Saturday, March 9, 2024

MY OUTDOOR ACTIVITIES - NEW VISIONS of NATURE BOOK - HIGH UINTA themes.

 CLICK FOR:  HOME PAGEand MOUNTAINS OF THE MAYA book and FINAL MESSAGE

SCROLL DOWN FOR FULL INFORMATION  ON 
HIGH UINTAS BOOKS

                         NEW ONLINE BOOK NOT FINISHED...

...but daily I persist with hikes to keep alive and I find new VISIONS & learn more...
....that is added daily to the book....
...SO UNTIL THE BOOK IS FINISHED IN THE FALL ...
.... will be available, which you all should read to know what is required of maybe my last....
"IMPOSSIBLE DREAM!"

IMPORTANTLY....
....there will be updates through the 2024 season to finally conclude the online book later this year.  Some of said "updates" will  be the story of germinationof the plants be it the sprouting of each plant, or in the case of perrenials, them coming to life again in late winter, or early spring which I didn't show in most cases last year as I started too late ...March 15th.  
But this year...2024...I kept hiking all winter long bringing my total hikes to 140 in the last 12 months, for example just today, February 24, 2024, I photographed the germination of 6 plants I missed last year as I didn't start this project soon enough and I didn't even have a clearly defined purpose yet of it becoming a book. 
So I will keep at it like never before and do my best to photograph and report on as many as possible of the wonderful beginnings of the 140+ plants photographed so far.....and in that effort will likely discover more making as complete a record of the 
Foothills of Timpanogos 
as has ever been done before.  For each of them I will include the edibile and medicinal benefits of each, and make sure all know about those that are poisonous, but always emphasize their beauty.

I will then go to work to convert it to a printable book 
with page numbers and index  and likely be forced  to make it a commercial venture to recover  at least a tiny portion of what has been invested......which will open up the way for perhaps my 
FOURTH IMPOSSIBLE DREAM 
in what for me is the unending fascination of the 
WEST UTAH  DESERT
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The Introduction in Chapter 1 of the book documents my story as a cripple who towards the end of 2020  couldn't walk, my leg muscles disappearing. I then briefly tell  the story how 
I NEVER GAVE UP...WITHOUT A FIGHT 
and that's not a joke....and I became a "recovering cripple."  
Eventually my painful therapy progressed to hiking the foothills of Mount Timpanogos and motivated me  to accept the persistant pain as the VISIONS of NATURE I found everywhere inspired  me to document those "visions" with my camera and share with the world,  first online as outlined below, that will eventually become a printed book with color photographs like no one has seen before.

The following are on hold until book is finished in the Fall of this year


FOLLOWS AN IMPORTANT PREFACE to the
 INTRODUCTION of Chapter 1:
  I have now basically finished  all 6 Chapters of this my 5th book: DIVINE VISIONS....but as explained above only part of Chapter 1 is available until the book is finished in the Fall ...but it will be   an inspiring,  informative and  wonderful gift to all of my friends, and a testament to the CREATOR, who we learn from the BIBLE book of John 1 was  Jesus Christ:
All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.
In him was life; and the life was the light of men.
He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not.
He came unto his own, and his own received him not.
But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name.
ADDITIONALLY.....
....an ancient prophet in America said we are to serve Jesus Christ,
"who is the God of this land."  Ether 2:12
With this understanding  Christmas, Easter and our daily worship for many of us will have a multiple  meaning: 
Our "SAVIOR,"  the "CREATOR,"  and the "GOD OF THIS LAND!" 
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ONE REACTION AFTER ONE OF MY SPEECHES
A friend, after one of my speeches to the 
Utah Valley Historical Society, said, 
"WHAT A LIFE....WHAT A COUPLE OF BOOKS!"
...The two:  
"My Life in the Mountains of the Maya" 
and the one about my
 "life long love affair with the  High Uinta Mountains"

I'll be the first to confess that I can't hardly believe I was blessed
 with the realization of two dreams in one lifetime, and now almost finished with 
the third "Impossible Dream"  entitled the 
DIVINE VISIONS of NATURE from TIMPANOGOS

Now, the MAYA BOOK is available only by sections & chapters accessed below on this Home page.  

 The original HIGH UINTA MOUNTAINS book....
....called by some,
 the "ENCYCLOPEDIA of the UINTA MOUNTAINS" is 
available through information CLICKING ON THE LINK BELOW.  
It has now been divided into two books, available in paperback and a beautiful hardcover book on AMAZON.COM. Scroll down to see it along with excerpts showing it's beautilful color reproduction. 
 IMPORTANTLY every section is prefaced with HISTORY,
 LEGENDS, SURIVAL STORIES and why some were lost, and 
MY 8 SURVIVAL EXPERIENCES and WHY I SURVIVED 
and
YOU CAN TOO.........SAFELY & ENJOYABLY
No other High Uinta book has all of that...above, 
 the details...BELOW:




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CLICK for: Original HIGH UINTA BOOK with index
Below we see the hardcover versions of the two books.  The paper is a little better than the paperback version, and the color reproduction is wonderful.  Below I'll insert a few photos taken from the books.







And, of course it is the best up-to-date guidebook for hiking, backpacking, goat-packing, horsepacking, etc. There are color topographical maps of every trailhead area with well marked trails to all the best lakes/peaks, with mileages and enlarged labels.  



At AMAZON.COM  ask for "books by Cordell Andersen"  There you can see the first sections of each book.

At the end of Chapter 6 there is more information about these books and 
how you can get any of the 3 versions. 

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