in a cavern, in a canyon

[ilanarama]

Our five-day backpack in the Grand Gulch / Cedar Mesa area of Utah reminded me of how much I love backpacking; how much I had missed it while on the boat, how happy I am to be living again in a place where I can go wander in the wilderness by foot. Yeah, I get off on strapping more than 1/3 my body weight onto my back and maneuvering up steep trails and down rocky slides, and sleeping on a thin pad and having to get up in the middle of the night and stare at the incredibly bright stars while I squat to pee. It was a lovely trip, and I didn't even have to cut my own arm off, nor anybody else's arm for that matter.