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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

25th Amendment? We can’t even get network news to air it or even mention it. It’s a massive national media coverup to hide the fact the we have an addled president.

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🍁🇨🇦Team Canada Forever🇨🇦🍁 @teamcanadaforever.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I mean… there’s nothing intelligent about that man to begin with. So, I am not surprised at all. 😂

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steve3797.bsky.social @steve3797.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

.. How can Americans be so stupid ?

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4fuxake @blueheartedly1.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Jack Smith is an American hero 👇

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Garry Hayes @geotripper.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

This makes what happened far worse. These people need to be jailed for insider trading, but the Department of Justice is equally corrupt and will do nothing. www.hcn.org/articles/min...

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Mining execs bought big in company stock days before Bears Ears’ cuts - High Country News

House Democrats have opened an investigation for insider trading.

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Garry Hayes @geotripper.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Yup! Our power has been out for the last two hours, presumably from a lightning strike, or from the rain causing a short.

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Garry Hayes @geotripper.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Thunderstorm and rain! And nowhere else in the state...

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Garry Hayes @geotripper.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Cursed liars. Our precious lands (sacred to many tribes, and to me) are being sold off for short-term profits. I've "recreated" and taught on these lands for years (gift article from The New York Times). www.nytimes.com/2026/08/03/c...

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Documents Undercut Trump’s Claims About Bears Ears National Monument (Gift Article)

President Trump said recreation in Bears Ears National Monument was virtually impossible. Documents reviewed by The New York Times show officials knew otherwise.

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Garry Hayes @geotripper.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

So incredibly proud to find that my brother has been named a Fellow of the American Chemical Society. If you're not familiar with what that means, it's a huge honor.

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Garry Hayes @geotripper.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Last night's sunset and full moon rising over the California prairie.

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Garry Hayes @geotripper.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

The whole range is spectacular.

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Garry Hayes @geotripper.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Nearing the end of our PNW field studies, we traversed a part of NV that doesn't look like people's conception of NV: the Ruby Mtns, which were proposed as a nat'l park, and should have been one. Alpine topography in Lamoille Canyon with exposures of a metamorphic core complex.

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Garry Hayes @geotripper.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Didn't hear them. Saw their statues in a roundabout though!

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Garry Hayes @geotripper.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Day 14 of our PNW field studies found us driving home across northern Nevada. We stopped for the night at at Angel Creek and Lake in the Eastern Humboldt Range. This Range was considered for national park status in the 1990s. The rocks are part of an ancient metamorphic core complex.

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Garry Hayes @geotripper.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

The wolf was after the calf and the mother was trying to distract the wolf

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Garry Hayes @geotripper.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Or at least I thought I had! Here it is.

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Garry Hayes @geotripper.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Yes. If you scroll back a week or two on my feed you'll find a short video of the chase.

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Garry Hayes @geotripper.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Day 12 of our PNW field study was a near-total loss to the rain, but what a morning on Day 13! The Grand Teton Range is a fault scarp that rises abruptly a mile above Jackson Hole. The crustal rocks are among the oldest rocks in the western US, at 2.7 billion yrs. And there was the wolf pursuit!

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Garry Hayes @geotripper.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

It was a great day! I still have the topaz crystals.

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Garry Hayes @geotripper.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Spasmodic Geyser was one of the more continuously active spots in the basin. Larger geysers may take many hours or days between big eruptions. 2/2

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Garry Hayes @geotripper.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Day 11 of our field studies of the Pacific Northwest and Northern Rockies. Despite the rain and almost snow, I wanted to explore the Upper Geyser Basin near Old Faithful, as I had few chances to do so over the years. The variety of geysers and hot springs is unique in the world. 1/2

Beauty Pool, a multi-colored hot spring pool with forest in background

Castle Geyser, a mound of silica with a hole at the top

Wave Spring, a multi-colored pool at the edge of a forest.

Heart Spring, a blue hot spring pool with steam vents and forest visible in the distance.

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Garry Hayes @geotripper.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

We had 25 students, and 8 or 9 of them earned every badge available.

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Garry Hayes @geotripper.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

It's still dramatic to see Old Faithful erupt, no matter how "familiar" it is. 2/3

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Garry Hayes @geotripper.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Day 11 of our PNW field trip, the 7th day of summer, and we awoke...to snow. We left to see iconic Old Faithful. My students wouldn't have let me get away with anything less! They had 3 hours to explore in the freezing rain (or drink lattes and earn Jr Ranger Badges). 1/2

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Garry Hayes @geotripper.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Day 10 of our field course in the PNW...Yellowstone NP on a weekend. Despite the rain and snow (!), we had to plan our stops carefully. We managed to find spots at the Norris Geyser Basin, the hottest, most acidic landscape in the park. We walked the Porcelain Basin. Fantastic!

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Garry Hayes @geotripper.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

The springs are outside the Yellowstone caldera, so the hot water travels through layers of older limestone. The chemical-rich water is precipitated much like similar features in limestone caverns. Part 2 of 2.

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Garry Hayes @geotripper.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Day 10 of our Pacific Northwest field course, cont. We arrived at Mammoth Hot Springs in Yellowstone National Park and found myriad rock formations developing from the calcite-infused hot water. Part 1 of 2.

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Michael J. Stern @michaeljstern.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

He’s not even in office anymore and he’s still more presidential than the man who is.

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Garry Hayes @geotripper.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

We spent 9 days in NorCAL/WA/OR, and 5 in the Rockies and Basin and Range.

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Garry Hayes @geotripper.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

We'll probably do a southwest trip, Grand Canyon, Zion, Mesa Verde, Chaco Cyn, Bear's Ears, Bryce Canyon. 1st two weeks of June, I'm guessing.

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Garry Hayes @geotripper.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

On day 10 of our PNW journey, we awoke to cold, almost freezing rain. But we were in Yellowstone! On a weekend. Our stops were carefully calibrated to avoid the worst crowds. 1st stop was Yellowstone Falls and the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone. This is a young feature, less than 1 million yrs old.

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Garry Hayes @geotripper.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Day 9 of our PNW exploration (my day count is off!). A change of pace: not spectacular in the scenic sense, but rich in history. The Madison Buffalo Jump St Pk preserves a cliff where bison were stampeded to their deaths, providing the hunters with food and clothing and shelter.

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Garry Hayes @geotripper.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

I'm stunned, as I've never witnessed anything like this. Wolf pursuing a pronghorn baby while mama tries to distract the predator. We were at Grand Tetons National Park.

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Garry Hayes @geotripper.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Day 10 of our Pacific Northwest Field studies found us exploring one of the few limestone caverns to be found in the Northwest: Lewis and Clark Caverns in MT. Though L&C camped nearby they never found the cave.

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Garry Hayes @geotripper.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Yes! Should have said that, ran out of words.

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Garry Hayes @geotripper.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Day 8 of our studies in the Pacific Northwest was a 400 mile long journey across Idaho and Montana with few stops. But one was spectacular: the Camas Prairie near Perma reveals gigantic ripple marks as high as 50 feet caused by the Missoula floods traveling at 80 mph

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Garry Hayes @geotripper.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Day 7 of our Pacific Northwest field studies found us in the Grand Coulees, incredible gorges carved in days or weeks by massive floods during the latest part of the ice ages.

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Garry Hayes @geotripper.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

In our defense, we found several dozen fragments ,,,😁

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Garry Hayes @geotripper.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

It was a small plant-eating dinosaur probably only 4 or 5 ft long

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Garry Hayes @geotripper.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Our dinosaur is on display! The Zephyrosaurus that our MJC students discovered in 1996 is at the Museum of the Rockies in Bozeman Montana! Not quite the grandeur of a T. rex, but there it is! @xenolith.bsky.social @phaneritic.bsky.social