Paria Canyon

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The Paria Canyon-Vermillion Cliffs Wilderness is one of the country’s last great wild refuges, a 112,500-acre maze of backcountry canyons, cliffs, deserts, and plateaus untouched by man. You’ve probably seen pictures of The Wave—it’s so popular, there’s a lottery to obtain access—or even Buckskin Gulch, one of the world’s longest slot canyons. Avid hikers, campers, and photographers know this area is a goldmine for off-grid adventures. Don’t expect any facilities here!

You’ll need a permit for day-hiking or overnight trips in Paria Canyon or Buckskin Gulch. Only 20 permits are administered per day, and they need to be reserved four months in advance. When you’re here, often there will be no trail—you just hike, and hike, and hike to your heart’s content.

The 112,500-acre Paria Canyon-Vermilion Cliffs Wilderness lies approximately 10 miles west of Page, Arizona in Coconino County, Arizona and Kane County, Utah.

Nationally known for its beauty, the Paria Canyon has towering walls streaked with desert varnish, huge red rock amphitheaters, sandstone arches, wooded terraces, and hanging gardens. The 3,000-foot escarpment known as the Vermilion Cliffs dominates the remainder of the wilderness with its thick Navajo sandstone face, steep, boulder-strewn slopes, rugged arroyos and stark overall appearance. Some of the best slot canyon hiking opportunities on the Colorado Plateau are found here. Deer and desert bighorn sheep inhabit the area.

The wilderness also provides opportunities for backpacking, photography, and solitude. In the northwest portion of the wilderness lies Coyote Buttes, an area of spectacular scenery displaying domes, aprons, fins, corridors, and a variety of small fragile rock sculptures carved in colorful swirling cross bedded sandstone. The variety of colors and textures in the rock formations within the wilderness constantly change with variations in light and weather. This colorful sandstone area creates a feeling of wonder and amazement.

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  3. Morning, Pat! Thought for a little while my furnace was on the fritz but I recycled and it’s working now. I had the thermostat set at 72 but it was down to 68 inside when I got up. It is one of my biggest fears, considering the cost of a new furnace these days w/no way to pay for one.

    ENTIRE ARTICLE @ JustTheNews: “Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin was returned to a hospital Sunday and transferred his powers to his deputy, a little over a month after his secret convalescence triggered controversy for the Pentagon and just days before his planned trip to Europe.

    The Defense Department said Austin was being treated at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center for an “emergent bladder issue,” and the White House, Congress and Joint Chiefs of Staff were alerted.

    “Secretary Austin transferred the functions and duties of the office of the Secretary of Defense to Deputy Secretary of Defense Kathleen Hicks,” Maj. Gen. Pat Ryder said. “The Deputy Secretary of Defense has assumed the functions and duties.”

    Austin was scheduled to depart Tuesday for Brussels to hold a meeting of military officials coordinating aid and strategy for Ukraine in its war against Russia’s invasion, followed by meetings at NATO.”

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      1. I’ll bet it is! Saw on Fox earlier – big snow storm apparently coming your way – seemingly the entire Mid-Atlantic region will be affected.

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        1. yeah we’ve been watching–why we brought in another truckload of firewood. we haven’t burned thru the stack yet, but we don’t know when we can get out to get more without freezing temps and whatnot.

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          1. Smart! Always best to be proactive vs. reactive. Remember the 6 P’s! “Prior Planning Prevents Piss-Poor Performance!” 😊😉😘😀

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  6. Heads up, Pat! I’m sure you’ll want to say a prayer for them.

    GA/FL

     Edit

    SALLY Q UPDATE – She’s in the ICU now – went from Orthopedics floor when she had high heart rate/atrial fibrillation to the Cardiac floor – and to the Diabetic floor when she went into Diabetic Ketoacidosis (DKA) – and now the ICU when the atrial fibrillation/arrhythmia started up again along with the DKA. She’s out of her head and thinks she’s in her wheelchair.
    I haven’t slept in two nights. This ICU is state of the art – and has a bed and a recliner in each private room for the caregiver.

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  9. Mass Psychosis

    February 12, 2024 12:54 am

    Fani Willis caught laundering money into her campaign. I filed an ethics complaint with the State of Georgia yesterday. Interview by Emerald Robinson in the link. Final numbers: $23,459.54 into Willis’ campaign by contributors who gave no name or address: blanks. Secondly, I found $44,295,80 over the limit of $3,000 per person (note: includes gross total of these, GA ethics might only include the over $3,000 amounts).

    And the big one: smurfing by Fani Willis abusing our elderly senior citizens by using their names and addresses without their knowledge – $184,916.45. Smurfing is campaign money laundering, structuring large sums into smaller sums over time. Using the names and addresses of citizens without their knowledge, let alone permission. Willis committed money laundering, identity theft, and elderly financial abuse. The unaware Smurfs are all over the age of 65. Willis’s campaign conspired to do all with the likes of Actblue. I know the bank(s), I have receipts. These findings and numbers are based on her reports to the State of Georgia, the GA’s campaign database and the FEC database. Over two campaign cycles. I call for an immediate investigation of Willis’ campaign. 

    WATCH:https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/jkx4kftf1weqltrm38cc4/PETER-BERNEGGER.mov?rlkey=a7l1i3gnlzhodyg0axqm7eehi&e=2&dl=0

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  13. sorry he needs it, but glad he’s going to get it…diasbled vet gets a custom house

    A disabled Arkansas U.S. Army veteran will become the recipient of a custom-built home from the nonprofit organization Homes for our Troops (HFOT).

    Sgt. Andrew Butterworth and his family will receive a brand-new home in Pea Ridge, after the sergeant lost his right leg during a 2004 Iraq deployment, FOX24 reported.

    Two rocket-propelled grenades (RPGs) struck Butterworth’s patrol vehicle, damaging his leg beyond repair and giving him a traumatic brain injury, an HFOT press release stated. 

    The veteran’s wife, Julia, was born missing a leg, so both of them struggle with physical challenges associated with caring for their three children while living in an RV. 

    According to the organization, the Butterworths’ new home will include “specially adapted” features such as automatic doors and paved walkways that will “enable Andrew and Julia to take their children outside from the comfort of their wheelchairs.”

    “The home will also give Andrew the space and energy to create a workshop and start up a metal working business,” HFOT announced.

    Originally from Missouri, the veteran has chosen Northwest Arkansas as the site of his new house, to be close to family. 

    “Thank you for this amazing opportunity which will fill the daily needs of our family and give my wife and I the ability to have a home that will enable us to focus on our family and health,” Butterworth said.

    Since 2004, the HFOT has built more than 371 homes for disabled veterans across the nation.

    “I just can’t thank everybody for being here. I can’t thank our troops enough and everybody else. I’m not always at a loss for words, but I get there every once in a while, thank you again,” the retired sergeant said.

    The family said their new home will be finished by August.

    https://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2024/02/11/amazing-donation-arkansas-disabled-iraq-veteran-brand-new-custom-home/

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  14. More info on the Osteen church shooting….

    JustTheNews: “A woman dressed in a trenchcoat and carrying a rifle opened fire at Joel Osteen’s Lakewood Church in Houston between services Sunday, before two off-duty police officers killed her, police said. Police said a young child with the woman was critically hurt and another man nearby was wounded.

    Houston Police Chief Troy Finner said the woman entered the church with a long gun and a backpack shortly before 2 p.m. on Sunday, accompanied by a child about 4 or 5 years old. He said the child was in critical condition after being taken to a hospital.

    “She is deceased here on the scene,” Finner told a news conference. Unfortunately, the 5-year-old kid was hit and is in critical condition at a local hospital,” he added. “There was a 57-year-old man who didn’t have anything to do with it, I don’t think, who was shot in the leg. He’s seeking treatment in the hospital.”

    Police said the woman mentioned that she may have a bomb, but no explosives were found.

    Osteen thanked police for their response. “We don’t understand why all these things happened, but we know God’s in control,” the pastor said. “We’re going to keep going strong and just, you know, doing what God’s called us to do, lift people up and give hope to the world again,” he added.

    Houston police had responded to reports of a shooting at Osteen’s church just before 2 p.m.

    “The active scene is at Lakewood Church,” the Houston Police Department wrote on X, formerly Twitter, in response to an earlier post the agency made about responding to reports of a shooting. 

    About a half hour before the Houston Police Department said the scene was active, Harris County Sheriff Ed Gonzalez said on X: “Info remains preliminary, as things remain dynamic. It is believed that a possible shooter is down, shot by one of our [deputies] on-scene. I’m enroute to the scene.”

    Lakewood Church said that there “is an active situation involving shots fired” at the church. “Law enforcement is on the scene,” the church said. “That is all the information we have at this time. Please pray for Lakewood and our community.”

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    1. I saw that earlier – asswipe filled with steroids, most likely – he was complaining that coach didn’t put him in enough the 1st half. He got his wish the 2nd half, apparently.

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  19. What a fascinating story! On Mysteries at the Museum…in 1964, years before the Exxon Valdez oil spill, the 2nd largest earthquake ever at that time took out the whole town of Valdez, AK.

