{"id":1478,"date":"2010-06-04T10:07:52","date_gmt":"2010-06-04T10:07:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hamzy.net\/blog2\/?p=1478"},"modified":"2010-06-04T10:07:52","modified_gmt":"2010-06-04T10:07:52","slug":"climbing_enchanted_rock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hamzy.net\/blog2\/?p=1478","title":{"rendered":"Climbing Enchanted Rock"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\n\"Enchanted<\/img>
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\nI drove to Enchanted Rock<\/a> today. It’s been quite sometime since I went there previously. It was a beautiful day out. We arrived at around 8:30 in the morning. And unfortunately people started arriving in droves. Including big groups of very loud people. I had wanted to enjoy a peaceful climb. But it was not meant to be. I guess that, for the next time, I need to camp there overnight and climb it at first light.\n<\/p>\n

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\n\"Warren<\/img>
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\nMy next door neighbor was game to come along. And we posed for this picture at around 1\/4th of the way up. There was a handy rock to set the camera on. Unfortunately, the facial recognition count-down feature did not work. But the standard 10-second count-down did.\n<\/p>\n

\n\"Old<\/img>\n<\/div>\n

\nAs we were climbing, three old propeller-driven aircraft used the rock as a way-point and performed a turn for us.\n<\/p>\n

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\n\"cloud<\/img>
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\nWith three cloud trails forming a \\ | \/, I centered the picture on a bloom from some sort of yucca plant.\n<\/p>\n

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\nWhen I got to the top, I saw some beautiful islands of grass, moss, and cactus. They were very zen-like in a sea of pink granite.\n<\/p>\n

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\nI thought I was hallucinating that there was a dark streak in the sky. So I took a picture of it. At least the camera shared my hallucination.\n<\/p>\n

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