Well it took me long enough but I finally got my photos posted of the trip my son and I took this summer to Utah's Casto Canyon ATV trail. Just cut and paste the address below my name and look in the folder called "2001 Trip to Utah"

 

Hey Scotto, how are ya? You've got some great looking pics there, looks like you guys had an awesome time! The scenery down there looks just incredible to say the least! I really liked that one picture-I think number 43, Zion National Park, or whatever you called it-the one at night with the huge rock cliff with the stars above it, then the tree on the side, that picture just looks really cool. Judging from your pics, it looks like I'll have to make a trip down there as well-looks like a great time and gorgeous scenery that is much different from what we have here.

Thanks for the pics, glad to see ya had a good time! Everything else going well????

Mike

 

Hi Mike,
A side from work things are going fine. I had been layed off for most of the summer. I bumped back in about a mounth ago and took a job loading truck as it might be a while before I can get my original position back. I work as a shipping supplyer for a major catalog mail order company. I tell ya truck loading sucks. Its a bummer when you work at a job 10 years and your still on the bottom rung of the seniority ladder. A decade at my job and I'm still the "new guy".

The WarPony's running good. I broke a ball joint about a mounth back and the needel and seat in the carb started to stick and flooded the motor. Crank case filled up with gas and everything. Shes all fixed up now tho and ready for fall and hunting. Should turn over 6000 miles on her in the next few weeks. I'm considering tearing into the motor this winter maybe port and polish the heads install a webcam maybe even stroke it if FST or some other company has one for it by then if not I'll just "NightOul the motor" [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif[/img].

I have been doing some black powder deer hunting on weekends. I hunt on our Reservation and our primitive weapons season starts Sept. 8th and runs till the end of the year. On the rez primitive weapons means the bow and also black powder rifle. Our rifle, or modern weapons season starts October 20th and runs till mid December thats when I take 3 weeks vacation and just hunt, hunt, hunt. On our reservation deer tag we can only take 1 deer but we can shoot eather buck or doe and also we can hunt for the elders in our famley, mothers, fathers, uncles, ants etc. and fill ther tags,, and I have a big famley[img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-wink.gif[/img]

Take care frend

 

Hey Bud, good to hear from ya! Man, sounds like you've about got the hunting all planned out, awesome! Our season starts Oct. 13, runs till the 26th. Elk starts the 27th, runs till Nov. 4th, I'm really looking forward to that. I'm a little worried though, as I've sent out a bunch of job app's myself, and if I should get hired, I am wondering if any of them will allow me two weeks off for my elk hunt-being the "brand new" guy and all??? Somehow I doubt it, so I'll have to see about some negotiations or something. Who knows, right now I need a job more than anything, so will have to work it out if it happens.

Very sorry to hear of your job situation-I know exactly how that goes. I worked for a large potato processing plant, they bought out another plant, and I was one of the guys who replaced the old timers of the old plant. Pretty sad when things happen like that. Then, what's almost as bad is these same large companies get some wild hair up their butts, decide that the knowledgeable employees who've put in years of service with the company can no longer go any higher without a degree. So, they bring in some lame brain college grad to take over as manager, who knows nothing about the job, and goes about making decisions based on "the book", rather than actual "hands on" experience. I hate to sound a little hypocritical here as I am one of those "lame brain college grads", yet at the same time, I've been in that same job situation enough to see a real problem. Hell, if it were me, I'd put the employee with the years of background to the supervisory position with the new hire grad as his subordinate, or supervisor trainee or something of that nature. Let the guy with the knowledge run the show, yet train the young guy to do the same job, something along those lines anyway, I don't know, just a thought.

Glad to hear the War Pony is doing well. Thanks again for all the tips back when I blew out my ball joints and had cv problems as well-it really was no big deal to replace, don't know what I was all worked up about. That engine work sounds like a hell of an idea-course, at 6,000 miles, how could you not-I think she's about broke in by now, wouldn't ya think? [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-wink.gif[/img]

Man if ya get a chance, take some pics of the animals you harvest this year, would love to see them! I'm itching so bad now I can't hardly stand it. Right at about two weeks left, and I'm going absolutely crazy. I'll probably miss my deer this year, just from being so excited, and running around all over the place up in the sticks just looking and scouting, not realizing I can actually shoot now. Found a couple nice bears, but wanted to wait a little longer in the season-probably a dumb move, but I feel the coat will be nicer just before winter-thicker at least, not like the scraggly summer coats they have, all matted and thin, ya know.

Well, hope everything else is going well for ya, and you take care Man!

Best of Luck,

Mike

 

Hey Scotto, nice pictures! That's part of the country that I haven't seen yet. But looks like I might need to load up the family some day a take a trip.Also want to know where I can sign up for the world tour that Cowboy, Dakotart and Texascat want to take. [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-wink.gif[/img]

 

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