"The remnants of the land remain of impressive but fantastic wildness, mute witnesses of the powers of frenzied elements, wrecking the world. These were the powers that fashioned those monoliths that rise lofty monuments from the southern plains … and they strewed over a region as large as an empire such bewildering spectacles of mighty shape that Utah must always be the land sought by explorers of the strange and marvelous."
- HENRY L. A. CULMER
从Capital Reef 往Bryce Canyon 开的时候,厌倦感突然来袭。十多天在外,大家都疲劳了,以致于到达公园才三点多,居然没有一个人想出来玩儿。在Visitor Center转了一圈儿之后,决定去旅馆。这是这个行程中唯一定的一个log cabin, 只是为了体验。然后跑到小镇上的餐馆吃了一顿牛仔晚餐,早早休息,期待第二天满血复活 ... 更多
“Once or twice in a lifetime (maybe more than that if a person is very fortunate);
In the perfect place, under conditions that may never occur again--
Perhaps on a mountain top with the late sun breaking through clouds in diffused radiance--
Eternity may cease its flow the world pause,
for one incomprehensible moment……
An instant in time, to be treasured forever."
WARD J. ROYLANCE
犹他真是个神奇的地方,各种奇石峡谷,干旱少雨,缺乏植被。大热天在这样的地方徒步旅行,很有些自讨苦吃的况味儿。一路走来,发现自讨苦吃的人还不少。有不少是从大老远地球的另一端跑来,还不是第一次来。很多以前自己来过的,现在带着孩子,亲戚和父母来的,昨天碰到两家这样的 ... 更多