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Post by PK on Jun 21, 2013 1:30:45 GMT
Utah for the desert and climbing. Northern California for the rafting.
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Post by ironhold on Jun 21, 2013 1:39:16 GMT
Utah actually has several major landscape types within its boundary: desert, forest, mountain, ocean, urban, and arctic.
This is basically the entire reason why Hill Air Force Base exists; all the Air Force has to do is ship their pilots off to Hill and they can train over multiple terrain types all at once.
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Post by blindleader on Jun 21, 2013 20:11:52 GMT
The "story" lead in (before they got dumped in Canyonlands NP) showed shots of the Grand Canyon. That was obviously advertising for the Nik Wallenda event. Having never been to Canyonlands, I can't tell where their "15 mile" hike was nor the formation they climbed to scout the landscape nor the cliff they descended. Had that been the Grand Canyon, though (I know, nobody said it was) it would have been a long desert slog down another 5,000 vertical feet to the well tamed Colorado River (been there, done that) which would offer no real challenge. So it was off to California for the river adventures per PK's coordinates.
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Post by the light works on Jun 23, 2013 14:40:37 GMT
I finally got to see it, and it was rather entertaining. some notes:
they were pretty blatant with the shifts in location: shifting from canyon's edge to 15 miles away, from the canyon to the red river canyon, then from the red river to "it's like a whole different river" it definitely looked to me like it was a sendup of the survival show model; where the hero tucks in for the night, then they turn off the cameras and whisk him off to a five star hotel.
the river capsize - my only critique was they didn't have helmets on them. Other than that, you might have noticed that Adam kept touching the top of his head. that was signals to the rescue swimmers to hold off.
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