Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/06/19
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Great collection of shots! Regards, Greg 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