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| Capturing a moment of desperate retreat-these are CIA and American embassy personal fleeing Vietnam. Photo: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fall_of_Saigon |
When American radio announced that the temperature was "a hundred and five degrees and rising" followed by playing Bing Crosby's "White Christmas," few knew it had any significance. Exact numbers of how many who did are uncertain, but those who knew gathered their belongings-it was an evacuation signal. At this point in Saigon, (April 1975) it was time for the Americans and their South Vietnamese allies to flee. The enemy was at the gate, literally, the communists were just outside the city. Waiting until the last moment to flee South Vietnam, the American embassy personnel had by default whittled their options down to one, mass evacuation by helicopter. The photo above was taken during that time as helicopters flew back and forth countless times from ships in the South China Sea to Saigon ferrying loads of desperate people.
Salt Lake City summers are hot. "C'mon, you live in a desert" you say. I know that, and I like that, it doesn't make the summer months easier though. So just like the democracy loving people that knew their time was up once they heard it was "a hundred and five and rising," I knew when I needed to run from the heat further into the mountains.
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| Dillan telling me to Cool Your Jets. |
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| These few routes are near Pentapitch and right next to the river. That means they are some of the coolest in the canyon.... |
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| ...it probably helps that it is north facing as well. They have fun movement on them as well! |
