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Box Canyon
We are fortunate to have five large named canyons, and innumerable smaller ones.
Box Canyon
This isn’t a true box canyon, as the stream that winds through it seasonally has cut its way down a narrow path ending in a pond. It has an adjacent small canyon, the North Fork of Box Canyon, over which stone cliffs lower. The trail here winds down from Beethoven’s Quartet to the cowboy cabin rebuilt by Ben Wynthein in the winter of 2017. This has a fountain fed by a well through which we filter potable meltwater.
Box Canyon also has Mark di Suvero’s 60-foot-tall sculpture Proverb, which for 12 years was next to the Meyerson Symphony Center in Dallas. Mark put it together here in a windstorm, its compass legs dangling from an enormous crane.
Proverb changes the dynamics of the canyon. It anchors it, while the canyon echoes Proverb’s wild side. Both seem less without each other, now that they have married.
A path continues to a bench above the cabin, where once our summer tent had to be tied to a Unimog to keep it from blowing away. From there, the path winds up to the ridge road which runs between Box and Arney canyons.
Arney Canyon
Immediately to the north of Box, Arney is our soft, walker-friendly canyon, with its gentle bowl and waving grasses. At its head is Mark di Suvero’s sculpture Beethoven’s Quartet, created in homage to the mysterious artifacts of art, which measure
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