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Cayman Islands - 8/2011
Space Shuttle Launch - 4/2011
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Flight across the US - 2010
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Bonaire - 7/2009
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Flight across the US - June 2007
Thailand - October, 2006
Havasu Falls - October, 2006
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Miscellaneous pics - 2006
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Lake Powell & Grand Canyon - September 2003
Oshkosh - 7/03
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Florida Keys - May/June, 2003
Around the World - Fall, 2002
Oshkosh - 7/02
W. Canyon, Lake Powell AZ - 6/02
Caymans - 5/02
Journey to Key West, FL - 4/02
Whistler, B.C. - Jan/Feb 2002
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Australia - 1999

West Canyon, 2002

Gallery for Day 5 and Day 6


On Day 5, we packed up base camp and headed back down the canyon to camp at the first climbing obstacle.  We had several pools to swim across but after all the icy pools we'd endured over the past three days, these last few pools seemed routine.  We camped on a big rock shelf underneath an enormous overhanging amphitheater-like rock face.

On Day 6, we set a course for our starting point where a boat was scheduled to pick us up.  On the way down, we spent an hour exploring a neat side canyon.  For a further adventure, Brian, Anita, and I hiked up to the rim and around the last swimming hole.  It was a bit warm up top, but the scenery was great.

We made it back to the pick-up point but it turned out that they had forgotten about us!  A few hours after flagging down some boaters for help, we were on our way home.

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Canyon panorama

Canyon panorama

Canyon panorama

Day 5: Hiking back down the canyon

Day 5: Brian getting ready for a swim

Day 5: Jim

Day 5: Anita

Day 5: Brian

Day 5: Smita

Day 5: Paul

Day 5: Anita wading through water

Day 5: Brian, Jim, Paul, and Smita after a nice swim {:-)

Day 5: A side canyon

Day 5: Hiking downstream

Day 5: Looking down on an obstacle

Day 5: Big cliffs

Day 5: Big cliffs

Day 5: Scenes from the canyon

Day 5: Scenes from the canyon

Day 5: Scenes from the canyon

Day 5: Scenes from the canyon

Day 5: Scenes from the canyon

Day 5: Scenes from the canyon

Day 5: Some neat-looking sandstone erosion

Day 5: Scenes from the canyon

Day 5: One of several bats at the campsite

Day 6: Smita descending down an obstacle

Day 6: Paul and Smita in the side canyon

Day 6: On the way up the swimming hole bypass

Day 6: Ascending the bypass

Day 6: View from the bypass

Day 6: View from the bypass

Day 6: View from the bypass

Day 6: View from the bypass

Day 6: Petrified wood embedded in the sandstone

Day 6: Odd-shaped rock found in the bypass

Day 6: A rock resting on a sandstone tripod

Day 6: The end of the bypass is in sight!

Day 6: Finally on the way home!

Day 6: Leaving West Canyon

Day 6: Leaving West Canyon

Day 6: Leaving West Canyon

Day 6: Sunset on Lake Powell

Day 6: Sunset on Lake Powell

Day 6: Sunset on Lake Powell

Day 6: Sunset on Lake Powell

Day 6: Sunset on Lake Powell

Promises, promises!