Up until 2008, our past endeavors were retained only as memories and on 35mm slides. While our memories may have faded (just a bit), the slides haven’t – and we have a lot of them. So we’re digitizing a select few to bring a bit of our past into the 21st Century. The photos below are from a few of those old slides.
A raft trip down the Colorado River from Lees Ferry to Diamond Creek through the Grand Canyon is one of the great trips of a lifetime. But you need at least two weeks for it and back in the 90s we rarely got that much time off from work. Then a two week gap materialized during a work-dictated move from the East Coast to Hawaii (nice weather but working there is not a vacation). Somewhat miraculously, we, along with our friends Wayne and Diane, were able to find space on a late season OARS trip running within this gap. We were fated to float! It was the first of several great trips we’ve done with OARS, including the 2014 20th anniversary reprise of this same trip, also with Wayne and Diane. Many photos of varying quality (keeping the cameras dry, sand-free, and loaded with film were all tricky) resulted but my notes as to where and when are uniformly poor (this was way before GPS tagging). Diane kept a meticulous journal but that, unfortunately, was not keyed to my snapshots. So here are a few snaps from a trip that is best experienced, if you can swing it, in person and not vicariously through pixel gazing.
BOOTS on the TRAIL 