BGuthrie Photos: AZ -- Glen Canyon Natl Recreation Area -- Navajo Bridge, Lees Ferry, Dam, and Lake

AZ -- Glen Canyon Natl Recreation Area -- Navajo Bridge, Lees Ferry, Dam, and Lake:

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1. GLC_030603_061.JPG: This is the new Navajo Bridge
2. GLC_030603_105.JPG: The truck is doing an inspection of the now foot-only bridge. You wouldn't think they'd need to do this for a bridge which used to be regular bridge and is only used for pedestrians now but, yep, they do.
3. GLC_030603_154.JPG: This is where Lees Ferry would have been. It's fairly flat on both sides of the river so people could get down to it and then the ferry would take them across.
4. GLC_030604_008.JPG: This is sign outside the Carl Hayden Visitor Center for the Glen Canyon Dam. You were required to leave everything in the car. The fanny pack was out on this trip.
5. GLC_030604_009.JPG: The sign says: "This is one of several concrete buckets that poured the concrete in Glen Canyon Dam -- all 4,901,000 cubic yards of it! The first pour of concrete occurred on June 17, 1960, the start of an around-the-clock process that continued uninterrupted until September, 1963."
6. GLC_030604_055.JPG: These are the turbines. There are eight of them.
7. GLC_030604_061.JPG: The pumps in the foreground were covered by turf later on. They're the grassy area in the current photos.
8. GLC_030604_074.JPG: That's the visitor center for the dam. The bridge is US89.
9. GLC_030604_098.JPG: The cleared out area is the spillway. It was used during one period of unusually high water in the early 1980's. Each of the colored rectangles along the dam is an intake system for each turbine. You'll notice there are eight intakes, like there were eight turbines. Typically, they don't need to have them all operating at once.
10. GLC_030604_139.JPG: The smokestacks in the back are the Navajo Generating Station. It's odd that they need a generating station with dam right here, isn't it?
11. GLC_030604_142.JPG: There's the Glen Canyon Dam from upstream. Page Arizona is above to the left of it.
12. GLC_030604_148.JPG: Navajo Generating Station on the left. Page Arizona on the right.
13. GLC_030604_155.JPG: The shrouded mountain in the distance is Navajo Mountain. According to the sign, "Rising two miles above sea level, a different color from the surrounding landscape, Navajo Mountain is one of seven peaks held sacred by the Hopi and the Navajos. Black Body, Blue Body, First Man, and First Woman built Navajo Mountain with soil brought from the underworld. The Navajo creation story coincides with geologic evidence. Heaved up within the mountain is a core of solidified lava."
14. GLC_030604_157.JPG: This is Wahweap, the largest marina in the lake
15. GLC_030604_159.JPG: They were filming some motorcycle introduction. After taking this picture, they asked me to not take any more.
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Wikipedia Description: Glen Canyon
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Glen Canyon, in southeastern and south central Utah and northwestern Arizona within the Vermilion Cliffs area, was carved by two rivers, the Colorado River and the San Juan River.

A reservoir, Lake Powell was created by the Glen Canyon Dam. Lake Powell emerged from a struggle over damming Dinosaur National Monument. The Sierra Club and its leader, David Brower, were instrumental in blocking the dam in Dinosaur. In exchange, they accepted a dam in Glen Canyon. Before the canyon was flooded, but after the struggle in Congress, Brower floated the canyon and realized what a tremendous resource it was. This experience transformed Brower's attitude towards environmental preservation, making him more radical and less likely to compromise. It was very similar to the experience of John Muir with Hetch Hetchy. For Brower, it steeled him for the battle over a dam in the Grand Canyon. Beginning in the late 1990's, the Sierra Club and other organizations renewed the call to drain Lake Powell in Lower Glen Canyon.

Pre-dam history and rescue archaeology:

Around 1956, archaeologists and biologists from the University of Utah and the Museum of Northern Arizona, using National Park research grants, planned an emergency excavation of Lower Glen Canyon, which was soon to be flooded by the new Glen Canyon Dam. Between 1958 and 1960, four investigative phases, combined with other surveys prior to 1957, discovered 250 sites. Beginning in 1958, the Lower Glen Canyon survey was finished. Excavations began during the summer on 16 sites.

A thesis emerged that the prehistoric people living permanently on the highlands south of Glen Canyon, and on the Cummings Mesa, farmed the Lower Glen Canyon on a seasonal basis, and gathered raw materials. To prove this thesis of seasonal habitation, criteria such as architectural units, locations of trail systems, occurrence of ceremonial structures, prevalence of burials, and position of nat ...More...
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2003 photos: Equipment this year: I decided my Epson digital camera wasn't quite enough for what I wanted. Since I already had Compact Flash chips for it, I had to find another camera which used CF chips. That brought me to buy the Fujifilm S602 Zoom in March 2003. A great digital camera, I used it exclusively for an entire year. Trips this year: Three-week trip this year out west, mostly in Utah. Number of photos taken this year: 68,000.
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