If you spread the cost of the $3.25M over the entire recorded length of human settlement in Bluff since 650 AD, that property is only $2,367 a year which seems quite reasonable. Although making the first payment 1,373 years ago had a unique set of challenges...
Once upon a time my car broke down 2 miles outside Bluff Utah. We were on our way to Burning Man and it was the middle of the night on a Saturday. We did not want to be stuck in Bluff on a Sunday, that’s how sleepy (and Mormon) Utah was then, and Bluff especially. So, we got towed to Moab, which was also still sleepy. We got put up by a dirt bag rafter friend in a boathouse and she loaned us her truck so we could hit the road the next morning. That night I also met my now husband - another rafter dirt bag who joined us on the Burning Man adventure. This was all nearly two decades ago and the whole landscape of that dusty country has changed... there’s just so many more people... and so much less concern you’ll be stuck in a small Mormon town on a Sunday with nothing to do. At least sounds like Bluff ain’t so scary anymore... makes my heart break a little. But maybe they’ll all get swept away in the spring run off, one can dream.
So interesting to keep track of the Four Corners/Western Slope runoff from my new perch at the end of the Tucson CAP diversion. Highest I ever saw the Animas River at was just above 8,000 cfs and that sure soaked the north valley meanders.
Missing my formative years in the 1990s in real Bluff, even missing all the dust I inhaled getting back and forth from Durango on the unpaved McElmo Road.
And very jealous of Jerry’s float through the Paradox Valley on the Juan!
Thank you, Jonathan, for watching over this treasured and tortured spot on Earth.
Do-over requested! 35,000 cfs June 15!! But I guess do-overs shouldn't be legal as everybody would keep adjusting their predictions and ruin the whole contest. But when I saw that photo of the San Juan snowpack I knew I was doomed!
As doomed as non gentrified land west of the Great Plains. Boom and bust cycles in western real estate-. there's been an unusually long boom period; here's hoping for a bust!
$3.25 million, huh? So how do the people (native americans) whose ancesters lived in those ancient times react to that? I'm guessing they arent the ones profiting from it! Sickening? absolutely. For someone who actually visited & experienced that place - beyond sickening.
If you spread the cost of the $3.25M over the entire recorded length of human settlement in Bluff since 650 AD, that property is only $2,367 a year which seems quite reasonable. Although making the first payment 1,373 years ago had a unique set of challenges...
Once upon a time my car broke down 2 miles outside Bluff Utah. We were on our way to Burning Man and it was the middle of the night on a Saturday. We did not want to be stuck in Bluff on a Sunday, that’s how sleepy (and Mormon) Utah was then, and Bluff especially. So, we got towed to Moab, which was also still sleepy. We got put up by a dirt bag rafter friend in a boathouse and she loaned us her truck so we could hit the road the next morning. That night I also met my now husband - another rafter dirt bag who joined us on the Burning Man adventure. This was all nearly two decades ago and the whole landscape of that dusty country has changed... there’s just so many more people... and so much less concern you’ll be stuck in a small Mormon town on a Sunday with nothing to do. At least sounds like Bluff ain’t so scary anymore... makes my heart break a little. But maybe they’ll all get swept away in the spring run off, one can dream.
So interesting to keep track of the Four Corners/Western Slope runoff from my new perch at the end of the Tucson CAP diversion. Highest I ever saw the Animas River at was just above 8,000 cfs and that sure soaked the north valley meanders.
Missing my formative years in the 1990s in real Bluff, even missing all the dust I inhaled getting back and forth from Durango on the unpaved McElmo Road.
And very jealous of Jerry’s float through the Paradox Valley on the Juan!
Thank you, Jonathan, for watching over this treasured and tortured spot on Earth.
Do-over requested! 35,000 cfs June 15!! But I guess do-overs shouldn't be legal as everybody would keep adjusting their predictions and ruin the whole contest. But when I saw that photo of the San Juan snowpack I knew I was doomed!
As doomed as non gentrified land west of the Great Plains. Boom and bust cycles in western real estate-. there's been an unusually long boom period; here's hoping for a bust!
$3.25 million, huh? So how do the people (native americans) whose ancesters lived in those ancient times react to that? I'm guessing they arent the ones profiting from it! Sickening? absolutely. For someone who actually visited & experienced that place - beyond sickening.