I Found JC Tonight ...

... TO BE CONTINUED ....

 ...well it was .. another attack of vertigo.  I have a problem at altitude - I am not afraid to be there - it's just if I turn really quickly or move laterally with a huge depth of field like at Bryce Canyon, I get dizzy and almost nauseous.  At one point I had to get down on one knee.  No wonder the Crow-Raven beasts were talking to me.  Usually after about a half an hour I am OK - at Bryce that sensation was getting worse the longer I was there.  Oh well -  I made it out and home - no thanks to the crows - remember Mickey Rourke hating chickens in Angel Heart - for a whole other reason though.

Today I drove over to Marble Canyon and then back along Highway 89 to photograph the Grand Staircase in profile.  Marble Canyon is sort of the unofficial beginning of the Grand Canyon - just downstream from Lee's Ferry.  At Marble Canyon the bridge is 400 feet above the Colorado River and it is there where they are experimenting with the re-introduction of the condors.  In fact there was a Park Ranger there with a modified paint gun to fire soft projectiles in their direction should they return to roost on the bridge.  He had an antenna to track them - they all have wireless transmitters attached to them - he knows which direction they are heading, he just doesn't know where they are- kind of like me , I guess.

I spent the night with an acquaintance from last year - JC Stimson.  JC is probably mid 60s in age but boy is he youthful in spirit.  JC has travelled the canyons, the gulches, the rivers and the back country of the 'Four Corners' and has slides and video to prove it.  He has put together a 70 DVD set of his adventures and I am proud to say I have the complete set.

JC went over his Moab adventures where I will be headed on Sunday - so needless to say, I am more than well prepared.  JC is from Las Vegas originally - which seems almost at odds doesn't it?

He is one of the few people I know who think nothing of backpacking, hiking or canoeing - completely solo.  I continue to be amazed by the man and his adventures.

Tomorrow will be a less intense photography day for me as I head over to St. George for some general browsing around but the highway always produces dramatic skies at sunset so we'll see what we find coming back.

On the way over and the way back from Marble Canyon, the Raven-Crow beasts were out there - they just weren't talking - which as Martha would say, 'is a good thing.'

To quote from the Krome Koan, verse 51, 'You're just jealous because the voices only talk to me.

Phil