Longnot Crater

Phil Stauffer was studying in Nairobi and we took motorcycle to Longnot Crater down in the Rift Valley, climbed it and spent the night up on the rim. It is virtually impossible to get down inside without ropes due to the shear walls but friends did onetime and barely made it out. There is a small plane which crashed down in the bowl but cannot be seen any longer. In the cool morning air, one could see all sorts of steam holes around the sides of the bowl. When we left the next morning we ran into a local guy who wondered if we had seen all the leopards that live up there. No. We were asleep in sleeping bags out on the dirt, sleeping the sleep of the ignorant. The photo at the top is us on the rim. The photo just below is Phil and I, 35 years later in the US, just as ignorant I suppose.