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- From: skimmel@amex-trs.com (Steve Kimmel)
- Newsgroups: rec.backcountry
- Subject: Re: Abbey bashing.
- Message-ID: <1992Nov15.235640.711@amex-trs.com>
- Date: 15 Nov 92 23:56:40 GMT
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- In article <Nov11.191952.43471@yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU> trzyna@CS.ColoState.EDU (wayne trzyna) writes:
- >Careful: Knocking Abbey in rec.backcountry is like standing up in church and
- >shouting, "I hate Jesus."
- >
- >> Rolls a tire into the Grand Canyon.
- >
- >Those who grew up during this period in the western US understand
- >that every side canyon or gully had a tire rolled into it, if not
- >an entire car. It was part of our culture and entertainment...
- >kind of like every side canyon now has a yuppie on a mountain bike
- >with a power-bar in his pocket.
- >
- >Which of these causes more errosion?
- >
- Of course in those days if you didn't bring a tire or a car you could
- always push loose boulders off the sides of the canyon. But then, large
- rocks are natural.
-
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