Word: canyoneering
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...order means that decorative stickers on the front windshield extolling the virtues of such things as the Grand Canyon and Harvard University must be removed. Small transparencies low down on the rear window will not be touched by inspection centers...
...Chubb Crater and the lake that now fills it will never be a handy tourist attraction like Arizona's meteorite crater near Canyon Diablo. It is close to Hudson Strait, on a granite plain so desolate that even arctic animals prefer to live somewhere else. Discovered by Prospector Fred W. Chubb (who noticed its telltale circular shape in an air photo), it was briefly explored by Geologist Meen in the summer of 1950 (TIME, Aug. 14, 1950) with inconclusive results. He decided that it had not been caused by a volcanic explosion or glacial action; but there...
...minutes later, two unaccountable miles offcourse, the big blue and silver Mainliner smashed into the edge of a 1,500-ft. brush-covered mesa, cartwheeled over and went careening into a canyon. Early-morning factory workers in nearby Decoto, twenty miles southeast of Oakland, saw a blinding flash and "the big tail of a plane flopping over the crest," heard the explosions crashing through the canyons...
...weakness of the Columbia dates from the ice age, when a glacier blocked its deep canyon and forced it to cut a new channel. The river returned to its old bed after the glacier retreated, but the temporary channel (the Grand Coulee) is still there, a spectacular, steep-walled dry valley that leads to a cluster of level, irrigable plains...
...Colorado's deep-slashed Las Animas River canyon two ancient locomotives were fired up until the safety valves were blowing under a full head of steam. Five cars were hooked on to one engine, two on to the other; in addition, the locomotives carried 300 sticks of dynamite garnished with 30 Ibs. of black powder. Portentously, [rom about a fifth of a mile apart, the panting engines began to roll slowly toward each other on the same narrow-gauge track. The engineers in the cabs pushed the throttles open, then jumped clear as the trains picked up speed...