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Saturday, October 01, 2011

Bruckner's Unfinished Ninth

Bruckner : 9th Symphony (1/5) ...FIRST MINUTE SILENT
Bruckner: 9th Symphony (2/5)
Bruckner: 9th Symphony (3/5)Bruckner: 9th Symphony (4/5)Bruckner: 9th Symphony (5/5)


It was disconcerting
to examine your charts
before a proposed flight
only to find that
in many cases
the bulk of the terrain
over which you had to fly
was bluntly marked:
"UNSURVEYED."
It was as if
the mapmakers had said,
"We are aware that
between this spot
and that one, there are
several hundred thousands
of acres, but until you
make a forced landing there,
we won't know whether
it is mud, desert, or jungle
--and the chances are we won't know then!"
--Beryl Markham
from West With the Night
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Granite Rapid
below Serpentine Rapid
outside Garnet Canyon
Haunted Canyon
from Utah Flats route
behind Ribbon Falls

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