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The majority of Grand Canyon visitors stay for only a few hours, rarely getting closer to the canyon than peering over its rim. But the best way to experience the canyon’s vast reaches is to venture within them.
Exploration has its risks: sheer cliff edges, hyperthermia or hypothermia (depending on the season), dehydration, rock falls, lightning strikes, flash floods, drowning, and unpleasant critter encounters. Park rangers rescue an average of 400 people in the canyon’s backcountry each year. Most have failed to prepare adequately or have overestimated their abilities.
But if you’ve done your homework, the canyon will reward you with inspiring views that change at every turn in the trail, and up-close encounters with geology, history, and desert life.
© Kathleen Bryant from Moon Grand Canyon, 4th Edition
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