[meteorite-list] Barringer Meteor Crater

[JoshuaTreeMuseum]

Patrick: Awesome pictures!

I've been to Meteor Crater several times and was always dissapointed that 
you couldn't hike down into it. Nothing like the Monturaqui Crater, where 
you can do burnouts and cut doughnuts with your SUV right in the crater 
itself. Not to mention being allowed to camp and build fires on the crater 
floor.

Phil Whitmer

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Hi Patrick,

Great shots. Thanks for sharing them. :)

Yes, that was back before our government (and many of the citizens)
became pussified. Getting to explore the crater is one of the many
things that became verboten after the grand pussification of our
country. ;)

Best regards,

MikeG

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Mike Gilmer - Galactic Stone & Ironworks Meteorites

Going through some old slides I came across several I shot while exploring 
Arizona's Meteor Crater in 1973.

I've heard that these days folks are not allowed to climb down into the 
crater but back then (I'm guessing before lawyers got involved) visitors 
were welcome to climb all over the thing so some of my shot were taken from 
the bottom looking up.

http://users.wirelessbeehive.com/~paw/MCAPR73.HTML

patrick
N Utah