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Hours on a Sandstone Ledge: How She Measured Time
Hours on a Sandstone Ledge: How She Measured Time
The thought of being stranded where water can rise four feet in an hour is a quiet kind of terror - and Dawn West spent seventy-two hours measuring every passing moment by carving marks into sandstone with a Leatherman file. How did a methodical twenty-three-year-old, who planned every route and even carried a tiny green brachiosaurus, turn meticulous preparation into a minute-by-minute survival ledger?
In this episode, you will hear the timeline of what happened when Dawn entered Calloway Canyon and the canyon filled; we follow her route…
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