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I grew up in the 70's and probably tripped around 200 times from '73 to
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'76. It seemed like I reached a plateau of sorts...with each trip being
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OK..but not "memorable". At this point in time I gave up doing
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psychedelics altogether.
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Last summer an old friend and I decided to go camping. Unknown to me,
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he had just returned from a Dead show with some of "The Best" acid he'd
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done in years. After we set up camp...he looked over at me and said "Do
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you want to get REALLY HIGH?" Thinking he had some bud..I said "sure".
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He reaches in his pocket and pulls out a film container and dumps 8
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hits of blotter out into his hand. A ZILLION thoughts raced through my
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head.
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Not being too sure about tripping again..... I felt reluctant. Then I
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looked around at the mountains and thought "Why not?". Asking about
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dosages...my friend said that 2 was recommended but we should eat 4.
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(Alot of the acid in high school was "4-way"..anyone remember
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windowpane??) I went for it. Jesus..what a ride.
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After only 20 minutes...things started getting REAL weird. It was a
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spacial distortion like none other I'd felt. Everything was at a 45
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degree tilt and the ground was totally fluid. All the wildflowers
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seemed to be painted onto a canvas. I tried to get somewhat comfortable
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but was squirming and even shaking at one point. I thought for sure I'd
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gone over the edge.
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We were camped on a mesa and the view was AWESOME. After about 2 hours
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the weather started to cloud up and we started to hear thunder.
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Noticing ALOT of trees on the ridge were FRIED from lightning
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strikes...we backed off a bit for the cover of the woods. All of the
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sudden it started to rain. Sheets of wind and rain were cruising
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through just as the sun was going down way off in the West.
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Lightning started crashing down in the valley in front of us and when
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you looked up...the clouds were swirling wildly above us. Just then a
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rainbow appeared and started to grow and become more vivid. Then we
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noticed a second rainbow starting to form and also become more vivid.
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We were standing there... when all of the sudden the rainbows started
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fluctuating wildly in the sky...growing closer and then farther apart.
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Then they seemed to crash into each other and become one..only to split
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and rejoin again. I looked over at my buddy..thinking it was the acid
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and was MY vision but as our eyes met, I knew he had seen the same
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thing as me. We watched this specticle for over an hour. I was frozen
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in my tracks from the beauty of it all.
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This experience really opened my eyes. It was the first time I ever
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felt anything spiritual or cosmic while I was tripping. I felt very
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small in the whole scheme of things. We sat on the ridge till it got
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dark and the rainbow was visible for over 1 1/2 hours. Then we were
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treated to a star gazing feast til the wee hours of the morning.
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I plan to go back next summer.I'm not sure if I'll do acid again when I
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do or not. Even if I'm totally straight though...I think this place
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holds some incredible powers of it's own. I kind of regret all the
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"meaningless" trips I've been on in past years and will definitely be
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more selective in the future.
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If you're ever in Western Colorado..check out Clinetop Mesa
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It's good to know it's still out there when you want it.
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