| It's around 3:20am, Friday the 13th, Oct. 2006. I am heading out towards "The Wave", from Cottonwood Cove. The moon is shining, and lighting up the landscape.
I turn on my headlamp only to look at my compass, to get my bearings set at around 320°NNW, the setting I had taken the evening before. I look up and there is the North Star, and low on the horizon
is another bright star, just about 320° NNW. It's the greatest GPS system on Earth or should I say the Heavens, no batteries required. It is only seven days past the full
moon, but still bright enough to see. So I am off, no flashlight, no GPS LCD screen to distract me from the beautiful landscape around me. When using a flashlight, you focus only on where that
light shines, and your eyes cannot adjust to your surroundings, which has so much more to offer. I have become one with the land, and as I make my way across the landscape, I hear a
coyote or two howl in the distance, and I know I have arrived in Coyote Buttes... John Schenk,Oct.2006 |
