In Beauty I... Drive (Red Rock Canyon, part 3)
High Desert Weekend Trip-log #10
Hagen Canyon, CA - Sun, 27 Mar, 2002. 12pm
For years I have used the tag In Beauty I Walk to mark posts about hiking in the great outdoors. My inspiration is a Navajo prayer, In Beauty I Walk. That phrase is both the title and the refrain. In that prayer walk refers not just to the literal act of walking but to the whole of life. It's about the journey of life and how best to take the journey of life.
In the modern world journeying often takes place by car. Thus In Beauty I Walk extends to In Beauty I Drive my 4x4. And that's what we did in Red Rock Canyon State Park after hiking Hagen Canyon (previous blogs).
The brief hill climb shown in this video is from a section of the main loop the park ranger warned us is "very rough". As you can see in the video it looks like a walk in the park (heh) for our Nissan Xterra 4x4.
Toward the end of the video you see me waving out the window. I have a peregrine falcon puppet on my hand! It's one of several birds-of-prey toys we own. We took the falcon puppet on this trip because we know there's a nesting area for peregrine falcons in the park.
One of the marked 4x4 trails in the park goes through the nesting area. It's closed in the springtime (spring starts in February here) to protect the birds as they raise their young.
If i were a peregrine falcon I'd totally want to nest in those cliffs, too.
Hagen Canyon, CA - Sun, 27 Mar, 2002. 12pm
For years I have used the tag In Beauty I Walk to mark posts about hiking in the great outdoors. My inspiration is a Navajo prayer, In Beauty I Walk. That phrase is both the title and the refrain. In that prayer walk refers not just to the literal act of walking but to the whole of life. It's about the journey of life and how best to take the journey of life.
In the modern world journeying often takes place by car. Thus In Beauty I Walk extends to In Beauty I Drive my 4x4. And that's what we did in Red Rock Canyon State Park after hiking Hagen Canyon (previous blogs).
Click to viewThe brief hill climb shown in this video is from a section of the main loop the park ranger warned us is "very rough". As you can see in the video it looks like a walk in the park (heh) for our Nissan Xterra 4x4.
Toward the end of the video you see me waving out the window. I have a peregrine falcon puppet on my hand! It's one of several birds-of-prey toys we own. We took the falcon puppet on this trip because we know there's a nesting area for peregrine falcons in the park.
One of the marked 4x4 trails in the park goes through the nesting area. It's closed in the springtime (spring starts in February here) to protect the birds as they raise their young.
If i were a peregrine falcon I'd totally want to nest in those cliffs, too.