FIRST…SOME BATES WILSON STORIES… I came to Moab and became a seasonal ranger at Arches just a couple of years after Bates Wilson retired from the National Park Service, so I never had the chance to work for him. But…
It was deathly hot, 104 degrees, the day the four of us (Norah, Rose, Olivia and I) arrived at Delicate Arch trailhead to join other parties clustered at their vehicles, gathering cameras and stowing bottles of water, food, who knows,…
The late great Edward Abbey wrote, as most effective writers do, from personal experiences. He did change the names and events to suit his story line, a literary cop-out which avoided many things: historical truth, law suits, aggravated friends…
