Road Report - Lucky 10,000

October 26, 2006 | Filed Under Nature, Photos, Sports 

I’m back at Mondo in Moab after a couple days in the isolation of Indian Creek and Canyonlands. I noticed while downloading my pictures this afternoon that I shot my 10,000th picture this morning using my Canon 20D. Fitting that it happened here, since I shot picture number one here exactly a year ago. I’ve taken over 2000 shots in the last week, ensuring that I if I get bored this winter I will at least have plenty of photos to edit.

After getting out of here Monday afternoon, I drove down to Indian Creek and met up with Jose and Mick. I shot the top picture of Mick climbing with the Bridger Jacks and North and South Six Shooters in the background. On Tues I successfully climbed my first roped ascent, a crack climb named Rochambeau. It wasn’t pretty, I felt like a cyclist pedalling with my knees out and bobbing my head, but I got up it!

I spent Weds shooting and exploring the Needles district of Canyonlands. Weds afternoon as I prepared to ride my mountain bike out to the confluence of the Colorado and Green rivers, I met this little kangaroo rat begging for food in the parking lot. He likes corn chips a lot, and wasn’t afraid to eat right out of my hand. Yeah, yeah, I know it is bad form, but I figure he is already ruined. At the confluence, I got this really nice shot. See that storm in the background? I spent the next hour racing it back to the car with my huge photo backpack on my back. It won by about 10 minutes then went on to drop 2 feet of snow in Colorado later that night.

This morning I caught the sun rising over North Six Shooter, then headed back on up here to Moab to catch up with emails and and a bit of bike engineering. Next on tap? Looks like I’m going to be heading down to Zion to ride and shoot the dirt jump boys getting agro in Bender’s neighborhood. Stay tuned!

PS: Jose remembered the tequila ;>)

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