Reply #24: Northern Arizona and Southern Utah, beautiful and unique country. [View All]

[argyl]

Grand Canyon, Zion. Views so spectacular they'll take your breath away and knock you down on your knees.
Yeah, I'll bet it is cold there.Temps below freezing in the summertime aren't uncommon.One May I was at the North Rim and there were drifts five feet high; it was just opened. They close it in winter but leave the South Rim open.
People who've never been to the Canyon have an impression of a canyon carved out of the Sonoran desert. North Rim has elevations of almost 9,000 feet above at places.Aspen and blue spruce on the Rim and chapparal down by the Colorado.Go down to the river and you see the ages of the earth unfold. Six thousand years? I don't think so.
Well, I'd better snap out of this reverie; I'm here on the Southern Plains and I have things to do.