{"id":106413,"date":"2016-03-02T19:38:19","date_gmt":"2016-03-03T02:38:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/a-four-corners-circle-quest\/"},"modified":"2016-03-02T19:38:19","modified_gmt":"2016-03-03T02:38:19","slug":"a-four-corners-circle-quest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/a-four-corners-circle-quest\/","title":{"rendered":"A Four Corners circle quest"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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Sam Green\/Cortez Journal \u00ac Two Peas In A Pod do a comedy routine at the Dolores Farm to School program talent show.<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>

\u201cFrom the bottom of the Grand Canyon to the top of the Rockies and back again\u201d is how author and adventurer Brett LeCompte describes a walkabout he took in the early 1990s.<\/p>\n

On March 10 at the Dolores Public Library, LeCompte will share images and stories from that four-month, 1,400-mile solo journey that circled the desert canyons and mountain peaks of the Four Corners region.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt went amazingly smooth,\u201d LeCompte said of the trip. \u201cI lost 20 pounds, and it took a year before I did not want to eat everything in sight.\u201d<\/p>\n

He describes his epic pilgrimage as a \u201cvision quest\u201d combined with a \u201cwalkabout\u201d of the Australian tradition.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe concept is to send a person out to learn the land that supports you,\u201d he said. \u201cA walkabout is really an in-depth personal exploration of your homeland.\u201d<\/p>\n

His longest day was 26 miles; his shortest, a bushwhack that gained him just 6 miles.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor me, \u2018lost\u2019 is a relative term: I was making my own route,\u201d he said. \u201cThe trip gave me a profound sense of my home in the Four Corners.\u201d<\/p>\n

The biggest challenge was finding water during the desert portions of the trip. Discovering a watering hole that you were depending on to be dry is demoralizing, not to mention life threatening.<\/p>\n

\u201cI dug in wet sand until it pooled and drank from that at one point,\u201d he said. \u201cI had some close calls finding water.\u201d<\/p>\n

LeCompte wrote a book of the experience titled \u201cSouthwest Circle Quest, A Walkabout in the American Outback\u201d Copies will be available at his slide presentation at the Dolores Public Library on March 10 at 6:30 p.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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