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| no partners | | A rocking weekend! Racing down a road managed to dodge both a Gila monster and a tarantula without wrecking the FJ. A lame survey says the ninth most ticketed vehicle for speeding is a Toyota FJ cruiser---probably sponsored by some insurance company. Drove and hiked looking for red maple trees, too early, found a couple of outliers. Afternoon hike to the upper part of canyon we had been in before was the jackpot.
Great walking through the pines with no inkling, then see the rock walls and the bottom falling away, soon cliffed out. We made our way down, then down canyon a little having to go high at a multi level falls and boulder choke. We came back up, took the photos, then Brian propped a log against the edge and boosted me up to a doable ledge. The alternate was a crack with a 10 foot sheer chimney at the top which was overhung. No thanks with no hand line.
We merrily walked up canyon, I wanted to see if we could locate the source of the stream. Just beautiful and intimate with lovely pools and colors. We were running out of light and at a fork went up a small walled canyon, left it and triangulated to the car. With no GPS or map and walking in pines with no landmarks Brian navigated to within 25 feet of the car.
Ah, fall on the rim, with elk bugling, generators running, coyotes howling, and guns firing.
We had a bit of a walkabout the next day then bouncing down the dirt roads with the masses toward home. |
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