And it was the most spectacular camp i think ive ever had in my life. Thats my spot. And it was just this narrow ledge. I had a thermorest with me and it wasnt as wide as the thermorest so i had to put a rock under the thermorest for my head and reagan slept on top of me. Nights are so solid, you dont move all night. Just to get our stuff out to that ledge, you couldnt actually go with a pack. You had to take your pack off because there is a drop. You kind of have to jump from left to right. So you come up against the wall, you put your foot around and you do that. And then we unloaded our packs piece by piece and then handed each piece across so that then we could set our camp on the ledge and in the morning, we continued down the face lowering our packs until you get down to the next level. And the next level falls out from itself. The ground constantly opening up. You can feel the wind and the water opening the earth as if there was no bottom to this, constantly finding the next rou
Southeast utah where this picture is, and its not really clear how you get around, how you get from place to place. But if you know this place well enough you know right over this lip of white sandstone, if you go right over the ledge and hang your foot over this side, you cant see it but you can feel it with the tip of your foot, theres a little toe hold down there, then if you get on that toe hold you drop your other foot down and theres another toe hold. It happens a thousand years ago somebody carved just a series of toe holds down this rock face. And you climb down those and they lead to a ledge and the ledge wraps around underneath here and it drops down into another spot that you go through a saddle and around to the other side and through another saddle and down and around. Its this circuitous route thats constantly carrying you down deeper and deeper and this is the landscape is just covered with these. I dont take maps out there any more out into this place because its all me
Now, a lot of people look across canyon land, say, in southeast utah where this picture is, and its not really clear how you get around, how you get from place to place. But if you know this place well enough you know right over this lip of white sandstone, if you go right over the ledge and hang your foot over this side, you cant see it but you can feel it with the tip of your foot, theres a little toe hold down there, then if you get on that toe hold you drop your other foot down and theres another toe hold. It happens a thousand years ago somebody carved just a series of toe holds down this rock face. And you climb down those and they lead to a ledge and the ledge wraps around underneath here and it drops down into another spot that you go through a saddle and around to the other side and through another saddle and down and around. Its this circuitous route thats constantly carrying you down deeper and deeper and this is the landscape is just covered with these. I dont take maps out