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Within seconds , Ward and Read shot past Kern . " And last spring , ' coyotes ' [ people who lead UDAs through the desert for a fee ] were bringing groups as large as a hundred through here . Far below , the narrow Rua slices through sandy , desolate bottomlands before winding into a tiny cleft between gigantic cliffs . If you do n't already have this free plug-in , you must leave National Geographic Kids and download Flash . Within the fortnight , a screaming three-day blizzard would sweep the canyon country . Though he did n't know it , he passed within a quarter mile of Rock Lake . Using 60-year-old Soviet military maps and Stark 's book , I narrow down the location to a largely uninhabited region several miles ( about 5 kilometers ) long , between the Rua and Simareh Rivers . Actually , the trail is quite accessible : Most of its 29 trailheads are near major roads or towns and many of them are within a four-hour drive of Minneapolis-St . He began bushwhacking through forest so dense that he sometimes had to remove his backpack to squeeze between the trees . Killip was now teetering on the invisible dividing line between two worlds : He was in a state of only minor geographical confusion , for he could still turn back . The place in his spirit where he was broken had grown so familiar to him , and he had so long ago abandoned the notion of any fingering or magic that could repair it , that his living had assumed a frayed quality , waiting for the last thread to give . If you ever just want to do a little cogitating , or join Gaia in rapturous union , or just be way , way far alone , this is the place and the time . " Then I remember watching it ripping through the ice like it was a Slush Puppy . He knew the terrible sweetness of the melancholy in that music and how it soothed his father to be there within it . If someone is weak or falters , they just leave them . Usually I 'm about an hour into a search like that and I have to shake my head and think , Two hours ago I was going to be having dinner with my girlfriend and now I 'm in the middle of the backcountry and it 's dark and I 'm looking for somebody . It was the last fling of summer ; the boisterous , colorful boundary between seasons . Too far from shore to outswim the predator if it attacked , Howes feared for the lives of the girls and himself . Brad was through the life ring and he was holding me , but every time we got close to the boat we would get sucked under this huge freighter . On the night of the 13th , the lion came back to the village and sat on several porches and even went to the extent of knocking on people 's doors and walking through the village freely .