LOST WORLD THE SECRET LANDSCAPES OF GLEN CANYON BY KERRICK JAMES Cathedral in the Desert, Lake Powell J ohn Wesley Powell, of Grand Canyon geology fame, was a colorful and perceptive writer with almost photographic powers of description. In late July of 1869, as his ragtag inaugural expedition entered what is now known as Glen Canyon, he and his men marveled at the “curious, narrow glens” while en route to traverse an even bigger (shall we say, grander) canyon to the south. Comparatively few people followed in their wake over the next 90 years, but writers like Edward Abbey in The Monkeywrench Gang , and photographers like Eliot Porter wrote with reverence of the musical alcoves of golden sandstone, and hidden passages to wispy waterfalls. Eliot Porter’s legendary photo book, The Place No One Knew , is a haunting elegy to a lost world, one being revealed once again. THE WAY IT WAS In late January of 1963, the gates of the new Glen Canyon Dam swung closed, and the silty waters of the wild Colorado River began pooling behind a svelte La Gorce Arch, Lake Powell 30 VISITARIZONA.COM KERRICK JAMES (ALL PHOTOS)
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