#grand canyon
Went on vacation to the North Carolina Mountains and the Grand Canyon: it was fun~!
-Mark
Been on vacation, here are some phone photos I’ve played with, can’t wait to get home and upload the real camera photos.
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The Grand Canyon is unreal. It’s feels as if you are staring at a painting or a backdrop for a John Wayne movie.
Jess and I visited the South Rim. I really would have liked to to gone to the North Rim just to avoid the Disney World crowd like madness. Our trip was originally planned for coming up from southern Arizona so the South Rim made sense. Due to the fires in the Coconino area and our reservations being cancelled our trip changed last minute and was rerouted.
After setting up camp we headed to the visitor center to attend to our ritual, postcards and a sticker. The visitor center had to have thousands of people there, total madness. The stress levels started to rise. After coming from Bryce and Arches, the crowds just were too much to handle.
Luckily Jess and I read up on a few cool hikes to beautiful views of the South Rim away from the overwhelming crowds. We headed to the first hike’s trailhead, two other cars in the small parking lot was a great sign. We headed down the trail excited to get “our” views of the Grand Canyon. The Grand Canyon is a very spiritual place, I didn’t want that compromised because of the stampede like crowd of tourists. So two cars in the parking lot was an exciting view. The trail was only a little over a mile each way, cake. Coming around the last bend was more than we could have asked for. A ledge that ultimately sticks out into the canyon, I saw Jess’s face light up. After spending hours that only seemed like a mere five minutes we headed back to camp.
This morning we woke up with a family of Elk in our campsite. Grazing the grass and paying no mind to Jess and I’s excitement. We hung out with the elk as one while we ate our egg white burritos. The smile wouldn’t leave my face, waking up with Elk 50 feet from us is what it’s all about.
This morning we are headed to a few more view points including Desert View which I am pretty excited about. I definitely would like to come back to the Grand Canyon and hike down into the canyon. Unfortunately when I booked the sites, all the backcountry permits for camping were booked up. Always next time. Now we are headed
back into the magical state of Utah to experience Zion National Park. We only have two nights there. We will be nonstop, fitting in as much as we can. We can always sleep this fall when we head back east.
On the road to Zion…
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Spent a week in Northern Arizona. It was refreshing to experience something entirely new. I was blown away by this landscape.
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The Grand Canyon Skywalk
State: Arizona
- is a horseshoe-shaped cantilever bridge with a glass walkway
- the height of the precisely vertical drop directly under the skywalk is between 500 ft (150 m) and 800 ft (240 m)
- https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Canyon_Skywalk
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Lovely photos from the U.S. National Park Service
- Acadia (Maine)
- Glacier Bay (Alaska)
- Colonial Parkway (Virginia)
- Grand Canyon (Arizona)
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A young couple peers over the edge of Hopi Point into the Grand Canyon, May 1955.
Photograph by Justin Locke, National Geographic
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The snow-flecked Isis Temple rock formation rises from the Grand Canyon, 1969.Photograph by Walter Meayers Edwards, National Geographic
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Three photos taken near the Grand Canyon. The first was taken very early in the morning in the woods near the south rim. I went looking for an elk (an animal that I had actually never seen before) and took this photo of the litter of pine needles on the ground. My white vans were trashed after that. The second photo was taken at dusk and is of the train tracks that lead around the south rim. The third is a shot of the Colorado River taken from a helicopter. It was expensive as hell but I went on the helicopter on an impulse. Good choice.
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The name of this waterfall is very literal; Havasupai, the people of the blue-green waters. The natives who live in the area share its name and consider the ancient calcium and magnesium rich water sacred. Grand Canyon, Arizona.
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Grand Canyon, Arizona By Kaldoon on Flickr
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Grand Oasis. Imagine yourself trekking along the vast expanse of the desolate Grand Canyon and running across this beauty.
I would totally not drink from it though :/
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Grand Canyon / Tony Abeyta / 2016 / Acrylic on linen, 60" x 157 ½.
Currently on exhibit in Remembering the Future: 100 Years of Inspiring Art at the Heard Museum, Phoenix, Arizona. Please click through for an enlarged view.
Like the canyon itself, this mural is so big it feels like it can’t be taken in all at once. Writing about his mural paintings, Abeyta has said, “Scale can change the way we as artists communicate our ideas. I love to work large with a freedom that challenges me to see my own ideas explode on a wall or canvas, and I believe there is a newfound relationship to context and to community. Through its very process, a mural must be deliberate and command attention that a smaller work doesn’t seem as likely to address.”
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