Word: canyoneering
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...Alfred coming in. Watchit Alfred, bad karma. Bad karma too in Sam's judicial face watched her while she was ministering to young Stefan. Samson the hidebound eastern mutt. Merilee finds her dress and pulls it on over her head. She goes lightly barefoot to the edge of the canyon, expecting still her other half is nearby and waiting...
...silence, in beauty, in rosy nakedness the squaw sits easily by the chasm ledge and waits. Forever she has been gazing at the purple canyon wall opposite her and now she feels the moment of the mystery approaching. Her arms are heavy ropes holding to her a brown young brave, his electric hair bound by a vinyl red band. An arrow-bodied boy with a sweet thing not yet grown callous with age and hard use. He is astonished and shaking, his body shimmers in sweat...
...moment approaches, the squaw slowly draws the young brave into her. Now the first sunlight comes, a blade of white cutting the canyon wall across the way. The brave shivers and the squaw feels a mighty breath growing in his chest, and then a first cracked warwhoop escapes him and goes bouncing and echoing down the chasm...
Next morning, over steak and eggs and fresh copies of the Rocky Mountain News, passengers who were strangers a few hundred miles back are now chummily addressing one another by first names. The Cal Zephyr begins its 118-mile run through California's ruggedly beautiful Feather River Canyon. Rushing by waterfalls, thick stands of ponderosa pines and beds of bright orange poppies, the train passes Rich Bar and Oroville, towns that boomed into use in the days of the great gold rush...
Where do most of the pollutants end up? Probably in the oceans, which cover 70% of the globe. Yet even the oceans can absorb only so much filth; many ecologists are worried about the effects on phytoplankton. If the supertanker Torrey Canyon had leaked herbicides rather than oil, the spillage would have wiped out all plankton life in the North Sea. Other ecologists fear that the oceans will become so burdened with noxious wastes that they will lose their vast power...