swirllng

Updated: February 17, 2026

Directly below us was the Colorado River, muddy, swirllng, and forbidding. A mile away boomed a rapid, beyond that was another, then the river was lost to view. Standing on the brink of all this desolation, it is small wonder if we recalled the accounts of the disasters which had overtaken so many others in the canyon below us.

E. L. (Ellsworth Leonardson) Kolb - Through the Grand Canyon from Wyoming to Mexico