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Page, Arizona is a town of 8,000 people located in the northern part of the state, near the Utah border. The town in located near Glen Canyon Dam, which was built on the Colorado River in the early 1960's, creating Lake Powell. Page owes its existence to Lake Powell -- both economically, in terms of the active tourist trade, and historically, since the town was first built to house the construction workers who built the dam. |
Page is named for John C. Page, commissioner of the Bureau of Reclamation under FDR, who advocated the building of the dam, but died before work began. Lake Powell is named for Major John Wesley Powell, an early explorer of the Colorado River. He was the first white man to map the Glen Canyon area, now submerged beneath the lake that bears his name. |
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I got strapped in to the cluster. The desert sun rose over the ridge to the east, making my balloons glow. |
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I waited until some of the hot-air balloons had started to launch, then told the crew to release me. And up I went. |
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