Day In The Life Park City

Pictures: Mine in Park City at Night

2012-03-27T15:04:00.000-07:00

PCMR Tractor

Mine Building

Trees and Sky

Mainstreet lights

Trees on Mainstreet

Building with Christmas lights

Pictures: Stars, Mountains, etc. at Nightime in Pinebrook, Park City, Utah

2012-03-27T14:04:00.000-07:00

Popular sledding hill at a park

Car driving

Jungle gym at the park

Somebody's house had a ton of lights

The sledding hill used to be a ski-jumping hill.

Swing set

Ecker Hill

Stream next to the Park

Pictures: Cars Headlights Driving at Night in Park City

2012-03-27T13:32:00.001-07:00

Car pulling into its' driveway

I-80

Pictures: Night Photos in Park City and Surrounding Area

2012-03-27T11:44:00.000-07:00

I-80 and Summit Park

Ranch in Canyon with Dirt Road Behind Jeremy Ranch

Some photos at night of the stars, sunset, trees, mountains, etc. in a small canyon that goes to the Mormon Flats and farther behind Jeremy Ranch near Park City.

Pictures: Moab

2012-03-27T11:19:00.000-07:00

Cave in the solid rock hill.

Cool tree.

Tree growing up next to a rocky cliff.

Mini arch.

One solid piece of rock.

View from on top of a rock hill.

Weird layer in the rock.

These are some pictures of typical rock formations and trees that are commonly found in Moab.

Pictures: Barker Dam/Indian Hieroglyphs in Joshua Tree National Park

2012-03-25T19:14:00.001-07:00

Newer dam.

Old dam, build by early settlers.

Cement trough underneath the dam.

Wooden trough next to the cement trough.

You can see here how people destroyed priceless Native American artifacts by coloring the hieroglyphs.

Roadrunner

Joshua Tree National Park is located in Southern California. It includes parts of the Mojave Desert which is at a higher elevation than the Colorado Desert, which makes ups another portion or the park. The park not only consists of Joshua trees but a variety of cacti and brush surrounded by great mounds of sandstone rock. There are numerous stops along the way where you can get out and walk through mazes of cholla cacti, hike along valleys of Joshua trees and on the sandstone rock, you can climb up high and see for miles in the surrounding area.

Pictures: Joshua Trees in Joshua Tree National Park, Palm Springs

2012-03-25T19:05:00.000-07:00

Pictures: Rocky Mountain Elk Sheding/Loosing It's Antlers

2012-03-21T12:51:00.003-07:00

Elk as seen a week before with both antlers attached.

This Rocky Mountain Elk, or Watipi as the Native American's call it, had both antlers about a week before these pictures were taken. When it was seen on a hillside where it is often found this time of year, and it only had one. I immediately hiked over to it thinking it would make fore a cool picture, with only one antler. However when I arrived and saw it in the trees both where gone! I glanced about and saw it sticking out of the snow. Hopefully it will come back next year and repeat the process, and perhaps I'll get a couple photos of it with only one antler.

Pictures: Andreaz/Murray Canyon, Indian Canyons Reservation, Palm Springs

2012-03-18T12:26:00.002-07:00

Andreaz Canyon

Ducks in the Stream

Looking Across the Canyon

The Trail Loops Around and Brings You Through the Bottom of the Canyon

Tree Growing Beside a Cliff

Murray Canyon

Murray Canyon Consists of Rocks and Brush for the Most Part

Pictures: Palm Canyon, Indian Canyons, Palm Springs

2012-03-17T09:09:00.004-07:00

This is Palm Canyons, one of the three main canyons in Indian Canyons, which is a Native American reservation located near Palm Springs, Southern California. This canyon is one of the two (Palm and Andreas Canyons) more lush ones, while the other (Murray Canyon) has less water and growth. There is a stream that runs through the bottom that has many boulders strewn throughout it creating numerous small waterfalls and pools. Many birds fly through the tops of the trees and you can find snakes and other small animals hiding in this oasis as well.

Feel free to check out the other post on Andreas Canyon.

Pictures: Watipi or Rocky Mountain Elk; Park City, Utah

2012-03-13T19:08:00.003-07:00

The Rocky Mountain Elk is spotted on a distant hillside.

Just being able to see it's antlers.

