Scott Thybony
Canyon Country CommentatorScott Thybony has traveled throughout North America on assignments for major magazines, including Smithsonian, Outside, and Men’s Journal. An article for National Geographic magazine was translated into a dozen languages, and his book, Canyon Country, sold hundreds of thousands of copies. He once herded sheep for a Navajo family, having a hogan to call home and all the frybread he could eat. His commentaries are heard regularly on Arizona Public Radio.
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In his latest Canyon Commentary, Scott Thybony shares a lesson he learned about the beauty of nature from the "Grandmother of the Conservation Movement", Mardy Murie.
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In Scott Thybony's latest Canyon Commentary, he takes us on a journey to Mystic Spring, in search of the elusive water source.
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Before the summer rains arrived, the winds blew relentlessly across the Colorado Plateau. They heightened drought conditions and increased fire danger. But wind isn’t always a destructive force. Sometimes it’s an artist. In his latest Canyon Commentary, Scott Thybony takes a look at the positive side of wind by exploring a spectacular wind-carved landscape.
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In this month's Canyon Commentary, Scott Thybony retells a story from 20 years ago about the importance of honoring sacred spaces and the ceremony of restoring order to the natural world.
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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.
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Commentator Scott Thybony has conducted a lot of interviews in his decades-long writing career. And he’s come to believe that expectation and reality rarely line up; there is always an element of the unexpected. On one particular assignment for National Geographic, Scott found himself slipping back in time to visit some old ghosts.
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…