Ignorance = peace of mind

Carl tries to go on a yearly backpacking trip with some friends from high school. They are all married and have families, but I think they are still a little bit crazy. Sometimes it is just better not to know what kind of dangerous activities they decided to try. This year was no different. They went to Neon Canyon in Utah. The pics are beautiful and the desert landscape is my favorite. (I don't love all the trees here. give me dead and brown over green and trees any day). The trip involved several rappels into unknown holes and caverns (later i found out that there are holes you can drop into only to find out there is no way out. see title of blog.) And for anyone that knows my husband, also knows that he would of course be the one to volunteer to try it first. BTW they were using a rope that was his friend Jess' from back in the early 1990's. I am no climbing expert but I am pretty sure that ropes have a shelf life. Right? not to mention that they used webbing that was left behind from someone else's adventure. Needless to say the "SPOT" device I got him for Christmas was pretty handy because it runs on satellites and he could send me messages that he was OK. Babe, I am just glad you had a great trip and made it home OK.

A German guy at the bottom of this rappell shot this pic of Carl coming down and e-mailed it to us.