Tuesday, July 5, 2011

Saturday, July 2, 2011

Wanna Make a Woodhouse Toad Your Friend?

All you need is a fly swatter and a dead fly. Well really, you just need the fly, but to get him, you'll probably need the fly......well, you get it.

Kobae Always Remodeling

Front Porch

Once Kobae has finished his meal, all the local characters gather around the front porch for the leftovers. The rabbit is here, two or three squirrels, the side blotch lizards that fought so hard for their coveted positions on the front porch back in April and at dusk the bats will arrive. Today, there is a new character on the porch.

Thursday, June 30, 2011

Somewhere in Africa


Kobae loves dog food. After terrorizing every dog that ever visited Base Camp, it appears to have occurred to Kobae, no dogs, no dog food. For the last month Kobae has ignored mostly every dog at the lodge. Tom gives Kobae the "somewhere in Africa there's a Sulcata tortoise starving who wishes he had this food", still, faced with a choice, three days in a row Kobae took the dog bowl over fruits and vegetables.

Saturday, June 25, 2011

No Quit


For eight days Tom threw nearly everything the canyon lands has at Lexi, Robyn, and Cynthia. Skinny People, Three Fingers, Stairway to Heaven, Slot Canyons, Thousand Eyes, Wind Caves, Chicken Corner, Dripping Springs, Ice Cream Parlor, Lockhart Basin, and the Tombstone trail to the petroglyphs. They never gave, never quit. Much like wanderers of the Hayduke Trail, there are people with so much heart it barely fits in their chest. Meet three of them.

Tribute



Hiking the Tombstones where Linny and Tom frequently see base jumpers, Tom discovers a tribute to one who didn't make it.