<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META content="text/html; charset=US-ASCII" http-equiv=Content-Type> <META name=GENERATOR content="MSHTML 9.00.8112.16434"></HEAD> <BODY style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: #000000; FONT-SIZE: 10pt" id=role_body bottomMargin=7 leftMargin=7 rightMargin=7 topMargin=7><FONT id=role_document color=#000000 size=2 face=Arial> <DIV>I always like to let Udo know... so the August 2011 SPUT arrived in southern Arizona today. Temperature only 106 today. But no earthquakes. No hurricanes.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>I found the Garmin map (page 9 of The SPUT) especially enjoyable. Might it actually have been included in this issue as a joke? I mean, really... I've long known about the Narcissus Geyser along that loop road, but I never knew there was also one near the Quagmire Group. I also didn't know that Firehole Lake was under/over the highway at the exit of that loop road. Or that that road is U S Highway 191. Or that Bellefontaine Geyser is high on the hill northwest of the (misnamed) Fountain Patrol Cabin. Or that Black Warrior Springs... Interesting, these GPS maps. (Note tongue-in-cheek. Note also that it is errors of this sort that have actually led to several deaths in Death Valley National Park, and which now have the NPS there working with Garmin, etc. to remove the park's backcountry roads from their GPS devices.)</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>--------</DIV> <DIV>Now that I had an excuse to write to the list, and now that I have your attention... Many of you know that one reason for my absence from Yellowstone in 2011 is this book I've been working on, under contract to Mountain Press. For all intents, the text of <EM>Arizona Rocks!</EM> is done (still need some photo trips to get the book finished, though). </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>I wonder if any of you would be willing to serve as readers. The whole thing is 124 pages, but many of those pages have only a few lines on them. All illustrations are noted in the text but <U>none</U> of the illustrations are actually there (being high-res photos, Illustrator maps, and such, they would make for a huge file).</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>The text has already passed geological muster with a number of people, including the Senior Geologist with the Arizona Geological Survey, a retired college professor, and other geologists. A number of NPS folks have read and approved their individual "chapters," too.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Therefore, what I would be interested in receiving now is any comments on the read-ability; that is, how it reads to the "general public."</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>If willing, I'd send the PDF (approx 450KB) to around the first 10 (if I get that many) people who send me their e-mail address off-list. And I would request that your replies get back to me within a week or two at the most (let me know if you can).</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Thanks!</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Scott Bryan</DIV> <DIV><A href="mailto:TSBryan@aol.com">TSBryan@aol.com</A></DIV></FONT></BODY></HTML>