Slowly scooting in a little bit closer.

Can see a bit of the watipi's body now.

From about 15-20 ft. away, he's just on the other side of a hill from me.

A little too close for comfort, the watipi gets up and put a little distance inbetween us.

Nice broadside view. You really respect their size this close up.

That's the face my cat gets while it's purring...

Quick picture while I'm walking away.

Cropped

The Rocky Mountain Elk is a magnificent animal. This bull is in it's prime and has a nice 5 by 6 pair of antlers. He should be loosing them soon and starting to grow a new pair for next year. Usually seen in herds this bull was flying solo, which is unusual. Possibly he was voted off the island, and is now wandering around by himself, or perhaps his herd was lying hidden somewhere nearby. In Native American this herbivore is called watipi.

Pictures: Cabot's Pueblo Museum, Palm Springs Area

2012-03-11T16:59:00.004-07:00

Giant Wooden Indian Head Carving

Outside the Pueblo

The Cabot Pueblo Museum is actually the Pueblo that Yerxa Cabot lived in with his wife, Portia. Cabot was a huge collector and fairly wealthy, and because of that the inside of the house is filled with everything from a bear skin rug to an old-fashion hair perming machine. There are many old antics in the tight hallways, steep stairs and small rooms. His wife lived on the upper floor along with his art studio. On the bottom is his kitchen, bedroom, and a number of other rooms. His wife had a porch outside her room and there is quite a large garden as well as a few paths wandering around.

Along with many other things Cabot was the first to sell Cuban cigars in the U.S., and he had a small trading center as part of the Pueblo. As one of his hobbies he painted, and he had a small art studio upstairs. Some of his work is still in the house today.

The Pueblo is located in Desert Hot Springs, California on Miracle Hill. It is called Miracle Hill because Cabot found both cold and warm water merely a couple hundered yards away from each other.

Pictures: The Worlds Largest Rotating Aerial Tram to San Jacinto Peak

2012-03-10T17:44:00.000-08:00

Clouds and the Sun

Rotating Tram

View

Tram Base

View

View of the Base

At the Top: Snow and Trees

View of Palm Springs

Windmills

Pictures: Animals in The Living Desert in Palm Springs

2012-03-10T15:47:00.000-08:00

The Living Desert

Pond

Mexican Wolf

Rocky Mountain Bighorn Sheep

Toy Train Set-up: Bridge with River

Toy Train Set-up: Lumber Mill

Toy Train Set-up: Town and Lumber Mill

Ostrich

Giraffe

Giraffe Eating

Giraffe Silhouette

Leopard

Hyena

Plant

Rocky Mountain Bighorn Sheep

These are just some of the animals you can see at The Living Desert

Pictures: Animals and Plants in Palm Springs Area, Southern California

2012-03-09T15:24:00.002-08:00

Jack-Rabbits

Birds

A Bird on a Telephone Pole Wire and Sunset

Jack-Rabbit and Plant

Jack-Rabbit, with Cholla Cacti in Background

Clouds and Sunset

Cholla Cactus

Cactus

Cholla Cactus

Palm Tree

Barrel Cactus

Waterfall

Waterfall 2

Barrel Cactus

Sunset and Clouds

Pictures: Las Vegas and Surrounding Area

2012-03-07T19:45:00.001-08:00

Mountain of Rock

Sunset

Clouds During Sunset

Sun and Cloud During Sunset

Cloud During Sunset

The Bellagio in Vegas

Mandalay Bay in Vegas

Pictures: Skiing Park at Park City Mountain Resort with Gradey Cullins

2012-03-07T17:24:00.002-08:00

Cork 720

Cork 720 with Tail Grab

Switch Rodeo 540 with Japan Grab

New addition to the team, Gradey Cullins, hometown resort Grand Targhee in Wyoming, moved to PC this year. He knows what he's doing.

Check out his Youtube sk8andski4life.

Video: Rollerblading Filmed at the Park City Skatepark

2012-02-22T15:18:00.001-08:00

A bunch of the teenagers skating at the Park City skatepark. Song by Hoodie Allen- You Are Not a Robot. However to the contrary I think Colby Stevenson is a robot. Michael Vass, Colby Steezenson, Drew Koons, Sammy, Jace Jones, Tyler MacDonald, Brian Margolis, Mike Dougherty, Brandon Johnson, Jeff Hansen. Colby spends his time fakie threeing the spine and the rest of us are just human. Grinding the spine, some rails, and bowling around having fun.

