The top photograph is of the river far below the Overlook.
I know now, but I did not know then what rappelling was. I always think of the Jefferson Airplane lyric when I see that picture, "We're doing things that haven't got a name yet." Of course, this was prohibiting something that had a name, though I had no idea what it was.
I told Chuck on this trip that I had read about this Renault Dauphin that was found at the bottom of a New York lake. When it was dredged up, and discovered to have had very low mileage, after an investigation, it was found to have been newly owned by a family of four that had gone on a trip after purchasing the car, run off the highway, and all had drown at the bottom of that lake, where their corpses had remained since 1960.
I then kidded Chuck, "Yeah, they found out that the passengers were actually Judge Crater, Emelia Earhart, Ambrose Bierce, and Glenn Miller." His eyes widened, then I continued, "In the trunk, they also found Jimmy Hoffa's body in a bag." He looked at me for a moment as if he was almost ready to believe me then burst into laughter when he realized that I was definitely joking about the five famous individuals in history who had vanished mysteriously.
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