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He is in the place where it started and continues. He is in the prayers.
The sun is coming. Blue shadows weave between dark branches of piñon and juniper.
Stars glitter in the cold morning sky. Edison Eskeets walks to the edge of the sandstone cascade called Canyon de Chelly in northern Arizona on the Navajo Nation. He offers his hand to the east.
His untied black hair streaks with gray. It falls around his thin, defined body. His high cheekbones and articulate nose give him a certain handsome nobility. He stands five feet, nine inches and weighs no more than 135 pounds.
Tested: 2000 Full-Size Detroit SUVs vs. Arizona s Canyons
From the Archive: We wrangle a Chevy Suburban, a Ford Expedition and Excursion, and a GMC Yukon to explore Arizona s ancient Canyon de Chelly.
From the July 2000 issue of Car and Driver.
You can whip out your Visa card at the entrance to Canyon de Chelly (pronounced “duh-shay”) National Monument, but unless you’re hauling it around in a four-wheel-driver, you’ll be turned away. This is 4x4 territory. And an exhilarating outing in an SUV. Go Big and Get Dirty!
Not a single canyon, as the name would suggest, but rather a confluence of canyons in northeastern Arizona, in the Navajo Nation, the monument is shaped like a mutant oak leaf; water drains in at the tips, eroding deeper and deeper through solid-red sandstone as it cuts toward a central stem and then flows out the stem in a broad sandy stream bed called the Chinle Wash.
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