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| Posted by: MacGyverOnline 30 November 2007 - 02:07 AM |
| Been on any good adventures lately? Maybe hiking of the beaten track or some other MacGyver-like activities... Got any pictures of it? Post em here. |
| Posted by: MacGyverGrrl 7 December 2007 - 09:47 PM |
| Finally, as promised.......the pictures of our MacGyvering our friend's truck open. If you're not familiar, I went to Moab for an overnight trip. On our last hike, our friends locked their keys in their truck. We used a hot dog cooking stick, my SAK a screwdriver and my husband tofinally get the truck unlocked. The long version is under My MacGyverisms. Here's the evidence......... Dani works on the lock  Another try........  This sucks!  Not ready to give up  Just before we finally got the back window opened  Now all I gotta do is learn how to pick the lock, MacGyver style!  |
| Posted by: MacGyverOnline 7 December 2007 - 09:58 PM |
 Nice photosAwesome rocks in the background! |
| Posted by: MacGyverGrrl 7 December 2007 - 10:10 PM |
Here's some more pics of our Moab moments. Logan plays Peek-a-Boo with an arch  Arches National Park  Double Arch from below  Another view from below Double Arch  Logan hikes with Dad  Moab Autumn Cottonwoods  Logan strikes a pose This was a great trip. It came at a time when I really needed to spend some time outdoors having fun with friends and family and the weather was so nice. Hard to believe it was only a month ago, especially with all the snow falling right now. As soon as it gets warm again, I'm ready to go back. |
| Posted by: MacsChick 7 December 2007 - 10:52 PM |
Incredible photos!  I've been longing to visit Moab. The desert does indeed look tempting right now, especially with all the snow around here.  |
| Posted by: MacGyverGrrl 8 December 2007 - 12:42 AM |
| Thanks. Better save that visit for a few months. Right now, the desert is cold and wet. Today Moab got .70 inches of rain. Its hard to take a bad photo in Moab. Come on out and I'll play tour guide. |
| Posted by: Victoria_Rose 8 December 2007 - 09:19 AM |
| Great pictures! One of my co-worker's' sister works for the National parks (not sure if that's exactly what she said) system in Moab. She's always talking about going out there to see her. Now I finally get to see what the place looks like. She's always saying that the best coffee comes from the Mormons there. I guess she goes out there just to get the coffee, lol! Vickie Rose |
| Posted by: MacGyverGrrl 9 December 2007 - 01:04 AM |
| There are some pretty good coffee shops in Utah, suprising considering most Mormons don't drink coffee. The place in Moab is called the Loco Lizard, I think. It changed management recently and I can't remember if they also changed the name. Cool, a connection in Moab. The photos are all from Arches National Park. There is also Canyonlands National Park and Dead Horse State Park in the same general area. If you go, you will have a great time. |
| Posted by: Victoria_Rose 9 December 2007 - 08:26 AM |
| Thanks! I have always wanted to see Arches National Monument. I think it's beautiful. Now I just have to find the money and the time |
| Posted by: MacBeth 10 December 2007 - 05:25 PM |
| I went to graduate school in Utah -- four years of it -- and not all of my memories are particularly pleasant. But I remember Moab with great fondness; it's a really gorgeous area! It didn't have very good coffee back then, so I'm glad they've got that fixed! |
| Posted by: trtlsoup 10 December 2007 - 05:59 PM |
| Wow! Nice pics, Grrl... It's been SO long since I'd been in that (general) area. Your son? A cutie! |
| Posted by: MacGyverGrrl 10 December 2007 - 08:48 PM |
| Thanks trtl. We think he's pretty cute ourselves. Beth, which school? What were you studying? Yep, coffee is becoming a lucrative business in Utah. My husband knows where most of the coffee shops in Salt Lake area. |
| Posted by: MacBeth 11 December 2007 - 03:20 PM |
