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I gotta take another epic throne ride...
FAWKING MIND BOGGLING - HitR 2016
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So we pack up and drive through this crazy mountain scenery, even going through groves of aspen.
Remove beno and add us...
Remove beno and add us...
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We stop in some weird land for lunch (not sure if we're in Beef Basin yet)
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More terrain unlike any we've passed this week...
Awesomeocity, remix edition
Awesomeocity, remix edition
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Continued...
At some point we enter Canyonlands, Needles District.
At some point we enter Canyonlands, Needles District.
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Seriously, is this even real?
We need a thread of Beno's wanderings in the desert..@beno
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Steve2 and Andy are talking about going to Chessler Park to do some hike. It's short, but worth it they tell us, but do not describe it at all. Chance of death is only 50%, so we only need one water bottle each.
We pull up to the trail and hop out. The trail is invisible, but fully marked with cairns. I feel like I'm just hiking through the same sh!t we've been seeing all week. Which is cool, but I can see it from my air conditioned seat.
Then we get to a cave-tunnel. With millions of cairns left by visitors.
This is pretty cool, I think, but still...
So we keep hiking:
...then it gets weirder...
...we keep hiking further until we are in a crack between two giant blocks of rock. Seriously THIS IS CRAZY. Though still not what we're here for. But it is very bitchen and Fawkin' Mind Boggling in a fourth dimension kinda way. And it has a cold, like AC cold, breeze blowing through.
It gets even narrower until it's about the 1-1/2 people wide. We even come to a perfect plus-shaped (+) section where two of the hallways intersect (not pictured, though you can kinda see an offshoot hallway)
We pull up to the trail and hop out. The trail is invisible, but fully marked with cairns. I feel like I'm just hiking through the same sh!t we've been seeing all week. Which is cool, but I can see it from my air conditioned seat.
Then we get to a cave-tunnel. With millions of cairns left by visitors.
This is pretty cool, I think, but still...
So we keep hiking:
...then it gets weirder...
...we keep hiking further until we are in a crack between two giant blocks of rock. Seriously THIS IS CRAZY. Though still not what we're here for. But it is very bitchen and Fawkin' Mind Boggling in a fourth dimension kinda way. And it has a cold, like AC cold, breeze blowing through.
It gets even narrower until it's about the 1-1/2 people wide. We even come to a perfect plus-shaped (+) section where two of the hallways intersect (not pictured, though you can kinda see an offshoot hallway)
Andy we are doing this part of the trip at the least.
What comes after boggled again? Damn, I need to get out there!
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Alternate dimensions of reality.
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Totally on-camber in here.
TrickyT
Hate that mud...
Steve,
Thanks for thinking of me! I graciously accept your kind invitation and will definitely be there. All the other can chip in CS, but I have a fine Zinfandel that should go perfectly with your steaks and will bring a bottle or two of that.
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We get to the end where we climb up the rocks and pop out into the open like gophers.
I am totally lost, but the Pryor-Barwicks are excellent at navigating this 4th dimension of reality and we are in the promised land in no time.
We climb some big rock, turn around 180 degrees and are blessed with a perfect view of the needles...
I'm even accepted in the Pryor-Barwick clan for a short spell:
Andy is in like the 5th or 6th dimension and we briefly lose him for a few minutes. Once we find him, we hike back through the stone hallways, back through the Cairn Cave...
...where, of course, I stack one real quick for continued blessings of Awesomocity...
I am totally lost, but the Pryor-Barwicks are excellent at navigating this 4th dimension of reality and we are in the promised land in no time.
We climb some big rock, turn around 180 degrees and are blessed with a perfect view of the needles...
I'm even accepted in the Pryor-Barwick clan for a short spell:
Andy is in like the 5th or 6th dimension and we briefly lose him for a few minutes. Once we find him, we hike back through the stone hallways, back through the Cairn Cave...
...where, of course, I stack one real quick for continued blessings of Awesomocity...
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We get back on the trail, where we will exit via Elephant Hill.
This is where my pictures stopped because, let me tell you, going up Elephant Hill is no joke. Its freakin' straight up, rock climbing the whole way, with really tight switchbacks. Some requiring multiple multi-point turns to
turn around. And my lockers aren't working. Fawk!
But somehow I make it up and live to tell the tale.
Here's a (Heep) video I found of the area. It kinda glosses over the climb out, but you can see the tight-ass switchbacks.
This is where my pictures stopped because, let me tell you, going up Elephant Hill is no joke. Its freakin' straight up, rock climbing the whole way, with really tight switchbacks. Some requiring multiple multi-point turns to
turn around. And my lockers aren't working. Fawk!
But somehow I make it up and live to tell the tale.
Here's a (Heep) video I found of the area. It kinda glosses over the climb out, but you can see the tight-ass switchbacks.
I've been there. Totally cool was just about to say there is one in Elephant Hill just like this.
That's where I want to start my Utah excellent adventure next year.....
That's where I want to start my Utah excellent adventure next year.....
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We head down the road a few miles to Lockhart Basin to find a campsite. It's really dusty and there are a lot of campers, but Steve2 & Johnny eventually scout out a primo spot that requires a water crossing, which seems to keep the people out.
Again, camp-beer-toasts:
(Thanks @PabloVTA for picking these up in Flagstaff
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Again, camp-beer-toasts:
(Thanks @PabloVTA for picking these up in Flagstaff
)
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The Pryor-Barwicks are cooking tonight and Steve is grilling bacon-wrapped pork. Pig-on-pig goodness, that Steve cooked perfectly to the FDA's new lower pork temperature. It was so good that I do not even remember what else we had that night, other than the port Steve pulled out for dessert.
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