(Little Death Hollow is a long side canyon of the Escalante River that builds slowly to superb narrows and a heavenly, nearly two mile long, slot section near its mouth. The Escalante region of southern Utah was the last to be mapped in the lower 48 States and this canyon is about as far as you can get from regular highways in a two wheel drive vehicle in the United States - in dry conditions!)

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I am a Jealous God and you shall put no other Canyon before Little Death Hollow, my home. You shall not say my name for any bad purpose or to any bad person. I am male, but my home is female. If you had needed climbing ropes to access me I would have given you the glands of a spider. I am here now, but I may leave at any time, especially after a flood.

Utah Governor Gary Herbert hosted a 'Rocky Mountain Roundtable' with Governor Otter of Idaho and Mead of Wyoming, all Republicans, last Friday April 27. Designed to loosely build political support for Utah challenges of Federal regulations and land ownership the event was more of an extended free form press conference than anything, and in that, it succeeded.

Personally, I think there is a non-partisan balance point on Western Federal land issues, but it will be difficult to reach.