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Another shot from my SW USA trip. These will be coming for a while, but will be fairly far between. :P

This is the view from near Dead Horse Point (which I think is that promontory just to the right of the river), the first place we properly stopped at on the trip. An absolutely stunning view - this photo doesn't really do it justice.

The name "Dead Horse Point" comes from an old legend. Apparently cowboys used to chase wild horses onto the Point, because it was an easy place to trap them. The legend goes that a herd of horses got trapped on that promontory and died of thirst, with the river in clear view but unreachable. Which is a sad story, but I've no idea if it's true.

I know there's not much in the way of scale here - but it was exactly like that in person, too. None of us had the slightest idea how deep that canyon was. It's just too big to comprehend. It's probably over 1km from the topmost cliffs to the base of the canyon.
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Pharaviel's avatar
Awesome image!