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This was my last adventure with a backpack. I was 52 and Sammy was 2. We had a great time but I knew something was up as what used to take me about 6 hours to get to my favorite spot now took 2 days. 4 years later I was diagnosed with cancer. This adventure is a bushwhack, meaning no trail. The main lake in the mountains is just over 12k above sea level. I hope you like the video.

This was my last adventure with a backpack. I was 52 and Sammy was 2. We had a great time but I knew something was up as what used to take me about 6 hours to get to my favorite spot now took 2 days. 4 years later I was diagnosed with cancer. This adventure is a bushwhack, meaning no trail. The main lake in the mountains is just over 12k above sea level. I hope you like the video.

2012 in the Mojave Desert

2012 in the Mojave desert.

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Most folks go to some resort where they are pampered for their honeymoon. We took two weeks with our two dogs and roamed the mountains of Colorado. It was a great time in our lives. Karen and I started dating when I was already 40 years old. No time to waste. I used a clip from the first day of our holiday to start but video was poor in those days so the show moves to photos quickly. Even though the video is poor it's enjoyable to me to see our dogs and the snow melt alive once more.

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The title for this file is 1994 but it is actually 1995. One of the things PTE can do, many programs can do this with still images, is recognize the black area of the image as nothing. Most programs scan motion images as all the same whether they have blank spot or not. PTE can shrink a video by putting a letter box around the video. PTE has long been my go to program for shrinking video. This video of over 3 minutes is just 37megs. The video is one of my favorites and this is one of my favorite video openings. I hope you like it though its kind of small.

Another oldy from the past. Part 1

Another short video from the past. I realize I had always deleted my video from the past and nothing is in the archives. I plan t to jump around and show some different stuff from long ago and I now can shrink some video files from the past and get a bit of continuity to some old stuff.

Filmed in the Onion Creek and Fisher Tower area of Utah. A word about the music. It is taken from a piece of nearly 15 minutes. I heard it for the first time when I was in the New Mexico Symphony in the mid 70s. It's a string piece so I wasn't needed as I was the Timpanist. I was sitting backstage in the darkness right behind the shell that projected the sound. As I listened I began to weep. I believe music is the most honest form of art. It has a beginning and end and then it's gone. Imagine before recordings when you could only hear it when an orchestra played it. And when you hear it, no words, to singing, no speaking, just sound. And it can move you so deeply. I hope this video with sound can move you too.

A drone flight over Onion Creek to Fisher Towers.

The crazier part of the trail.