Blanketed Dunes
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AlanLichty
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Very nice - scenes like show the clear advantage of living in the area so you can get out to shoot when the conditions are right. The rest of us have to shoot whatever is available when we travel there.
I love seeing the red rock country with a layer of snow.
I love seeing the red rock country with a layer of snow.
Travis Rhoads
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gotta big time agree with Alan here...to be able to go when great conditions hit, is a real advantage. Wonderful image.
ckcarr
Founding Member
Thanks guys!
Yes, there are some advantages to a small town. But, there is also the reality of life. Like the inability to consistently make a good living or even get a check at all, social ostracism if you aren't a "local", a constant churning of non-residents, which I have called the "Two year rule" since my days in Gunnison/Crested Butte. The two year rule is my favorite which is "I love it here, lets move here." So they do. The spring is beautiful, summer fantastic, fall couldn't be better.. Then winter hits... Ha! 30-35 f. below zero... Cold from September through April. Spring finally arrives, weekends are now always 100 mile trips to the Wal-Mart because then fun of hiking or fishing has become work. Now it becomes complaints about the lack of restaurants, zero shopping, the school system sucks, houses always need repairs... Then it's "Another sh#ty day in paradise..." And then the money's all gone.. Divorce... So after two years of this it's time to go. Back to friends, family and normalcy... I only survive because it's all I know how to do, since I was 19.
Oh, so cynical!
Yes, there are some advantages to a small town. But, there is also the reality of life. Like the inability to consistently make a good living or even get a check at all, social ostracism if you aren't a "local", a constant churning of non-residents, which I have called the "Two year rule" since my days in Gunnison/Crested Butte. The two year rule is my favorite which is "I love it here, lets move here." So they do. The spring is beautiful, summer fantastic, fall couldn't be better.. Then winter hits... Ha! 30-35 f. below zero... Cold from September through April. Spring finally arrives, weekends are now always 100 mile trips to the Wal-Mart because then fun of hiking or fishing has become work. Now it becomes complaints about the lack of restaurants, zero shopping, the school system sucks, houses always need repairs... Then it's "Another sh#ty day in paradise..." And then the money's all gone.. Divorce... So after two years of this it's time to go. Back to friends, family and normalcy... I only survive because it's all I know how to do, since I was 19.
Oh, so cynical!
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AlanLichty
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You have to be cynical to survive there. I was an archaeologist at the Univ. of Utah for 20 years and remember Moab quite well as a small depressed leftover uranium town in the 70's that was cheap to visit. The mountain bike craze turned the town upside down starting in the mid 80's and the only locals who did well were the Groff brothers with Rim Cyclery and people who owned land. One of my colleagues got her dream job as the Park Archaeologist for Canyonlands and then discovered she couldn't afford to live there. I like your two year rule 
BarryHamilton
Founding Member
Magical scene, Craig! The blanket of snow on the red rock is really special!
ckcarr
Founding Member
There was a movie back in the 1980's called "Lost in America." A couple from New York set out on a journey in their new RV across America. Without revealing the plot, they somehow lose all their money. In some small town in Arizona he (Albert Brooks) has to face reality and go to the employment office. While being interview he's asked how much money he was making. All pompous, he rattles off "Oh $115,000 plus bonus, etc. etc." In the next scene he's a crossing guard for minimum wage...
I always laugh at that scene!
Martín el Escocés
Well-Known Member
Gorgeous how the white suits the red. I'd love to see it in reality - despite the cold!