I'm sure he appreciates that!

I "work" here.:D
(Picture taken from an iPad on or about December 10)

It was a balmy 6° this morning at my truck (which doubles as my locker room).
Definitely better than the 10° below zero driven through a dozen miles west of town.

Was delivering in shorts and a short sleeve shirt by the afternoon.
The sun heats things quickly on the Colorado Plateau.

Deliver rattlesnakes, do ya? ;)

I'm hoping to get up your way next Spring.

Pat

Do we live in a beautiful world or what!

Page...in the spring?!? :eek:

The weather is windy, unpredictable, and can get quite awful between the spring equinox and the summer solstice.
The best time in this area is during August and September.

Not Page per se. The North Rim, passing through your area. ;)

Pat

Highway 67 usually doesn't open until May 15 (the UPS driver has a gate key ;) ).
Beautiful in June.

Used to cover vacations for the North Rim driver.
I've had buffalo come right up to my truck door.

Obama phones... Buffalo... Roaming charges...

I'm NOT going there!

Yep, I know (Not about the UPS driver, though. Good info. ;)). We do Kiabab NF. We have a Casita travel trailer that we drag to the rim. I've never seen buffs up there though.

Pat

The local driver knows all the best places.
He takes his trailer up there and starts/finishes the route from his camp site sometimes.

He has a "domicile" route like mine (not based at a hub).
I've taken my motor home up there before when covering the route (get some strange looks when a UPS truck drives out of the forest in the morning).

The buffalo usually hang out near the park boundary.
They're not indigenous, a domestic herd (~25) got loose from a ranch down near House Rock a few decades back.

IIRC they now number over 300.

<edited to add>
There are varying accounts of how the North Rim buffalo herd reached its current status.
This is what I was told.

Yes siree! ;)

Pat

Did anyone else notice that yesterday was the day Marty McFly landed in the future?

A long overdue post just because I finally got it:


RICHARD:

If you were on the instructional team that took us from the bunny slope at Lake Eldora to crossing the Continental Divide on skis, living in snow caves and eating C Rations (not MRE's) in 1976, I owe you big time.

My SFOD (A-752) from the 7th SF Group did TDY to Denver, CO (actually, a jump into snow just outside Buckley ANG Base), followed by barracks (Aurora, CO) and met some squared away NG SF instructors who absolutely were top notch in winter warfare.

Please check your AT / ADSW orders from that time, but even if your A Team was not the one on my rotation, PM me a telephone number and next time I'm in Dallas (actually, Richardson/Plano, visiting my brother) you are entitled to a steak dinner on me).

My New Jacket came today
 

It gets colder here in the big D than I thought, so what better way to support a noble cause? :) (Hint...It is the Big Logo at the bottom of the PS.com Homepage.)

Awesome!!!:lifter

Holly

Good for you Echoes.

Carmel banana french toast for breakfast.

Day of skiing at Mary Jane on 40" of packed Cool Whip with a 3" topping of fresh Splenda. (Loaded the Le Miserables soundtrack in French on my MP3 player and annoyed the entire mountain by singing loudly in Czech accented French).

Free pie after dinner at the Village.