Grand Canyon

After spending a delightful night with our friends Reggie and Bill in Phoenix, we headed to the Grand Canyon - South Rim. We had reserved a site at an RV park inside the national park. The first evening there we had a visitor at our site - an elk. The elk were everywhere.

The views from the rim a spectacular and the first full day there we spent several hours hiking along the rim enjoying the view and taking pictures.





The view below shows the top of the Bright Angel Trail which goes to the bottom of the canyon. Our plan was to hike part of it.

The weather was hot but not outrageous (mid-to-high 80s) and most days it was breezy. Our second day we got out our bikes and took a 12-mile ride out to Hermit's Rest then took the shuttle back (the shuttles have bike racks!)

The third day we did that hike down the Bright Angel Trail to the One and a Half Mile Rest House - 1.5 miles down then - what goes down must come up. It was hot and dusty and crowded near the top. As the crowds thinned out it was not so bad and the view were great - the different perspective as we descended through the geologic layers was fascinating. When we turned around we were about 1100 feet below the rim.




While we were on the trail two rangers led a train of mules up the trail.


We had a great time and wore ourselves out.

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