This year for Thanksgiving I visited Levi and Crystal Reed in Parowan, Utah. Along with Becky, (Levis mom) Vance and Jessica Reed and Dalin Reed. There was alot of food, rain and fun. Notice the trash can turkey.
Levi used two tractor hoods and some extra steel he had layin around to cover up the coals on the can because the rain got a little to heavy later in the day. Good thinkin Levi! See the wet logs drying out inside the hoods?
Well, enough about Thanksgiving, this is an outdoor adventure blog right? All the rest of the cookin happened inside, thanks Crystal. The food was great. On Saturday we finally went out to go hit up a couple of hills that were very deceiving and cruise a dirt road to the top of P Hill. On the way out we stopped where Crystal works and this was the view from the parking lot. It was a lot better than this, my camera just wasn't up to the task. Can anyone recommend an awesome camera to buy. I have so many good photo opps and if I do get a pic it usually gets deleted right away because of the poor quality.
Here's the first hill that Levi led me to. Can you see the fence posts on the right side of the hill? Looks like someone didn't want em anymore and decided to climb the hill with there tailgate down. He had no problem with the hill and I didn't think I did either until my rear end got caught up on a huge battery at the top. You can see it on the right side at the top. After backing all the way down twice and tryin different lines, I finally made it.
Almost the same story with this one. The difference was I went first and backed down a lot more than twice. I pretty much called it quits until I saw Levi go up it real easy. I looked at Vance and said "ok...one more time". I took the same line Levi took, which was totally opposite of my previous choice and I went right up.
Here's a view from atop P Hill looking east towards Brian Head. Nope, no skiing, snowboarding, sledding or tubing.
Here's a south west view looking out over the town of Parowan.
And another one of the Liberty posin in front of the little town.
Headed back in for some food.
I actually think it was pie.
Sunday, November 30, 2008
Friday, November 21, 2008
Ugh
Man I hate being sick! You're home from work bored out of your mind with tons of stuff to do but you can't because it's work and that's why you stayed home from work because you'd be miserable if you didn't. Ugh...the restlessness! I hate being sick.
Sunday, November 16, 2008
Repelling at Bulldog Canyon
On October 15, 2008 the elders in my ward went repelling. We had a great time. There were a few guys that hadn't been before but did real well and even got addicted real quick. I personally hadn't been in over ten years and am now thinking about buying all the climbing gear so I'd have yet another outdoor activity to help consume my single life.
It was a beautiful morning to go and it seemed everyone else in the valley felt the same. That's a bit of an exaggeration. There was probably somewhere around 200 people there on all the different cliffs.
My camera died before I could get pictures of everyone that participated, action pics from the bottom or any of myself so I hope you enjoy the few that I posted. 
Friday, November 14, 2008
Deer Hunt October 2008
Unsuccessful! Well...at getting a deer. I was successful at a lot of other things and being unbeaten in horseshoes was one of them. The group of us, Wylie, Vance, Dalin and I got drawn for our second choice which was a place we had never hunted before and didn't go and scout ahead of time. So when we got to our area we found that it was littered with private property. It took forever to find a camp so we just made a temporary camp for the first night, packed up in the mornin and found a good spot the next day. We hiked the whole area around our camp and found lots of old mulie tracks, droppings and beds but nothing fresh. Maybe because the fawn survival rate in that area was 3 out of 100. All the fresh tracks and droppings belonged to coyotes, javelina and elk. I saw alot of small cat tracks and some mountain lion tracks but never saw any cats. What we did see was plenty of gambles quail, rabbits, antelope, javelina and a herd of 8 elk. Which I have a decent picture of below. I forgot to take a better one when I got closer. Anyway...here's a few pics of some of the scenes, camp and one of me posin. Hahaha...what a dork. I'll always laugh at that!



Mt. Hope
Always a reminder to never give up hope on that elusive mulie and eternal companion!
Mt. Hope
Always a reminder to never give up hope on that elusive mulie and eternal companion!
Sunday, November 9, 2008
Hackberry Creek October 2008
Finally! I got to go on a trip. My last trip was Butcher Jones. It's been three months but feels like a lifetime! I almost didn't go on this trip because I was leaving for my hunt the next weekend. I'm glad I chose to go because I really needed it. We camped in the Oak Flats area which was near the trail and had a great dinner and breakfast supplied by Tom. Thanks Tom!
I really liked this view and wish I had a better camera to really capture some of the scenes that I see. My 5.1 mega pixel isn't cuttin it anymore.
38s on a Stock Ram
Reggie found a good deal on some 38inch Goodyear MTs and couldn't wait to put them on. The only problem was that he couldn't turn his tires without the front and back side rubbin. Sooooo...we get to do some cuttin!
First the plastic fender well liner gets to come out. Then we measure and make our marks.
And then we get to cut.
I left all the boring steps out to show you the end product. Not to bad eh?
This was the intermission between getting both fenders done. Reggie and Halsey wrestling. Halsey always ends up gettin pinned.
We also cut the back side of the front bumper.
And here it is with a coat of spray on bedliner. There will be more posts on Reggies project in the future. I even think he has a lift on order. So you might even see some action pics soon!
Update on the Rack
I added a couple of new things to the rack to help make it a little more useful
A hoop on the front. So I can mount some lights.
And tabs to mount my Hi-Lift jack. See the lights?
Here's a better view. Notice the two small reverse lights at the back of the rack. Wal-Mart special. Fifteen bucks for the two lights and everything needed to wire it up.
I threw this picture in just for fun. I already have a new idea for a rack that is lighter and more functional but not till I get the bumpers done.

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