Snapshots from Casey and Dave's trip to the canyon country
October 2002
We went to Zion, Bryce, Capitol Reef, Natural Bridges, and the
Grand Canyon, including Havasu
These photos were all take with 35 mm disposable cameras, of
varying brands (mostly Fuji, but at least 4 others, including a
Kodak). One was done with a Kodak APS panoramic camera (some at
Bryce). I purchased a 35 mm panoramic at Natural Bridges, and most
of the Monument Valley pictures are from that camera as well.
I was generally pretty happy with the cameras; the Fuji's also
come in a smaller and lighter form factor without a flash, if you
want to save weight. The developing was all at Walmart, and I
ordered prints and CDs. The CD high res was 1536x1024. OK for
snapshots, but not really all you could get from the negatives. One
Kodak camera (used on the hike to the Colorado River) survived
(mostly without damging the pictures) being fully immersed in
Havasu Creek (at the last river crossing, where we went waist deep,
I forgot I had it in my shorts pocket).
Mostly I've named the photo images as they were on CD, except
for pre-pending "Cam#" where more than one camera was used on a
given day. I've processed a few of the images to crop out my
fingers, deal with contrast problems, rotate them, etc., using the
IRIX imgworks software, and will probably do more of that as I get
time.
The photos are all here, but we haven't yet written much in the
way of captions, or finished the accompanying text. We plan to do
that over the next week or so, for the more interesting ones, at
least.
As of 9 November, all the pages have at least some captions and
details about the activities of the day, although a number of
pictures have no detailed captions.
Overall, we figure that we did around 10,000 feet total vertical
gain, and around 90-95 miles of hiking. As we get time, we'll try
to verify that and break it down on a daily basis. It was enough to
make us feel like we accomplished something, but not so much that
we destroyed ourselves, or feel that we have to compete against the
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- Day 1 (1 Oct 2002). No pictures for today. We drove across
Tioga Pass, managing to hit the first snow storm of the season,
with about 3 inches of snow on the road just east of the pass.
Driving through Toulumne Meadows in the snow, we were listening to
the forecast describing the weather as warm and sunny...
After getting down to 395, we stopped at Hot Springs creek for a
while to soak and warm up. Then it was off to Bishop to pick up a
1/2 pound of beef and elk jerky, and onward to the thriving (not!)
metropolis of Tonopah, Nevada, where we found a reasonable mexican
restaurant. (We did pretty well on restauarants on the trip,
finding some good ones, all by accident, and only managing one
really bad one (in Williams, AZ; don't stop at Pancho
McGillicuddy's...)
- Pictures from Day 2 (2 Oct 2002)
(Nevada and Zion north)
- Pictures from Day 3 (3 Oct 2002)
(Zion Canyon)
- Pictures from Day 4 (4 Oct 2002)
(Bryce Canyon, on the way to Capitol Reef)
- Pictures from Day 5 (5 Oct 2002)
(Capitol Reef, Natural Bridges, and Monument Valley)
- Pictures from Day 6 (6 Oct 2002)
(Monument Valley, Grand Canyon)
- Pictures from Day 7 (7 Oct 2002)
(Hiking into Havasu, first visit to falls)
- Pictures from Day 8 (8 Oct 2002)
(mostly Navajo Falls, including upper falls and cataracts)
- Pictures from Day 9 (9 Oct 2002)
(Down Havasu Creek to the Colorado River and back)
- No Pictures from Day 10 (10 Oct 2002). We hiked out of Havasu
on this day, and some pictures were taken, but none seem to have
turned out or that camera was lost). We ate an early dinner in
Kingman, and stayed the night in Needles
- Pictures from Day 11 (11 Oct
2002) (Needles to Palo Alto)
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