I was with you on that hike in the Grand Canyon. When I saw the picture posted to Facebook it looked like a scene from the field trip. I'm reliving memories from those hot spring days on the Tonto plateau with my heart pounding and a sense of longing, adventure, and confusion. Where did my memories go? I remember Iain more like Napoleon than a 22-year-old - leading his troops on an adventure of an adolescent lifetime. Extremely ambitious to go down the Kaibab and up the Bright Angel Trail and that was just the warm-up. I'm sure I dissociated hiking all those miles. God, those rocks were so gorgeously beautiful. I imagined geologic time settling into all those layers of colorful rock. My experience a million years all in one moment. Like a science fiction fantasy so vast and alien. I still remember the roar of the Colorado River at the gigantic wave perpetually crashing with joyously cool mist. Wow, it is amazing we survived. Thank you for remembering with such explicit details. Next, I read the book. Brent
I was with you on that hike in the Grand Canyon. When I saw the picture posted to Facebook it looked like a scene from the field trip. I'm reliving memories from those hot spring days on the Tonto plateau with my heart pounding and a sense of longing, adventure, and confusion. Where did my memories go? I remember Iain more like Napoleon than a 22-year-old - leading his troops on an adventure of an adolescent lifetime. Extremely ambitious to go down the Kaibab and up the Bright Angel Trail and that was just the warm-up. I'm sure I dissociated hiking all those miles. God, those rocks were so gorgeously beautiful. I imagined geologic time settling into all those layers of colorful rock. My experience a million years all in one moment. Like a science fiction fantasy so vast and alien. I still remember the roar of the Colorado River at the gigantic wave perpetually crashing with joyously cool mist. Wow, it is amazing we survived. Thank you for remembering with such explicit details. Next, I read the book. Brent