GO GRAND
THE GRAND CANYON HAS BEEN AROUND 6 MILLION YEARS OR SO. ALTHOUGH ITS HUMAN history is just a blink in geologic time, even that is impressive, from the time when game-seeking early hunters migrated through to when ancient Puebloan people inhabited the rim 4,000 years ago to the summer of 1869, when American geologist John Wesley Powell made the first recorded Colorado River passage by white men through the length of the canyon.
Powell knew it was futile to try to take it in all at once or adequately describe it. “You cannot see the Grand Canyon in one view, as if it were a changeless spectacle from which a curtain might be lifted, but to see it, you have to toil from month to
