[lbo-talk] Garden of earthly delights

[Chuck Grimes]

I was looking at the work of an editorial cartoonist, named Len Norris. His 
regular
job was doing newspaper cartoons for the Vancouver Sun.. Some of his work is 
very funny.

http://www.animationarchive.org/pics/norris06-big.jpg

I was thinking about the Bush and Obama administrations absurdities
and why they didn't seem to generate a whole bunch of political cartoons. I 
found several of Norris's older cartoons including this cover art. I'd been 
drinking and saw this and thought Hieronymus Bosh goes camping.

Anyway, I remembered my first backpacking trip to the Sierra at fourteen. It 
was a lot of fun, but it was a killer hike (6000ft), took two days to get 
there, and had a lot of little mountain adventures. They rented a couple of 
flat bed stake trucks to get from LA to somewhere north of Long Pine.

Nobody had backpacks or sleeping bags, so the guys who ran this Y trip got a 
load of army surplus backpacks and sleeping bags. The equipment was minimal 
to say the least.

CG