[Leica] Little Wild Horse

[ric at cartersxrd.net (RicCarter)]

such a beautiful playground

you did not waste it!

ric


On Apr 30, 2013, at 4:41 PM, Aram Langhans <leica_r8 at hotmail.com> wrote:

> By Goblin Valley State Park in Utah is a canyon called Little Wild Horse.  
> A very interesting hike.  With my wife and my 90 year old father-in-law, I 
> was able to hike the first mile or so before my wife?s claustrophobia and 
> my FIL?s 90 years said, turn back.  (that said, he is a mountain goat....) 
>   It starts out fairly wide.
> 
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Aram/s3/u/Goblin+Valley-2431.jpg.html
> 
> There are lots of nice sandstone sculptures and features throughout the 
> canyon.
> 
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Aram/s3/u/Goblin+Valley-2476.jpg.html
> 
> And I have never seen such twisted and convoluted sandstone anywhere.  
> Amazing.
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Aram/s3/u/Goblin+Valley-2453.jpg.html
> 
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Aram/s3/u/Goblin+Valley-2471.jpg.html
> 
> It then narrows to just about wide enough to accommodate your feet and 
> goes on for 40-50 meters that way.  Wife starting to panic.  To make 
> matters more interesting, there were perhaps a hundred boy scouts there 
> and when you get to these narrow parts, there is only one-way traffic, but 
> no traffic cop to direct the flow.  So, as you meet 10 or 20 boy scouts 
> half way through there is only one thing to do.
> 
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Aram/s3/u/Goblin+Valley-2464.jpg.html
> climb the walls.  One lad found a nice hole to occupy while is comrades in 
> the distance eagerly show off by making bridges for us old folks to pass 
> under.  They had a blast, and it took my wife?s mind off the narrowness 
> enough to make it through.  However, she did know she was going to have to 
> come back, as we were not going to make the whole 6 mile loop through the 
> canyon and back through Bell canyon.
> 
> Here is my father-in-law in a wider spot.
> 
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Aram/s3/u/Goblin+Valley-2470.jpg.html
> 
> He amazes me.  We are starting to notice him slowing down quite a bit 
> between last fall?s trip and now, but I hope to be half as fit when I am 
> 90.  For those who know the hike, last spring he hiked all the way to 
> Delicate Arch in Arches National Park, when he was 89.
> 
> Comments welcome.
> 
> Aram
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> Aram Langhans
> 
> Semi-Retired (Retarded) Science Teacher
> and unemployed photographer
> 
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