Canyon of Despair                                      -      -      - 
(-------------------------------------------------)     - <---(M)---> E
                                                        -      S      -

The canyon curves around going south and east here.  The sun is shining
down on about half of the canyon floor here.  The canyon floor is made from
the same rocks as those on the mountain.  There must have been a river
flowing through here at one time.  
You dodge out of the way of a large boulder that crashes down from above!