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| Bus climbing US Hwy. 89 through the Echo Cliffs, Arizona. |
It had been two years since a landslide took a section of US Highway 89 in northern Arizona for a ride. Down the cliff face, rather at odds with which the traffic had been traveling.
It's a spectacular area. High desert, overlooking the Marble Platform area of Grand Canyon. A nice highway cutting through the Echo Cliffs between Page and Bitter Spring, Arizona. Then one night: whoosh. Or whatever it sounded like. Probably not whoosh, though.
Fortunately no one was driving on that section of road that night.
Being a geologically unstable slope, it took a lot of engineering work, and money, to fix it. It took longer than expected, too. But they did. Now it's open once again.
Enjoy.
Photo location: US Highway 89 between Bitter Springs and Page, Coconino County, Arizona.
© 2015 Stephen J. Krieg
