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	<title>Bert Gildart: Writer and Photographer &#187; Outdoors</title>
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	<description>Glimpses From Bert &#38; Jane Gildart&#039;s Travel Adventures</description>
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		<title>What Happened?  This Brobdingnagian Landscape May Blow Your Mind</title>
		<link>http://gildartphoto.com/weblog/2012/02/08/what-happened-this-brobdingnagian-landscape-may-blow-your-mind</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:07:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bert</dc:creator>
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©Bert Gildart:  If there is a boulder field in Joshua Tree or one of the other national parks that has a greater &#8220;wow&#8221; factor  than does this one,  I can’t recall it.
We saw this immense scattering or rocks while hiking in Anza Borrego Desert State Park’s Indian Hill country.  This field of rock stretched for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Biking Fanatic at Borrego Springs</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 15:39:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bert</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ ©Bert Gildart: There are no decimal points in the picture of numbers on my bike’s odometer, and please don’t interpret the posting as one of simple vanity, for there’s information associated with the mileage numbers that might be of value to readers.
Simply said, biking can lower blood pressure. I know.  Just a few months [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tarantulas &amp; Anal Sphincters at Peg Leg?  Sometimes</title>
		<link>http://gildartphoto.com/weblog/2011/12/01/tarantulas-anal-sphincters-at-peg-leg-sometimes</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Dec 2011 15:52:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bert</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[©Bert Gildart:  Though I am working on a book about Montana, the door to our Airstream is wide open allowing me to peer through the screen and maintain a vigil for migrating tarantulas.  Late November and early December is their mating season, so the prospect could be good. I have never seen one in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kootenai Falls &#8212; Impossible to Float?</title>
		<link>http://gildartphoto.com/weblog/2011/08/13/kootenai-falls-impossible-to-float</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Aug 2011 17:05:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bert</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Montana Photography]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[©Bert Gildart: Though Kevin Bacon and Meryl  Streep may have navigated Kootenai Falls in the movie “River Wild,” few others have successfully run the rapids.  From a point just above the falls the river drops at a rate of 90 feet per mile.  If a floater survives the rapids, they must then contend with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lewis &amp; Clark Caverns, Montana&#8217;s First State Park</title>
		<link>http://gildartphoto.com/weblog/2011/07/28/lewis-clark-caverns-montanas-first-state-park</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jul 2011 13:56:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bert</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Montana Photography]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[©Bert Gildart: Almost the moment we stepped onto a stone stairway that would take us deeper into the Lewis and Clark Caverns, the lights went out.  Few had head lamps, so our descent was spooky. Janie and I both grabbed hard to the railing, and tried to maintain our balance as we descended the slippery [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Too Beautiful To Keep? &#8212; A Fish From Montana&#8217;s Big Hole River</title>
		<link>http://gildartphoto.com/weblog/2011/07/05/too-beautiful-to-keep-a-fish-from-montanas-big-hole-river</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jul 2011 13:54:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bert</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Montana Photography]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[©Bert Gildart: “It is the largest brook trout I&#8217;ve ever caught in this part of Montana,” said Chuck Robbins. “Maybe not the longest, but certainly the heaviest.  I think it may go three pounds.”

 
For the past few days Janie and I have been touring Big  Hole River country with Chuck and Gail Robbins, good [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bannack, Montana’s First Capitol and One of the State&#8217;s Best Camprounds</title>
		<link>http://gildartphoto.com/weblog/2011/06/28/bannack-montana%e2%80%99s-first-capitol-and-one-of-the-states-best-camprounds</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jun 2011 14:08:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bert</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Montana Photography]]></category>
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©Bert Gildart: Bannack provides some of the state’s best camping and is the spot we’re calling home for the next night or two.  The settlement was founded on July 28, 1862, when John White and other members of the “Pikes Peakers” discovered gold in Grasshopper Creek, a small flow of water we’re now [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Are Birds Political Creatures? You Bet!</title>
		<link>http://gildartphoto.com/weblog/2011/03/06/are-birds-political-creatures-you-bet</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Mar 2011 04:47:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bert</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Outdoors]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[©Bert Gildart: Once again the bird feeder is capturing our attention, providing humor and sometimes creating philosophy, so easy to do on these boring winter days when winds blow and temperatures hover well below freezing.
Philosophically, we have concluded there are four different groups that gather at our feeder: the Republicans, Democrats, the Self-Assured Independents, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Izaak Walton – A Lodge For All Seasons</title>
		<link>http://gildartphoto.com/weblog/2011/02/14/the-izaak-walton-%e2%80%93-a-lodge-for-all-seasons</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Feb 2011 14:28:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bert</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Glacier National Park]]></category>
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©Bert Gildart: Snow swished beneath our skis and the sound mixed occasionally with the distant echo of a lonesome railroad whistle, adding nostalgic to an already romantic  setting.
Trees were weighted with dense layers of snow, and as we reached the outer limits of the well-groomed back-country trail known as the Highline, clouds lifted and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Best Images From 2010, Many Already Published</title>
		<link>http://gildartphoto.com/weblog/2011/01/04/best-images-from-2010-many-already-published</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Jan 2011 02:29:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bert</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[National Lands]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[©Bert Gildart: It’s always a pleasure for Janie and me to sort through images I’ve produced over the year and decide which we like best. Although I’m usually the one depressing the shutter, often Janie holds strobes or serves as a model, sometimes in very challenging positions.
Travel creates some unusual opportunities, and 2010 was no [...]]]></description>
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