Somewhere in the Southwest

Night time zip line

at Sam's request, here are shots form the McKean family reunion night time zip line 4th of July celebration. 

We went down the zip line with glow sticks and flash lights.  we also shined light on each other as we went down, and I used the flash to make "ghost images" of people as they came past the camera. 

New Website

I finally got me website up and running.  Please take a look at it and let me know what you think. I am now posting new photos there on my blog, so sorry you may not see them here.  I have also put a link to my website on the top left right of this blog.

Capitol Reef and Cassidy Arch

Went to Capitol Reef National Park for some pretty epic canyoneering. The campsite was nice and mellow and right next to this old homestead. The house and barn and a nice little orchard have been well kept for these last hundred years or so.

Next to the house there was this old Ford with a big flatbed

We hiked up to the top of the plateau then around to Cassidy Arch, which is the hole in the distance in this one

Here is the arch from closer up, it spans this little box canyon

We repelled 160 feet or so next to the arch right into the canyon, this one is taken from the center of the arch

After going down into the main arch we repelled 7 more times down into the increasingly narrow slot canyon.

Several of the repels went down through other arches. Here is my friend's bishop coming down thru an arch

Cecret Lake

this is one of our favorite hikes. a beautiful mountain lake nestled on a ledge under the peaks, good climbing rocks, wildflowers, mountain streams, snow in July and much cooler temps than the valley's 100 degrees  

 filtering some cool stream water to enjoy 

with the 1 Nikkor 18mm f-1.8 

watching a moose 

 snow!