FLDS update

Latest word is that the segment with Gary Tuchman will air tomorrow evening, not tonight, on Anderson Cooper 360.

We went out this morning with the CNN crew and Mancos Times editor Jeanne Richardson. After going to the front gates of both properties (at the lower, occupied one Tuchman hollered into the compound, inviting people to come out and tell their side of the story. No response.), we walked around the south end of the field (USFS land) and around the east side to below the big 6-bedroom, 6-bath log house hidden in the canyon (we were on State Forest property at that point).

The pics are of Sandy walking along with Tuchman at the upper FLDS property, the camera crew on the public land side of the fence below the FLDS house in the canyon and a cropped shot of the guy who was monitoring our walk from the time we appeared at the fence line, skedaddling. He had come out to the edge of the forest on his four-wheeler, sized us up and gone back to what appears to be a guard house that's been constructed in the last year above the big house, just in the edge of the woods. Small structure, but it has power and windows and, I suspect, some form of communication in it. When we got below the house, he headed north along an internal road, then came back south on their patrol route along the inside of the fence we were standing next to. He must have known we were there, but when Tuchman hailed him, he acted startled and took off up the hill cross-country on his ATV, almost high-centering on a log in his haste.

Good walk in the woods, fresh air, though a bit nippy and, later, dust-filled ... more San Juaner. tv