And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
My wife and I camped in Anza Borrego State Park once The camping sites are always at the end of a sand trail (wash) at the exit point of the canyon. We were unaware of any rain forecast for the area (back in the 80s when information wasn't instantly available - and it was summer time). All of a sudden it starts POURING rain and we clearly knew that our tent and everything else was right in the path of whatever was going to come gushing out of that canyon. You've never seen anyone pack and leave so quickly. It was actually snowing hard in the pass on the way over to Julian. S. Calif. weather can certainly be unpredictable.
No difference between camping in a dry wash or a wet one, both flood equally well when there are sudden thunderstorms miles over the horizon. Idiots abound.
Kananaskis river, 1964, my dad set up camp for himself, me and my 2 little brothers in just such a spot. We went to sleep about 10 and about midnight dad rousted us all out because there was lightning and thunder upstream. We got out of there pronto.
So, stupid, but good catch in the end. For the rest of his life he had to hear trash talk from his 3 sons about "the night dad tried to drown us".
They left no escape routes between two arms of water. In a river I only saw fishermen camp in an island with a boat (where they usually sleep inside the boat too).
Other than camping in the middle of a low river it looks pretty!
ReplyDeleteLooks like a good place to meet a big bear at 2am.
ReplyDeleteLooks like a place to die at the whim of Mother Nature
ReplyDeleteMy wife and I camped in Anza Borrego State Park once The camping sites are always at the end of a sand trail (wash) at the exit point of the canyon. We were unaware of any rain forecast for the area (back in the 80s when information wasn't instantly available - and it was summer time). All of a sudden it starts POURING rain and we clearly knew that our tent and everything else was right in the path of whatever was going to come gushing out of that canyon. You've never seen anyone pack and leave so quickly. It was actually snowing hard in the pass on the way over to Julian. S. Calif. weather can certainly be unpredictable.
ReplyDeleteReally - really stupid. They are seeking a death warrant.
ReplyDeleteHope it's just a photo op
ReplyDeleteNo difference between camping in a dry wash or a wet one, both flood equally well when there are sudden thunderstorms miles over the horizon. Idiots abound.
ReplyDeleteKananaskis river, 1964, my dad set up camp for himself, me and my 2 little brothers in just such a spot. We went to sleep about 10 and about midnight dad rousted us all out because there was lightning and thunder upstream. We got out of there pronto.
ReplyDeleteSo, stupid, but good catch in the end. For the rest of his life he had to hear trash talk from his 3 sons about "the night dad tried to drown us".
They left no escape routes between two arms of water. In a river I only saw fishermen camp in an island with a boat (where they usually sleep inside the boat too).
ReplyDeleteit appears that both campers are in/on vehicles. time to leave, we gone!
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