The Wild World of Buck Bray: Danger at the Dinosaur Stomping Grounds
HIKING TRAIL KLONDINA BIKE TRAIL BLUFFS DIRT ROAD ОТАН PARKING AREA LEAVE ONLY FOOTPRINTS TAKE ONLY ΤΗ TRAIL HEAD PHOTOS STOMPING GROUNDS
Take 1 If you walked the entire length of an Allosaurus you’d go about twenty-six feet and if you stood on top of its back you’d be ten feet above the ground Saturday October 12 The last thing Buck saw as he started slipping was the silhouette of someone’s head looking over the curved edge of red slickrock twenty feet above him Buck the stranger shouted from above Get off your knees Just use your toes and fingers Hearing someone call out his name grabbed Buck’s attention He instinctively followed the stranger’s instructions instructions shifting so only his feet and fingers clung to the steep curved rock his back arched above it Instantly he stopped sliding but he was still panicking Above him
bright blue sky Behind him air Thirty feet below him the scruffy canyon floor And in front of him the steep rounded face of red rock he was clinging to toes crammed into a crevice fingers holding onto the edge of a crack He had twenty more feet to go before he reached the top and although he was no longer sliding backward Buck was frozen Frozen with fear Twenty minutes earlier Buck and Toni had wandered from the campground in Utah’s Canyonlands National Park following a sandy trail through twisted piñon pines dwarfed junipers and a variety of scruffy bushes sagebrush and cacti The path ran beside an arroyo that wound through the middle of the narrow canyon Just a trickle of water flowed over the creek’s sandy bed Ripples in dry sandbars lining the arroyo showed that water sometimes raced through the canyon There were several boot prints going in both directions Buck’s and Toni’s boot prints had joined the others heading away from the campground
