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was_butnotnow
Jan 18, 2016Explorer
In Oct 2005 we made it to Tuweep... See our post at http://fulltime.hitchitch.com/AZ2005oct.html
Scroll down to the Oct. 11 post.
The link to the scary story is broke. But the gist of the story was I had camped several years with two friends right on the edge next to the picnic table and tree in our pop up camper. We were on a vacation the year after we had done the river in a raft with others and wanted to see it from above. (Can't camp that close anymore) About dusk a old pickup truck pulled and a guy gets out with his dog. A bad of ice and a bottle of gin. Sat on the edge and came over to us, eating a can of spinach and told us he planned kidnap the rangers daughter and bring her to the edge. What could we do, nothing. We thought we were dead. One scary dude. He had no tent, or cooler just gin and pot. To think he drove 50 miles or more down this bad road and now it was just us and him. I at one time went into the canvas trailer and laid on the bed like I could hide from him or something. Later he went back to his truck and in the morning he was gone. If you have ever been to Tuweep and look down 2000 ft straight down and have a nut case suggesting throwing the ranger over the edge so he can has his daughter. Now that is scary.
Scroll down to the Oct. 11 post.
The link to the scary story is broke. But the gist of the story was I had camped several years with two friends right on the edge next to the picnic table and tree in our pop up camper. We were on a vacation the year after we had done the river in a raft with others and wanted to see it from above. (Can't camp that close anymore) About dusk a old pickup truck pulled and a guy gets out with his dog. A bad of ice and a bottle of gin. Sat on the edge and came over to us, eating a can of spinach and told us he planned kidnap the rangers daughter and bring her to the edge. What could we do, nothing. We thought we were dead. One scary dude. He had no tent, or cooler just gin and pot. To think he drove 50 miles or more down this bad road and now it was just us and him. I at one time went into the canvas trailer and laid on the bed like I could hide from him or something. Later he went back to his truck and in the morning he was gone. If you have ever been to Tuweep and look down 2000 ft straight down and have a nut case suggesting throwing the ranger over the edge so he can has his daughter. Now that is scary.
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