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My doctor yesterday told me I wasn’t no spring chicken.

I’m 29!

River Bends Through 1,000-Foot Canyons

An astronaut aboard the International Space Station shot this photograph of the Green River flowing through deep, red rock canyons in eastern Utah. A main tributary of the Colorado River, the Green flows 730 miles (1,175 kilometers) through Wyoming, Colorado and Utah. The portion of the Green River in this image is just north of Canyonlands National Park.

Bowknot Bend was named for the way the river loops back on itself. Located in Labyrinth Canyon about 25 miles west of Moab, Utah, this river bend runs 7.5 miles (12 kilometers) in a circular loop and ends up 1,200 feet (360 meters) from where it first started. When the two sides of the river merge someday, Bowknot Bend will break off from the main channel and form a lake.

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Big enough to be overwhelming, still intimate enough to feel the pulse of time, Black Canyon of the Gunnison exposes you to some of the steepest cliffs, oldest rock and craggiest spires in North America. This western Colorado landmark was sculpted by the Gunnison River and the forces of weather over 2 million years. Photo of a snowy and fog-filled canyon by Judd Clark, National Park Service.

Christmas atmosphere in Hamar, 1943/44

“How do we forgive our Fathers?

Maybe in a dream

Do we forgive our Fathers for leaving us too often or forever

when we were little?

Maybe for scaring us with unexpected rage

or making us nervous

because there never seemed to be any rage there at all.

Do we forgive our Fathers for marrying or not marrying our Mothers?

For Divorcing or not divorcing our Mothers?

And shall we forgive them for their excesses of warmth or coldness?

Shall we forgive them for pushing or leaning

for shutting doors

for speaking through walls

or never speaking

or never being silent?

Do we forgive our Fathers in our age or in theirs

or their deaths

saying it to them or not saying it?

If we forgive our Fathers

What is left?”

-Smoke Signals

Cutler Creek

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One of the reasons I won’t allow myself to call this a real hiking blog yet is because half of the time we/I didn’t finish the hike because...well I don’t know, at first it felt like there was always something! I also don’t really read maps, use compasses, or have a GPS watch or anything, so those are all goals that I have. In the mean time, I feel that I do need to record my experiences so that I can remember and avoid these sorts of things next time.

Now I’m writing this from a memory of 5 months ago, so I am a giving out a warning that this should be taken with a grain of salt. But I remember the drive there was wack! Nathan has a 4WD truck and we did not feel comfortable driving all the way to the trail head. Pretty sure we had to walk a little more than .5 to the trailhead, and soon after the trail began, a roaring creek prevented us from really going farther--plus we had done the Owl Creek Pass drive earlier that day, which I’ll have to post on another day. 

Here are some directions/descriptions for the trail:

Blog 1

Blog 2

Below are some pictures of the creek that made us turn away and the cool view from the crazy drive.

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