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This evening I had the opportunity to attend the Rowell Award Ceremony in downtown San Francisco. I found out about this event shortly after my return from a recent trip to the Wave in the Paria Canyon-Vermilion Cliffs Wilderness Area. On the way back home I had the opportunity to visit Galen Rowell’s Mountain Light Gallery in Bishop, California. I wrote about the experience in a blog entry titled Point of Reflection. Viewing Galen’s large prints and learning more about him piqued my interest in anything Galen so it seemed serendipitous to learn of this event and its timing.

The ceremony as you might expect was dominated by the memory of the late and great Galen Rowell and his wife Barbara Rowell. The evening was well balanced as a whole including the award ceremony and a lecture given by Tom Brokaw titled “Deleting the Virtual World”. The award ceremony lasted all of 10-15 minutes and included a speech by this year’s winner Beth Wald. Read more… »