Cañon

[…]we walked some little distance up the cañon on the frozen river[…]

He was only proving what the sage-riders had long said of this labyrinthine system of deceitful cañons and valleys—trails led down into Deception Pass, but no rider had ever followed them.

Steadily it ascended toward the mountains, into which they filed through a narrow cañon close to noon.

The morning after this decision, I started up the cañon of Tenaya, caring little about the quantity of bread I carried; for, I thought, a fast and a storm and a difficult cañon were just the medicine I needed.

the cañons and upland pine parks and snowy peaks and cliff dwellings round Flagstaff