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Dec 28, 2020 09:37:30   #
AzPicLady Loc: Behind the camera!
 
I've been out on a horse when one of those big suckers came at me. That's when you find out how fast your horse can run!

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Dec 28, 2020 09:51:35   #
merrytexan Loc: georgia
 
Cany143 wrote:
....you sometimes have to head straight into the storm. Strange, huh?

Lost Spring Canyon was added to Arches Nat'l Park in 1998. I had the honor of being 'the designated pterfogger' for the dedication that was held to commemorate the addition. There we were, on a northern rim, a rag-tag group of eight or ten various Muckety-Mucks (Arches' Chief Ranger, a few Moabian folk --the Mayor, some Town Council-critter person or other--), a Utah State Senator, me, and (I think) some guy who was hopelessly lost and had followed the rest of us out to where we went. It was pretty cool; to that point I'd never actually been in Lost Spring Canyon, and had, at best, merely eyeballed it from inside the Park, in Upper Salt Wash.

But this photo isn't of Lost Spring Canyon. Its from a trip into Lost Spring Canyon a friend and I did not long after the 'dedication.' Or more accurately, its a photo I shot while trying to get the heck out of the area north of Lost Spring Canyon. Before the storm we could sorta suspect (being in a canyon limits your ability to see much except 'up', and definitely not 'out') was approaching, and actually hit. Which would've made the road (yes, we'd driven in....) as slick and slimy as snot, and not been very nice at all. As it turned out, the storm hit in earnest a mile or so before we got to pavement. And we just barely managed the remainder of that. Whew!

Its an old scanned .jpg I just came across while looking for something else. Figgered I'd post it, 'cuz what the heck.
....you sometimes have to head straight i into /i... (show quote)


Enjoyed the story and the shot, cany.

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Dec 28, 2020 10:25:10   #
CLF Loc: Raleigh, NC
 
Cany143 wrote:
....you sometimes have to head straight into the storm. Strange, huh?

Lost Spring Canyon was added to Arches Nat'l Park in 1998. I had the honor of being 'the designated pterfogger' for the dedication that was held to commemorate the addition. There we were, on a northern rim, a rag-tag group of eight or ten various Muckety-Mucks (Arches' Chief Ranger, a few Moabian folk --the Mayor, some Town Council-critter person or other--), a Utah State Senator, me, and (I think) some guy who was hopelessly lost and had followed the rest of us out to where we went. It was pretty cool; to that point I'd never actually been in Lost Spring Canyon, and had, at best, merely eyeballed it from inside the Park, in Upper Salt Wash.

But this photo isn't of Lost Spring Canyon. Its from a trip into Lost Spring Canyon a friend and I did not long after the 'dedication.' Or more accurately, its a photo I shot while trying to get the heck out of the area north of Lost Spring Canyon. Before the storm we could sorta suspect (being in a canyon limits your ability to see much except 'up', and definitely not 'out') was approaching, and actually hit. Which would've made the road (yes, we'd driven in....) as slick and slimy as snot, and not been very nice at all. As it turned out, the storm hit in earnest a mile or so before we got to pavement. And we just barely managed the remainder of that. Whew!

Its an old scanned .jpg I just came across while looking for something else. Figgered I'd post it, 'cuz what the heck.
....you sometimes have to head straight i into /i... (show quote)


Chief, looks like on hxxx of a storm. A DDL shows off how bad it really is.

Greg

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Dec 28, 2020 10:25:40   #
CLF Loc: Raleigh, NC
 
CLF wrote:
Chief, looks like on hxxx of a storm. A DDL shows off how bad it really is.

Greg

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Dec 28, 2020 12:59:24   #
SpikeW Loc: Butler PA
 
Nice.

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Dec 28, 2020 13:22:04   #
One Rude Dawg Loc: Athol, ID
 
Cany143 wrote:
....you sometimes have to head straight into the storm. Strange, huh?

Lost Spring Canyon was added to Arches Nat'l Park in 1998. I had the honor of being 'the designated pterfogger' for the dedication that was held to commemorate the addition. There we were, on a northern rim, a rag-tag group of eight or ten various Muckety-Mucks (Arches' Chief Ranger, a few Moabian folk --the Mayor, some Town Council-critter person or other--), a Utah State Senator, me, and (I think) some guy who was hopelessly lost and had followed the rest of us out to where we went. It was pretty cool; to that point I'd never actually been in Lost Spring Canyon, and had, at best, merely eyeballed it from inside the Park, in Upper Salt Wash.

But this photo isn't of Lost Spring Canyon. Its from a trip into Lost Spring Canyon a friend and I did not long after the 'dedication.' Or more accurately, its a photo I shot while trying to get the heck out of the area north of Lost Spring Canyon. Before the storm we could sorta suspect (being in a canyon limits your ability to see much except 'up', and definitely not 'out') was approaching, and actually hit. Which would've made the road (yes, we'd driven in....) as slick and slimy as snot, and not been very nice at all. As it turned out, the storm hit in earnest a mile or so before we got to pavement. And we just barely managed the remainder of that. Whew!

Its an old scanned .jpg I just came across while looking for something else. Figgered I'd post it, 'cuz what the heck.
....you sometimes have to head straight i into /i... (show quote)


Great shot, kind of makes you glad you weren't out there on a horse without a rain slicker.

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Dec 28, 2020 17:01:11   #
mffox Loc: Avon, CT
 
I'm glad you posted it too. Very nice shot.

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Dec 28, 2020 23:34:34   #
OneShot1 Loc: Wichita, KS, USA
 
I always enjoy the stories, ramblings, and golems as much as the photos. Thanks!

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Dec 29, 2020 18:12:49   #
Bar Loc: da 'YouPee', eh!
 
A sunken sandy road during a storm could spell big problems even for a 4wd unless it had been modded to 'mudding'.

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Dec 29, 2020 18:39:23   #
Cany143 Loc: SE Utah
 
Bar wrote:
A sunken sandy road during a storm could spell big problems even for a 4wd unless it had been modded to 'mudding'.


I'm no stranger (or maybe I'm only slightly less strange? hard to say....) to 'mud-modded 4WD ve-hickles.' Where I live, everybody has 'em. Even the little 'ol blue-haired lady who lives around the corner from me who only drives hers to Sunday Go Ta Meeting meetings on Sundays drives one. But she's a genuinely strange case, and it might be best for all if I don't go into her story here, okay? In any event, back when I shot this shot, my 'ride' at the time was an old '72 Toyota Landcruiser, and I SWEAR to GAWD that that beast could climb a telephone pole (though admittedly, I never tried to make it climb a muddy telephone pole, so what I'm going to say next has to be put into meaningful context, y'know?). It wasn't here (here being the exact place I shot this shot), but it wasn't far away, and it was in the exact same sort of geology/terrain as is shown in this shot, and wherever it was, it was the ONLY place I've ever gotten stuck in any of the various 4WD ve-hickles I've mudded around these environs in over these past several decades.

How shall I put it? How's this: there's mud, and then there's wet clay dirt. Mud can be fun, but wet clay dirt will muss up a whole dang day.

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Dec 30, 2020 08:53:27   #
Ourspolair
 
Beautiful panorama that almost got you stuck in there... High-tailing it out of there was a wise decision. Stay safe in the New Year.

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