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Video: Rollerblading Edit at the Park City Skatepark

2012-02-22T15:12:00.001-08:00

Rollerblade edit filmed at the skatepark in Park City, Utah. Song by OCD: Moosh and Twist- Black Forest Gummy Worms. Mike Dougherty, Brandon Johnson, Sammy, Angie Smulkis, Drew Koons, and Colby Stevenson. Edited with Adobe After Effects. Mike kills is with some black magic on the rails in street and Colby Steezenson is, of course, steezy.

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Video: Bouncing on the Tramp and More at Black Diamond Gymnastics

2012-02-21T15:09:00.001-08:00

A night spent at Black Diamond Gymnastics. Bouncing on the tramp, being ninjas, and more. Some good corks, mistys, fronts, backs, bad ideas, good ideas, and fun times.

Video: The Waitress-Rollerblading Edit of Brandon Johnson

2012-02-21T14:59:00.001-08:00

This is an edit of Brandon Johnson skating at the Park City skatepark. A nice assortment of grinding ledges and rails in street and doing some airs and grinds in the bowl.

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Pictures: Skiing at The Canyons: Getting First Chair of the Season

2012-02-21T11:42:00.002-08:00

Tyler pulling out of The Canyons parking lot the night before opening day.

Everyone sitting our next to The Orange Bubble Express

Warming up by the fire of a nearby hotel.

The Snowcat pushing snow around at night.

Waiting for the lift to open.

Getting free hot chocolate and food.

More waiting.

View ahead while sitting in the first chair of the season.

View behind while sitting in the first chair of the season.

View ahead.

Lake used for water for snowmakers.

Approaching the end of the lift.

Cody Wratten hiting an up box to car tap.

Drew Koons on a box.

Drew Koons buttering.

Drew Koons 270 off a butter box.

Drew Koons

Tyler MacDonald.

