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Scott Thybony's Canyon Commentary: A Flash Flood (opens the original)
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Heavy summer rains have triggered flash floods throughout the Four Corners region in recent months. In his book, “Burntwater,” Scott Thybony recounted an unusual encounter with a slow flash flood. At the time, he was undertaking a 12-day trek through the Grand Canyon with his brother. Thybony recalls the adventure in this month’s Canyon Commentary. A flash flood caught us the next day. My brother and I heard a high, steady rushing like the sound of wind moving through a stand of trees. It came f
Scott Thybony's Canyon Commentary: Among the Stone Trees (opens the original)
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To the surprise of many, the great naturalist John Muir spent a year exploring the Petrified Forest in eastern Arizona. Author Scott Thybony set out to learn more about Muir and his desert wanderings. He tells the story in this month’s Canyon Commentary. An escarpment overlooks the banded blues and reds of an expansive badlands in Petrified Forest National Park. Skirting the rim, I spot the lid from a tea tin common during the early 1900s. “Lipton’s Tea,” it reads. The tin, tossed away by a sigh
Scott Thybony's Canyon Commentary: Wind Carved (opens the original)
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Commentator Scott Thybony headed into the Painted Desert to find the route taken by an eccentric anthropologist in 1881. He discovered a wind-carved world and learned from a friend a more civilized way of traveling in the backcountry. Sand has buried the wind-carved landscape on each side of the wash I follow. Directly ahead a falling dune partially covers the cliffs of a promontory where a trail angles upward. A horse has punched staggered holes in the sand slope, and I plant my feet in them to
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