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Dear Camelback

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An original by me :)

Dear Camelback Mountain,
I see you every day when I am on my way.
Driving to work I see you with your rocky spine,
And on my way back home at half past nine.
I see you on my ride to church out in the west,
And love to climb your jagged peaks when stressed.
I've seen you from across the way when sitting on Squaw Peak,
And all the many houses built around you oh SO chic.
I've seen the way each hiker beats upon your back,
And what you do to weaker souls who just can’t hack.
You even have a road that’s in your name.
You’re one of Arizona’s claims to fame!
Yet what a shame it is too see I think,
My loney camel in a cloud of stink --
A cloud of smog that shrouds your beauty, shrouds your grace.
Forgotten is the thought of leave no trace.
Ya know, we humans have a lot to do
to make up what we've done to you.
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: app :
"Rather love, than money, than fame, give me truth."
-Henry David Thoreau
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Thanks :D
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Too funny! :lol:
Yea, canyoneering is an extreme sport... EXTREMELY dramatic!!! =p
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Can we start the haikus?

Camelback spandex
Never see the chuckwallas
They taste very bad

They must taste real bad
Because they just wait for you
To keep walking by

Wedge in rocks with air
They don't even hiss at you
Snakes will let you know

You may scare the snake
But chuckwallas are real cool
Sitting in the sun

Now for the 10 o'clock show

Stiller loves his beer
He also loves the steelers
Both need each other

Bob is a madman
Don't sleep in front of his house
Scary wake up call

We all love Denny
TortoiseHiker is not slow
Take more pictures please

Wally is i-mike
I live the life that you want
Mount Kimball is weak

Elizabeth skis
Over the White Mountains snow
Tucson to Nordic

Stefan has vanished
Perhaps he really hates us
Thanks to Bob's Death March

No Sunday hikes Dave
You minister to your flock
Witness hiking love

Message board badness
Jeff and Al hate each other
Both are really cool

There is no hate there
Both going same direction
Both for the same cause

Roommate almost died
On the Mazatzals Death March
Hiking in the dark

The Pinal Mountains
Little-known sky islands rock
Pretty close to home

North versus the South
Too much hiking in this state
No way one can choose

Garmin makes me sad
I scratched my screen with stylus
R E I replace
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Blood and scars on legs
Arizona Pinstripes rock
Please enjoy the scars

SixShooter maples
Icehouse Canyon aspen trees
Who needs more color?

Sasquatch stole the sign
Gowan trailhead is unknown
Sign is a war club

Please walk on the rocks
That's all Arizona has
Use proper footwear

I love the desert
But I really hate the heat
Better than the snow
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Oh Camelback hipsters
When we ask you to not leave a trace,
We mean the plastic in your bottles
Not the plastic in your body and your face.
"Two roads diverged in a wood, and I--
I took the one less traveled by.
And that has made all the difference"
- Robert Frost
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Packed2Much wrote:Oh Camelback hipsters
When we ask you to not leave a trace,
We mean the plastic in your bottles
Not the plastic in your body and your face.
:sl:
AD-AVGVSTA-PER-ANGVSTA
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Packed2Much wrote:Oh Camelback hipsters
When we ask you to not leave a trace,
We mean the plastic in your bottles
Not the plastic in your body and your face.
Sorry. I was inspired by the first thing that Camelback made me think of. If only Ed Hardy made an outdoor line we'd have even more trouble parking there.
"Two roads diverged in a wood, and I--
I took the one less traveled by.
And that has made all the difference"
- Robert Frost
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