Added day trip on Route 66 & Busch Stadium before the demolition to trip reports outline at June 19, 2005.
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| February 27, 2006 |
Added outline of February 2006 trip to Colorado Plateau on trip reports page with images - more to follow.
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| January 22, 2006 |
Added "Colorado Plateau Weather Page" . This page contains continuously updating weather stickers for a selection of cities/towns on The Colorado Plateau. The stickers are updated and provided by the "Weather Underground" website. Each sticker indicates Time, Temperature and Sunrise, Sunset, Moon Rise, and Moon Set. Stickers are provided for three cities/towns from each of the four states; Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, Utah, that make up The Colorado. Plateau The intent of the page is to give an overall weather picture of region.
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| November 20, 2005 |
Added "Colorado Plateau FAQ" . This page contains a description / definition of The Colorado Plateau. Also includes a series of lists of National Parks, National Monuments, National Recreation Areas, Navajo Tribal Parks and National Forests on The Colorado Plateau. (Additional lists will be added)
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| September 17, 2005 |
Redesigned and simplified Home Page Split calendars out to a new Calendars Page.
Added "The Aurora Page" to the Links under Information. Added "International Dark Sky Association" to Links under Information. Added "Historic Route 66 Association of Arizona" to Links under Colorado Plateau.
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| September 14, 2005 |
Added (35) images to August 2005 trip report.
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| September 3, 2005 |
Added "Time Traveler Maps" to the Links Page under Maps. This company produces the best paper maps of "The Colorado Plateau"
Added "Raven - maps & images" to the Links Page under Maps. This company produces high quality shaded relief maps.
Added Latitude Longitude Format Conversion to Links Page under Information. Site converts Decimal Degress to Degress, Minutes, Seconds & visa versa.
Added Climbers.org to Links Page under Mountaineering. This a very good site with great information.
Added the Alaska Wilderness League to Links Page under Wilderness. Founded in 1993 to further the protection of Alaska's incomparable natural endowment
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| August 30, 2005 |
Added (18) sunflower and (29) abandoned farmstead images to trip reports.
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| August 28, 2005 |
Added outline of August 2005 trip to Colorado on trip reports page. Photos and more to follow.
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| July 23, 2005 |
Added Historic Bridges of the Midwest - to the links page in the News/Information section. This is a great site if you have any interest whatsoever in steel bridges. Steel bridges throughout the U.S. are being razed & replaced with typical sole-less DOT "ugly concrete eyesore bridges" (U.C.E.B.s) at a rapid rate.
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| July 16, 2005 |
Added (12) images of HorseShoe Lake Conservation Area to Feb 2005 Trip Report to Southern Illinois and the boot-heel of Missouri.
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| June 13, 2005 |
Added Photo Gallery Thirty-Four - New Mexico - Ah she sli pah, De na zin Bisti, Ojita, Cabezon, Shiprock, Pueblo Bonito.
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| June 12, 2005 |
Added Photo Gallery Thirty-Three - New Mexico - Jemez Falls, Upper & Lower Frijoles Falls, El Morro N.M., El Malpais, N.M., Capulin N.M. & more.
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| May 21, 2005 |
Added 2006 Calendar Brochure to the Home Page Added two day trips w/ links to Trip Reports. |
| May 19, 2005 |
Added Photo Gallery Thirty-Two - Petrified Forest National Park, AZ - Chapel of the Holy Cross, Sedona ,AZ - Tuzigoot Nat. Mon., AZ - Montezuma Nat. Mon., AZ |
| May 18, 2005 |
Added Peakbagger.com - to the links page under "Mountaineering". This site contains a huge database of information on mountain ranges and peaks worldwide. |
| May 17, 2005 |
Added Photo Gallery Thirty-One - The St. Albans Dairy Barn & Little Tavern Bridge |
| April 18, 2005 | |
| March 26, 2005 |
Added Front and Back Cover of 2006 Calendar and enlarged images. (Monthly images will follow) |
| January 24, 2005 |
Added "Corrections to 2005 Calendar" on home page. a |
| December 16, 2004 |
Added a few images of November Trip to Trip Reports page. Added National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to links page.
