Narrows Group

I recently received a CD with my Uncle Merlin's pictures from the Narrows hike, so I'll be posting some of them with comments. Unfortunately, the quality of some of the pictures isn't that great due to their age and the conversion process from slides to jpeg documents.

First of all, I'd like to introduce the group who went on the actual hike:

 

before picture

 

 You will notice that there were only 8 hikers instead of the 9 hikers in the book. The reason for this is because I wanted to include a female cousin into the mix, even though none of them went on the actual hike. You may also notice that my cousin Darin (aka Devin) isn't pictured. That is because he was in Australia at the time we were on the hike. However, since it was a DTB Cousin adventure, he needed to be on the hike - so I had him take the place of his brother Barry. That is one reason why I changed the names of almost all of the characters from their real names - to further emphasize the fact that the story is fictitious. Since the setting for the book is 1983, but the hike took place in 1992, we are all older than how we were portrayed in the book. By comparison, my younger brother Greg was 14 at the time of the hike - about the same age at Shane in the book. Since Brady's younger brother would have been too young to go on the hike, his spot was replaced by Uncle Arther - Devin's dad.

 

 Here is the same group at the end of the hike:

after picture

You may notice that the flash flood danger level is now listed as "extreme." Thanks for the warning - but it came a little too late. Luckily, we were all able to make it out on our own two feet - illustrating another deviation the story took from reality.

Stay tuned for more pictures.