American Idyll

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Saturday, October 18, 2008

Hance Canyon To Sockdolager Rapid



Sockdolager Rapid:
This rapid, at Mile 79, was named by the explorer John Wesley Powell after the nineteenth-century term for a boxer's knockout punch. He described it as a place "where the rushing waters break into great waves on the rocks, and lash themselves into a mad, white foam."
--from "Grand Canyon Place Names" by Gregory McNamee

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