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looking to the west a few minutes ago it looked like the end of the world. but that view was just the stormfront and cloudcover coming down from the northwest that caused all these winds today. reports of up to 360 acres. http://twitter.com/#!/eneitzel

Sunrise over Myrtle point November 2006 Sunset over the New Lo-An from F/V First String September 2005 just south of Cortez Bank, Pacific Ocean. lee

STOP! STOP before you click on link so you can turn the sound OFF! OMG gonna be rubbin' at my ears for a week. newbies.... lee

maybe a little break.....wind wind go away... http://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?lat=34.04241857075928&lon=-109.59136962890625&site=fgz&smap=1&marine=0&unit=0&lg=en

Rick Law or his family took this photo at ice-out 2010. Makes a very good screensaver during these sad times. The forest has to burn-always has-but take it from someone calling hisself a biglakejake for the last 30 yrs this is not a good fire. My parents were fire bosses and i am glad they don't have to see this. They would always embarrass me by pointing at me across the big, community campfire whereever we were and brag about making me in a tent at Big Lake on the 4th of July. Just lost a best friend of 40+years this winter and this could be just as tough. Fingers 'n toes crossed boys and girls fingers 'n toes..... lee

suspect in flag.......him and gov brewer for signing the fireworks bill...like to stick a sparkler up.... http://www.azdailysun.com/news/local/582ef308-922c-11e0-b7b2-001cc4c002e0.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evergreen_747_Supertanker only one in the world. wiki quote- The Evergreen Supertanker’s tank system can be configured for segmented drops, allowing the contents of the tank to be released at multiple intervals while in flight.[1] According to the company, the aircraft is capable of laying down a swath of fire retardant three miles (5 km) long and as wide as an American football field.[8] i was wondering just yesterday when this fire would get 'serious' enough for it. hope they paint a 3 mile wide stripe right down hiway 260....how many trips with 20,000 gallons will that take? lee

what i have seen from my hill here in show low- in the last 45 minutes at least 20 heli crews have relocated from springerville to show low airport. about 40 minutes ago a giant plume collapsed over northwestern corner of fire(greer?) many urban fire trucks-red and chartreuse-are heading through show low towards pinetop-greer-sunrise on 260 and penrod road. like a hundred or so. what i have heard as in rumour-greer has been ordered abandoned by crews by the new management team. lee edit-ch 15 statement about abandoning greer- http://www.abc15.com/dpp/news/region_northern_az/other/fear:-new-spot-fire-moves-towards-greer

At 7pm google earth fire detections showing Rainbow campground at Big Lake is ablaze. Sure would like to go back to about 1965 right now. lee

Supersized red and white GM pickup Memorial Day at the Show Low city park for the softball tournament. Sorry bud-the White Mtn Boys was just on fire....... The last one i saw in Show Low was at the Arby's during bull hunt december 2010-Amandas' friends green(olive drab?) jeep-did they get a bull? lee

On the Ft Apache acorn stew starts with the harvesting. Chain a chevy to a Gambel oak and shake the acorns onto a tarp. crush and bag after shelling. Acorn stew or chili is made with hatch and other chilis, potatos, onion, acorn, and elk. or slow elk. served with tortillas or frybread or toast. try apache tailgate in whiteriver during late sept or oct for a thrill. flatlanders don't got no idear what theys missin'. more fer me. lee

those are probably the Hopi tribal hunts. they are unit-wide so they are very valuable. the tribe bought a few hundred sections in these units and AZGFD decided to authorize Hopi hunters unit wide tags. apparently to avoid closure of these sections to non-tribal members like has happened with Zuni and Navajo land purchases in unit 2. might want to verify with AZGFD to be sure. of note-rumor has it that the Zuni tribe is trying to use their tribal hunt permits(New Mexico) on the ranches they purchased in Arizona. So-can a tribe in NM buy a ranch in AZ and it becomes a reservation? or does it become NM? this could get ugly.....not much law out in Witch Wells... lee

it would be a lot less expensive to try self guided hunts on the reservations. the antlerless tags are about $500 and spikes are legal(at least on ft apache). if you get a sept oct hunt the sights and sounds of the big bulls going at it is something. the navajo, wht mountain apache, san carlos and hualapai tribe all have unguided antlerless hunts. new mexico landowner tags can be a good deal in the non-prime areas-still lots of elk. lee

