We Have A Cool, Pleasant Ride Today

Tim O'Brien Band: I've Been All Around This World

We have a cool, pleasant ride today through this part of the canyon.
The walls are steadily increasing
in altitude, the curves are gentle,
and often the river sweeps in an arc of vertical wall, smooth and unbroken; and then by a curve that is variegated by royal arches, mossy alcoves, deep beautiful glens and painted grottoes.

--John Wesley Powell
journal entry for July 31, 1869