Rain, San Franciscos department of public works this morning rushed to release sandbags to residents. The city stockpile several hundred bags for distribution. Given out approximately 200 sandbags so far. Clearing catch basins and the areas flowing leaves. Weve had a couple of minor incidents with trees coming down. The skies cleared by midday leaving behind flooding that prompted the park service to close the highway. This mans car died moments after he drove through the intersection. I went through the puddle and, a car just stalled. I guess the water just went into the hood. Fear of flooding is strongest in the citys mission district. Heavy rain in april flooded an Apartment Building including a restaurant. The water wants to pool here. This used to be a lagoon. When we have that coupled with high tides the rain has nowhere to go. Whether School Workers is tying to secure the site. It took two days of phone calls. Sandbags could be picked up in the agencies operation yard. Proof of
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 route it take you from ledge to ledge to ledge, down through cracks and narrows, chimneys leading down step by step. Until you get to this arch. Its a small arch, its only about this tall. The photograph is a little well, size, scale dimension, they all kind of leave out there. Right inside of this arch way there is a bunch of broken pottery so you know this was a used route a thousand years ago. And the arch leads down into a canyon that opens up and you go up a side canyon into this little alcove where a piece of the ceiling has fallen just slightly. And i found this place. The first time i found this was on the 27th day of a back pack and i got up to this spot and i took my hat off and i stuck my head in the crack, which is something tha
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