Grand Canyon-Personal Narrative

The endless horizon that spreads out across the sea of barren rock and sand. The miles of multicolored stone is cleanly accented by the deep blue horizon. They air at the top whips around in an unrelenting force, swirling around you until it is the constant factor that you become use to. The air at the top would lead you to believe that it is a fall morning. For it is cool and crisp allowing you to see the puffs of air as you get your first glimpse at the vast openness of the Grand Canyon. As you walk the air slowly dies down until you become aware of the hot dry air that you are surrounded by and breathing in. At rest stops, you can smell the putrid odor of the mule dung that lays in the middle of the trail. As you walk down, you can hear

the wind whistling through the small honeycomb caves that line the walls. You can hear the slither a sand that slides down with each step that you take. Nearing the bottom, as you look up you, come to see the power of the Colorado as it carved out the stone and made a magnificent sight to look up and see. Rounding the last few corners of the trail you begin to hear the faint sounds of the rushing of the Colorado, As you round the last few bend in the trail, the Colorado comes into view. What you expect to see is the nice clear, fast running water. What is actually there is mud that looks just a little too wet to be considered solid. To look around you and see the miles and miles of rock towering above you is incredible. You can look down and see the moving water of the Colorado and see the multitude of the rapids and how fast the water can move in some areas or how slowly it can move in others. If you want to have a glimpse of the clear blue sky you have to look above the rocks and see the clouds floating past and above you. In what seems out of place of rock walls and rushing river is a clump of trees that protect a cluster of homey looking buildings that signify the end of your trek down and have finally reached the bottom of the mighty Grand Canyon.