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| no partners | | Made my second trip to this fascinating place last Thursday. Last time we were here in July it was at least 100F and, although we had nice clouds, no one wanted to stay to capture the place in the late-day sun. It was too hot for most of the party.
This time we started at 6 am from Mesa, drove through snow and slick roads just south of Flag and ate lunch at a place along 89A after the Navajo bridge. We went with the intent of capturing late sun and clouds. This time, it had to be in the 40F's and with stong winds - and a little too many clouds. In fact, the clouds built up on the western horizon so much that it cut off good light way earlier than we had desired. But we did capture a little of what we wanted if we were willing to wait for those short periods when the sun broke through. But there was much that we didn't get to.
We had planned on doing Wire Pass Trail on Friday and then driving on to Canyon de Chelly, where we had arranged a guide to take along on a 4W outing up Canyon del Muerto on Saturday. So we couldn't really try to capture more at White Pocket the day after we had gone in. But we'll be back. |
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| To plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things they misname empire; and where they make a wilderness, they call it peace. -- Publius Cornelius Tacitus (56 AD – 117 AD) |
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