| I was in a MFA programme at the University of Utah, studying technical theatre -- specifically, costuming. I worked the Utah Shakespearean Festival for two summers during this time; which would have been more fun if I'd had anything better than a bicycle to get out into hiking country on our rare days off! This was between 1983 and 1987 (yup, MacGyver started airing while I was there), and it was nearly impossible to find either decent coffee or decent beer anywhere.  Your son is adorable. (My stepson just turned 21 . . . I am in shock.) |
| Posted by: trtlsoup 12 December 2007 - 06:31 PM | ||
They grow up SO fast. My son is going to be 21 in a couple of months. Yikes! |
| Posted by: MacGyverGrrl 12 December 2007 - 08:50 PM |
| Thanks guys. We think he's pretty adorable too...........except for when he glues Girl Scout cookies to the living room furniture. I was working my government job and going to school when you were in Utah. If you never got to get out to the back country, its a standing invite, you come out, we'll play tour guide. Jade knows that area like the back of his hand. We can show you some spectacular country. Just drop us a line. |
| Posted by: trtlsoup 12 December 2007 - 09:38 PM | ||
I skimmed that sentence and I thought you said that "he glues Girl Scouts to the living room furniture."  That's not right...  |
| Posted by: MacGyverGrrl 13 December 2007 - 11:21 PM |
No not Girl Scouts.....just their cookies. If he starts gluing girls to the couch  |
| Posted by: jumble65 14 December 2007 - 01:57 PM |
| Your guys are so lucky! I live in the UK - we have nothing like that here. |
| Posted by: MacBeth 14 December 2007 - 04:38 PM | ||
That doesn't start for several more years. Enjoy the respite. |
| Posted by: MacGyverOnline 15 December 2007 - 02:31 AM |
| We headed up the mountain for a bit of adventure today. Heres some of the snaps I got while we hiked and played around. Hmmm... He went that way.  Hey! Short cut!  I'm right behind you.  There he is down there!... Ok lets line him up and I'll hit him with these stones.  Is that a DHD?  |
| Posted by: MacGyverOnline 15 December 2007 - 04:27 PM |
| This is an area where I often take the kids to have a climb around and play. This is the lower part of the lower part of the stream.       |
| Posted by: MacGyverGrrl 15 December 2007 - 09:13 PM |
| Cool place. My son and husband would love it. Your boys are really cute. Mine will be climbiing like that in no time. Thanks for sharing. |
| Posted by: trtlsoup 18 December 2007 - 08:58 PM |
| That's a beautiful place, Rocky. And it looks F U N !!! The land (and water) reminds of a place that I would go hiking in upstate New York. Just bee-autiful! I love it when kids are that age... all full of imagination and adventure. Enjoy them while it last. Kids grow up WAY too fast...  |
| Posted by: MacGyverGrrl 14 February 2008 - 05:01 PM |
Well, I don't know if it counts as adventuring MacGyver style, but it was definetly an adventure driving home last night. I promised a post with some pics of the latest blizzard so here they are: Valentine's Eve Blizzard 2008  Piling up on the deck  Logan sitting in the snow on the deck. The railing is about 3.5 ft high  Our neighbor and the fence between our homes. Yes there really is a fence there  How deep is that snow? Jade's ruler is 16 inches and the snow is higher  Mom, I can't walk. The snow is at my butt. Poor Logan  My nephew Ian's Jeep.  Snow piled deep. My house is the dark grey one. You can barely see Jade's truck on the other side of the snow pile. The brown fence is about 5.5 ft tall.  The tree in our yard. The snow piled around it is over 6 ft deep. Yeah, we had a few flakes. |
| Posted by: MacsChick 14 February 2008 - 07:10 PM |
| Wow! Incredible! Fortunately, we didn't get that much accumulation here on the Front Range of Colorado, but our mountains have been slammed this year. Strange winter, indeed. |
| Posted by: MacGyverGrrl 14 February 2008 - 07:16 PM |
| Yeah the weather soothseer called it a break away storm. The low pressure split off from the jet stream and parked over the Salt Lake and it just kept on spinning out the snowflakes. Supposed to be warmer and clearer the rest of the weekend. |
| Posted by: MacsChick 14 February 2008 - 07:23 PM |
