Canyonlands
National Park
thru Outward Bound
Oct 12-19, 2001  

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What are you looking at?!
It's Outward Bound 2001 CUL174. We started off at the Moab, Utah base camp. It took us about 2 hours to get into Canyonlands National Park. We were given a prep talk at the visitor center about the delicate desert condition in Cnayonlands. There was a special bioecological phenomenum that bacteria grows on sandy soil. It would create a hard crown covering the valuable soil, protecting th water from evaporating.

It was hot and dry. Even though the desert colour wasn't that attractive, the rock formation was great. We were hiking on sandy rock most of the time.


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Entering Canyonlands
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Let's load up
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Before we started

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Hallelujah
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Good night!
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Good Morning

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Rock structure
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Rock structure

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Ken, give me a hand.
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Rock structure

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There were ancient markings on these 3 walls

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Picture Time!
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Who's this guy?
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Are we lost?

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There's life
in this desert.
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Let's go up!
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Brunch Time!

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We're going
up this valley
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Half way up
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Almost on the top

One of the high point of this trip was to hike up this valley to reach the top. It was one of the highest elevation in the Park. We were having fun climbing up the valley, and at last we enjoyed our views at the top.


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Just another 150 feet vertical

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Climb on
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Dave, you are
doing good.
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Wow, we're on top

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Man, I love it
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High point of my day

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It's pitch black when we
headed back to camp
Forgot our headlamps
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Our scarce watersource

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Oasis

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I am watching you, buddies!

This rock face picture was the most amazing one I took so far. It mimicked a human face, overlooking our trail as if the Godness was watching out for us. We started to see more vegetation as we crossed to the "Plains", where water could be drawn from Green River.


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My pack is still so big, why?

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See the pass behind us.
We were going to camp up high tonight,
and cross over to the other side tomorrow.

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Nice shot!
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Finally we found our high camp.
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My solo night

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We went by this rock face
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Our tent city
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Quite roomy inside

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Lookig back what we went through.

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Looks like one of
those on
Easter Island
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My signature shadow
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My boots

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Does it look familiar? Athlete's Feet?

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Green River, Colorado
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Outward Bound

What I remembered about this trip? The human rock face, the athletic foot rock, eating a lot of mozzarella cheese and carrying 9 litre water in my backpack.


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