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Dream Trip
»When you walk long enough through Slot Canyon,
you can rub yourself against the soft sand stone,
rub yourself until you disappear.«
different from most of the rest of the world. (…) As to when I shall
visit civilization again, it will not be soon, I think. (…) I prefer the
saddle to the streetcar and star-sprinkled sky to a roof, the obscure
and difficult trail, leading into the unknown, to any paved highway,
and the deep peace of the wild to the discontent bred by cities«,
wrote Everett Ruess in his last letter to his brother Waldo,
packed his two mules and entered the Davis Canyon, a side-canyon
of the Escalante River near the town Escalante, and was never
to be seen again. It was November 1934, Ruess was 20 years old.
His poetry and his departure without any compromise have made
him a cult figure today (more on page 103). Still, many myths and
legends about what became of him breeze through the canyons of
southern Utah.
You really get underneath the surface of the mysterious area while
you walk through the slot canyon: The walls press the air out of
your lounges when you try to squeeze through the most narrow
spots. When you walk long enough, you can rub yourself against
the soft sand stone, rub yourself until you disappear. It might be
the way Everett Ruess did it to become one with nature. »A short
while ago they found dusted bones in the area where Ruess disappeared.
It was quiet a media event because they claimed they
were his remains. Scientists examined the bones but found out
that they were from a different time«, Bill sums up the latest
news. Today, he leads the Slot-Canyon-Tour together with Lanell.
In the tight womb of mother earth.
Aflame: evening walk in Snow Canyon State Park.
Enough talk. Difficult canyon terrain in front of us with passages
that require long ropes – Bill doesn’t want to tell us how long – in
an area you could end up like Ruess. You can still see Zion’s
mountains, Lanell points to the horizon before we make our way
down. We slide into a kind of rock tube, walk for a few metres, and
there is already the next gap in the rock. Behind it, the sky and
nothing else. Bill and Lanell ask us how far we think it goes down.
10 metres? 15? 20? A little bit more, replies Lanell and smiles.
Get us ready for the descent! Belay, throw the rope and so on. No
problem, I just learned it all yesterday. Bill checks the belay system
once more carefully, eventually we all have to go down there.
For a second I feel like James Bond and I arrive one skyscraper
deeper. Even more far away from civilisation and the world. We
thought we were already far away before. In the tight womb of
moth er earth, Novalis would have loved the feeling of security and
comfort. An elusive security because you cannot go back. We are
all by ourselves, says Bill succinctly, when he unclips the safety
carabiner and it falls in front of feet into the sand. Some foolish
people dared to enter the slot canyons without a guide although it
is technically very demanding. The problem is the length of the
rope they might underestimate. So they might have to stop when
The water can get pretty deep in Zion Canyon. Sometimes you have to watch out you do not turn to stone in awe.
high barriers are in their way or end up at a rock plateau high >
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