Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1923-11-15
JOURNEY WEST
BY MOTOR CAR
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A Cow Town
q rough upward climb of some
miles brought us to several pretty,
Enough small canyons (Padre and
Canyon Diablo), then followed
winding road up and down into
Winslow, where we camped for the
night. This town appeals to one as
~ typical cow town. A few wooden
structures, pool halls, stores, some
vvo0den side walks here and there:
some houses Of very small dimen-
sions and plenty Of dust. The first
sight one sees near these smalle.
g8wns or stations are cans Of every
age, scattered about on the out
skirts. From WinsIow to Flagstaff the
grade is mora pronounced, the pines
soon become more profuse and lar
ger, for we are coming nearer to the
continental divide and to an aQti-
Gude of some 1894 feet at Flagstaff.
The Last Water Hole
From Flagstaff there are two in
8eresting routes. One is northward
TO Cameron and on by echo cliffs to
and across the Colorado river at
Lees ferry. This brings one to the
north side of the river where the
springs are more plentiful. The other
woad leads westward from Flagstaff
some twenty miles to a station call
ed Maine. Here a branch road turns
TO the right, running northward t.
abe Grand Canyon. About five miles
out from the main road is the last
water hole an then for some forty
mve miles one Yravals Through a
vyaterless country. The road is rough
but passibIe. After hours of slow
driving it becomes a pleasure to en-
ter the National Park and after reg
7stering to pass on for a few miles
go eventually come to the one fine
camping ground enroute, on the hill
side among the pines, a couple of
blocks from the railroad terminus and
directly across the road on the other
side of which a few yards away was
Hhe rim of the Canyon.
Part vi
Grand Canyon. what a revelation
particularly to the nature lover! The
glimpse of the painted desert was
beautiful, the petrified forest a won
der but the Grand Canyon-somehow
seems to be all combined. To trans
Late on paper or by camera. what is
revealed to the naked eye Of all that
&stupenduous magnificence is impos
esTble Hard and difficult as the Jour
~ney may have been the wonders of
the canyon, as revealed to the sight
I'm looking over the RIMS worth it
all, many times over.
at sunrise. as one looks over the
vim into the canyon depths, the suns
rays east fantastic shadows from the
many ravine ridges and craigs within
in the canyon depths.
Below in shadowy depths, Bright
Angel trail is dimly visible as It
wEnds in and around the ravine i'm
Tnediately at the foot of Ed Tova1
Hotel. While the trail itself is in the
S shadow, the suns rays cast another
outline on the higher west WALL OF
she east wallis irregular top. On the
south side of the canyon is solid
stratum of white rock some fifteen
hundred feet in height, below this an
oo@t-croppYng of red for Several
Thousand feet down, then a mixed
Hayer to the rivers bed some several
Ehousand feet deeper.
Sunrise In the Canyon
srhe beauty of sunrise in the can
ron is spectacular likewise at sunset
she strata of rock with their variga,
xions OF color as combined with the
EflIue haze in the canyon proper and
the many ravines affords a blending
a0f color to defy description. To see
- mile in depth, five to thirteen miles
IN width from rim to rim, containing
many spires, pinnacles and other
E0rms of rock-all in a halo of color
is indeed a treat. Westward from
EE1 T0var by the Hermit Rim trail
one can at various points get variety
aof views Of the canyon.
From the rim road one sees hermit
IA splendid view OK the canyon, it's
s7epth and irregularity of the rivers
bed Farther west on the rim roa0
one can see some of the river waters
rushing onward between the tower
ing walls. Looking downward one
may well wonder at the countless ages
THAT passed to cause this spectacle
Hermit Cabins
From the rim road one sees hermit
oGabins far below, and beyond them
H6e Hermit falls Eastward from the