Badlands and bad knees

Your know you're getting old . . . When teenagers ride their dirt bikes up and down the steep, red hills. When Kids chase each other through the rocks. And when you're slipping and sliding and failing to keep balance along the narrow gullies. Welcome to Cheltenham Badlands, about half an hour's drive from Georgetown, a strange geographical formation caused by overgrazing of the land in the 1930s, that exposed the red iron oxide-tinged shale beneath. The result is a Mars-like landscape . . . and photographers with sore knees . . .