Sometimes the news is not good. This was such a time which inspired a tiny piece of writing (below) that encapsulates a little of our philosophy.
If there's ever a time I'd like a photograph of Jenni and me together is when we are undertaking a technical climb or coming down steep slopes on scree. With Jen hanging onto me and giving me instructions, a dime-a-dozen or, at times, me hanging onto her for support, a true love story exists. I don't find anything as moving as those occasions when we depend on each other, sometimes to avoid serious falls and worse. In our book, "A Life Experience As No Other...", we often make the point that when two people sweat together, the bonding that flows in and from such perspiration is without equal. I'd like the photographs to remind me of such occasions, particularly when I fall short in my behavior and secondly, for the period when we are too old to climb some of those treacherous parts. I'd also like such pictures because I'd just like to have them.
It would be hard to describe without pictorial aids. Not yet at the top on the Arizona side.
Jenni makes her way up toward a section a little higher requiring technical skills. (See above)
Standing high and tall in Arizona looking down into Nevada and Lake Mead in particular.
Another perspective of Lake Mead, always very good or fantastic. Las Vegas in the distance, neither very good nor fantastic. We're in Arizona.
A desert scene of both Arizona and Nevada.
That dam wall of Hoover and freeway and bridge linking Arizona and Nevada from peak of Fortification Hill.
The land jutting into Lake Mead creates a most attractive sight.
Protection from the wind at peak. (Note the volcanic nature of region).
Some volcanic rock hopping on top.
Phew! Just passed the technical section.
The 'kid' keeps going up.
Beautiful all-round.
Cheers,
Jenni and Jeffrey
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