Re: What Did You Watch? 2024-06-24 (Monday)

On Wed, 26 Jun 2024 13:18:11 -0700, anim8rfsk <anim8rfsk@cox.net>
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shawn <nanoflower@notforg.m.a.i.l.com> wrote:

On Wed, 26 Jun 2024 06:51:11 -0700, anim8rfsk <anim8rfsk@cox.net>
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Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net> wrote:

On 6/25/2024 7:29 PM, anim8rfsk wrote:

Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net> wrote:

On 6/25/2024 2:00 PM, anim8rfsk wrote:

BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com> wrote:

In article <v5emp8$1j9j9$1@dont-email.me>,
"Ian J. Ball" <ijball@mac.invalid> wrote:
 

The Canyon (Tubi) - 2009 flick starring Yvonne Stra-hotski, and Eion
Bailey (with special appearance from Will Patton!).
I actually am pretty sure I've seen this flick, or at least part of
it, before.
Stra-hotski and Bailey play newlyweds - he wants to take her on a
mule ride tour of the Grand Canyon for the honeymoon. But he didn't book
in advance, so he's screwed! Until old salt guide Will Patton shows up,
and offers to take them (likely on the D.L.!).
Of course, you know this is going to end in disaster, and it does
when Patton is bitten by rattlesnakes and the mules run off.
So they're far away from civilization, get lost, make horrible and
dumb mistakes, and are menaced by wolves most of the time.

 
Are there any actual wolves-- not coyotes or jackals but real big,
bad-ass wolves-- in the Grand Canyon? I don't think so.
 

 
Fish &  game tries to keep them out, but they show up now and then and
usually get shot for their trouble.
 

The Grand Canyon is BIG!  The small bit that most tourists see is only a
small percentage of it.
 

 
Most of it is empty air
 

PPhhhhttttt!!!!
 
"About 5 million visitors a year visit Grand Canyon National Park to see
this immense chasm stretching more than 277 miles long, up to 18 miles
wide, which attains a depth of over a mile (6,000 feet)."

 
Been there, both rims, and all the way to the bottom, where Phantom Ranch
waits and absolutely nothing works, even water

 
Didn't make it that far as I hadn't planned the trip but since I was
out in Phoenix on work I thought I should pay a visit to the GC. Did
make it over half way to the bottom which wasn't bad for an unplanned
August visit. Have to admit standing to one side with the open air
next to you while the mule train walked past was a bit disturbing as
I've never been a fan of those sorts of heights.
 

>
They made me ride the mules down when I was 10 or 11. There’s a rut in the
middle of the track and the mules don’t like to walk in the rut so they
walk on the OUTSIDE of it. When you look down, you can’t even see the trail
because the side of the mule is further out than it. You just see straight
down. I was not a happy camper.

LOL. I can only imagine how I would have felt at that age. I ended up
standing in that arch due to the mules so I got a similar view. It
definitely got my blood pumping even though I was safe so long as I
didn't make a bad move. Still, looking to one side and seeing that
drop off was not my favorite moment.

What I did love was being up top and looking across at the cliff side
and seeing spots that truly looked like it could have been cliff side
homes. It amused me how my brain could see things that clearly
couldn't be homes and yet my brain was also telling that must be a
cliff side dwelling. Though it wasn't entirely impossible given some
of the other cliff side dwellings I've seen in various videos over the
years.