Wondering what to share for my fun Friday Photos post, I checked my phone for a few I had not yet uploaded.
![Click to Close Cochiti Lake Dam](https://liveworkdream.com/wp-content/gallery/misc-2019/1_040919w_cochiti-5980.jpg)
Rene said Cochiti Lake Dam is one of the largest dams in the world. I had to correct her, it ranks up there as one of the 10 longest earthen dams in the United States. Apparently rather controversial too. Dam.
![Cochiti Lake Dam](https://liveworkdream.com/wp-content/gallery/misc-2019/040919w_cochiti-5979.jpg)
As the son of a geotechnical engineer who worked with the USACE which builds these things, I was rather impressed with this 250+ foot high, five-plus mile long mound of dirt.
![Cochiti Lake](https://liveworkdream.com/wp-content/gallery/misc-2019/040919w_cochiti-5981.jpg)
It also made for a nice and easy running route, though some may argue running eight miles in a straight line might get rather boring. So I thought of some of the other dams we’ve seen in our travels…
![Hoover Dam](https://liveworkdream.com/wp-content/gallery/us_nevada/NVhooverdam1.jpg)
One of the first was Hoover Dam, but that was way back in the day, obviously…
![Hoover Dam Bypass](https://liveworkdream.com/wp-content/gallery/us_nevada/NVhooverdam2.jpg)
Back when you could still drive over the dam to get where you were going when leaving Las Vegas.
![Grand Tetons](https://liveworkdream.com/wp-content/gallery/us_wyoming/20080930w_beaverdam05.jpg)
Nearly as long ago, there was this rather impressive Beaver Dam we saw during our stay near the Grand Tetons with Jerry.
![John Day Dam](https://liveworkdream.com/wp-content/gallery/misc-2018/050518w_johndaydam-0911.jpg)
More recently, was another amazing feat of dam engineering that deserved its own John Day Dam video, from one of our first stops on that long strange trip to Alaska.
![Yukon River Dam](https://liveworkdream.com/wp-content/gallery/misc-2018/0623w_YukonRiver-4169.jpg)
A couple thousand miles later on that journey, we enjoyed boondocking along the Yukon river – where we spotted more dam beavers.
![Yukon River Beaver](https://liveworkdream.com/wp-content/gallery/floraandfauna/062318w_Whitehorse1957.jpg)
These dam places we visit always get me thinking of Dad. After all, he was a proud member of The Beavers himself. And I’m sure he would have been proud of that dam Agridrain project I worked on while workamping at Vickers Ranch.
![Vickers Lake Dam](https://liveworkdream.com/wp-content/gallery/workamping/IMG_5254w.jpg)
Dam. Thought we might have more dam photos than that in our Live Work Dream Galleries.
Those were some dam nice photos!
😉 Thanks!
Dam, that’s an old photo of me.