Mt Hillyer, Sierra Madre ( photos )

“Here's the latest from this weekend. It was absolutely gorgeous up there. A little cool and windy, but just superb.

Mt Hillyer - Winds of Winter”

“As usual great job Tekdude. I really enjoyed it.”

“Thanks WLD - You're most welcome.”

“Great journal and photos James! I really need to get out... :(”

“AMEN!!!”

“James, wonderful journal entry and photos. I really liked that face in the rocks...that was really cool!!
Photos are excellent...got that D100 all figured out yet?

I'm still discovering more features on my Oly....but still having fun!
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“Tekdude, your journals are the best, I enjoy them immensely, thanks for sharing.”

“Couldn't be more pleased with the D100. It is truly a fine recording instrument.

And hey, that fellow looks an awful lot like a mountain gecko! Maybe it's just that he got just a tad too much sun that day. Seems to be missing his sunglasses. 8)

Pretty precise depth-of-field there, sir. I'm most impressed.”

“wanderer-

I've been giving a lot of thought about a recent dialog coming from LOTR. It really gets close to what all these endeavors are about.

Sam: (crying) I know. It’s all wrong. By rights we shouldn’t even be here, but we are.

It’s like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo. The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger they were, and sometimes you didn’t want to know the end, because how could the end be happy? How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad happened?

Théoden: Victory! We have victory!

Sam: But in the end, it’s only a passing thing. This shadow, even darkness must pass.

A new day will come, and when the sun shines it’ll shine out the clearer. Those are the stories that stayed with you, that meant something, even if you were too small to understand why. But I think Mr. Frodo, I do understand. I know now, folk in those stories had lots of chances of turning back only they didn’t. They kept going, because they were holding onto something.

Frodo: What are we holding onto, Sam?

(Sam goes over and gets Frodo up)

Sam: That there’s some good in this world, Mr. Frodo, and it’s worth fighting for.


So be encouraged, wanderer. And I'm glad we share in the same love for the wilderness and what it brings.”