Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/06/19
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Wade Wonderful! I sincerely hope and wish that many more people would follow your lead and go hiking and camping in the more inhospitable areas. Builds character! Jerry Wade Heninger wrote: > Each year my brother, brothers-in-law (ahem, "the men") mark off a about > as much time as we can spare for the hallowed "ain't life simple with > everything on my back" backpack trip. > > Historically, this has gravitated to the desert southwest somewhere > (Viva Red Rock! Coyotes Unite!). Some place inhospitable, manly and > hard. Where water, when you find it, is 4 miles from camp, up a canyons > in small scummy puddles full of with water bugs, lizards and the like. > Where the heat often exceeds 108 degrees and that 10L camelback bladder > full of said water becomes your most important asset (however > mineral-hard it tastes). > > You can have your beaches, with their attendant blue water. You can > have your alpine granite, ridgelines and crampons. You can have your > Xbox and the cathode-ray nipple. > > I'll take red rock, lizards and scraggly juniper, thankyouverymuch! > > This year, we wandered off in the Needles district of Canyonlands > National Park, UT. It was hot, the hiking was physically challenging and > the surrounding views were stunning. > > Each night we sat around, headlamps aglow to read from the good book > (Edward Abbey, that is), play cards and make fun of how fast one or the > other came down with heat exhaustion. But I digress... > > http://www.heninger.org/gallery/canyonlands2003/index.htm > > . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . > w a d e h e n i n g e r > i n t e r a c t i o n d e s i g n > a d o b e s y s t e m s , i n c . > > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html