Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/12/15

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Subject: [Leica] Re: Grand Canyon snow
From: kididdoc at cox.net (Steve Barbour)
Date: Mon Dec 15 15:40:49 2008
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On Dec 15, 2008, at 4:30 PM, Lawrence Zeitlin wrote:

>
> On Dec 15, 2008, at 5:01 PM, Hoppy wrote:
>
>> Dear Steve, please contact someone in state government and have the  
>> heat
>> turned up for Arizona. We just got back from the Grand Canyon and  
>> nearly
>> froze our a**es off! I didn't even know that thermometers went down  
>> below 0
>> on your Fahrenheit scale!
>> Cheers
>> temporarily Arizonian Hoppy
>
>
> I guess you didn't get down to river level. About 20 years ago we  
> rafted down the Grand Canyon length of Colorado River in the middle  
> of April. True to your experience, there was a couple of feet of  
> snow on the rim but at river level the temperature was in the balmy  
> 80s. We camped out in pop tents and went swimming in the calm pools  
> of water. Apparently the sunlight gets reflected off the canyon  
> walls and is concentrated at the base. Sort of like a solar  
> collector. In retrospect, I'm glad we didn't do it in August. The  
> water must be boiling then.


the water temperature now is quite constant as it come from the depths  
of Lake Powell, but the air temperature in summer is stifling,

Steve


>
>
> Larry Z
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In reply to: Message from lrzeitlin at optonline.net (Lawrence Zeitlin) ([Leica] Re: Grand Canyon snow)