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05-30-2010, 06:06 PM
Friday afternoon I was hiking Grand Wash from the bottom up with some family, we were just a bend or two away from the choke point and my 3yo really started to meander around the wash. We gave him 2 or 3 minutes to get it out of this system before my sister, 6yo son, and I started hiking again. We were just a few dozen paces up the canyon when we heard a series of intense cracks, I immediately scanned the skyline around us and saw a huge slab of rock just up canyon hit the wall about 150'+ above the floor and break up into 500 pieces. A cluster bomb of sandstone rocks ranging from baseball to basketball size pounded the canyon floor a little over a hundred feet away. After we gathered our thoughts and waited for the dust to settle we hiked up to view the aftermath. A 75' section of the canyon floor was pelted with little craters each with a small pile of sand in the center. Had we been just 60 seconds further up the canyon I have a hard time believing we would have survived.
I did manage to squeeze off a few shots of the dust after the initial impact but I was using my 11mm and did some back pedaling so it seems further away then it really was.
anyways..... damn :slobber:
I did manage to squeeze off a few shots of the dust after the initial impact but I was using my 11mm and did some back pedaling so it seems further away then it really was.
anyways..... damn :slobber: