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Get away day.
Ram is always saying that the only way he’d find an Indian artifact is
if he trips over it.
No, … he didn’t trip over this arrowhead. He actually tripped over a
rock and fell onto it, impaling it in his knee. |
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Not really, Dave, who has a good eye for this stuff, found it near the
campsite. |
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Ram and I drop into a short, nearby canyon (dubbed Microbiology) for the last excursion of
the week. The canyon features a 300+ foot headwall rappel. |
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The rock in this canyon is more gray in color than the red Wingate or
Navajo sandstone of the past few days, an unfortunate reminder that
the trip is coming to an end and that I will soon be back in my dreary
gray work cube. |
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We complete 95% of the canyon but are stopped by the last drop.
Somewhere beneath the pool at the bottom of the photo, buried beneath
several feet of water and mud is a dead man anchor. But we are not
able to find it. |
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Like the saying” All good things must come to an end”, so must all
canyoneering adventures. I bid goodbye to my canyoneering partners and
depart for the long drive from one desert (the Great Basin) to another
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Metate Arch, Devils Garden. |
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So I find myself sitting on this rock contemplating the
deep mysteries of life and the penultimate question man has pondered
through the ages (and the one initially posed in this report). "Does
descending canyons, particularly the more difficult ones make you
cool?" Such enigmatic questions can never be answered directly, so I
wrote this little haiku in an attempt to shed some insight for those
on the long and convoluted path to nirvana and coolness.
Approaching the slot,
High stemming ...... consequences,
Hold my beer, watch this.
Check out these other publications for all your navel
contemplating needs:
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance -
Robert Pirsig
The Tao of Pooh - Benjamin Hoff
Zen in the Art of Archery - Eugen Herrigel
and Daisetz T. Suzuki
Wiping your Ass to Enlightenment - Anita
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Thanks to my canyon partners for the week, particularly
Ram and Dave from Wyoming. Canyoneering is a team activity, without
good partners you ain't got squat. |
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