I know--it's supposed to be nice here this weekend, as well!  |
| Posted by: MacGyverGrrl 14 February 2008 - 07:32 PM |
| Lets celebrate and enjoy our warm weather together. |
| Posted by: MacBeth 14 February 2008 - 07:56 PM |
| There's been a funny shiny thing up in the sky off and on the last few days . . . I think I remember seeing something like it before, months ago . . . and when it's visible, I've noticed that there are dark blobby things underneath solid objects outside. Anyone ever seen this phenomenon before? |
| Posted by: MacGyverGrrl 14 February 2008 - 08:34 PM |
| It sounds like you are describing ............sunshine. And shadows...........And I think I might remember something like that from long ago. |
| Posted by: SAG 19 April 2008 - 11:51 AM |
| My brother and I did some hiking last week in one our many pristine state forests...this one not far from the tiny town of Greenwater, on Hwy 410. Me- http://a43.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/91/l_cfcde778d396bf7cfc3e6c95139826c2.jpg http://a984.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/72/l_2d562994c256a534045792ae252b5177.jpg http://a615.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/45/l_1bc22b06b7a4fec9821091c9d3c0794e.jpg http://a1000.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/93/l_04dd7294a13df65974f9c1840b8b4aaf.jpg |
| Posted by: MacBeth 19 April 2008 - 08:03 PM |
| Loved the picture of the river. Is that the White River? |
| Posted by: Lothithil 19 April 2008 - 08:21 PM |
| Beautiful pictures! You and your brother look like you're having fun! |
| Posted by: SAG 20 April 2008 - 02:40 PM | ||
Yes it is.....I love that area, been going there for years. Each time I go though my brother and I end up picking up more and more trash....disgusts me so much. |
| Posted by: SAG 20 April 2008 - 02:40 PM | ||
Thanks! We sure were. |
| Posted by: SAG 24 May 2008 - 03:22 PM |
| Did I ever mention I loved WA? This was taken between Ellensburg and Vantage last week.  |
| Posted by: MacGyverOnline 24 May 2008 - 03:37 PM |
| not a lot of trees to hike through there is there. |
| Posted by: MacsChick 24 May 2008 - 03:40 PM |
| Is that eastern Washington? I drove from Montana to Oregon a couple of years ago (when I briefly lived in MT to attend graduate school), and I couldn't believe how different eastern Washington is from the coastal areas. While places like Eugene, Portland, and Seattle have lush, wet climates, the eastern half of these states are desert. It's like two different states completely! |
| Posted by: SAG 25 May 2008 - 06:55 AM |
| Yeah it's Eastern WA. I love that about this state....like you mention it's like living in two states....everything west of the Cascades is green forest, while it's all but a desert east of the Cascades. Makes for a lot of different, cool places to go, also some very remote places which I like a lot. |
| Posted by: hackssh 27 February 2010 - 08:21 AM |
Some winter pics - near the capital city, where I live  frozen Vistula river  warming up   |
| Posted by: MacGyverOnline 27 February 2010 - 01:27 PM |
| Nice pictures. Looks cold though.. you need a bigger fire!  |
| Posted by: MacGyverOnline 4 January 2011 - 07:08 PM |
| My boys and I recently found a new stream to go hiking up in a near-by location (10 minutes drive from my house) It has lots of boulders and water holes to climb and swim in as we make out way up the stream so has lots of fun adventure and a nice way to keep cooled off at the same time. Here's a few of the photos I took while on our last hike.      |
| Posted by: Joe SAKic 8 March 2013 - 08:31 PM |
These are images captured last month & in my home province of New Brunswick - definitely in 'MacGyver Style' - in efficient harnessing of the wind & on ice ....  |
| Posted by: KiwiTek 31 July 2013 - 12:13 AM |
| Ice sailing rocks! I like land sailing too. I've been on the lookout for years for a remote controlled land yacht to play with but you can't get them in this part of the world. |
| Posted by: MacFan092985 2 August 2013 - 04:06 PM |
