tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4972254401664966699.post2662384819235259868..comments2024-03-03T11:21:12.438-06:00Comments on The Mallard of Discontent: Backpacks, Ignorance and Ice Cream ConesChad Lovehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13219295562957353591noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4972254401664966699.post-71876658932374349022014-10-24T06:01:15.611-05:002014-10-24T06:01:15.611-05:00Dịch vụ Check domain miễn phí từ inet. giúp các bạ...Dịch vụ <a href="http://inet.vn/kiem-tra-ten-mien.html" title="Check domain" rel="nofollow">Check domain</a> miễn phí từ inet. giúp các bạn check domain kiểm tra tên miền nhanh chóng và chính xác<br />Công cụ webtin cho phép <a href="http://web.tin.vn/web-ban-hang.html" title="Tạo web miễn phí" rel="nofollow">Tao web mien phi</a> nhanh chóng, chuyên nghiệp. 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Hãy cùng chúng tôi cháy cùng đam mêAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10904520734759035875noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4972254401664966699.post-85492024925574846542014-08-10T11:33:08.379-05:002014-08-10T11:33:08.379-05:00I too am definitely oriented towards BLM and the s...I too am definitely oriented towards BLM and the scruffier, more neglected kinds of National Forest. I certainly understand your trouble with postcard-perfect scenery. I often take the little one day hiking in the user-friendly Sierra Nevada, but most times I find myself rolling my eyes. "Another damn perfect, gorgeous granite-bound lake surrounded by soaring peaks, just like every other one!" The landscape is beautiful, but it never feels mysterious or intriguing, and for all their size the Sierras always feel somehow hemmed-in, without the sense of vastness and expanse I get in the Great Basin, or Idaho, or New Mexico. And it's worth pointing out that the National Forests have plenty of areas of alpine scenery equal to and sometimes better than what you'll find in the Parks.<br /><br />To be fair to the Parks, however, in most of them it's really not too difficult to find solitude and secret crannies, if one has a working pair of legs. That may be less the case in Rocky Mountain, so close to outdoor recreation loving Boulder and Denver. But last time I went to the Grand Canyon, the area for which we requested our backpacking permit, accessible and spectacular and hardly remote by Grand Canyon standards, received only around 50 user-days of visitation per year. The Parks still have good backcountry and secrets to offer.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4972254401664966699.post-20761518288762220322014-07-31T20:00:59.666-05:002014-07-31T20:00:59.666-05:00wow totally agree with you chad. visiting Montana ...wow totally agree with you chad. visiting Montana last summer i enjoyed the day i visited Yellowstone but was very happy to be camping and spending the vast majority of my time in the Gallatin National ForestAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4972254401664966699.post-19562944755115732252014-07-27T22:12:42.970-05:002014-07-27T22:12:42.970-05:00I think anyone reading this blog would almost auto...I think anyone reading this blog would almost automatically fall under BLM category. I think the real question is why you would subject your family to tourist hell when there are so many good places to fish in Colorado?yourcousinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00734380865417454796noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4972254401664966699.post-68936030719312980932014-07-27T16:18:33.775-05:002014-07-27T16:18:33.775-05:00Bureau of Land Management - Federally managed land...Bureau of Land Management - Federally managed land that is not National Forest, National Park, or National Monument (or Corp of Engineers, military, etc.). The BLM holdings are widespread across much of the west, particularly in deserts and other "marginal" areas. <br /><br />Somewhere, somehow, I read a book that explained how different agencies come to manage different parcels of public land, but that explanation evades me now. Philliphttp://www.hog-blog.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4972254401664966699.post-80552604644540387972014-07-27T10:06:31.057-05:002014-07-27T10:06:31.057-05:00BLM, called by those who love it ' the goat pa...BLM, called by those who love it ' the goat pasture'. the usually lower level elevations of public land found through out the western us (and Alaska). The bulk of those lands in Utah, Nevada, Colorado, Idaho, Wyoming, Arizona, Oregon, Montana, Washington and New Mexico that are public lands, but not National Park Service or US Forest Service....yeah, California has a bunch too but that's a different story.<br />Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11389088990679055219noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4972254401664966699.post-64816830295727177902014-07-27T09:49:14.207-05:002014-07-27T09:49:14.207-05:00OK; what's BLM?OK; what's BLM?Phil Yearouthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00898824437186464790noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4972254401664966699.post-77594825538354251512014-07-26T20:47:22.177-05:002014-07-26T20:47:22.177-05:00Oh, yeah, the lowlands, creosote bush, sagebrush s...Oh, yeah, the lowlands, creosote bush, sagebrush sea, short grass prairie of the (mostly) BLM lands have a hidden beauty that is a skill to appreciate. And I live in Jackson, WY...... land of hellish tourist. TKAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4972254401664966699.post-18960583453964235662014-07-26T18:18:51.550-05:002014-07-26T18:18:51.550-05:00I've practically given up visiting the Nationa...I've practically given up visiting the National Parking Lots for most of the same reasons you describe. I can't decide if it was my last visit to Yosemite or to the Grand Canyon that did it for me, but one more screaming, bored kid... or one more tourist mom complaining about the "filthy bathrooms" (It's a national park... they're pit toilets for god sake... if you want real toilets stay at the Holiday Inn) and I'd have gone fairly postal.<br /><br />The thing is, there's so much incredibly beautiful, wild, and public land in the west in the National Forests and BLM... why be constrained by a park's boundaries? Philliphttp://www.hog-blog.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4972254401664966699.post-51249819702642785772014-07-25T12:06:23.465-05:002014-07-25T12:06:23.465-05:00BLM all the way.BLM all the way.Steve Bodiohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14434597061701369867noreply@blogger.com