Glen Canyon

... and Cataract Canyon with Holiday River Expeditions, which was just fantastic.

Of course, I can't do Glen Canyon because it's under the lake, but, uh, but Lower Cataract is coming back and that was really cool to see on that trip, all of those, um, the recovery of the river in that lower section where the-

Yeah

... drought has drawn the lake down.

And, uh, uh, oh, I try and get up on Lake Powell during the winter, and I'd recommend you do that too, because it's still a remarkable, uh, landscape and series of, uh, interesting new things are emerging from the low water.

Mm-hmm.

And so, and you know, Glen Canyon, I grew up with a, a lot of the old guys that ran before they built the dam, and, uh, y- you couldn't talk to them about it without a tear in their eye.

Oh, sure.

Last week, Ken Sleight, a river guide and activist who inspired the character Seldom Seen Smith in Edward Abbey's classic The Monkey Wrench Gang, died.

Sleight guided trips through Glen Canyon in the 1950s before the dam drowned it beneath Lake Powell, a loss that shaped the rest of his life.

His commercial trips to Rainbow Bridge gave Friends of the Earth standing in their 1973 suit to keep the reservoir out of a national monument, a district court win later overturned on appeal.

Ken's wife Jane, with whom he owned the famous Pack Creek Ranch outside Moab since 1986, died this past February.

I guarantee it.

why were so many dams constructed within the last 100 years was it all for power or was it to destroy our true history and who was once here the glen canyon dam 1956-1963 arizona usa one of the largest reservoirs in the entire usa where hundreds of side canyons natural arches natural or do you think those are man-made springs Ancient sites, old world sites, exploration sites, rock art and ruins built by the old world.

I believe that this was clearly a destruction project to sink this location.

where before the site was destroyed by the dam, people would say that this site rivaled the Grand Canyon.

Remember, the Grand Canyon is basically guarded by the National Park Service, law enforcement rangers, restricting the public from researching the canyon.

The Glen Canyon Dam site is located only 65 miles away from the Grand Canyon.

And the location is very odd.

We've covered this site in episode 83.

The mesas are sometimes treeless, but are often covered with low, straggling, gnarled cedars and pifions, trees that are intermediate in size between the bushes of sage in the desert and the forest trees of the elevated regions.

On the western margin of this district the great Navajo Mountain stands on the brink of Glen Canyon, and from its summit many of the stupendous gorges of the Colorado River can be seen.

Central in the region stand the Carrizo Mountains, the Lucachukai Mountains, the Tunitcha Mountains, and the Chuska Mountains, which in fact constitute one system, extending from north to south in the order named.

These are really plateaus crowned with volcanic peaks.

On the walls and back many miles into the country, numbers of monument-shaped buttes are observed.

So we have a curious ensemble of wonderful features, carved walls, royal arches, glens, alcove gulches, mounds, and monuments.

From which of these features shall we select a name? We decide to call it Glen Canyon.

Past these towering monuments, past these mounted billows of orange sandstone, past these oak-set glens, past these fern-decked alcoves, past these mural curves, we glide hour after hour, stopping now and then as our attention is arrested by some new wonder, until we reach a point which is historic.

The mesas are sometimes treeless, but are often covered with low, straggling, gnarled cedars and pifions, trees that are intermediate in size between the bushes of sage in the desert and the forest trees of the elevated regions.

On the western margin of this district the great Navajo Mountain stands on the brink of Glen Canyon, and from its summit many of the stupendous gorges of the Colorado River can be seen.

Central in the region stand the Carrizo Mountains, the Lukachukai Mountains, the Tunitcha Mountains, and the Chuska Mountains, which in fact constitute one system, extending from north to south in the order named.

These are really plateaus crowned with volcanic peaks.

On the walls and back many miles into the country, numbers of monument-shaped buttes are observed.

So we have a curious ensemble of wonderful features, carved walls, royal arches, glens, alcove, gulches, mounds, and monuments.

From which of these features shall we select a name? We decide to call it Glen Canyon.

Past these towering monuments, past these mounded billows of orange sandstone, past these oak-set glens, past these fern-decked alcoves, past these mural curves, we glide hour after hour, stopping now and then as our attention is arrested by some new wonder, until we reach a point which is historic.

do you do? Carla, would you mind? Okay, the red markings in these projections indicate the growth of the alien ecosystem.

Unless we do something immediately, we will lose Glen Canyon in three days.

Great merciful Christ.

In a week, the rest of Arizona, then the entire southwest.

The mesas are sometimes treeless, but are often covered with low, straggling, gnarled cedars and pifions, trees that are intermediate in size between the bushes of sage in the desert and the forest trees of the elevated regions.

On the western margin of this district, the great Navajo Mountain stands on the brink of Glen Canyon, and from its summit, many of the stupendous gorges of the Colorado River can be seen.

Central in the region stand the Carrizo Mountains, the Lukachukai Mountains, the Tunicha Mountains, and the Chuska Mountains, which in fact constitute one system extending from north to south in the order named.

These are really plateaus crowned with volcanic peaks.

On the walls and back many miles into the country, numbers of monument-shaped buttes are observed.

So we have a curious ensemble of wonderful features—carved walls, royal arches, glens, alcove gulches, mounds, and monuments.

From which of these features shall we select a name? We decide to call it Glen Canyon.

Past these towering monuments, past these mounded billows of orange sandstone, past these oak-set glens, past these fern-decked alcoves, past these mural curves, we glide hour after hour, stopping now and then as our attention is arrested by some new wonder, until we reach a point which is historic.

The mesas are sometimes treeless, but are often covered with low, straggling, gnarled cedars and pifions, trees that are intermediate in size between the bushes of sage in the desert and the forest trees of the elevated regions.

On the western margin of this district, the great Navajo Mountain stands on the brink of Glen Canyon, and from its summit many of the stupendous gorges of the Colorado River can be seen.

Central in the region stand the Carrizo Mountains, the Lukachukai Mountains, the Tunicha Mountains, and the Chuska Mountains, which in fact constitute one system extending from north to south in the order named.

These are really plateaus crowned with volcanic peaks.

On the walls and back many miles into the country, numbers of monument-shaped buttes are observed.

So we have a curious ensemble of wonderful features, carved walls, royal arches, glens, alcove gulches, mounds, and monuments.

From which of these features shall we select a name? We decide to call it Glen Canyon.

Past these towering monuments, past these mounted billows of orange sandstone, past these oak-set glens, past these fern-decked alcoves, past these mural curves, we glide hour after hour, stopping now and then as our attention is arrested by some new wonder, until we reach a point which is historic.