What is "canyon rim"

Usage examples of "canyon rim".

I see the shadow slowly creep up, driving the gold before it, until at last the canyon rim and pines are turned to golden fire.

No doubt it did not help that the awful days of '61 were called back so vividly to mind by the plaza, the boulevards, the city wall at the canyon rim, all just as they had been back then.

Diana took the wheel and drove them northeast, paralleling the canyon rim on a road that ran next to the massive concrete foundation for the canyon's tenting.

From the canyon rim by the bridge, where the train station was, they could see down the widening mouth of the canyon onto the basin floor, stretching out under a lattice of kinky sun-stained clouds.

He leaned back as far as he dared to look up through the visor of his helmet and realized it was a long way back up to the canyon rim, too.

Colter stretched his long neck like a vulture and peered down the slope and through the aisles of the forest up toward the canyon rim.

It was clear daylight, with a ruddy color in the sky and a tinge of red along the canyon rim.

He wore a climber's harness over his hard suit, attached to the electrical winch at the canyon rim by a thin cable of composites stronger than steel.

The threat of rain had passedBlack had checked the weather report from the canyon rimand the slot canyon would be safe for the time being.

But about that time I seen they had me cut off from the lower canyon crossing, so I wrenched Cap'n Kidd into the old Injun trace and headed straight for the canyon rim as hard as he could hammer, with the bresh lashing and snapping around us and slapping Brother Rembrandt in the face when it whipped back.

The outlaws yelled and wheeled in behind us, but Cap'n Kidd drawed away from them with every stride, and the canyon rim loomed just ahead of us.

With the sun hidden most of the time behind one canyon rim or the other, it was difficult to mark the passing time, but Vangerdahast was convinced it had to be near evening when the gorge suddenly felt less murky.

The country was strange to her, but she knew that they were making their way, far above the canyon rim, on the side of the San Bernardino range, toward the distant Cold Water country that opened into the great desert beyond.

The channel Radkowski had found led almost to the canyon rim, close enough that the remaining two hundred feet to the top were easily climbed, and bolts set into the rock to anchor cables to slowly winch the rockhopper up.