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Burney Falls – Day 2

September 22, 2008 Great Trip '08, Waterfalls No comments , , , ,

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Today I started off with finding the wireless hotspot, and bought some time with AT&T.  Its a year worth, but compared to single purchases I should be able to quickly recover the cost.  And I uploaded photos and blog.

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Burney Again – Day 1 – Burney Falls

September 21, 2008 Great Trip '08, Photography, Waterfalls No comments , , , ,

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My first entry was a year and a bit ago, and I find myself back at Burney falls.  Last tuesday I decided to go on vacation.  I normally take a trip in the fall somewhere.  Last year was the midwest, and for several years before I went to the eastern sierras.  This year I decided to do a grand loop of western national parks. No, Burney isn’t a national park, its a state park.

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Burney Falls

July 8, 2007 Photography, Waterfalls No comments , , , , ,

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A segment of Burney Falls. Its a quite large waterfall. Being so large, it is difficult to both capture its majesty and the beauty of the water cascading off the rocks.

I am writing this now as I clean up my supper at 10 p.m. – boiling water over a propane stove (the easiest way to get instant mashed potatoes off the walls of the saucepan).

Slowly, the stars are coming out (though the combination of looking at an LCD screen – even at the lowest level to preserve battery power and the neighbors four camp lights – at least its a warm color temperature with an even spectrum – the night before some other neighbors had some flashlight of some sort that was very bright blue that instantly killed anything resembling night vision).

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