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The Overlook: Frozen Tracks – Monument Restoration and the Fate of the Upper Paria

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  • Feb 2, 2021 at 8:30 am #3696904
    Ben Kilbourne
    BPL Member

    @benkilbourne

    Locale: Utah

    Companion forum thread to: The Overlook: Frozen Tracks – Monument Restoration and the Fate of the Upper Paria

    Ben Kilbourne follows tracks in the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument as its fate once again hangs in the balance.

    Feb 2, 2021 at 6:54 pm #3697037
    jj
    BPL Member

    @calculatinginfinity

    Great read and important message. Enjoyed the pictures too

    Feb 3, 2021 at 2:34 pm #3697177
    Eric Blumensaadt
    BPL Member

    @danepacker

    Locale: Mojave Desert

    Gotta say I was repulsed at the amount of and stench of all the human $hit and TP at the confluence of Buckskin Gulch and the Paria River. That was before BLM required “wag bags”. but I bet people STILL have-not got the message.

    Imagine how much $hit and TP will wash down the Paria after each Buckskin Gulch slot canyon flash flood happens.

    WHY THE HE!! can’t theBLM buy and service composting toilets there as they have done in Coyote Gulch??

    Feb 6, 2021 at 6:44 pm #3697822
    obx hiker
    BPL Member

    @obxer

    Ben I guess the old movie set buildings are gone now. Looks like it from Google earth. Here’s what you used to pass through on the drive out to the trailhead from 89. The Outlaw Josey Wales and lots of other westerns. Weird sense of deja vu.

    Eric a group of us came down Buckskin one early May in the ’90s and camped in that one possible spot just up from the confluence. Somebody in a another small group had come in from the road evidently and hauled in a Spanish guitar and could really play it. So we sat down with those canyon walls looked like a mile straight up; you could hardly see the sky and listened to that reverb off the walls like we were immersed, enwombed. The guitarist quit and then the frogs started. Sorta like different musicians with a new instrument. Middle of the night a boomer cranked up and we could see the flashes but no rain and no flash floods. Magic.

    Feb 7, 2021 at 3:00 pm #3697923
    Eric Blumensaadt
    BPL Member

    @danepacker

    Locale: Mojave Desert

    box,

    So glad you had that truly magical experience. Mine happened in Coyote Gulch, IMHO a much prettier place then Paria. But yeah, Buckskin Gulch is an amazing place, one of earth’s gifts to us.

    Feb 7, 2021 at 8:57 pm #3698002
    Monty Montana
    BPL Member

    @tarasbulba

    Locale: Rocky Mountains

    Eric…someone once told me that BLM stands for the Bureau of Livestock and Mines, hence they aren’t in the potty business.

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