Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/12/16
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hi Larry. No we barely had time for walking along a small portion of the rim. A real tragedy. Hower, we shall return, of course. As the the river rafting, about one or two years advance notice required for a spot on a trip now. About like a campsite in Yosemite! ----- Original Message ----- From: "Lawrence Zeitlin" <lrzeitlin@optonline.net> To: <lug@leica-users.org> Cc: "Lawrence Zeitlin" <lrzeitlin@optonline.net> Sent: Tuesday, December 16, 2008 9:30 AM Subject: [Leica] Re: Grand Canyon snow > > 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. > > Larry Z > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information