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Rounding out the heavy hiking, sizing up more mysteries. . . . |
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By jpw on
Friday, September 01, 2006 9:12:54 PM
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The month of August gave new meaning to “heavy metal,” with the photo and video acquisition shifting into overdrive to capture the dozens of weighty objects I kept finding off the trails and in areas where gravity took the lead. Man-made jewelry, as it were, seems to mock-lace certain sections of the Gorge. Sometimes the objects were crude, ordinary trash. Others held my fascination while I layered on the bug spray, sometimes taking hours to shoot all the setups I wanted to capture ideal illumination under the tree canopy. There’s something to be said about traveling lightly to find this stuff, though, which for me meant ca ...
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A month of stand-out finds, connections and spent calories in the Niagara Gorge. . . . |
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By jpw on
Tuesday, August 01, 2006 2:12:31 PM
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In case you've never had a chance to hike the lower rapids trail, let me clue you in to the first reaction you might have at the gorge bottom: it’s daunting. You truly are at peril with everything from little nuisances like poison ivy to slightly more concerning factors like shaky footing over rock crops, the utter swiftness of the current (if you dipped into it for whatever reason) and the lethally steep shale slides along the cliff face. My scouting colleague and I gave a shot at crossing one—once—but decided that without ropes, it probably wasn’t the best idea to risk going directly into the drink.
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