It’s been a while I know. Rescue and guide’s schools here in Australia, followed immediately by belly repair surgery (old wounds), recovery, holidays. Starting to think about next season, so here’s a few Canyon tidbits:
A great little vid by the Park about Mary Jane Coulter and Desert View Tower:
Fabrey, Suzie in blue, Ruth Ann, & Billie scouting Lava
And here’s a shot of fixing some carnage afterwards:
Here’s Scottie flipping in the Big Cahuna in a raft, bottom of Lava Falls:
Day 3, time for a bath!
Wyatt in Idaho
Carrie and I are headed to the Firth river, Yukon territory this June. Flowing into the Arctic ocean, hoping to see some muskox and caribou. Here’s a quote about the far north from Farley Mowat:
"It is, I suppose, a sort of disease — an arctic fever — and yet no microscope can discover its virus and it remains completely unknown to the savants of science. The arctic fever has no effect on the body but lives only in the mind, filling its victim with a consuming urge to wander again, and forever, through those mighty spaces where the caribou herds flow like living rivers over the roll of the tundra. It is a disease of the imagination, and yet it attacks men whom you would not normally accuse of being imaginative. It is this unknown disease that drives taciturn white men back to their crude log shanties year after year, back to the desperate life of the interminable winter night, and back to the wind and the search through the gray snow for the white fox and the ermine. The disease is one of great power indeed, for it does not leave such victims as these until life itself leaves them.”
View from very rare layover hike to Nankoweap Butte
And finally, Jeffe & crew singing Land of the Navajo!
Enough for now! See you later Canyon lovers.
