went to see grand canyon in february, drove from phoenix through sedona and all that fantastic scenery, spent night in flagstaff with snow on the ground. drove to canyon the next day. i kept waiting to climb to get to the canyon but straight and flat. almost fell into the darn thing when i got to the edge however. i never thought that a "canyon" did not need a hill or mountain, amazing to see a mile into the earth. my jaw dropped and i was frozen in place just looking into it. (and i come from where we have it all, seashore, flat land, mountains, canyons, waterfalls, all of it, and i still had trouble wrapping my brain around it. ) if you ever get the chance to see the grand canyon, do it, and do it again. there is no way that words or pictures can ever do it justice, you have to see it to believe it. you will never regret the experience. Mother Nature at her best....