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Scenes from this weeks trip

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This was the view from camp looking back towards the mining lease we pass on the way in.

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The same area


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Looking the other way from camp off the plateu.


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While the kids were sleeping I made an early morning water run to here to pick up six liters of natures finest. I filmed the trip down if anyone's interested in making the water run with me. Mac
 
Wow. Very nice, and very rough at the same time. Just visited your blog. Thanks, looks like you do great work.
 
Holy CRAP! Brazil is just one amazingly beautiful place. Sorry your going to be stuck in PA for a year.
 
Jeez. Its gorgeous! Thanks for posting the pics! I'm blown away!
 
This area is about 1.5 hours from home and I can camp there for free. There´s more land there than I can ever hope to explore doing weekend trips, about 150 sq km. Topographically speaking central Brazil looks like an unmade bed. A large portion f this land was recently made into a forest reserve so it remains to be seen how much I´ll be able to use it in the future. They have all sorts of rules but zero enforcement. Mac
 
I would love to have a Brazil get together sometime. My area is very different than what most people think of when Brazil comes to mind. Central Brazil is great for survival training because it has very varied terrain and conditions. Conditions change with elevation and time of year quite a bit. The place I use has lowland hardwood forests that make for passable jungle, open cerrado (scrubland like in these photos) and mountain terrian that runs up to about 6000 feet elevation.

If you are thinking AMAZON you would be disappointed. The Amazon is Brazil´s dominant terrain feature but only in the Amazon. The rest of Brazil is as varied as the US in terms of terrain types, even including deserts. About the only thing you won´t run into is snow, but that won´t stop you from confronting hypothermia. Mac

ETA- These photos look green because we are in the end of rainy season now. In a few months the land in these pictures turns into a virtual desert but without the heat (winter here is dry season). By October that stream in the forest is just a trickle and all the springs and seeps are dry as a bone.
 
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A GTG and survival course in Brazil is something I would very interested in! It seems to me that the course could also act a a fund raiser for the terrific work you folks are doing down there! I hope you really give it consideration...
 
I sure would like to get down there. I like this type of area much more than the Amazon. And when you throw in the interesting geology there, I'm sold.
 
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