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Shrap, next time I'm up your way I'm gonna have to give you a call. I need to look at some of your shotguns.

In case you were wondering.....I really really like that old carbon steel North Woods B&T knife.....

Yea you got me figured out.....I just kill chit...take a pic...and walk off and leave it....

mudhen where is that canyon ,, looks interesting.

norm

Fieldgrade,
I used the green sarcasm font....
Didn't mean to offend.

Thanks to the green font, I understood that it was tongue-in-cheek.

I think Fieldgrade may have intended irony as well (but didn't use the green font - easy to forget!

John

Norm, it's near Glenwood, New Mexico. It's called Catwalk Canyon. Back in the days when gold and silver mining were going strong, they built a mill down near Glenwood and ran a pipeline down the canyon to deliver water to the mill. The pipeline was suspended and needed a lot maintenance, and the guys who did the maintenance referred to it as the "catwalk." It was abandoned early in the 20th century.

During the depression, the CCC guys constructed a trail that followed the Catwalk in what had become the Gila National Forest. The Forest Service rebuilt the trail in the 1970s and made major improvements again 10 years or so ago. Those pictures were taken not long after the most recent renovation when I took my daughter and her kids up for a day hike.

Several years ago, two large wildfires merged into a mega-fire called the Whitewater/Baldy Fire and burned off much of the forest above Catwalk
canyon. Year before last, a series of torrential monsoon rains sent another flood of silt and debris down the canyon and destroyed much of the newly renovated trail. It is now closed until the Forest Service decides whether it has the money and the resources to rebuild it again.

More info here: http://www.americantrails.org/nationalrecreationtrails/trailNRT/Catwalk-NM.html

Exactly^^^^^^^
I know nothing about the green thing but I wasn't offended....I was just poking ya back....

What we really need is a tongue in cheek emoje.....

Now.....back to the regularly scheduled program...with a little something for our friend over on the Snake...

Dat's mo betta!

Make sure you do, we can go out and bust some pigeons or grouse with them...

Which one broke your hand? Is it doing any better? miles

Alamosa,

That is a Blue Heeler, right? (same as Australian Cattle dog?)

I've heard that these herding breeds are very smart and can learn anything, but did you have to work much to get the dog to retrieve ducks from water? I've never thought of them as hunting dog (although I think I remember seeing pictures of Ingwedog "retrieving" fish which Ingwe claimed to have caught

Honest question, I'm curious.

If what I've heard about these cattle dogs is true though, I'm not sure I'd want a dog smarter than me...

John