We slept out for 11 1/2 hours from 9:30 pm to 9:00 am to get first chair. Originally I went up with Tyler MacDonald with the intent of sleeping in my Suburban. We had pillows, sleeping bags, blankets, even a small mattress. We also had a laptop, mini DVD player, food, all of our skiing clothes, 5 movies (including Lord of the Rings the Two Towers extended edition), and up above us sitting in the rooftop carrier, skis, poles, and a tarp. There was also a 7-11 nearby the parking lot to the Cabriolet, which we were parked in. We were set, but while I was relieving myself, the car lights came on and the guy doing the patrol saw us and decided to pay a visit. He told us we couldn't be in the lot from 1:00 am to 6:00 am. So we went to the 7-11 and to get some food. Completely coincidentally we saw our friends Toni Martino and Cody Wratten. They had a similar idea except Toni has a Hummer and a King-size mattress for them to sleep on. Anyways, we were no longer alone, just out of a place to sleep. By now it was approximately 1:30 so we decided to pay a visit to the bottom of the Cabriolet. Tyler and I had gone to check at 9:30 when we first arrived, and so far no one was there. This time we saw shadowy humanoid figures moving about. My spirits plummeted, we weren't going to be the first chair. The closer we got, and I still couldn't see much until we were about 3 feet from them. Then I started getting the feeling we knew these people. Then Tyler questions, "Julie, that you?", and we realize it was some other friends of ours, Julie Steppan and Bailey Cooper. Now there was 6 of us, and we all knew each other. It was going to be a sweet night until I noticed there was someone else sitting in a chair next to us. I asked him who he was and he said I didn't know him. Well, it was almost a party. Tyler, Toni, Cody and I went to get our ski clothes and skis together. We decided to join Julie and Bailey on their cold, long night. We didn't bring sleeping bags and we didn't steel comfy chairs with pillows on them, but Julie and Bailey had. We sat in our ski clothes on metal chairs, almost, but not quite, freezing our asses right off. The loner we didn't now ended up having some friends from Levi, two brothers. We didn't even know who they were but we ended up cracking a lot of jokes and having fun with them all night. At about 2:00 or 15 after, another kid from our school showed up, Carter Lee, a senior. We were all juniors except Julie and Cody who were sophomores. He had brought a fold up chair and a blanket so he was warmer than those of us on metal chairs, but not as comfortable as Julie and Bailey. One of the brothers from Levi had brought an electric stove and ingredients to make French Toast. We asked him if he knew how many G.N.A.R. point he got for that but he didn't even know what G.N.A.R. was! We explained it was a type of game (or way of life) you could play skiing, where the more your made of fool of yourself, and the more you all laughed, the more points you got. Time rolled on and we all started getting in worse attitudes, except Julie and Bailey. We were too cold to even walk to the car and get more clothes on. I shared how this was what hypothermia does to you. After 3 hours, with I don't even care to see how much more time we had to go, I took the trek to the car and got on my sweatshirt under my jacket. It was nice to see my car wasn't towed and I didn't have a ticket, for we had parked in a random lot a little higher up. When I got back I was noticeably warmer. Throughout the night we would go to the bathroom in the nearby hotel. At around 5 we decided taking turns sitting around the fire inside of it. While some others were off I lined their chairs up and tried to get a wink of sleep. It was cold but I was exhausted by then, and I managed fifteen minutes before I woke up feeling like an ice-cube. I explained that I needed to go in and warm up to the few people still out. I hobbled as fast as I could. Right when I got inside I felt better. I joined Carter, Julie, Tyler, Cody and Toni in cramming in next to the fire. Before my toes had defrosted we decided to go back and make sure people didn't snake our spot. Some other people had showed up throughout the night, including some snowboarders who were also sitting in the hotel. When we got out my body immediately busied itself with freezing again. The rest of the morning was cold but not unbearably so. I stole Carters blanket and got a bit warmer. At 6:00 am some lifties finally decided to show up. They told us the snowcat still need to groom the area we were sitting in, they had pushed it all down during the night from where the snow-blower spit it out. The lifty wrote down our names and informed us we could leave and let the snowcat work. We went in the hotel and spent the majority of the morning sitting there. Some of our friends needed to get their seasons passes still. We all went out by 8:00 and snagged some of the hot chocolate and M&M covered chocolate truffles they put our for us. Quite a few people had showed up. They all seemed to think it would be a 20 yard dash from the asphalt to the lift line. It was nice to know that our first chair was reserved on a little piece of paper in the lifty's pocket. It was a 4-person-chair. Tyler and I joined up to make for with Julie and Bailey. The 3 Levi guys where second and Carter joined them. Cody and Toni got third chair. We all waited with our skies on slowly moving up. When one kid skied a foot closer, the rest joined him. One of the Guys from Levi got out and attempted to shoot a sparkling cider bottle. He had some trouble and we all laughed while a guy filmed us. When we were getting doubtful the lifty called up Julie's group. Our hasty friends almost snaked us, but we managed to get around them and into our first chair position. We had a lot of cameras from Park City Television to The Canyons Media interviewing us. Tyler and Julie spoke. Julie was nice and enthusiastic Tyler stuttered a little. From getting hot chocolate to getting on first chair was 45 minutes. But we'd stayed up all night, we could wait another little bit. We cheered for the camera as we got on first chair. We cheered at mid-station as we glided by. Finally we got off and skied down first run. Our friends Drew Koons came up and skied with Julie, Tyler and I. The rest had either gone home already or gone separate ways. I'd broken my neck and couldn't ski hard, so I had my cameras so film and take pictures. The "terrain park" only had a couple jibs out so we weren't totally psyched but it was pretty fun. We were all so tired from staying up all night that we only made it to 10:30. I personally managed to keep my eyes open until 2:00 in the afternoon. Then passed out for 17 1/2 hours.

Video: Skiing Trailer in Park City at PCMR and The Canyons

2012-02-21T10:37:00.001-08:00

This is a trailer for the up and coming edit that DLPC will be releasing in the next month or two. The shot will be of Drew Koons, Gradey Cullings, Tyler MacDonald, Jace Jones, Brian Margolis and a couple other kids skiing at The Canyons and Park City Mountain Resort. We'll be doing a variety of tricks like cork, misty, rodeo, backflip, frontflip, 540, 720, of jump and an assortment of change-ups, butters, 270's on and off, 450 off, etc. on rails and boxes.

Hope you enjoy the trailer and come back to watch the edit.

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