The WTF Experiences II The Adventures of Garrett Russell: November 2008

November 27, 2008

The Grand Canyon

Words can not be used to describe the wonder and awe of this unique area of the world. The last three weeks of my life I have have been emerged deep within mother earths great walls and powerful

river.

Kayaking, rafting, hiking, climbing, and living all flourished as sixteen amazing people engaged upon the Grand. My dreams are still consumed by it.

I wish everyone in this world

and lifetime could be blessed enough to experience its beauty!

These are just a few of my photos from the experience. From the side hikes looking down at the canyon to amazing sunsets deep within.

Glowing mornings at the put in and other sunrises from various locations as it was we awoke ourselves everyday before the sun could rise.

November 01, 2008

Adventure into the desert

Well,

I'm off to go rafting down the Grand Canyon Monday the 3rd. Just for the heck of it my brother and I decided to test ourselves with an early morning jaunt through the slot canyons of the San Rafael Swell.

At 7 in the morning we were scurrying across the desert just as the sun was rising. Being 5 hours away from Telluride and having to return by 4 oclock for a meeting. We were in a hustle. In the spare moments of awe I was able to capture these imagages.

Enjoy

The first Repel

I love Mornings The Second Repel

Chason Getting after it. Off Repel

Ewww! We had to wade through this cold nasty water Just a little cold

Amazing slots Yep. We were down there.

Intro

A boy comes to a dark, desolate corner of town called "the Street of the Lifted Lorax," to learn who the Lorax was and how he got "lifted and taken away." Through a "whisper-ma-phone," the Once-ler tells the boy what happened. When the Once-ler first arrived at this place, it was a beautiful, sunny forest where the Swomee-Swans sang, the Humming-Fish hummed, and the Brown Bar-ba-loots played in the shade while eating the fruit of the Truffula Trees, colorful woolly trees spread throughout the area. Enchanted by these gorgeous trees, the Once-ler built a small shop, where he chopped down a tree and out of its furry foliage knitted a "Thneed", an odd-looking but versatile garment that he insisted "everyone needs." Out of the stump popped a strange little man called the Lorax, who claimed "I speak for the trees, for the trees have no tongues." The Lorax first scoffed at the Once-ler's creation, until someone came along and bought it. Spurred by greed, the Once-ler invited all his relatives to town where they started a huge Thneed-making business, chopping down Truffula Trees left and right, much to the Lorax's distress. The skies gradually got darker and more polluted, forcing the Lorax to send the Bar-ba-loots, the swans, and the fish off in search of a better place to live. The Once-ler, while upset to see the animals go, dismissed the Lorax's pleadings until the last Truffula Tree got chopped down, leaving the Once-ler alone with the Lorax and a failed business in a desolate place under a dark smoggy sky. With a "sad backward glance," the Lorax picked himself up by the "seat of his pants" and floated away through a hole in the smog. At the end of the story, the Once-ler reveals that he has one last Truffula seed left, and instructs the boy to start a new forest so that "the Lorax and all of his friends may come back."

November 27, 2008

The Grand Canyon

November 01, 2008

Adventure into the desert

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