    In 2004, a young couple were walking on the grassy beach area and found an old encrusted credit card machine, with the card still in it. The man whose name was on the card wasn’t present during the EQ but it turns out, his wife had used the card at a gas station but left w/o retrieving the card. She got home, realized what she had done, and returned to retrieve the card.

    About that time, the rumblings had started underneath the town and someone stopped her and warned her. She turned around and left again, and was one of few who survived the quake. There were some deckhands who got out their 8M cameras and recorded it, and that film survived.

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  20. boy the lawfare asswipes are really working it, aren’t they? tweet says in the ukraine funding bill it states, the funding MUST continue into Sept 2025 or the President (they are assuming Trump?) will be impeached.

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  23. so the shooter was really a guy who thought he was a woman? then who was the child? and of course–bonus–HE LOVED GUNS!!! and showed off his AR-15
    FTA
    The individual who walked into Joel Osteen’s Lakewood, Texas church on Sunday, pulled out a gun and opened fire, has been identified as Genesse Ivonne Moreno, 36. Moreno had a 5-year-old child when entering the church wearing a trenchcoat and opened fire when enterring the church.

    Local news reports that multiple sources have said that Genesse Ivonne Moreno is suspected of being the “armed woman” who was killed at the church Sunday.
    Reports indicated that the shooter was female, but it has since been revealed that Moreno was male. Moreno was shot and killed by two off-duty officers. Moreno’s weapon was emblazoned with the slogan “Free Palestine.”

    Jeremy Rogalski of KHOU-TV further reported that Moreno “had prior arrests for assault, forgery, marijuana possession, theft, evading, and unlawful carrying weapon.”

    Genesse Moreno went by Jeffrey Escalante Moreno, among other aliases, and was from El Salvador. The child Moreno brought to the church was shot and injured. The child remains in critical condition in a local hospital. A 57-year-old man was also shot in the leg and taken to a hospital for treatment.
    Authorities searched a home in Conroe that is believed to be associated with the shooter.

    Moreno openly discussed a love of firearms and posted about cleaning an AR-15, showing off the weapon as well.

    https://thepostmillennial.com/breaking-joel-osteen-church-shooter-identified-as-genesse-moreno-also-went-by-jeffrey-local-media?cfp

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          1. She had a white spot in her hair high on the left when she was born – we told her she was kissed by an Angel. No matter how much she died her hair, that spot never took the dye.

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          2. There is a backstory to that white spot….when isn’t there a backstory?!? LOL – in the months before her Dad and I got together, I had dated a guy named Bob Werner. We were all part of the same crowd and they were good friends as well. We never really clicked and both moved on but stayed good friends.

            When Bob came to visit when HB was about 5 days old, he was holding her on his lap and noticed the white spot. He lifted up the hair on the side of his head, in the same area, and exposed a white spot. I looked at Chris, he looked at me with raised eyebrows….and I swore it was simply coincidence. Of course, he knew better anyway but it was a funny little vignette!

            Strangely, Bob was soooo close to her and she simply adored him! There was a connection between them. He was a guard at the Tomb.

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              1. We had a right royal kick-ass party for Bob at our TH when he left the Tomb. I’ll never forget…he was sooo trashed…we had a party bowl and we kept giving him shotguns w/o him knowing – ROFL! Oh, what a night that was!!! Had a keg of beer, too.

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              3. IDK….he got out of the Army and had a corporate job but was sent elsewhere at some point. With all the drama between my hubby and myself, together/split up/together/split up….I lost track of him.

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  41. @charliekirk11

    🚨Senator JD Vance issues a DIRE WARNING that the US can’t produce enough weapons stock to support our own needs, let alone enough for Ukraine: “We need missiles. And America doesn’t make nearly enough of those, not for our own security, and certainly not enough to support both the Ukraine conflict and, God forbid, a conflict that might occur in East Asia. So let’s specify that a little bit more. We are right now depleting critical munitions, missiles, artillery shells and bullets faster than we can replenish them. “And then we send them to Ukraine. I’m sorry. Why does that make an ounce of sense for our own national security? Shouldn’t we rebuild our own manufacturing capacity before we spend all of it on Ukraine? Shouldn’t we make more of our own weapons and gain some self-sufficiency in weapons manufacturing before we send all of those resources to Ukraine? “The answer of the United States Senate is apparently not.”

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  46. I am adding a short daily prayer to the board. I would invite each of you, if you wish, to also add one or maybe two of your own liking. I do not want to stifle anyone but please limit yourself to one or two religious postings. here’s one I found that I liked.

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