PETFO: Scouting the Labyrinth.

Daily light-show going on over Pilot Point.

Pintura Peak in the evening.

Artist-in-Residence mobile.

Ravens begging.

Looking at lateral entrances to the crack systems.

Overhead views into cracks.

One foot equals one foot.

 Would go if I can find access.

Looks roomy.

Several winding corridors below.  I think I can get in from one side, if it goes.

PETFO: More Project Logs, Desert loop.

  Besides the record large log I needed a few variations on the standing trees project.  Off the Kachina Point trail at the Desert Inn with water bottle and roll film Fuji.  Bentonite in red.

Un-assembled petrified log.

The rains had dried, but you could see the results.

I could have gotten into some bentonite photos.

It would be interesting to re-assemble a log.  All the pieces are usually there.

Mountain Lion tracks.  I think.  Just crossed one little area that took a spoor.

Tracks heading for the escarpment.

Good ambush cover.

PETFO: Pinutra Escarpment.

Video from inside the Labyrinth along the edge the Pintura Escarpment.  Fairly sporty getting in there, especially with 5X7 and tripod, but an interesting off-the-path area.  I'm sure there is a lot more than I saw.  Only videoed one area.  There are a couple of areas like this, including the main Pintura Peak that I saw at the first of the A-I-R.

  I can't recommend going in there unless you are active type.  Access is not quite rock climb rated (5.0), but dramatic.  Unstable footing and environment, rock fall hazard, steep, isolated, 6000 feet, no water, no cell service, wilderness/desert.  Chance of wildlife encounter.

PETFO: Busy day on and off the Mesa.

  Ranger Woolford had told me about the biggest log in the park- just below the Chinde overlook a few hundred yards up from the casita.  I'd scouted it in the rain the previous week.  The weather was better and I was adding to my project photos, so over the edge I went.

It was an impressive log.  And it did look bigger than anything I had seen on the Long Logs trail down South.  

Reloading the Fuji.

Big log was about halfway down the elevation to the floodplain.

Trip down to the South Entrance visitor center to work logs along the tourist footpath.

Doesn't look like I am doing much but I'm fleshing out the project with variations on the theme.  Lots of kids, people, dogs around.  Used them in the photos.

  Evening project was a lecture down at Northland Pioneer College at Show Low, AZ.  About 60 miles.  Got to see more country, lecture a bit and eat out before heading back to the casita.

Laying out work.

Prepping for talk with Magda Gluszek, the Ceramics instructor and PETFO Ranger Kip Woolford.

Katie was a big fan of Magda's shoes.

Telling them everything I know about photography, plus a little bit more.

PETFO: Home life.

The casita at dawn as I head off to check a shadow.

Up and down the interstate: a souviener shop at every exit.

Very strange.

Making a list and checking it twice.

Raven chow.

Between the casitas.  Two historic buildings.  Nobody in the other one.

Home sweet home.  Front door on the right end.  Looking East.

Nest under the entrance porch.

 Sun breaks the horizon at dawn on the interior wall.

Local.

The unending zen of washing dishes.

View back through the kitchen.

  I could load film at night in the bathroom after blocking the window with a piece of foam core and closing the door AND turning off all the lights in the rest of the house.  Very comfortable quarters.  We kept a sharp eye out for spiders and killed a few flies that came in when we left doors open during the day.  Simple, with no art hung anywhere.  The house is a piece of art.  I worked in the mornings and afternoons.  Ate lunch, ran errands and took a nap during mid-day.  Read my way through "Footfall" and "Crossing Open Ground" by Barry Lopez.  It surprising how busy the time is.  Constant job to work, rest, hydrate, travel here and there, hike, eat, resupply, check mail and internet, load film, wash laundry...all while running around at 6000 feet.  AIRs aren't really about rest.