Exploring the Grand Canyon »
Posted By Macas 1 year, 5 months ago in StyleThe Grand Canyon is more than a great chasm carved over millennia through the rocks of the Colorado Plateau. It is more than an awe-inspiring view. It is more than a pleasuring ground for those that explore the roads, hike the trails, or float the currents of the turbulent Colorado River.
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puffin1 year, 4 months ago
BooHoo me. I often feel that I'll never get to see all the places I want - which is pretty much the whole world.
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BronxBomber1 year, 4 months ago
Oh silly puffin!*tweaky nose* lol!
I gotta admit me as well! The Grand Canyon is one place I'd like to visit, and explore though, such natural beauty.
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LordyLordy1 year, 4 months ago
You should travel North and view the Northern Lights....awwwsome!
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LordyLordy1 year, 4 months ago
I had seen a brief report that on one of the Indian Reservations there, they have this glass platform that you can walk out on, look down and be several thousand feet above the canyon floor. They claim its awsome but I'd have to admit everyone below me would get yellow rain I fear. I'll take the donkey ride down...maybe. One false step with those guys and you could go 1500 feet right straight down I'm told. Give me a helicopter!
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LordyLordy1 year, 4 months ago
Riding in a helicopter is like sitting in a chair, floating in space, that is if you're in one of the Bell ones, that has a glass bubble. I rode one once around Mt Rushmore, and I swear you could count the nose hairs in Lincolns nose...
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LordyLordy1 year, 4 months ago
There are some really beutiful sights all over America. I've seen some of them. Montana is beautiful but you don't want to go there in winter. Many a Californian fell in love with the view during the summer, built a big home there, then promptly left after the first winter. Minus 75 degrees in winter in some of those places....brrrr....but great snuggling in winter?
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bullymamaina1 year, 4 months ago
The Grand Canyon is indescribably magnificent...this article, however, leaves much to be desired!! It's full of typos, misspellings and word omissions. If I wanted to send it off to a friend of mine in Europe I would hesitate. Perhaps before you submit an article with so much positive potential you should proofread it first. Disappointment aside, your choice of subjects to extol couldn't be more divine !!
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LordyLordy1 year, 4 months ago
Y, they passed the immigration test. They correctly answered D, there are 13 strips on the flag, and the number of stars is for the number of dead presidents.
If anyone saw the article about the immigration test, somebody needed to be fired, or at the very least sent back to English school. I'd bet the test and document was out-sourced?
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Macas1 year, 4 months ago
@bullymamaina problem is resolved :)
btw imagine this ... beautiful shiny day ,sunshine fills your hair and you sitting on the edge of rocky cannon and watching whole beauty of nature ...
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Reignman1 year, 4 months ago
Ahh the Grand Canyon!! Words cant give this place its due.. Im going to be heading back out there to see the glass walk exhibit!! Should be rather interesting, but I prefer hiking to the bottom though.. Talk about a good workout.... Just wish the donkeys werent allowed on the same trail as the hikers though....But its a MUST SEE thats for sure.....
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LordyLordy1 year, 4 months ago
Are you sure the exposed rock at the base of the canyon is 2 Billion years old? I wasn't here when it was born.
I've come to believe some of our researchers aren't all that skilled or accurate either. Their methodology is suspect. But I'd be willing to be that rock is older than you and I.
I saw a footprint once, in a rock right next to a dinosaurs, yet they claimed we weren't here when they were here. I wonder if anyone notices besides me.
I picked up a rock once, and the guy told me it was leverite...leave 'er right here, its worthless.
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RickyDawkins1 year, 4 months ago
Well it's what the official Grand Canyon Website says. "2 Billion Years Old". But you could be right also? I mean, God could just make an illusion that the rocks are 2 billion years old. Right?
http://www.nps.gov/grca/naturescience/naturalfe...
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LordyLordy1 year, 4 months ago
hiking would be my preferred method. At least if my footing failed I would be blaming it on myself while falling 1500 feet.
The last words you might hear would be "awwwwww sh~~~~", of course the fall doesn't hurt one bit, its that sudden stop at the bottom.
I've been as far North as you can get on this planet. It is really pretty up there, and you can have a sno cone anytime you want, no waiting, no lines....and crystal blue ice water.
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Macas1 year, 4 months ago
Why you thinking about falling when you can fly too ????
Fly like a bird ... hahahahahahahaha
just kidding ;)
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PaganGodess1 year, 4 months ago
I highly recommend the glass bottom helicopter ride over the Grand Canyon - breath taking to say the least!!
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aceofspades11 year, 4 months ago
Even flying over the canyon at 35,000 ft in a 757 you can see it's grandeur as it cuts its way across the landscape
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eugenegerard1 year, 4 months ago
I rode the rafts to Phantom Ranch and hiked out, in 1974. Four years later I drove back to the North Rim and was still awed by the majesty of the canyon. It took my breath away the second time I saw it. I'm sure if I ever get another chance to see it the same feelings will be there again. Undescribable.
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riverdog1 year, 4 months ago
Wow, an article that didn't generate political debate and partisian slander on Netscape. What's up with that? Where's all those name calling Repubs and Demo's? Actually, it's very refreshing to see something nearly everyone is positive about. However, having self guided down the Colorado through Grand Canyon 5 times now, I thought the article was weak at best. Too bad most middle class people can no longer afford the gas prices just to get there! Statistically, most visitors just briefly tour the south rim and move on, they don't stick around long enough to connect with the power of the place.
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Macas1 year, 4 months ago
Good point ,riverdog :)
I known why you saying that about political debate here but I was show that I can write and talk without politics craps like everybody else. :)
This is little easy story to feel wind from The Grand Canyon and imagine all awesome views from that area.
@For all
How about we all go there to looooooooooong walk ? I wonder who from you will survive that ( without a helicopter )? :P
he he he
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LordyLordy1 year, 4 months ago
I had friends of mine who used to take a large navy rubber raft down the canyon every year. In some places they were airborne and this is a 16-20 person raft. I cannot imagine what Colonel Powell and his men did with wooden boats and they had no guide, had no clue what was around the next bend. I'd love to go down it, but I think they don't let them do it any more. I could hang on, provided we had a potty stop every 8 hours (lol). They frown on peeing in the river..., plus the lady in front whacks you with her purse...(lol)
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quackpot1 year, 4 months ago
Actually peeing in the river is encouraged (but no poop - you have to carry that stuff out). The pee doesn't harm the river (no bacteria in normal pee), but pee on the limited amount of land would be a disaster.
Getting a permit to go down via self-guided group is a real challenge, but it is possible to join a commercial trip. Sign up a year in advance.
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Radiofreeeuropa1 year, 4 months ago
I found the North Rim far better (no crowds, the solitude of nature is hard to experience in a big crowd.) Also rafted the Colorado into the canyon. Now that was fun! Following in the wake of Powell so to speak.
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LordyLordy1 year, 4 months ago
The view at the bottom I'm told is great too, provided nobody above you wants to spit?
I stood at the bottom of the Royal George. I took the tram across, then had to take it back, and two weeks later I read it had become stuck, and they had to bring another one out, and each passenger had to climb up a 12 foot rope ladder into the bottom of the rescue tram. They'd have had to sedate me...lol I guarantee anyone below would have had yellow rain otherwise.
But I've also learned you WILL do what you HAVE to do, to survive. I was shot twice in the military and they cut bullets out of me without sedatives. I don't wish that on my worst enemy. Although climbing up that rope ladder might have put me over the edge....lol
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