Arizona & Surrounding States, Memorial Day Weekend, 2007
Mountain Biking in Arizona
Here's a shot of Hoover Dam from the
Arizona side:
This shot focuses more toward the
pylons for the new bridge to be built that keeps vehicles off the dam
(security). But the super fancy crane they had erected to suspend over the river
crashed into the drink during
a fierce windstorm. They sent a barge to retrieve it and that collapsed under
the weight. Eventually, they
pulled the scrap metal out of the river. But now the whole project has come
to a grinding halt.
Looking upstream from the dam, one
sees that Lake Mead is signifcantly lower than its usual water level.
I had been under the crazy idea that water (including that at Lake Powell) bleached
the rock. But, duh!
It leaves a thin layer of calcareous crust on top of the bedrock!
Next Stop: Kingman
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