Like, share and follow Charles Torello Photography. Post #3

In Post #2 I shared the westward view from Plateau Point.

Here I am sharing a view eastward, upriver, from Plateau Point, which, again, is overlooking the inner gorge of Grand Canyon.

The chocolate brown sedimentary and metamorphic rocks down towards the bottom give way to a bigger array of colors as you move to higher elevations upon the walls of Grand Canyon. The geological explanation of the Grand Canyon strata, well, I’ll get into that later.

Regardless, I got in trouble to get this photo.

This was August 2015. I was living in South Texas at the time. (I’d driven to Arizona for vacay, fell in love, and later decided to move to Sedona, and do Grand Canyon tours.)

Plateau Point is 3000’ below Grand Canyon Village. Hiking down was easy. Hiking up was not.

South Texas has no mountains. Even an Ohio State wrestler can get hurt with the demands on the body for hiking up – and my chunky butt at that time was not that of a wrestler.

Whatever. I made it. Didn’t die – though the charlie-horse that afternoon was excruciating.

Laying in my tent that night the romance of this western landscape made the stars shine brighter. This hike all the more disposed me to take a chance to eventually head to Arizona.

I write these words from Texas. It’s good to be back in the Lone Star State. It is. But the Grand Canyon State will always call, and unless God has other plans, I’ll heed.