Down The River In A Rowboat (1928)

We are inclined to forget that sight is in some ways the most superficial of our senses. Immediately after I came out of the Canyon I flew low over the whole of my route. It was an interesting experience. But that was all. Sight was the only sense I could use. And the difference between flying over the Grand Canyon and living in it is like the difference between, on one hand, seeing a beautiful woman in a bikini and, on the other, making deeply satisfying love to her, with all her warmth and smoothness and fragrance and murmurings and movement.
--Colin Fletcher


Boucher Rapid from Hopi Point
Down the Colorado in a Rowboat (1928)
Granite Rapid with rafters