Old Madam’s Grand Canyon There will never be adequate words for the Grand Canyon. “Monstrous, amazing, big-ass scary and overwhelming” come pitifully close. I live 90 minutes from the Grand Canyon and last year I was repeatedly asked, “have you been in it?” So I had to go. Now the Big C and I have an intense intimate relationship. The darkest rocks at the bottom call-come on down. It’s a combo creator and destroyer, lover and taskmaster. And worth it. I prefer a day in the woods or on water to anything else. Any day in the forest is a good one. So to begin my Canyon Adventures I started at my namesake “Honan Point” on the North Rim, west end of the Walhalla Plateau. The North is wilder: higher, colder, has fewer people and big
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