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1. The odds against today were insurmountable, until it happened.
2. Clarity's not light. It's the angle that suddenly lets you see through the window's glare, the pond's reflections.
3. Loving yourself is about as likely as tickling yourself.
4. No one is so entertaining as the one who thinks you are.
5. When it gets ahead of itself, the wave breaks.
6. I'd listen to my conscience if I could be sure it was really mine.
7. The lesser of two evils is the one with the less evil friends.
8. Only your unnoticed victories last: the rest are avenged.
9. How comforting your paranoia: someone is listening, someone is watching, someone is thinking about you all the time.
10. Sometimes, truth be damned, we need to be relieved from seeing. As with allergies, the response is a bigger problem than the problem.
11. What keeps us deceived is the hope that we aren't.
12. Nothing important comes with instructions.
13. Knowing how to be pleased with what's there is a great secret of happy living, sensitive reading and bad writing.
14. How badly I'd like to believe that my cherished reasonableness and heavily defended calm could rule the world. But as things are, somebody has to feel too much, somebody has to speak too loud, somebody has to be completely unreasonable.
15. Our resolutions for self control are like our wars for peace.
16. The will has a will of its own.
17. It's not success but self-congratulations that the Furies scent.
18. When you think in words, are you sure it's your own voice you hear?
19. At first skepticism keeps you from being too much like everyone else, then, you hope, from being too much like yourself.
20. If you think you might be lost, you are. If you know you're lost, you're at least free to look for the way.
21. You find your musings in a book and realize that for years you have been walking in circles.
22. A knot is strings getting into the way of each other; What keeps us together is what keeps us apart.
23. Thoughts are discussed, opinions displayed.
24. Work is required play.
25. Choice approximates chance.
26. Listen hardest to the one you hope is not telling the truth.
27. The ascetic's last pleasure is blaming you for all he has forgone.
28. If I were Sisyphus the trouble of pushing the rock uphill would be worth the thrill of watching it smash all before it on the way down.
29. Words have no bottom; Only walls and an occasional window.
30. Snakes can not back up, insecurity can.
31. In order to properly care for things, they must be loved and touched.
31. The world is neither time nor money.
32. When I grow up, I want to be a book.
33. Poems begin with longing and end with responsibility
34. Don't mistake whatever isn't Hell for part of Heaven.
35. Everything has an end, even sadness.
36. Words can shape the air like a body.
37. No two snowflakes are alike, everyone knows this, no one notices.
38. When you are alone, I come to you, so you'll know that inevitability is not found by accident.
39. Closing a door very gently, you pull with one hand, push with the other.


Feel free to add one of your own!

What I wouldn't give to stand right here during a flash flood and watch the current rip down the canyon floor and for the waterfall that would form at this Davis Gulch major pourover.

I left my Ecalante, Utah motel room (The circle D) at 5 am (Washington time) and made it the 52 miles of bone jarring miles on the Hole In The Rock road by around 7:45 am.

At 8 am, parked below fiftymile point, I shouldered my day pack and headed N.E. cross country well back from the side canyons of Davis Gulch (to avoid contant detours).

I followed rock outcroppings to the cairn marking the way down into Davis Gulch. There is brush and beaver dams along the floor of Davis Gulch and I decided it would take me too long to hike down into the canyon; up to Bements arch; then retrace my route.

So, I decide to take a leisurely hike along the west rim of Davis Gulch and view and photograph it from the canyon rim. The slickrock hiking was a pure pleasure compared to the soft sand hiking I had done on the way in.

My motivation for this hike was historic as much as a desire for scenic desert beauty in a remote location.

The stories of Buzz Holmstrom; the disappearance in the Grand Canyon of Bessie and Glenn Hyde on a sweep boat trip down the Colorado River in 1928; and the disappearance of a young romantic and artist named Everett Ruess in November of 1934 in Davis Gulch - - have always fascinated me. I wanted to see where their stories took place.

UPDATE: It now appears that Everett Ruess's body and artifacts have been found on the Comb Ridge over on the Navajo Indian Reservation west of Bluff, Utah. Read David Roberts story in the April issue of National Geographic Adventure magazine. If the story holds, then Davis Gulch was not the last "campsite" of Everett and his two burros. OMT
May 1, 2009

The hike along the rim was wonderful and when I got back to my pickup truck below fiftymile point it was actually a warm day for November. I had an ice chest full of cold IBC root beer waiting for me at the truck.

I didn't look forward to the 52 mile rough washboard road route back out, but I took it slow.

Then over halfway back I ran into a young couple from Holland who had buried their rental vehicle in the soft sand of the Spooky canyon road.

Working hard together we were able to free their rental pickup truck in about an hour of hard work. They were a really nice young couple and it felt good to be able to help them out.

I made it back to my motel room a little after dark, quite tired and content. The next day I left before sunrise and made it back to my wife and home in Eastern Washington by 9:30 Sunday night. OMT

Here are three books that I highly recommend if you want a sense of the fascinating history of the Colorado and Escalante River area:

THE DOING OF THE THING by Welch, Conley and Dimock.
SUNK WITHOUT A SOUND by Brad Dimock
EVERETT RUESS by W.L Rusho