Best Birthday Party Ever!

popper

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BWAAA, I didn't get invited. Would like a BDay party like that. Just got a couple candles on a small cake.
 

creosote

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looked like a glimpse of Mt.Timpanogas in the back round of the one shot.

I grew up in that valley. As a kid, there was a story of how that mountain got its name, The punch line was "Tin pan No Goose"

Great Video. Makes me want to get some steel targets.
 
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fiver

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grew up in the valley north of that one.
but I spent many an hour out in cedar valley, I guess it's eagle mountain now, the wife's uncles run dry farms out there until the 80's.
 

fiver

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they just had an old fashioned out in the street gunfight there in Payson that got broke up by a vigilante group of armed citizens.
I doubt that made the news wires and wasn't reported by anyone outside of the state.
I just happen to know one of the citizen responders that seen it go down.
 

Full.lead.taco

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I didn't hear about that one.
they just had an old fashioned out in the street gunfight there in Payson that got broke up by a vigilante group of armed citizens.
I doubt that made the news wires and wasn't reported by anyone outside of the state.
I just happen to know one of the citizen responders that seen it go down.
 

Pistolero

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I've flown over that country in a C150 and Long EZ, but not on the ground except at Show Low once
for fuel.

Looks like good country. Happy Birthday.

Bill
 

Full.lead.taco

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Thanks Bill, I have to say Utah has grown on me over the years. I grew up in south eastern washington and came to utah for college, got married, got a job, and got "stuck" here. Now I really enjoy living here.
 

Pistolero

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I was really amazed flying from the south to north one time over the Sevier River valley. Here on my right (east) was this
beautiful farm and ranch country, looked like a lot of horse ranches. Yet, to the left, just over the ridge was an endless
brown baked desert as far as the eyes could see to the west. What an amazing, shocking difference just a few miles
would make in terrain and vegetation! Just the difference between rain and no rain, it seems. I was flying right over
the string of mountains, green to the right, burnt brown to the left.

Bill
 

creosote

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For any young whipersnappers that like to hike at 10 to 13 thousand feet, Highway 50 runs through Sevier River valley.
If you follow it into Nevada there is a park "Great Basin National Park" . They grow Bristlecone pine trees way up high.

They are some of the oldest living thing on the planet. If I remember there was one 5000 years old. You can even chuck a few snow balls in the summer. It's one of the must do's.

One of the other memories I have of that trip,
Even though you just rebuild your chevy 350 into a 383 stroker, roller cam, Dart heads, If you have a carburetor, and a 12 foot camper, It aint gona run very good at 10 thousand feet. They have an upper parking lot, so you don't have to walk so much. I could have walked faster than my truck would go. Thats why I put fuel injection on the jeep.

Another "must do" while you can hike is go to the Mt.Timpanogos cave. Then there is the sand dunes, the High Uintas, yea, I do miss living in Utah. I just wonder if that warrant is still active, and on the books. :oops: