![]() ![]() I did feel a bit foolish I forgot to bring a knife. He had become quite notorious for the deed. She reminded me that the previous year a guy ventured into this area alone, got himself pinned by a boulder, and had to cut his own arm off to get free. ![]() The ranger explained no one had been down to the lower part of the gulch yet this year, and said I might have problems reaching the river because of a big flash flood the previous fall, that apparently altered and perhaps blocked the lower half of the gulch. Into the Grand Gulch: Excerpts from a JournalĪfter spending the night at a Comfort Inn in Blanding, I drove to the Kane Gulch Ranger Station to get a permit to hike down Grand Gulch and up Slickhorn Canyon. My father had recently died my son Cory was four my wife Chris and I were having difficulties, and I was trying to decide if I should leave the Montana Army National Guard or go with my unit to Iraq. Here's one that recently resurfaced, written on a trip into the Grand Gulch in southern Utah in the spring of 2004, before I was divorced and before I faced up to and accepted being gay. Preface: I often scribble in little notebooks on my journeys, and then toss them aside where they disappear under piles of accumulated crap. ![]()
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