Below is a picture of a Great Horned Owl, whose wing was busted, that I helped rescue today.  As I've stated in other threads, I work for a security company that has a contract with the Army Corps of Engineers. The site I'm assigned to is located way out east of Denver, CO, where all kinds of wildlife reside. Today when I relieved my boss, he showed me pictures of an owl that had an injured wing. After my boss left I went in search of the owl and sure enough, found him, or should I say he found me and immediately spread his wings, as best he could, and started clicking at me. I was able to take a great picture of him with my camera, looking right at me. I then went back to the office to retrieve my phone and returned to where I saw the owl, in order to take more pictures. I then returned to the office and called the Colorado Parks and Wildlife office to report what I found, who in turn dispatched two volunteers, Ken and Teresa, a husband and wife who have been rescuing wildlife for over ten years. The pictures were taken in case the CPW wanted to see what it was they would be dealing with. Prior to the two volunteers arriving, the CPW representative told me to place a blanket or a box over the owl to calm it down and make sure it wouldn't try to fly away, which it wouldn't have been able to given it's damaged wing. When she first told me this, I asked, "You guys can't do that?" At which point she explained that if the owl was somehow able to get away, the volunteers would have driven out here for nothing. I then got a pair of leather gloves and a blanket out of my car and a large box out of the recycle bin and made my way back to the owl, who upon seeing me approach with the box, spread it's wings, looked me right in the eye and tried to get away. As I continued moving toward him he turned around at which point I placed the box over him and within seconds he stopped fighting, just like the CPW rep. said he would. I placed the blanket over the box to further restrict any light that could get in through the edges of the box. It was at this point I realized how heavy I was breathing. I had never done anything like this before. Usually my thought is, nature is nature, let it takes its course, but this owl was obviously in trouble and needed help. Once Ken and Teresa arrived they opened the box, carefully placing a blanket over the owl before placing him in a transport cage. As it ends up, it was a young male, he still had the downy feathers on top of his head. I was able to pet it's head . . . soooooo soft. Ken and Teresa took the owl to Birds of Prey Foundation, a non-profit corporation. I'll follow up with them tomorrow and post updates. I didn't think to take my camera with me to take pictures while Ken and Teresa were taking care of the owl. I wasn't sure how much if any help I could be, so I didn't want to bother with my camera. |
| Posted by: MacFan092985 4 August 2013 - 08:54 AM |
| After speaking with a Birds of Prey representative, the owl is only about three months old and has a fractured humerous. If things go as planned, he will be treated for 3 to 4 weeks and then sent to their rehab facility to make sure he's strong enough to fly and then released back into the wild. They said they try to release the birds back into the area they were removed from and that since owls are nocturnal animals he will be released at night, so there won't really be anything to see. |
| Posted by: MacCat 4 August 2013 - 09:14 AM |
MacFan, that is an amazing thing you did rescuing the owl. would be proud. |
| Posted by: KiwiTek 4 August 2013 - 03:32 PM |
| Cool story! Straight out of a MacGyver episode. |
| Posted by: MiracleMac 3 June 2014 - 07:34 AM |
Well my latest trip was kind of adventure sure  From LA to NYC in three weeks by car. What a trip  12 nights in camping area other 7 in hotel that was fun!Let me tell you, the Monument Valley was one of the calmest and peacefullest place what I ever seen and heard in my life, also the Grand Canyon with beautiful sunset.  |
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| Posted by: denizen 6 August 2015 - 09:27 PM |
| Talk about packed and ready to go! |