Word: canyoneering
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...years as a nation, the U.S. has produced few such spectacles as the colossal birth throes of the Grand Coulee Dam. Its grey and gargantuan bulk was eight years (1933-41) abuilding, and in that time armies of sightseers wended their way into a scarred and desolate canyon of the Columbia River, 150 airline miles east of Seattle, to goggle at the horrid obstetrics...
...have seemed dangerously like a liability last week-as incapable of self-support in time of future depression as the dust-bowlers of the '30s in times of drought. But the river-sliding placidly past its deep, black coulees, along leagues of empty sagebrush, through its lovely Cascades Canyon to the sea-seemed to hold the key to real prosperity...
...river (second on the North American continent), and uniquely adapted to both hydroelectric development and irrigation. Its headwaters flow from the mountains of British Columbia. One of its tributaries, the Snake (which runs through Hell's Canyon, a gorge deeper than...
...Grand Canyon), rises in the mountains of Wyoming. It floods in summer, when the high snows melt, and when the desert lands gasp for moisture. In July a spectacular sheet of white water, a quarter of a mile wide, 17 feet thick and twice as high as Niagara, spills over the top of Grand Coulee Dam. In time, this overflow will be channeled off to irrigate half a million acres of desert without sacrificing one kilowatt of electrical output. Only then will the New Deal's resettlement dream come true, in the blossoming in the sagebrush...
...sweltered with the windows up lest they cut down their streamlining), spiraled up again into Las Vegas for the night. Next day, a seven-hour drive sent them rolling across Hoover Dam, and then steadily uphill into below-freezing temperatures and snow at the finish line near the Grand Canyon...