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...snowboarding has become to downhill. A relatively new development, wakeboards account for 20% of the water-ski market, a sizable chunk considering that there are 30 million water skiers worldwide. Most regard Arizona as the Alps of water skiing. In a recent survey of WaterSki magazine readers, the Grand Canyon State claimed three of the top five destinations: Lakes Powell, Mead and Havasu...
Last year some 266 million people visited the U.S. network of national parks, monuments, historic sites and other designated scenic places. Unfortunately, it sometimes seemed that all the nature lovers were in the same place at the same time. Everyone wants to go to Yosemite, the Grand Canyon and a few other crown jewels. But mile-long waits at the gate and fistfights in parking lots can leave visitors longing for the comparative calm of midtown Manhattan...
Thomas Moran's The Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone...
Leaving aside the obvious observation that when someone stares into the Grand Canyon, humility rather than arrogance might be an appropriate response, this film and its kitsch counterparts diminish the experience that these parks are meant to provide. Turning the Grand Canyon into a theme park ride complete with logo does its visitors no good service. The Grand Canyon need not be packaged neatly with cliches and background music so that its visitors leave with a smile. Far better that they experience the Canyon without a commercial buffer and leave with that beautiful combination of inspiration and bewilderment that comes...
...left the Canyon optimistic, however, because I was traveling with two terrific kids who looked at me after the film had ended and said, "that was cheesy." It was indeed. But they saw far more than the filmmakers chose to show them; they walked away, though only small children, with new understanding. I would not be surprised if, looking back years from now, they see something familiar in the wisdom of Ecclesiastes: "One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh: but the earth abideth for ever...