{"id":174,"date":"2017-05-31T12:41:00","date_gmt":"2017-05-31T12:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mywalkabout.net\/2017\/05\/31\/little-colorado-river-gorge"},"modified":"2021-10-04T05:46:48","modified_gmt":"2021-10-04T12:46:48","slug":"little-colorado-river-gorge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mywalkabout.net\/?p=174","title":{"rendered":"Little Colorado River Gorge"},"content":{"rendered":"
The Eastern entrance to the Grand Canyon is a long and desolate path in winter time. Tourists have dissipated, and the local Native American road side shops are all but closed.<\/div>\n
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Only the crows watch over the land.<\/a><\/div>\n
It is along this stretch that one can find the Little Colorado River Gorge<\/a>. A lone dirt road is my sole companion as I kick rocks in the early December morning. The signs to watch for scorpions and rattlesnakes makes me laugh.<\/a><\/div>\n
You don’t have to pay a fee here, and the views are spectacular. I climb to rocky precipice’s and dangle my feet over the edge to feel a surge of adrenaline.<\/a><\/div>\n
You can make your way out to a climatic point that gives you views both East and West, as well as straight down to the Colorado river itself.<\/div>\n
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I turn my head and look into the camera, and see that a rare look of contentment is on my face, visible among the wrinkled lines of life and the dark circles of trials.<\/a><\/div>\n
\u00a0I circle the trail along the edge of the Gorge for a spell in the quiet, then eventually find my way back. I look back and see a lone house on a plateau.<\/a><\/div>\n
I find that this captures the isolation and solitary wonder of this place perfectly.<\/div>\n\n\n
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