2022-02-03, 08:12 AM
I was climbing up Towne Peak or thereabouts with my daughter, who must have been around 10 at the time. She was maybe 30 yards behind me. At one point I turned and I saw a plane coming up the slope towards us, very fast, but of course you can't hear them when they are coming in fast near the ground. I don't know what it was, but it was big at that point, no little dot in the sky, you could see lines of rivets. I tried to call to her to watch out but she could not hear me, or see me waving, until it was upon her. She fell down, probably more from shock than pressure wave, and started bawling. I did not appreciate that fly by.
Sleeping on the concrete slab at the old mine part way up Happy Canyon (the one with the no tresspassing "Nodice" painted on the wall. Middle of the night, two or three jets were playing above the canyon, which held in the noise as it bounced from wall to wall. Went on for 15 minutes. The silence of the desert, the gentle flow of the little stream... not.
Sleeping on the concrete slab at the old mine part way up Happy Canyon (the one with the no tresspassing "Nodice" painted on the wall. Middle of the night, two or three jets were playing above the canyon, which held in the noise as it bounced from wall to wall. Went on for 15 minutes. The silence of the desert, the gentle flow of the little stream... not.