Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/12/15
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On Dec 15, 2008, at 4:30 PM, Lawrence Zeitlin wrote: > > On Dec 15, 2008, at 5:01 PM, Hoppy wrote: > >> Dear Steve, please contact someone in state government and have the >> heat >> turned up for Arizona. We just got back from the Grand Canyon and >> nearly >> froze our a**es off! I didn't even know that thermometers went down >> below 0 >> on your Fahrenheit scale! >> Cheers >> temporarily Arizonian Hoppy > > > I guess you didn't get down to river level. About 20 years ago we > rafted down the Grand Canyon length of Colorado River in the middle > of April. True to your experience, there was a couple of feet of > snow on the rim but at river level the temperature was in the balmy > 80s. We camped out in pop tents and went swimming in the calm pools > of water. Apparently the sunlight gets reflected off the canyon > walls and is concentrated at the base. Sort of like a solar > collector. In retrospect, I'm glad we didn't do it in August. The > water must be boiling then. the water temperature now is quite constant as it come from the depths of Lake Powell, but the air temperature in summer is stifling, Steve > > > Larry Z > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information