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ThatsNotRight123 t1_j7l1tpc wrote

I want everyone looking at this photo to realize that it does not do its subject justice. NO PHOTO DOES. You may have seen pictures and photos of the Grand Canyon before but no picture can compare to or prepare you for the AWESOME MAJESTY of this place. You owe it to yourself to experience it.

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Jeffkin15 t1_j7l322q wrote

Can’t second this enough. Was not expecting how incredible it was in person.

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awmaleg t1_j7non62 wrote

Went as a kid and didn’t appreciate it. Went last year and wow it’s awesome

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CptHammer_ t1_j7n67wl wrote

I used to live in AZ. I've been to the grand canyon several times. I suffer from poor depth perception. What you see in the photo I pretty much see in real life.

I use context clues to gauge distance and I am often better than some when a distance is greater than a couple hundred meters. At the grand canyon I have no such context clues normally.

One time I go and am with people who are seeing it for the first time. I look down and can see the Colorado River as I had a hundred times before. It's late November and near noon. We're on the north side and the shadow of our rim can be seen on the canyon floor almost to the river bank.

Before this day I only had the perception of great distance because our human body shadows were too small to me made out on top of the rim. The double slit experiment would also indicate that a single human shadow would be faint if I had a telescope to see that far more clearly.

On this day, I see a helicopter. I see the top of a helicopter. I see it's shadow at an angle so far away from the top edge of the rim shadow. I can tell the helicopter is far by its smallness and the shadow displacement. I can tell the grandeur of the canyon for the first time. I think I was more in awe than the people I brought.

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Burnd1t t1_j7nevpv wrote

I've lived in AZ for three years now and still haven't gone. I think I'm going to make it a priority after reading this.

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CptHammer_ t1_j7nv19f wrote

As well as the typical areas near Flagstaff I'm going to suggest making a trip to the West Rim. It costs money because it belongs to the Hualapai. So that means other park passes don't apply.

I think it's worth the view if for no other reason than the lack of guard rails. Of course I may be more thrilled by that than someone with good depth perception but with no barrier to warn you, it's a more natural view.

The west Rim is worth it at least once.

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zaphod_85 t1_j7l2y69 wrote

I'm headed there in 2 weeks and I'm so excited!

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Flames99Fuse t1_j7mubew wrote

Last vacation my family took before I left for college. I cannot stress how much more beautiful and awe inspiring the Grand Canyon is in person.

Just make sure to take a big water bottle and keep it full. And if you take a path down into the canyon, it takes twice as long to climb back out.

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Mic1994hael t1_j7paa36 wrote

The best part is when you go down and the green specs become shrubs all around you. I actually made it down to exactly where you see the trail end in this picture (it continues below where you can’t see). I couldn’t make it all the way to the bottom

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