Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/06/20

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Canyonlands 2003
From: Alastair Firkin <firkin@ncable.net.au>
Date: Sat, 21 Jun 2003 09:38:36 +1000

Well, I enjoyed "your" trip too ;-)
On Friday, Jun 20, 2003, at 05:00 Australia/Melbourne, 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 .
>
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Alastair

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