Which Way now? Forward is not an option.
I've a vague thought in the back of my mind that I hiked up this escarpment one time, but its not firm enough of a memory for me really to believe it.
All along the escarpment you can see where huge pieces have broken off from the top and tumbled down the cliff and scree slopes, like the sections starting to separate in yesterday's photo. It reminds me of the question we used to pose as children, “If a tee falls in a forest and no one is there to hear it, does it make a noise?”. I wonder at the sound the falling boulders would make if you were there to hear them fall.
As you can see, the gravel plain immediately below the escarpment is surfaced with relatively large, angular rocks. Not a surface you could drive over at any speed with any degree of comfort, but nowhere near as bad as the basalt flows – those were bad! If you ever limped back into camp with a broken suspension spring there'd be no mercy from the mechanics. There's no clearer marker of driving without due care and attention in terrain like this than a broken front suspension spring!
Here I'm doing something else the mechanics hated – I've left the door open on the land rover. Not that they were concerned about my comfort – there's no AC in there. No, their concern was a dust devil or some other freakish gust of wind bending the door back on itself such that it wouldn't close. Adjusting door catches was a constant activity for the mechanics.
In our earlier 110's back in the mid 80's, we used to order them with the old 109 doors. The door catch was much simpler and far less prone to breaking than the type in this door.
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