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	<title>Bert Gildart: Writer and Photographer &#187; National Lands</title>
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		<title>More Beauty from Lower Antelope Canyon</title>
		<link>http://gildartphoto.com/weblog/2012/04/24/more-beauty-from-lower-antelope-canyon</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Apr 2012 16:02:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bert</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[©Bert Gildart: Though we are within striking distance today of Bend, Oregon, location this year for the Northwest Outdoor Writer’s Association annual meeting, the beauty of slot canyons is still on my mind. They’re easily accessed from Lake Powell Recreation area and my last two posts have described some of their beauty.
Look at the picture [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ascending From Mother Earth</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Apr 2012 00:20:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bert</dc:creator>
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©Bert Gildart: In the last couple of posts I have covered the beauty of slot canyon, specifically, those on the Navajo Indian Reservation, located at Lake Powell, near Page, Arizona.
But what is a “Slot Canyon?”
Essentially, they are narrow canyons sculpted  by the forces of erosion.  Here, these forces create art, and the medium is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Montezuma Castle and Well  &#8212; “The Name Stuck”</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Apr 2012 16:14:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bert</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[©Bert Gildart: Off and on over the past few days Janie and I have been visiting a number of areas formerly occupied by the Southern Sinagua Indians.  One of the most spectacular of these areas was Montezuma Well, a natural tank of water created when an unground cavern sunk.
Today, this natural limestone sinkhole near Rimrock, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Challenge of Climbing Flatiron Mountain</title>
		<link>http://gildartphoto.com/weblog/2012/04/04/the-challenge-of-climbing-flatiron-mountain</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Apr 2012 00:52:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bert</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[©Bert Gildart:  This past Sunday Don, Nancy (our Airstream travel companions) and I hiked and climbed to the top of Flatiron Mountain, high atop the Superstition Mountains.  Though the first part of the trip was easy, the last part was almost as difficult as climbing Old Rag in Shenandoah National Park, which I did several [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Photographing Cacti &#8212; In a Macro Mode</title>
		<link>http://gildartphoto.com/weblog/2012/03/27/photographing-cacti-in-a-macro-mode</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Mar 2012 14:01:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bert</dc:creator>
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©Bert Gildart:  The cacti are blooming now in the hills that surround us here in Arizona’s Lost Dutchman State Park, allowing me to pursue my fascination with macro photography.  For me that means multiple strobe setups and a sturdy tripod to optimize composition.  Ideally, the tripod should be one that allows one to position the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Much Looking Required to Find Anza Borrego&#8217;s Spring Flowers</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2012 16:21:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bert</dc:creator>
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©Bert Gildart:  Yesterday, Janie and I hiked to an incredible area in the southern part of Anza Borrego Desert State Park looking for pictographs, which after several years of searching we finally found.  Don&#8217;t expect a detailed map to the area, but I will report on this  incredible Native American art form in my next [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fear or Procreation! What Might the Monster Rock Snake Represent?</title>
		<link>http://gildartphoto.com/weblog/2011/12/30/fear-or-procreation-what-might-the-monster-rock-snake-represent</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Dec 2011 18:24:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bert</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[©Bert Gildart: Five-hundred years from now – after man has rebounded from a devastating decline in population associated with much tragic and social unrest &#8212; archaeologists will reemerge to wonder about those who lived in the distant past. (Come on, play along for a minute.)
They begin by excavating, and because deserts are always so productive, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Surviving In a Land Where Everything Either Sticks, Stings or Bites</title>
		<link>http://gildartphoto.com/weblog/2011/12/18/surviving-in-a-land-where-everything-either-sticks-stings-or-bites</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Dec 2011 14:57:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bert</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[©Bert Gildart: In a land where everything either sticks, stings or bites,  Bill (see previous post) and I decided we would return to the Moonlight Canyon trail and see if we could learn more about what &#8212; and how &#8212; sheep eat. Can they actually digest thorns?

 
Essentially because this area in Anza Borrego Desert State [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Christmas at Bill &amp; Larry&#8217;s</title>
		<link>http://gildartphoto.com/weblog/2011/12/15/christmas-at-bill-larrys</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Dec 2011 20:39:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bert</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[©Bert Gildart: Snow covered the Vallecito Mountains as we made our drive to Agua Calienta to see our friends Bill and Larry.

 

Janie and I meet the two men about four years ago and discovered that we shared similar interests and an interest in acquiring skills we all admired.  Larry is a gourmet cook, Bill a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Moon Rise and the Beauty of Night Skies</title>
		<link>http://gildartphoto.com/weblog/2011/12/11/moon-rise-and-the-beauty-of-night-skies</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Dec 2011 00:33:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bert</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[©Bert Gildart: Last night as I was returning from my chore of loading up our four, six gallon water jugs to replenish part of the 40 gallons of water we seem to use each week, the moon began to rise.
Before I had gone far palm trees began to border the moon, reminding us that the [...]]]></description>
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