Word: switchbacks
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...standing on the rim videotaping the canyon, panning from left to right and then right to left, and you plunge down the trail, which is broad and not too steep and studded with mule manure, and a hundred or so feet down, once you come around the second switchback, all the hubbub of the rim vanishes, and you enter into a magnificent silence...
...ascent you have a clear goal ahead, and you get happier and happier as you keep pressing upward, one switchback after another. You overtake other climbers. You feel great. At a trailside shelter you run into teenagers weeping into an emergency phone. Two girls trying to convince a park ranger that they really, really, really, really can't go another step and need to be airlifted out. Two well-fed American girls in nice clothes, both ambulatory. One of them sobs in a well-practiced way, and if you weren't here to see her, you'd think...