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Dispatch from the Editor<br />
Brilliant Bursts of <strong>Summer</strong><br />
<strong>Gateway</strong><br />
to Canyon Country<br />
is produced four times a year by the<br />
staff of the<br />
Lake Powell Chronicle,<br />
P.O. BOX 1716, Page, AZ 86040.<br />
Copyright <strong>2019</strong> News Media Corp.<br />
This dispatch is coming to you from one of<br />
my favorite camp spots inside the Grand Circle,<br />
which is located someplace on the trail between<br />
Navajo Mountain and Rainbow Bridge.<br />
In case you missed the news reports, the continental<br />
United States experienced its wettest 12<br />
month period since the National Weather Service<br />
has been keeping records, dating back to<br />
1895.<br />
The Colorado River is cranking, with flows<br />
much higher than average this time of year, and<br />
I’ve seen photos of daring adventurers paddling<br />
their packrafts and kayaks down the Escalante,<br />
the San Rafael and the Dirty Devil Rivers, all of<br />
which don’t usually flow with enough volume to<br />
float more than a rubber duckie.<br />
And thanks to all that snow and rain the deserts<br />
and meadows of the Grand Circle are bursting<br />
with wildflowers right now, and have been<br />
since early May.<br />
If you’re reading this magazine right now<br />
that means you’re probably traveling through the<br />
Grand Circle, and take it from a man whose been<br />
exploring the Grand Circle for the last 40 years,<br />
you picked a great year to visit.<br />
I love summer in the Grand Circle. I make my<br />
home in Page, Arizona, right at the very center<br />
of it, and I can tell you summertime in the Grand<br />
Circle is bursting in all kinds of ways. Our calendars<br />
are bursting with summer plans and our<br />
weekends are bursting with activities. Our backyards<br />
are bursting with friends over to barbecue<br />
and play cornhole, and kids running around playing<br />
tag or creating kingdoms in the treehouse.<br />
In May our backpacks were bursting with<br />
camping supplies as my friends and I prepared<br />
to hike to Rainbow Bridge, next month the cargo<br />
hold of our Jeep will be bursting with<br />
camping s supplies when my wife and<br />
I take our kids to spend three days in a<br />
secluded Forest Service yurt.<br />
All of these trips, all this going, embarking,<br />
exploring, is fueled by hearts<br />
that are bursting with inexhaustible curiosity<br />
and wanderlust.<br />
To those who are reading this while<br />
exploring the many beautiful places in<br />
the Grand Circle I wish you safe travels<br />
and big adventures and may you return<br />
home with memory cards bursting with<br />
happy moments captured from the trail,<br />
the lake, the road, the river, the campground<br />
and all the secluded, magical<br />
pockets you found along the way.<br />
Steven Law<br />
Editor<br />
Phone 928.645.8888<br />
Fax 928.645.2209<br />
Publisher<br />
Mike Caywood<br />
mcaywood@lakepowellchronicle.com<br />
Editor<br />
Steven Law<br />
slaw@lakepowellchronicle.com<br />
Office Manager<br />
Kim Clark<br />
kclark@lakepowellchronicle.com<br />
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