{"id":2889,"date":"2025-12-10T22:58:22","date_gmt":"2025-12-11T06:58:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/?p=2889"},"modified":"2026-02-10T23:01:54","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T07:01:54","slug":"dharma-talk-sunday-august-17-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/?p=2889","title":{"rendered":"Camping at Comb ridge &#8211; October 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The open road and the Southwest, especially Utah, are never out of my thoughts.\u00a0 Spring and Fall are the best times to visit the desert.\u00a0 [Photos <a href=\"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/copyright-symbol-e1444380117230.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-599\" src=\"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/copyright-symbol-e1444380117230.png\" alt=\"copyright symbol\" width=\"20\" height=\"18\" \/><\/a> Max Vollmer, Click on any image to enlarge]<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2909\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2909\" style=\"width: 4485px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/IMG_20241028_174248130_BURST001.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-2909\" src=\"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/IMG_20241028_174248130_BURST001.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"4485\" height=\"3363\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2909\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Evening<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2910\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2910\" style=\"width: 4608px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/IMG_20241028_182614878_BURST000_COVER.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2910\" src=\"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/IMG_20241028_182614878_BURST000_COVER.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"4608\" height=\"3456\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2910\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Changing colors over Comb Ridge, looking south<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2911\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2911\" style=\"width: 4608px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/IMG_20241028_182441979_BURST001.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2911\" src=\"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/IMG_20241028_182441979_BURST001.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"4608\" height=\"3456\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2911\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fading light to the west.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Young adventurer and lover of wild places , Everette Ruess, disappeared without a trace\u00a0 in 1934.\u00a0 \u00a0He was last seen camping in Davis Gulch south of Escalante, UT.\u00a0 His remains were not discovered until 2008 near Comb Ridge, northwest of Bluff, UT.\u00a0 \u00a0I&#8217;ve been reading Ruess&#8217;s letters and journal entries in <strong>A Vagabond For Beauty<\/strong> by W. L. Rusho.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The open road and the Southwest, especially Utah, are never out of my thoughts.\u00a0 Spring and Fall are the best times to visit the desert.\u00a0 [Photos Max Vollmer, Click on any image to enlarge] Young adventurer and lover of wild places , Everette Ruess, disappeared without a trace\u00a0 in 1934.\u00a0 \u00a0He was last seen camping &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/?p=2889\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Camping at Comb ridge &#8211; October 2024<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,71],"tags":[447,445,448,444,446],"class_list":["post-2889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journal","category-photography","tag-bluff-utah","tag-comb-ridge","tag-escalante-utah","tag-everett-ruess","tag-san-juan-county"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2889"}],"version-history":[{"count":30,"href":"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2889\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3609,"href":"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2889\/revisions\/3609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}