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| Old ranch house near Bridalveil Falls in Salado Canyon |
Saturday, November 10, 2012
Long Trek to Bridal Veil Falls
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Missing hikers? Willow and I did a regular hike this morning while Dr. K stayed back getting ready for our trip to the high country where we...
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Despite the weather, it was a great hike.
OK, Packrat: "...pretty forcefully" is a bit subjective, but the images from your walk were nice.
A few years ago, Kali and I went on a guided horseback trip near the Bob Marshall Wilderness in Montana. When we camped for the evening, the cowboy guide responsible for making dinner dipped water straight out of a creek and made lemonade for the group. I asked him, incredulous, "Aren't you going to filter that water?" (We'd been passing a series of beaver dams all along the stream that day.) He replied, "No, the water's fine." Well, I was really thirsty and didn't have a way to treat the water myself, so I drank the lemonade and was alright. Nevertheless, I think it was irresponsible of him to have done that.
All right, Scott, perhaps "pretty forcefully" was a bit hyperbolic.
Your "Bob Marshall Wilderness lemonade" story was quite amusing. Once I backpacked into the Grand Canyon down the Hermit Trail with a friend who was so thirsty by the time we passed a spring-fed water trough that he pursed his lips to the surface and drank before I could warn him about Giardia. When we looked into the water we saw tadpoles swimming there.
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