Whaz:...we'll have to discuss a "facilities swap", where you could thoroughly enjoy our early December pre-winter -5F one day (like this morning), then our 29F temps in 2 days. The problem is: you won't be able to x-country or snowshoe (we have no snow!), and we'll have to fly our rig (and us) to the 4X, because I can't drive that far with my back the way it is :B
Dunes and I send our condolences for your loss. When we left "the big city" for a mountain-top 100 kilometers into the Quebec hinterlands (moving on a frigid -21F December day in 2007; was that an adventure), we lost our "old boy" the following week (our huge tabby). That was devastating, and took us weeks to recover (during the worst winter in more than 90 years: a ~20+ inch snowstorm every ~3 days, for the entire winter), we had a massive melt near the end of January, where we were in the 60sF for nearly a week. That summer-like sojourn catapulted us out of the funk, and set us straight for the coming summer with the "Camper".
Hang in there man; send me an e-mail any time! My entire rocketmail e-mail database was vaporized, and I no longer have any address book (read: your e-mail address, and my 1761 contacts was atomized :E )
BTW: EXCELLENT images! We have to do some research nto those sandstone-imprinted footprints (Brian: BTGgrafix) can probably identify the sandstone layer's age as a start...
Sand & Dunes
