The "Narrows" is both an incredible place and an unforgettable hike. Imagine wading in flowing water through a corridor of red, brown, black, and beige stone towering 1,500 feet above us. Walking upstream, we are small dots of color, dwarfed by the immense proportions of this sky-stone-river hallway. With each bend of the river, we watch the canyon twist and turn, revealing immense overhangs, sculpted towers, and striking, vertical walls of rock. And yet, amongst all this grandeur, we find surprises of delicate intimacy: a beautifully carved alcove, a lush garden of flowers growing from the canyon wall, a thin cascade of water trickling from a side canyon. The Narrows is an escape into an unreal world, a playground calling to the child in everyone. As we swim in deep pools, scramble up gigantic boulders, or simply sit and marvel at the clouds above, we allow ourselves to embrace the explorer, the adventurer, the wide-eyed dreamer inside each of us.