Authorities say the mountain sees about a dozen rescues and one fatality per year, with slip-and-falls in steep gullies being a common danger.
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Gregory Thomas,
San Francisco Chronicle,
14 Mar. 2026
Her mother, Marlene LaMar, who had helped organize hundreds of volunteers for years to search through fields and gullies after Sierra vanished in 2012, said Saturday she was too devastated to speak about the ruling.
Landscape painters, lithographers, and photographers introduced Easterners to the Romantic West of sublime landscapes filled with tow-ering peaks and deep canyons and Indians who seemed to exist only in small numbers, fated to disappear as American pioneers swept westward.
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Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
1 Apr. 2026
The green Rio Grande rests like a ribbon in the jaws of jagged canyons.
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