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| December 11, 2004 |
Added outline of November Trip to Trip Reports page. Added Climb-Utah to links page. (This is an excellent site w/ great information)
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| November 7, 2004 |
Added (5) images to "Almost Made the Calendar Gallery". |
| November 6, 2004 |
Added "Photo Gallery Thirty". - Grand Teton National Park & Old Faithful in Yellowstone National Park.
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| October 30, 2004 |
Revised the format of the Photo Galleries and several pages on the site.
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| October 24, 2004 |
Finally after a lot of difficulty the 2005 calendar is in print10/21/04 - it looks great. Added (15) wilderness links to links page and reformatted several pages on the site. Updated "Calendars.com" link in "About the Calendar" to point to 2005 calendar.
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| October 20, 2004 |
Added several new links and revised the format of the links page.
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| October 10, 2004 |
Added "About the Site" page to the Home Page Split the Photo Galleries & Links pages out because Home Page was too large.
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| October 9, 2004 |
Added "Utah Scenic" to the links section. The site has great Utah related links.
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| October 1, 2004 |
Added "Photo Gallery Twenty-Nine" - Yosemite National Park. Added and revised images linked to "Trip Reports Outline".
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| September 7, 2004 |
Added "Photo Gallery Twenty-Eight" - Climb of Telescope Peak in Death Valley National Park.
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| August 28, 2004 |
Added "Photo Gallery Twenty-Seven" - Angel's Landing in Zion National Park, Bryce Canyon National Park and Landscape Arch in Arches National Park.
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| August 27, 2004 |
Added eleven images of Wire Pass to "Photo Gallery Twenty-Six" .
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| August 23, 2004 |
Added "Photo Gallery Twenty-Six" - Mesa Verde National Park and Paria Canyon.
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| August 22, 2004 |
Added (10) images of Great Sand Dunes National Park -"Photo Gallery Three".
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| August 12, 2004 |
Added (10) images to "Photo Gallery Fifteen" - Lower Mohawk Lake near Breckenridge, CO.
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| August 3, 2004 |
Added "Photo Gallery Twenty-five" - Canyonlands National Park - Needles District.
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| July 31, 2004 |
Added "Photo Gallery Twenty-four" - Upper Antelope Canyon near Page, Arizona. Added image hyperlinks to "July 2004 Photo Trip" report.
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| July 17, 2004 |
Added "July 2004 Photo Trip report " to the "Trip Reports Outline"
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| June 14, 2004 |
Added "2004 Graduation & Cedar Point" & "Memphis In May Trip" to the
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| April 7, 2004 |
Added "Panoramic Aerial Maps of the American West" to the links section. (This is a great site for these types of maps)
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| April 2, 2004 |
Added "Photo Gallery Twenty-three"- Lower Rock Creek near Ironton, MO.
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| March 31, 2004 |
Added outline of Trip to Lower Rock Creek near Ironton, MO. Added a couple of Toroweap Point images to "Photo Gallery Seven".
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| March 28, 2004 |
Revised the format of all photo galleries. Revised November 2005, December 2005, January 2006 images in 2005 Calendar.
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| March 20, 2004 |
Added 2005 Calendar Cover and Back Cover Images. Added 2005 Monthly Images.
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| March 15, 2004 |
Added North Rim images to "Photo Gallery Seven" . Moved images of S. Canyon/Cliff Dwellers from Gallery Seven to Gallery Twenty-two. Added "Photo Gallery Twenty-two" Cathedral Wash - South Canyon - Cliff Dwellers. Added two black & white images of The Genoa Tower to "Photo Gallery Fourteen".
