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lawatt: downtown Gunnison -- a change of scenery for a couple of days...
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lawatt: rafting down the Gunnison River!!
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lawatt: 2/3 of our boat, with Aya in the middle!
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lawatt: John's daughter Aya, after our morning rafting trip down the Gunnison River
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lawatt: Ian Billick explaining science at the Lab
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lawatt: on our group's tour of RMBL friday evening -- funny to hear the official description of the place!
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lawatt: early morning in the East River valley
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lawatt: saying farewell to one of my most favorite places in the world -- happily, i'll be back again next month! now: heading west...
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lawatt: Slate River
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lawatt: hiking at Hartman Rocks this morning...
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lawatt: learning about the Gunnison valley's First People's from Landan, a recent Anthro graduate from WSCU
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lawatt: i'd never been to Hartman Rocks before -- but will definitely want to spend more time next year!
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lawatt: Jessica and Sally, an amazing ecology and land management duo!!
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lawatt: Jessica telling us the saga of local efforts to protect the Gunnison sage grouse
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lawatt: sagebrush expanse at Hartman Rocks
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lawatt: sagebrush -- smells SO incredible
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lawatt: makes for a great campsite...
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lawatt: truly gorgeous rock formations at Hartman Rocks
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lawatt: discussion at Cold Harbor, a ranch/farm run by Western State
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lawatt: a Western State grad student explaining his greenhouse made from plastic bottles
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lawatt: such a lush-looking meadow at Cold Harbor ranch
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lawatt: the "ghost" town of Ohio, Colorado
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lawatt: rain clouds over the continental divide
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lawatt: John's cabin, on the right -- hand-built entirely from waste lumber and scraps he's found...
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lawatt: opening the outer windows of John's yurt requires some acrobatics...
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lawatt: the treehouse at John's mountain hideaway, also built by John out of scraps and waste lumber...
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lawatt: John H., on the left, on the porch of his yurt
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lawatt: dinner inside the yurt
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lawatt: the view from John's cabin
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lawatt: the yurt as seen from the treehouse, with the cabin beyond on the left