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Down the River

So, I thought these were some cool light beams: And tomorrow, I'm getting up at four in the morning to go hiking down to Phantom Ranch in Grand Canyon, where I'll hop in the boat and row Horn Creek about 500 yards later. Here's my friend Brad Dimock running it in his custom Galloway replica boat: It's been 10 years since I've rowed anything that big, so I'm a bit nervous. Might be my mom will ride with my dad for the first couple-three rapids, and can't say I blame her. Anyway, I should be back around the 2nd. Don't let anything really spectacularly bad go wrong while I'm away.

Moab Photo Dump: Highway 128, Dead Horse Point, Arches, and Canyonlands

Be warned, this is a big one. So first thing I did was drive down Highway 128, which follows the Colorado River into Moab:  I believe this is Onion Creek which was flash-flooding at the time.  Here are a couple panoramas from Dead Horse Point:  Here's Park Avenue in Arches: And Double Arch: And The Windows:  This is Delicate Arch, from across a small valley:  In perspective (the zoom on my camera is pretty good):  Then I went on a little hike into the Devil's Garden, out to Dark Angel. Here's Landscape Arch on the way:  And Navajo Arch (I think):  A couple panoramas from a high spot in Devil's Garden: Double-O Arch: From the other side: And Dark Angel. It's just like it looks, a semi-random stob of rock out by itself. It's striking how quickly the number of people falls off the further you get from the pavement. This is maybe an hour or so's brisk walking from the parki

Mesa Falls Photo Dump

This is a quick look at a proposed National Monument, the Mesa Falls area in Idaho. Here's the lower falls, which apparently gonzo kayakers actually run sometimes: Mist from the upper falls: View from the lip of the upper falls: Further down:  On the way back I found this massive spillway structure on Island Park Reservoir: Look into the bottom of the spillway, where you could hear water moving but not see it: