Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/06/19

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Canyonlands 2003
From: Bob Adler <rgacpa@pacbell.net>
Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2003 12:53:39 -0700 (PDT)

Wade,
Great tale; greater photography! Thank you for
sharing. I gotta get me there someday...
Bob
- --- Wade Heninger <heninger@adobe.com> 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 . 
> 
> 
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Bob Adler
Palo Alto, CA
rgacpa@pacbell.net
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