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| March 7, 2004 |
Added "America's Roof Guide" and "TopoZone Maps" to links section. Added "National Landscape Conservation System" to links section. Added "National Scenic Byways" to links section. Added "National Wild & Scenic Rivers System" to links section. Added "Federal Lands Map of the Colorado Plateau Region" to the main page.
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| March 6, 2004 |
Added February 2004 Missouri day trip to "Trip Reports Outline".
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| March 1, 2004 |
Added "Photo Gallery Twenty" On the road - Missouri - stockyard & sale barn ruins. Added "Photo Gallery Twenty-one" Crane Lake and Shut-ins near Ironton, MO.
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| February 18, 2004 |
Added "A Geologist's Lifetime Field List" & "National Natural Landmarks Program" to links.
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| February 8, 2004 |
Organized by date and added several trips to "Trips Reports Outline". Added "The American Southwest" to the links section. Added descriptions at each link.
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| February 1, 2004 |
Added "Photo Gallery Nineteen" On the road - Texas - Shamrock, TX Old Route 66.
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| January 26, 2004 |
Added "2005 Calendar Brochure" .
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| January 18, 2004 |
Added December 2003 trip outline to "Trip Reports Outline".
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| January 16, 2004 |
Added (7) night images at the Texas Rest stop to "Photo Gallery Eleven".
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| January 10, 2004 |
Added "Photo Gallery Eighteen " On the road New Mexico, Tucumcari Old Route 66.
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| December 20, 2003 |
Added images from along the Appalachian Trail in Great Smoky Mountains National Park to "Photo Gallery Seventeen" .
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| November 30, 2003 |
Added "Photo Gallery Seventeen " Savage Gulf State Natural Area near Monteagle, TN. Revised "Map of Colorado Plateau" to include an enlarged version of map as a link.
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| November 16, 2003 |
Added "Bill Hall Plaque" image to home page with a link to a photo of the memorial.
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| November 12, 2003 |
Added "SummitPost" graphic to links area & figured out how to position correctly on web page.
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| November 11, 2003 |
Added link to "Grand Canyon Explorer" in links area on home page.
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| October 26, 2003 |
Added October 2003 trip outline to "Trip Reports Outline".
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| October 3, 2003 |
Added "Photo Gallery Sixteen" - Mills Lake - Glacier Gorge - Black Lake - McHenry's Peak in Rocky Mountain National Park. Added "Slot Canyon's of the American Southwest" link to links area on home page. Added (2)images to "Photo Gallery Six". (Upheaval Dome)
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| September 20, 2003 |
Revised "Photo Gallery Seven"- The Grand Canyon - South Canyon - Cliff Dwellers.
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| September 1, 2003 |
Added August 2003 trip outline to "Trip Reports Outline" and links to "photo galleries". Added "SummitPost" link to links area on home page.
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| August 25, 2003 |
Added "Photo Gallery Fifteen" - Continental Falls near Breckenridge, CO.
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| August 24, 2003 |
Added "Photo Gallery Fourteen" - "The Genoa Tower" - "on the road" in Colorado.
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| August 23, 2003 |
Added "Photo Gallery Twelve" - Sunflowers and "on the road" in Kansas. Added "Photo Gallery Thirteen" - Homestead ruins - Kansas.
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| August 3, 2003 | Revised "2004 Calendar Brochure" format |
| August 2, 2003 | Added six images to "Photo Gallery Nine". |
| July 28, 2003 | Added several photo hyperlinks to "Trip Reports Outline". |
| July 27, 2003 |
Added "Photo Gallery Eleven" - West-bound Texas rest stop east of Amarillo, Texas. Added a trip outline of Humbolt Peak climb to "Trip Reports Outline".
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| July 26, 2003 |
Added “Photo Gallery Ten” - South Colony Lakes and 2003 Humbolt Peak climb. Added Yankee Boy Basin image to "Almost made the Calendar Gallery". Revised "Home |