birch 6-5-07

[smcqueen]

same rock this year--

I remember that used to be a simple downclimb. Now it's a rap? Has a lot of sand washed out or something? I haven't been through there since last August.

[smcqueen]

I am jealous! I want to see a bear.

No fair! You've already seen a cougar!

[oldno7]

same rock this year--

I remember that used to be a simple downclimb. Now it's a rap? Has a lot of sand washed out or something? I haven't been through there since last August.

it's a rap for us rookies

actually the backcountry desk tells everyone it's a rap so we obliged,gladly.

[smcqueen]

same rock this year--

I remember that used to be a simple downclimb. Now it's a rap? Has a lot of sand washed out or something? I haven't been through there since last August.

it's a rap for us rookies

actually the backcountry desk tells everyone it's a rap so we obliged,gladly.

Maybe we did rap that one. I remember using a handline to downclimb one rock and I was thinking it was that one, but at my advanced age who knows?

[tanya]

I am jealous! I want to see a bear.

No fair! You've already seen a cougar!

Yeah! That ruled!!!! (since we were not eaten!) -- but no photos! ..... But a BEAR!!!! now that's cool too!

Long long long long ago.... when I use to work in Zion (during college year summers) I had a baby bobcat. That was the coolest! I let a photographer borrow him for photos and the cat died. It choked on a chicken bone. Someone found the cat .... all the other babies were dead and the mother was dead. It was so much fun! It was like a baby kitten (played like one too) with big claws. I lived in Springdale at the time behind the post office and they had birds of some sort in pens. That cat loved to scare them. It would lay on my car dash.

That was the best.