Comments on: Upper Salt Creek Overnight https://pmags.com/upper-salt-creek-overnight Practical advice and musings on the outdoors, hiking, backpacking, ski touring, and camping. Thu, 20 Dec 2018 02:32:20 +0000 hourly 1 By: Paul Mags https://pmags.com/upper-salt-creek-overnight#comment-655862 Mon, 19 Nov 2018 19:47:39 +0000 https://pmags.com/?p=22216#comment-655862 Thx!

]]> By: Joan Jarvis https://pmags.com/upper-salt-creek-overnight#comment-655406 Tue, 13 Nov 2018 05:03:49 +0000 https://pmags.com/?p=22216#comment-655406 Great.article.on the Buffalo.gourd. I learn a lot.from your posts. Thanks!

]]> By: Paul Mags https://pmags.com/upper-salt-creek-overnight#comment-655397 Tue, 13 Nov 2018 02:29:23 +0000 https://pmags.com/?p=22216#comment-655397 In reply to Joan Jarvis.

Joan actively uses iNaturalist. One of the many botanists on this site mentioned that gourd as being “Buffalo gourd”. Common to ancient Puebloan sites! https://www.moabhappenings.com/Archives/Nature1010AMonthForPumkins.htm

Archaeologists have recovered parts of these plants in Ancestral Pueblo sites, indicating the plant’s use by native peoples.

]]> By: Paul Mags https://pmags.com/upper-salt-creek-overnight#comment-655389 Tue, 13 Nov 2018 00:44:52 +0000 https://pmags.com/?p=22216#comment-655389 In reply to Cathy.

Thanks! Love sharing my new home.

]]> By: Sean P https://pmags.com/upper-salt-creek-overnight#comment-655388 Tue, 13 Nov 2018 00:25:49 +0000 https://pmags.com/?p=22216#comment-655388 You’re making the absolute best use of your time right now. Whenever I’ve brought up wanting to move to Utah the past few years, and people ask why on earth I’d want to live there, I just chuckle to myself. The Front Range does get tiresome after a while. Anyway, keep it up!

]]> By: Joan Jarvis https://pmags.com/upper-salt-creek-overnight#comment-655383 Mon, 12 Nov 2018 22:38:29 +0000 https://pmags.com/?p=22216#comment-655383 You need a botanist to.confirm that it’s some really old variety, nothing.modern. So cool!

]]> By: Cathy https://pmags.com/upper-salt-creek-overnight#comment-655378 Mon, 12 Nov 2018 21:38:53 +0000 https://pmags.com/?p=22216#comment-655378 I’ve been enjoying/learning from your posts for a few years now.

I love reading these Moab area explorations. Thanks for these.

]]> By: Paul Mags https://pmags.com/upper-salt-creek-overnight#comment-655363 Mon, 12 Nov 2018 17:25:57 +0000 https://pmags.com/?p=22216#comment-655363 In reply to Joan Jarvis.

I think so!

]]> By: Joan Jarvis https://pmags.com/upper-salt-creek-overnight#comment-655354 Mon, 12 Nov 2018 16:09:15 +0000 https://pmags.com/?p=22216#comment-655354 The squash is intriguing. Could it possibly be from an ancient seed? Or a plant that’s been re-seeding itself for millennia?

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