Love the cartoon. During my college days in Tucson in the 1970’s I read a lot of Ed Abbey’s books. To this day, his Desert Solitaire remains in my memory and enhanced my love of the desert and the canyon lands of southern Utah.
I hiked the slot canyons and climbed down slickrock outcrops with a hiking group out of Tucson and shared slideshows with them once a month. The highlight was rafting in the Grand Canyon before permits became almost impossible to obtain for private groups. However it was too late to enjoy the splendor of the now submerged Glen Canyon area.
Here’s what a lot of people don’t know about the Colorado. It is diverted three times to the east side of the continental divide. Once from grand lake, once through the Mofat Tunnel. And once from lake Dillon.
All three diversions end up in reservoirs in and around Denver and eventually the platte river basin which feeds the Missouri River and ends up in the gulf. Perhaps more water would be in the west if Denver and the high plains didn’t take water from the opposite side of the continental divide.
You probly passed Hayduke on the river
Every time I drove over the dam back then I thought it was gonna blow, always looked for a crack
Earth First crazies prowling the canyons, specially Cataract Canyon
Remember sitting inna bar on 4th Ave in ‘82 listening to some woman calling Ed Abbey a Nazi cuz his comment on illegal immigrants was “meet em at the border, give em a gun, turn em around, they’ll know what to do when they get back to Mexico”
Thought he was dead on