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Subject: [Leica] Re: Grand Canyon snow
From: hoppyman at bigpond.net.au (Geoff Hopkinson)
Date: Tue Dec 16 12:20:17 2008
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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
>
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