JoeBobRuby

After ID'ing try playing the recordings on your phone speaker. I've had some cool experiences feeling like the pigeon lady from Home Alone. Some species, primarily smaller songbirds, will really get into your personal space looking for the source.

Majority of species will ignore you, some will sing with you, and a few will make your day.

A few foods recs that I've personally enjoyed and would visit again. Obviously I don't have much interest in fine dining.

BV/Salida:
The Beach LINK
Sweetie's LINK

Durango (really Purgatory)
The Nugget bar has an adjacent permanent food truck with great sliders
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Also read good things about Olde Schoolhouse but didn't get a chance to try.

ETA: we also rafted with Wilderness Aware out of BV and were satisfied. Definitely a for-profit business but they seem to have their shite together.

Flat Death Star folks are my favorite

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What the Hell happened to the Irish?

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Few hundred years of getting fked by the crown while your best and brightest emigrate away.

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I would suggest taking a minute on this.

The national park service was recruiting gays and trannies and a bunch of them could be in their probationary period.

The last evil admin was trying to commie up everything with people that hate America. The park service was one of their attempts to commie us up.

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This.
This.
This.

I'm an avid park user and advocate. Some of the circles that put me in disgusted me before 2025...their reactions now fall in line with my prior assumptions and the theme of your reply. A major cull is needed. These are some of the most insane, delusional, entitled facking leftists in the country.

I also love the idea mentioned earlier about making foreigners pay double. I'm sick of uncouth tourists who crowd our most precious spaces. Hell, it recently took me over 20 minutes to hitchhike in a crowded national park because half the folks spoke no English and the other half seemed on guard and afraid of everyone.

Let em hate Blue. I've thought about it too!

(Don't do it)

frick them all. frick them in the dirt. frick them in the mud. It's our last chance and I hope we use it.

You'll be fine staying in Tusayan if you start early in the morning. Sunrise is a little after 7am so I'd recommend arriving at the gate before 6am. This will allow you to beat traffic and get to the rim early.

Check for viewpoints along the map for sunrise. Don't feel the need to go straight to the visitor's center.

Once you do few ride and stops at viewpoints I recommend SK down to Ooh Aah and/or BA down to Mile and a Half. Both are 1.5 down and 1.5 back up. If your crew is stronger than that I recommend SK down to Skeleton Point (bonus points if you hike down to Skeleton Point with headlamps to wait for sunrise). SK is completely dry so bring twice the amount of water you think you may need. At worst you'll be able to share with someone less prepared on the climb back out.

For a quiet, flat, 1 mile walk to the rim check out Shoshone Point along the East Rim drive. You'll need to mark it on a map as the parking lot is nondescript with no signage. Please don't be an a-hole with noise and littering if you visit Shoshone. Locals and wildlife photographers value that quiet spot away from the masses.

ETA: also drive out to Desert View watchtower. Out there you can see the canyon bend away from it's North-South orientation toward the West. As you see it realize the elevation is higher westward and the river seems to take an impossible path "uphill" as it veered west. This is caused by geological uplift after the river had already been established.

Read up on the layers and their approximate ages before going so that you can appreciate the impossible scale and relay it to your kids as you progress. Print a small cheat sheet to bring in your pocket.

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More government assistance when you ain't married FACT. This not just a black woman issue but a pertains to poor and uneducated women issue

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This is real has become generational.

Question. Is this program what's being referred to as EMERGENCY RELIEF PRGRM 2 in the accounting program description column on these reports?

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