How much does a Grand Canyon helicopter flight cost? — featuring Hoosier Tim's Travel Videos (Maverick Helicopters)

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1:38 welcome to the Grand Canyon everyone down below us you can see the Colorado River that runs the entire length of the canyon and it's about 300 ft wide and it drops 2,000 ft on its way through the canyon over to our left there's a single Peak there between us and the north r that one's called Vishnu Temple and it's

1:57 one of the higher Peaks on this end of the canyon just out in front of us you'll see a little cone there with a flat white top that one's called Apollo Temple further up to the left is a white tip Peak called Jupiter Temple and both of those are named after Greek gods and to our right side are the desert Palisades

2:15 those Cliffs are 4,000 vertical feet from Bas to top

2:48 [Music] over to our right side extending out across the desert you can see the little Colorado Gorge and just ahead of us is the Confluence between the little Colorado River and the Colorado River

3:14 we'll be flying around three sides of that today and on our way around you should get a pretty good look at the Gorge

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4:44 now just out in front of us you can see the north rim of the canyon the north rim has an average elevation of about 8,000 ft making the north rim about, 1500 ft higher than the south rim which we're flying over now here along the south rim you might notice that it slopes Away From the Canyon because of

5:00 that we don't have much erosion off of the south rim more of a sure clip there from rim to River in contrast to that the north rim and the plateau beyond that all slop down into the canyon it's that drainage coming off of the north rim that carved out everything that you can see out in front of us now just out

5:19 in front of us you can see a rock outcropping there on the ridge line what's called Mount Hayden Mount hayen is 30 stories high from base to top and to the right of that first point you come to there on the North is called Point Imperial that is the highest point in the canyon and stands at

5:35 883 ft stretching out away from us is a part of the canyon called Marble Canyon that goes back from here about 50 mil to Le

6:00 fairy and Le fair is the official beginning of the Grand Canyon and at one time was the only river crossing of the Colorado River for early settlers to the area today they use that location to start all the rafting trips on the river and it takes the rafts about 2 weeks to make their Journey all the way through

6:17 the canyon as we come over the north rim on our left side you'll see Bride Angel Canyon Brad Angel is the widest point in the canyon at 18 miles from rim to rim right now we're just flying over an area that we had a fire in in 2001 and burned about 14,000 acres here on the north side of the

6:39 [Music] canyon in distance here on our left you can see a ridge line extending out into the canyon that's called the dragon formation the dragon's head pointing out towards the middle of the canyon has that knobby Peak on top following that back he's got a bumpy neck and it humps

6:58 up over the Dragon's Back we're going to reenter the canyon right by the Dragon's Tail over to our right side you can see the Coconino Sandstone layer to the canyon that particular layer is about 275 million years old and at one time that was all sand dunes that covered

7:24 this entire region over to our right side you can see the dragon's head a little closer this time and over to our left there's large flat top be called Shiva Temple it's named after a Hindu god and it's the largest be off of the north rim there's about 300 acres of ground on top of Shiva and 4,000 vertical feet from

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8:39 coming up here just in front of us again down on the canyon floor you can see where the Rocks stand up on edge there that indicates a fa line here in the canyon there are 13 major fault lines found throughout the canyon all of those are evidence of the uplift event that we had here in North America about 19

8:55 million years ago that uplift event lifted up the north rim to where it is today it was a major Catalyst in the formation of the canyon [Music]

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