Bryce Canyon
The continuing saga of “Travels With Dan.” This was my first trip to Bryce, the first week of April 1983. Why this time of year? We had just come from, or were going to (who remembers such things?), one of the great sporting events of all-time – North Carolina State upset Houston for the 1983 NCAA basketball championship at The Pit in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and the Wolfpack coach, Jim Valvano, went running around the court looking for somebody to hug!
[Gorgeous weather with still lots of snow at one of nature’s world wonders!]
[Did I mention lots of snow?]
[Dan leads through the labyrinth. Perfectly comfortable in windbreakers.]
[Yes, we hiked down here.]
[Amazing]
[A photographer]
[A tree]
[Another tree]
[Hmmm, looks like my backyard in Woodbury.]
[Did I lose you?]
[It’s all just grand (oh wait, that’s the next canyon)!]
[Despite the warning on the sign above, we decided to try snowshoeing.]
[Oy, am I that close to a cliff?]
[I’m getting the hang of it! Say, did you hear Scaramucci was fired?]
Grand Canyon
[For some reason (OK, I know the reason) I can’t remember if this was my first visit here. I remember my first ever glimpse of the canyon while driving down the road just takes your breath away.]
[Yeah, something like this.]
[Dan decided to hike down Bright Angel Trail – very hot, so he covered his head with his jacket.]
[A not insignificant view from the trail.]
[The trail was a mix of snow, ice, and water . . . ]
[And for the first time in my life, I discovered that walking down hill for long distances really starts to drive ice picks into my knees. I turned around and returned to the surface.]
[Dan soldiered on and allegedly made it to the bottom – a many hour trip down and back. He looked like death warmed over when he made it back, and then gave me a one-finger salute.]
[I just enjoyed the views from the surface trails.]
[Grand really descibes it.]
In fact, just about all the major natural attractions you find in the West- the Grand Canyon, the Badlands, the Goodlands, the Mediocrelands, the Rocky Mountains and Robert Redford- were caused by erosion. ~ Dave Barry
Up Next: Camp . . .
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Thanks for joining me! This is the follow-up to the original, “alexandriacardinals.wordpress.com,” which overwhelmed the system’s ability to handle it any more. Thus, this is “Part 2.” As the original was initially described:
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“It all began in a 5,000 watt radio station in Fresno, California” . . . wait a minute, that was Ted Baxter on the Mary Tyler Moore Show! Let’s see . . . oh yeah, it all began in 2003 when retirees, i.e., old people, in Alexandria, Minnesota, who had no desire to become snow birds, went looking for mid-winter entertainment here in the frozen tundra of West Central Minnesota. We discovered girls’ high school hockey, fell in love immediately, and it remains our favorite spectator sport to this day. Initially, and for several years, reports on these games were e-mailed to those who were actually snowbirds but wanted to keep abreast of things “back home.” It was ultimately decided a blog would be more efficient, and it evolved into a personal diary of many things that attracts tens of readers on occasion. It remains a source of personal mental therapy and has yet to elicit any lawsuits.
~ The Editor, May 9, 2014
p.s. The photo border around the blog is the Cardinal girls’ hockey team after just beating Breck for the state championship in 2008. It’s of the all-tournament team. The visible Breck player on the left is Milica McMillen, then an 8th-grader – she is now an All-American for the Gophers. The Roseau player in the stocking cap I believe is Mary Loken, who went on to play for UND; and the Cardinal player on the right, No. 3, is Abby Williams, the player we blame most for making us girls’ hockey fans who went on to play for Bemidji State.
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Photos contained herein are available for personal use. All you have to do is double click on any of the photos and they will become full screen size. You can then save them into your personal “My Pictures” file. They make lovely parting or hostess gifts, or holiday gifts for such as Uncle Ernie who wants to see how his grand niece is doing on the hockey team. If any are sold for personal profit, however, to, for example, the Audubon Society, National Geographic, Sven’s Home Workshop Monthly, Curling By The Numbers, or the World Wrestling Federation, I only request that you make a donation to the charitable organization of your choice. You have two hours and fifteen minutes. Pencils ready? Begin!
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