You wake up with a blue hue inside your vision. Unzip your bag and half way down the zipper gets lodged between a sand particle and a soft place. The mild haze of blue pastels and a thought of “ did I even sleep”, is rubbed across the eye like sand paper on the eyelid. Cognition is now coming around like a swift...
Losing over 2400 feet of elevation loss over a mile of distance might not sound so bad but after you have experienced the Grand Canyon and it’s tributaries that feed into the big ditch, the formidable nature humbles the best of us and demands a kind of “ ad hoc” agility that expands our very mental composure. Now add 30 lbs of expensive...
