#point sublime

[canirando]

Point Sublime, Verdon, 04 // 6 ans, 2 mois

[earthstory]

@cphilpottcraig  — This timelapse is from Point Sublime, the most delightful and hardest viewpoint to reach on the North Rim, Grand Canyon. An awesome experience. It takes a good vehicle and even 4wheel-drive at times, to reach the point and we had only one other family nearby for the evening. A photographer from the other group joined me and we took pictures and talked technique and life philosophy for several hours. The cliff light is from the setting moon that was a waxing crescent of about 8%.

[philamuseum]

“The Grand Canyon is millions of years old—it’s almost impossible to fully comprehend it—but a bolt of lightning lasts a split second.” —Michael Nichols

"Wild: Michael Nichols" opens June 27.

From Point Sublime, Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona (detail), 2005, by Michael Nichols (Courtesy of the artist) © Michael Nichols/National Geographic.

[oenothera5]

ScienceBase caption: Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona. Panorama from Point Sublime. View is about southeast along the axis of the Kaibab upwarp. In the distant skyline, right, is San Francisco Mountain and other volcanoes in the volcanic field south of the Grand Canyon. The plateau surface is Permian limestone (Kaibab Limestone). The canyon walls seen in this view are mostly the Permian, Pennsylvanian, and Mississippian Formation. Altitude of the rim here is about 8,200 feet. Bottom of the canyon (out of sight) is below 3,000 feet. San Francisco Mountain, about 70 miles away, is above 12,600 feet. Modern photograph of a sketch by W.H. Holmes. Plate 28, U.S. Geological Survey Monograph 2; Plate 31, U.S. Geological Survey Annual Report 2 (1880-81); Frontispiece, U.S. Geological Survey Professional paper 669-C.

Library ID: med00032

[wanderingutah]

Point Sublime

[burbycottis]

Grand Canyon

[burbycottis]

On the road to Point Sublime, North rim of the Grand Canyon.

[isboatananimal]