[Janet] Though both Steve and I grew up in the farmlands of southern Idaho, we have learned to love San Juan County and have lived here since 1970. At first it seemed barren, dry, and too rocky. But It is Home to us now. We love the open spaces, the clean air, the slower lifestyle and the varied landscapes which includes farms, forests, mountains, pastures, canyons, buttes, lakes, open spaces and small towns.
Central to our core beliefs is a love of the land. Steve was raised on an irrigation farm, and myself on a dry farm, so we’re used to getting dirty and working hard. We have raised not only a large family, but a great deal of our own food ever since we moved here, plus we share with others. We are conservationists in that we try not to waste water, produce, time, energy, or belongings. We and our neighbors have been putting things we don’t need on a give-away corner at 1st South and 3rd West for eight years now.
This mountain range has been a beacon of hope, home, and harmony to all cultures in the county.
Being very frugal, our family reunions and activities were usually centered somewhere in the camping areas of San Juan. Traditionally we have been tent campers, without modern conveniences that modern man (woman) seems to think they can’t live without, though that has changed a bit the last 15 years.
Besides family campouts, our family has participated in multiple Boy Scout Camps, Girls Camps, Cub Scout camps and Fathers and Sons outings on the mountain. Some of the places we’ve camped include Bulldog, Lake Powell, Wolf Cave, Cottonwood, Blue Mountain Guest Ranch, Buckboard, Camp Jackson, Recapture Reservoir, Nizhoni Campground, Johnson Creek, Chippean Ridge, Devils Canyon, Foy Lake, Elk Mountain, Lloyd’s Lake area, Dry Wash, Abajo Haven, Red Butte, and Foy Lake. We have loved those experiences, and have done our best to camp and recreate in harmony with the surroundings and teach our family and others to leave places better than they were found.
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