Author Topic: Three Days in the Pinaleno Mountains. A Trip Report 2015-06-13  (Read 4832 times)

jbeegoode

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I have started a website/blog called: http://thefreerangenaturist.org/
I was going to call it Free Range Southwest, but when I began to look further down the road, I saw the need to be less specific.

I managed to make the first post today. It is obvious that this was a learner and I'm still experimenting. I still have lots of organizational work to do there. The site is coming along, but still in construction. DF and I took a trip up the Pinaleno Mountains last month and this has been on hold ever since. I don't know that the comments section of the post works yet. You can always leave a comment here. They are appreciated.

I'm jumping the gun with this, but what the heck, I'll let it out to this small group of friends. I'll need to get a few more posts in and check some security measures, before I get it out to search engines, etc. It'll be another long educational day tomorrow. Gotta figure out how refer others to this site, too.

 For now, you should get the "About' homepage and in the top right hand side, by clicking the "About" widget, there should be a drop down to get you to this first trip report.

Oh yeah, you can click any of the pictures to enlarge them.
Jbee
« Last Edit: July 12, 2015, 10:08:48 AM by jbeegoode »
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Re: Three Days in the Pinaleno Mountains. A Trip Report 2015-06-13
« Reply #1 on: July 12, 2015, 10:01:22 AM »
Excellent! That will help promote free range naturism as a concept. Looking forward to reading it.

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Re: Three Days in the Pinaleno Mountains. A Trip Report 2015-06-13
« Reply #2 on: July 12, 2015, 04:34:34 PM »
I'm sure when you start posting pictures it will force me to take another trip out west! I sure miss spending rainy days reviewing your old posts on TSNS.
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Re: Three Days in the Pinaleno Mountains. A Trip Report 2015-06-13
« Reply #3 on: July 12, 2015, 05:10:24 PM »
I'm sure when you start posting pictures it will force me to take another trip out west! I sure miss spending rainy days reviewing your old posts on TSNS.
Over the next two years, each week, I will be re-posting one all spruced up on the new site, unless I have a new one to post.
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Re: Three Days in the Pinaleno Mountains. A Trip Report 2015-06-13
« Reply #4 on: July 13, 2015, 02:02:59 AM »
Wow jbee!
You are an author!
I'm devastated!  Another site to visit regularly and read! :)

Actually it's a wonderful way to enjoy your astounding adventures (was there a Marvel comic of that name?). Just put a link in to a post and we're off to Arizona (with a banjo on our knee :lol: ! ).

I haven't read your first posting yet, just scanned down but I will read it from cover to cover on Wednesday or Thursday when I think I might have a leisure moment for it. It's big.  How long did it take you to write?  How long to compose with pics?

Good luck with wordpress!  I act as copymaster for a small organisation using Wordpress for their website.  I've been experiencing that an entire page/post content disappears randomly as you update/publish.  Don't know what causes it but it's a considerable nuisance!

Are you developing a website too?  What for? The blog could do a lot of what a site does.

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« Reply #5 on: July 13, 2015, 06:18:45 PM »
Bookmarked and now will be checked at a minimum, weekly!

The long post and photos I will read when I have time. Looks promising.

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« Reply #6 on: July 13, 2015, 07:02:04 PM »
Your enthusiasm is appreciated. I'm still stumbling around learning the use of the system. The first post, I see as a bit long, took hours and hours, but it was new and all of the content gave me a goode first experience, with lots of room to flex parameters and creativity, so there is  inconsistency in the delivery of pictures into text. I'll get better at it. I split it up into sections and days to make one sitting, reading of the"epic" less mandatory. I hope that people  will stop in multiple times to finish it, if need be. Otherwise, I suppose that some will just check out the pictures and then scan the text. Hopefully, something will catch interest. Anyway, I have shorter posts planned in the near future. I can also, like the Sedona trip a few years back, take it one day at a time each week.


We are to embark on a five day Western Naturist Society Gathering at De Anza, with two friends who love photography. No telling how that will turn out when I start posting the trip report. Eyesup, you should consider a cruise down to meet us. It will be lots of fun, hiking, informative and Sunday a trip to the beach. It should only be 4 or 5 hours driving time. Gas price is down. There is camping available, The schedule is on the TNS site under events.
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« Reply #7 on: July 14, 2015, 03:17:57 AM »
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We are to embark on a five day Western Naturist Society Gathering at De Anza, with two friends who love photography. No telling how that will turn out when I start posting the trip report. Eyesup, you should consider a cruise down to meet us. It will be lots of fun, hiking, informative and Sunday a trip to the beach. It should only be 4 or 5 hours driving time. Gas price is down. There is camping available, The schedule is on the TNS site under events.

Bad timing. We already have plans for the end of July.

I have looked up De Anza and I'm assuming the other is Black's Beach? I have concluded that when I eventually go to a CO resort and a beach those are the ones I would most likely choose.

De Anza looks like my kind of facility. Wandering in the desert and camping. Perfect.
Do they do things like that frequently?

Having someone there I know (sort of, see my description of John's visit here) would also be fun. I'll keep this in mind.

Duane

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« Reply #8 on: July 14, 2015, 08:56:27 PM »
There are 3 resorts near Los Angeles, Olive Dell, Glen Eden and Deer Park. Deer Park I believe has Changed it's name and converted to a swinger's club so that's out. Of the other two Glen Eden is in town and right on a freeway the other, Olive Dell, is at the edge of town and up in the hills but is slowly being surrounded by development. These two are closer than De Anza but I don't like being that close to the city. De Anza is at least 40 miles outside of the nearest city and it's out in the desert.

When I saw your post about the meeting I was thinking about how I could get down there.  I was disappointed when I saw we are busy. I will try to keep up on the events going on there and maybe we can manage a meet at another time.

Duane