LETS TAKE A WALK

  A GUIDE TO WALKING THE GRAND CANYON'S WEST END

Set the scene.

 At Mather Point, (1) the top rim level is the Coconino Plateau (and across the way, the even higher, somewhat charred, still magnificent Kaibab Plateau). Looking down into the depths some 3000', the mid-level shelf of the Tonto Platform, and below, the river in Granite Gorge, elev. 2500'.

Going downriver, (2) toward Kanab Creek, that top viewspot is the Great Thumb Mesa, the mid-level the now-orange Esplanade, above the river now at 1900'.

Then more westerly, a jump up to the long south-pointing Shivwits fingers, of which the last, (3)  -- the Westernmost High Point of the Grand Canyon -- is, I call it (after a Paiute who worked with J.W.Powell) Chuarumpeak Point. 

We stop above its southern tip, elev. 6250'. In this aerial view, at elev. 4200', the Hermit Shale emphasizes its narrowing.

Spreading from the Point toward where the sun sets: the mid-level Sanup (the Paiute: Sue-nupp) Plateau. Not visible yet, past the Sanup's far rim: the drop to the river at 1200' flowing past River Mile 277 at the final Grand Canyon rocks (Muav and Bright Angel) of the west exit butte: She Who Waves Farewell.