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this image was taken in the Grand Canyon sometime in the early 70s. It’s an Agfachrome slide that I was unable to scan because my scanner is out of commission for a while and I can’t get it repaired until after Christmas when it’s safe to send it to Virginia. So I took a photograph with my Sony a 1 using my macro lens. I then ran the raw file through my computer using DxO camera raw version five.
I applied sharpening and then saved it for the web using the information from of the discussion we had about my last image. So it’s a rather convoluted way of getting in here but here it is
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I have already explained how I did this. But getting there was half the fun. This was an amazing trip. It snowed pretty heavily on the north rim of the Grand Canyon the night before we pushed it off for the Nankoweap trail. We decided to drive my Saab 95 station wagon until we couldn’t go any further. Yes it was a big risk and we drove until we hit a snowbank and got the car stuck in a gully. We had to cross country ski several miles before we got to a place we could camp. The next morning, there was considerably more snow and it was really socked in from a standpoint of visibility. We had no idea where we were and the trailhead was at least several miles away. It wound up basically taking us a whole day to go a short distance. And after several miles of this, we camped. We still had no idea where we were. The next morning it cleared enough for us to see where we were, probably just a few miles from where we started. We wound up hiding the skis in a tree, and we took off for the trail head. In the morning, there was at least a foot of fresh powder snow. The trail snaked off and followed a contour several miles before finding the rest of the trail, which headed down into the canyon. This was pretty dangerous. There were a few places where the trail was 1500+ feet into the canyon. It wouldn’t take much to fall 1500+ feet. I was pretty scared. And. we were really lucky that we didn’t fall.
As we neared the end of the contoured Trail, the snow stopped, and we had some amazing views into the canyon..
We were very fortunate because of the snow and the steep drop off into the canyon. As we descended into the canyon, it warmed up a bit, and by the time we reached the bottom of the trail, another several miles from where we started in the morning before, we could actually see our progress.
We camped out that night before the final descent into the bottom of Nankoweap canyon. There, at the bottom of the canyon was Nankoweap creek. At that time, it was still cold and parts of the creek were frozen. That’s where this picture was taken in the morning before it warmed up. Our campsite that evening was just a few miles from the Colorado river and the bottom of the Grand Canyon. The views were just incredible. We spent the next week exploring the bottom of the Grand Canyon.
Fortunately, the trip back up to the brim was quite uneventful. The snow had melted, and the trail was pretty easy to follow and pretty safe compared to the trip down..
By the time we made it back to the rim, the snow had all melted. And it was pretty easy to get the car out of the gully. This trip was clearly one of the best I had been on of the several I have made to the north rim.