Field Notebook: Arizona 1925b
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Grand Canyon, Sunday April 12 1925 Started at 7:30 A.M. east to see the Canyon from all the river points. First at Yaki Point and made 2 photos. Then to Thor's Hammer and made 2 photos here. Toledo Grand View Point 12 miles north of El Tovar. Made photos 5-9. This place looked better in the morn- ing light than often we first saw it late in the after- noon some days ago, or Varajr Point Then to Desert View which is 32 miles east of El Tovar. This is by far the grandest and finest view of the Canyon, and rich in color since so much of the red Chuar (Pterozoic) is exposed. Here the Plateau slopes the Kayt at surface to a considerable lower altitude. The easternward slope of the white series is in harmony with the earlier slope of the Grand Canyon Mts. From Varajr Point one has a very extensive view to the N.-E. and E across the "Painted Desert." First comes the gorge of the Little Colorado river that joins the Colorado River at the end of the Battle Canyon. At this junction begins the Grand Canyon. Beyond the river is a range of cliffs that maybe the Vermillion Cliffs and about 10 miles from Varajr Point on the White Cliffs. Far to the N.-E. stands a dark hill Mt. Afar on mile directly E. is Cedar Cliff an eros ion