The Black Canyon: Colorado's Deepest Gorge
One of my favorite places is the Black Canyon of the Gunnison in western Colorado. It's a forbidding, elemental place of raw nature, a place that makes you feel small and insignificant. Here are the first few paragraphs of an article called The Black is Beautiful that I wrote in 1984 about the Black Canyon and an ascent I did there. I'll transcribe the meat of the article about the climb later, but this gives a sense of the Black, The BC, the Devil's Ditch... The Black is Bea
