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A poets hiking vacation turns deadly in soaring Mojave heat; his true survival story leaves you with chills. Rosenthals shocking ordeal was covered on The Discovery Channel and on Fight to Survive with Bear Grylls.

A real estate broker in Downtown Los Angeles, Ed Rosenthals passion is poetry, writing about the historic buildings he sells and advocates to preserve. He hates slumlords, is fed up with his buyers, and finally escapes to the Mojave to bathe at a natural spring and take his favorite hiking trip in Joshua Tree National Park. But his vacation soon turns into a nightmare. Over six grueling days without water, food, or hope, he discovers a well of perseverance in the snippets of his life that play over the deadly but inspiring landscape, in which he finds himself utterly and inexplicably lost. The God of Random Chance has, despite his best efforts his whole life, finally caught up to him. He describes his ordeal and its setting in intimate, vivid detail: surreal visions mix with wayfinding and intuitive wisdom in a poets-eye view of the life-lessons and magic that the desert can hold.

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SALVATION
CANYON

SALVATION
CANYON

A True Story
of Desert Survival in Joshua Tree

Ed Rosenthal

Salvation Canyon: A True Story of Desert Survival in Joshua Tree

Ed Rosenthal 2020

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher.

Cover photograph: Don Graham - inkknife_2000, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0 (color enhanced), taken on March 18, 2017. Interior cover map: National Park Service, Black Rock Canyon Station, September 30, 2010, courtesy Ed Rosenthal.

Cover design: Carrie Paterson
Book design: Jonathan Yamakami

Publishers Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Rosenthal, Ed, 1946-, author.

Title: Salvation canyon : a true story of desert survival in Joshua Tree / by Ed Rosenthal.

Description: Los Angeles, CA: DoppelHouse Press, 2020.

Identifiers: LCCN: 2020936494 | ISBN: 9781733957977 (pbk.) | 9781733957960 (ebook)

Subjects: LCSH Rosenthal, Ed, 1946-. | Joshua Tree National Park (Calif.) | Mojave Desert. | Desert survival--California. | Wilderness survival--California. | Wilderness survival--Biography. | Adventure and adventurers--United States--Biography. | Outdoor life. | BISAC BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Survival | BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Adventurers & Explorers | BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs | BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Jewish

Classification: LCC GV200.5 .R66 2020 | DDC 613.6/9/092--dc23

Contents PREFACE TEN YEARS AGO I survived a baffling near-death - photo 3

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PREFACE

TEN YEARS AGO, I survived a baffling near-death experience in the Mojave Desert. To help communicate this astounding event, I researched classics of the survival genre. The first of these was Steven Callahans masterpiece Adrift, which describes his unplanned crossing of the Atlantic on a lifeboat. Afterwards, I dove into scores of memoirs. But its Callahans journey and these few simple words from his preface that mean the most to me:

I am less an individual than part of a continuum, joined to all things and driven by them more than I am in control of my own path.

Unlike Callahan, a world-class sailor and adventurer, I was a real estate broker who took solitary hikes in the desert when I closed a big deal.

Lets face it. When Mr. Rosenthal was lost in the desert, the temperature was 115 degrees in the shade. People die in two hours in heat like that

Sheriff Jeff Joling San Bernadino County, California

I THREE MEN HELD a massive desk just outside my office I stepped aside as - photo 4
I THREE MEN HELD a massive desk just outside my office I stepped aside as - photo 5

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THREE MEN HELD a massive desk just outside my office. I stepped aside as they hoisted it through the doorway, carried it to the corner, and placed its plain oak top just under the window ledge.

Thank you. I held the front edge and leaned over the top of the five-by-eight-foot gift from my client.

The lead man gasped, Okay, and I gave them each ten bucks. The last man pulled the yawning door closed. It was a bear of a desk and it had been a bear of a deal to close. Don Clinton had sent his fathers desk to thank me.

I pulled open the flat middle drawer and found a crinkled ad from 1932 for a meal at Cliftons Cafeteria. Two eggs, bacon, and toast for $.05 cents, coffee included. I pulled the tarnished handle of the top drawer on the left and found an old wooden contraption with a weight and a balance for measuring, and under this, a pamphlet with a drawing of a clock and bold print across the picture that read, The clock strikes twelve.

Id been heading out the door and was already late, so I shoved the pamphlet in my pocket and headed out for the press conference through the marble hallway whose mahogany moldings pointed the way to the elevator. The long corridor was strung with lamps from the 1920s, opaque deco glass in sinuous black metal frames. At the polished brass elevators, I pushed the call button.

In the lobby hung a globe etched with a deco goddess lit from within by a glowing yellow bulb. Through the etched-glass entry doors onto the street, it was a short jaunt to the corner of Fifth and Spring Streets where The Preacher stood, a black man with a bible in his right hand who held forth below the historic cornices and large glass windows. I crossed Spring Street to the Rowan Building and saw, as I did each time, the shadow of the first landlord I dealt with here in Downtown Los Angeles. The vision of him, a bedraggled man in a black raincoat, screamed, Im going to kill that mother fucker!

Walking these streets, my mind was haunted by memories of people I had dealt with. But the upper levels of the street were inhabited by mythological dreams. The bas relief carved into the granite base of the Stock Exchange Building reflected my own weariness with business. Crafted eighty years earlier by radical immigrant stonemasons, the huge central panel shows a goddess of enterprise with her arms draped around Karl Marx and Vladimir Lenin. At the old Alexandria Hotel, floral moldings and hour-glass balustrades decorate the roof. Classical statues stand out from the corners of the grand old hotel as the ghost of the old hotel owner barks, I dont need any fuckin broker to tell me what my place is worth.

Crossing Fifth Street, I was disturbed by ghosts of County policy. A decade ago, councilwoman Jan Perry pleaded with deaf Supervisors for homeless facilities. From south and north, now the sidewalks were lined with people opening and closing their bedrolls. A scene that extended deep into the Toy District.

I stepped over a sleeping woman wrapped in a dirty blanket sprawled across the sidewalk. A bent, old man covered his mouth as he coughed and extended his other hand asking for an offering. I moved aside before a wheelchair could knock me down.

At Sixth and Spring, the scene brightened. Slim young women in skirts that floated just above the bottom of their hips blended with lost young men in stained fatigues. Swank new clubs and restaurants had recently opened inside the historic bank buildings.

A thin yellow tape on plastic orange posts diverted traffic at Broadway and Seventh Street. Across the glass front of Cliftons Cafeteria, a ceremonial ribbon had been draped awaiting the ribbon-cutting ceremony. It signaled the end of seven arduous years. Id closed the deal.

People are not intrigued by real estate, but a large crowd had gathered, covering the sidewalk and spreading out into the street. This particular deal had captured the publics imagination. It was the well-known disposition of the founder, Clifford Clinton, who provided free meals throughout the Great Depression, and the environment hed created, an inspiration for Disneys Disneyland, with its faux forest and cute wooden bears climbing trees and a giant redwood stump at its center.

A podium was positioned on the historic terrazzo sidewalk. I was just in time. I elbowed my way through the crowd, circled the last of the orange posts, and closed in on the buildings metal facade, where the City councilmans spokesperson had a pair of large cardboard scissors in her hand. A panhandler extended his palm: Do you have a cigarette man?

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