Scott Thybony's Canyon Commentary

Each year millions of visitors travel to the Grand Canyon and its famous overlooks. But they often overlook the rim country itself, much of it wild and remote. In his latest Canyon Commentary, Scott Thybony takes us to a stretch of the canyon rim that holds an intriguing remnant of the past.

A photographer set off to explore a slot canyon in the desert south of Escalante, Utah. He followed the rim of Brimstone Gulch until locating a break…

Leaving the interstate I entered the high plains of New Mexico where each clump of trees sheltered a house, many of them abandoned. The branches bent to…

The heat wave has eased, giving me a chance to slip in a canyon hike before the next one begins. I time my arrival at the trailhead for dawn to avoid peak…

Thousands of firefighters are putting their lives on the line this summer in Arizona and across the West as wildfires rage on drought-sticken land. In…

The Southwest has been in the grips of an intense heatwave this summer, breaking records and setting new ones for high temperatures and lack of rain. In…

Visitors to the Southwest and the Colorado Plateau often comment on the stunning, and sometimes strange, light effects they encounter. Commentator Scott…

The United States is reckoning with a painful history of slavery, genocide and systemic racism. Protests continue across the country, bringing awareness…

The stone layers of the Grand Canyon contain the record of millions of years of geologic time. But the human scale of time is more fluid. KNAU commentator…

KNAU commentator Scott Thybony always spends a lot of time outdoors, but that’s been especially true of the last 6 weeks during the COVID-19 pandemic.…