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	<title>Bert Gildart: Writer and Photographer</title>
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	<description>Glimpses From Bert &#38; Jane Gildart&#039;s Travel Adventures</description>
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		<title>Much Looking Required to Find Anza Borrego&#8217;s Spring Flowers</title>
		<link>http://gildartphoto.com/weblog/2012/02/04/much-looking-required-to-find-anza-borrego-spring-flowers</link>
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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>Climbing Anza Borrego&#8217;s Coyote Peak</title>
		<link>http://gildartphoto.com/weblog/2012/01/30/climbing-anza-borregos-coyote-peak</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 18:22:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bert</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[©Bert Gildart: Coyote Mountain in Anza Borrego Desert State Park rises abruptly from a flat desert plain of about 700 feet and terminates in a gently rounded peak at 3,192 feet above sea level. While the base seems dominated by borrow brush, mesquite, creosote and the occasional stand of palms, the crown is dominated by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Biking Fanatic at Borrego Springs</title>
		<link>http://gildartphoto.com/weblog/2012/01/26/biking-fanatic-at-borrego-springs</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 15:39:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bert</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Anza-Borrego]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Outdoors]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[RV Travel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Biking]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Borrego Springs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cycling]]></category>

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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>Summitting (Almost) Coyote Peak</title>
		<link>http://gildartphoto.com/weblog/2012/01/23/summitting-almost-coyote-peak</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 18:13:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bert</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Anza-Borrego]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[©Bert Gildart: Coyote Peak, in Anza Borrego Desert State Park, though not a formidable mountain, is challenging nevertheless, and several days ago, four of us attempted a summit. The group was a good one, and we almost made it, but Jim pulled a muscle in his leg and felt he had to return.  It can [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Anza Borrego&#8217;s Palm Canyon Trail &#8212; Always Compelling</title>
		<link>http://gildartphoto.com/weblog/2012/01/18/anza-borregos-palm-canyon-trail-always-compelling</link>
		<comments>http://gildartphoto.com/weblog/2012/01/18/anza-borregos-palm-canyon-trail-always-compelling#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 14:34:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bert</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Anza-Borrego]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[RV Travel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bighorn sheep]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[©Bert Gildart: Just minutes after starting our hike up Palm Canyon, Bill directed our attention to a cliff wall, high overhead.
“Bighorns,” he said. “Two of them.”

 

The sheep were at some distance, but it was my thought that if I could make the sheep seem at home in this  beautiful canyon then my picture could be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Extra, Extra: Stunning Rainbow over Anaza Borrego&#8217;s San Ysidro Mountains</title>
		<link>http://gildartphoto.com/weblog/2012/01/17/extra-extra-stunning-rainbow-over-anaza-borregos-san-ysidro-mountains</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 16:03:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bert</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Anza-Borrego]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[©Bert Gildart: “Look quick,” said Janie.  “The rainbow!”
Without a doubt Janie is the first to notice the incredible displays of lighting that are so frequent over the desert mountains.  This morning, the first light of the rising sun warmed the San Ysidro Mountains, of Anza Borrego Desert State Park, creating a picture that was absolutely [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Year of the Dragon</title>
		<link>http://gildartphoto.com/weblog/2012/01/14/year-of-the-dragon</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Jan 2012 16:27:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bert</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Anza-Borrego]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[©Bert Gildart: Bill and Larry are devotees to Anza Borrego, and during the winter, make as many trips from their home in San Diego to camp and to explore this premier desert state park as their schedule will permit.

  

Images of Larry and Bill flank cyclists, part of the many attracted by the dragon [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Moon Descending Over Anza Borrego</title>
		<link>http://gildartphoto.com/weblog/2012/01/10/moon-descending-over-anza-borrego</link>
		<comments>http://gildartphoto.com/weblog/2012/01/10/moon-descending-over-anza-borrego#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2012 04:18:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bert</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Anza-Borrego]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[©Bert Gildart: Last few nights, the moon has been ascending and descending over the mountains surrounding Anza Borrego Desert State Park in a most satisfying manner.


 

The image shown here was taken about 6:45 a.m. of the moon setting into the San Ysidro Mountains to our west, about 10 minutes before the sun rises in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Glacier Icons &#8212; Guaranteed to be A Winner</title>
		<link>http://gildartphoto.com/weblog/2012/01/09/glacier-icons-guaranteed-to-be-a-winner</link>
		<comments>http://gildartphoto.com/weblog/2012/01/09/glacier-icons-guaranteed-to-be-a-winner#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2012 21:08:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bert</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Glacier National Park]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Montana Photography]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[©Bert Gildart: Here at Pegleg the New Year was ushered in with barely a peep, but shortly thereafter all sorts of good news begin filtering in.  Based on news from the first week of 2012 this could be a pretty good year for Janie and me.



First, I’ve just received an advanced copy of my new [...]]]></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>
		<comments>http://gildartphoto.com/weblog/2011/12/30/fear-or-procreation-what-might-the-monster-rock-snake-represent#comments</comments>
		<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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