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Riding the River |
| Section: LIFE / ADVENTURE |
| Author: Catharine Reeve |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 4/1/1990 |
| Size: 2,301 Words, 12,553 Characters |
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Visitors who stand at the south rim of Arizona's old-famous Grand Canyon are often moved to silence by the vast geological wonder that stretches for miles before them. Castles, turrets, towers, and immense walls of rock rise up from the floor of the enormous chasm. From sunrise to sunset, great dark shadows and wondrous colors move across the multilayered rocks. It's a show seen nowhere else on earth.
Far below, visible from above only as a narrow ribbon winding its way between the canyon's walls, flows the Colorado River, sculptor of this magnificent panorama. Once a wild, racing stretch of water, the Colorado has been harnessed by the Glen Canyon Dam, completed in 1963. But even though the dam now regulates the river's flow, the Colorado is no wimp. Its rapids remain the fierc...
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... what keeps Geanious returning year after year to the Grand Canyon and the Colorado River is his commitment to sharing a piece of the planet he has learned to love. "My ability to give this experience to people," says Geanious, "is more valuable than anything else I could do on earth. And to have somebody tell me that I have given him or her the experience of a lifetime…well, that matters."
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