i should stay outa this one-picking fights is sumthin i's good at. cut my first atv tracks today after more than a hundred miles afoot. have to stay close to show low cuz of the gas prices but i have been on bulls every day just no luck. as a kid spending the 60s n 70s summers growing up in overgaard hunting arrowheads was like a job to my mom. packs with lunches, big straw hats and a compass. the ruins we found got named by or for the finder...'moms #2' was a favorite. kept us busy and outside and not watching wallace and ladmo. just think about what it did to us to come back to a ruin the next june and somebody had been to it with a backhoe. dug up a few thousand square feet of history. mom used to say she would gut them alive if she caught them-nobody messed with my mom. and not just because they knew of dad. he would get a ride in a starfighter from luke and buzz the cabin most every thursday. i do not see one bit of differnce between that backhoe grave robber scum and those taking machines off the roads. they are rapists and thieves and as mom would put it 'defilers'. i am a big guy 300lbs with one bad knee and one tin knee and i don't own a noise machine or ever will. i hunt hard and put on thousands of miles a year on those knees and truly loath the motorheads that ride crosscountry. my country. lee

Great buck and an awesome shot. I have had several 250/3000's over the years-none now sob-and my favorite was stolen while still down in the valley. A ruger m77RSI that i had inletted for a lyman aperture sight. I missed a javalina with it once...that was the only thing it missed. congrats lee

a buddy was finishing up some maintenance on the torreon course in show low last september when a tabby lion and a kitten ran across the 12th fairway and i missed it. stange thing was that the day before a velvet 4x4 muley buck ran accros the same fairway right in front of me........ lee

Josh i can't afford a truck anymore hows about i tow an outhouse to the verde valley and you load 'er up at $25/lb? sorry hornhunter but Josh got it started.....the last decent matched set i found up on whiting knoll went for 400 on ebay-just b4 shipping went outa sight.... really-doing business in antlers on the roadside or the internet is one thing but finding a sexy set like that for the mantle or a mount is the biggest thrill any hornhunter can experience....a hiker-probably with california plates-once asked me what i was doing off the trail...i said i was huntin' horn and she said they are antlers not horns...i replied that she could stuff all the science she wanted in her little head but what she was wasn't a hornhunter. dang i'm gettin' cranky in my old age. lee

What i wondered Bill was...Winchester? Savage? Mauser? Good job on selling it. Looking forward to Jacks books in the fall. lee

the best bugle is never. cow call. bet 'ya ten bucks i got the right answer first......lol lee

OMG boys those is gorgeous!! don't be sellin' those by the pound-unless its for like $25/lb..... congrats on a GREAT day! lee 2011 sheds found: ZERO for 200 miles afoot!

Bill Valentine fueled my passion for the Sea of Cortez and its denizens for 30+ years and would still like to spend a winter as a fishing vagabond from Tiburon to La Paz to Topolobampo...i wrote this poem with Bill in mind but could not think of a way to include a tribute. but i know he sat on the beach in front of many fires and sunsets like these.... WINTER DUSK Sky afire to the west, Sierra Gigente sillouetted Jagged black peaks rising suddenly from the Vermillion Sea Broad white beach, tiny orange fire at our feet This small circle of light, a wind tortured blaze Flames ripped completely away from their mesquite coal source The heated, empty space between fuel and flame, beguiling... For how many centuries has man stared at this riddle of fire Perhaps Sparticus, pondering on the night before he died Or the Wright brothers, on another beach, just after they flew MUCHO VIENTO SI! The back of my knee, our cheeks stinging Hi-velocity sand blasting across the beach-AIAH CHUBASCO! Small price to pay for such magnificent natural spendor Distant dark peaks with fiery red halo Wind torn stratos, brilliant like blazing kite-tails Little beach fire, part angry and tortured, almost alive Part still, glowing red-orange-white, peaceful and sedate And, of course, the puzzling little space between lee

Bill-just curious but what kind of rifle did this author use? Kinda off topic but did you know Bill Valentine? Did you get to look at the compilation book his wife put together after he passed-'Valentine and Friends'? It give me shivers to think of anyone going 10miles out of Rocky Pt in the 1940's in a 14ft plywood boat and 4 horse motor.....And bring back Sailfish!!!! Maybe someone will compile a bunch of Bob H.'s stories and get it published if we are lucky. lee

glass glass glass the unit is abut 20% burned off now. the burns along the 504 and along chevelon canyon west of the 170 will have some nice bulls. dry lake area can be awesome. don't expect any 330s or larger but remember on that hunt the last day will be better than the first.....the very long finger ridges extending out into wildcat canyon south of 504 are bull magnets but foilage is dense and hard to hunt. lee

the first i even heard of CWT was a sticker on a toy(i think?) in eagar back in 2003 coming back from big lake.