Thursday, September 4, 2014
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Top ten ways to tell it's hot:(10) Microfibre, not cotton, is the hiking necessity to stay dry.(9) Eating 5 day old pasta beats cooking over a hot stove.
(8) Ink from the park map melts on your legs.
(7) Your nose and throat feel like you're smoking all the time.
(6) You refer to 30 degrees as "cooling off".
(5) You drink water not as a want, but as a prevention of headaches, grumpiness & death.
(4) Sweat on the body is like oil on a frying pan, it sizzles & glistens.
(3) AC is not a luxury. (2) You forget to eat. And the top reason you know it's hot? (1) Physical contact with your significant other is kept to a functional minimum. |
http://www.nps.gov/cany/planyourvisit/needles.htm
http://bateswilson.org/who-was-bates-wilson/
Roadside Ruin
This is a Puebloan granary (grain storage bin). Since A.D. 950, the Ancestral Puebloans farmed in the Canyonlands area. There are dozens of similar storage structures, but few dwellings, which suggest the people lived seasonally in the Canyonlands area.
Cowboy Camp on Cave Spring trail
We were in a very remote section of the park. We drove over dirt roads with steep curves.
Catja... I thought you were unhappy with heights ! That ladder looked pretty steep to us!
ReplyDeleteGreat observation! I asked @ the visitor's ctre about the height of that ladder. Someone who had hiked the trail said it was at least 10 feet. I know, from exposure therapy that my threshold, before fear symptoms kick in, is 10-12 feet !!
ReplyDeleteOk, so what you are saying is "it was hot", eh? ;)
ReplyDeleteHa ha!! Some hot, eh!! Today, our truck registered 42 while it was sitting in the heat!
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