Yes, the River Has Been Grounded
We spent much of yesterday hiking / touring Zion's Canyon as a family. My nine-year-old daughter wasn't paying much attention to the tour guide as we rode up in the shuttle to the hiking trail. Seeing the Virgin River clearly through the window, I pointed it out to her. The water level was very low - it didn't look like much of a river. Yet all around us, the cliffs of the canyon towered a couple thousand feet above us.

"Do you see the river?" I said to her. "That little river is responsible for this whole canyon."

She turned to me, and her eyes grew slightly wider as she asked, "Oh, Is it in trouble?"
- posted by The Rampant Coyote @ 6:34 AM (Permalink)