grand canyon

Way back in 1998, before digital cameras, before lightweight stuff was invented, before packrafts ...... we were one of the few pioneers to through hike from Cameroun, AZ and out to Desert View in GCNP. Very few places to get out.

If you haven't seen the report of my other Grand Canyon trip, in 2011 i went to the North Rim with my family, but just long enough to see that the canyon was there. Two years later i managed to make it down to backpack with my brother. If you only see the Grand Canyon from the rim, you haven't...

Did a week long backpack with friends down Kanab Creek to the Colorado. Exited the Canyon through Deer Creek and up The Bill Hall Trail. No pics from the section along the River as it was arduous and required full attention at all times with razor sharp rock hopping for 10 miles. ( 2 days ) As...

Here you go @Joey First of all the disclaimer. I had a strange experience this trip, where i took hundreds of photos, and ended up liking the majority of them quite a bit. I've tried to pare down the selection. But i feel that all of these are relevant to the story of this trip. We covered a...

11/10/2014 I've spent most of my life living near the Grand Canyon but have never adventured in it. As a child the place terrified me and I couldn't get near the edge without a death grip on my parents or a fence. "I don't want to go in the giant hole! I'll never get out!" Years later, my...

Recently I found an old slide out of 1994. We stayed in Flagstaff and visited the Little Colorado River Grand Falls. Luckily it was after a period with some rainy thunderstorms. Sorry - the scan is pretty grainy.

I decided to post a trip report after all, even though the trip was brief, because who hasn't wanted to hit the road at the drop of a hat? I had resigned myself to missing the Southwest monsoon season because it just wasn't in the budget. I'd already been to Utah 3 times this year and have a...

Although this isn't really backcountry, I thought it might be of interest to some. I had done the rim to rim before but wanted to do it with my son so I managed to get the permits for: Day 1: down the South Kaibab to the river and Bright Angel (just south of Phantom Ranch) for night 1. Day 2...

Continued from part 1. We were up on the esplanade, and had a clear uninterrupted view of our goal in sight. Art gazed upon the mound with a small grin. I stared down at this view, and that red knoll while up on that ridge, he said while pointing up at the southern rim. He’d been planning...

I went backpacking in the Grand Canyon at the beginning of April with Brian, Scott, Jared, Andy, Thomas, and Steve. A trip on the Tonto platform was chosen for the great views that it affords. Most people doing this particular trip go west from the Grandview trailhead and come out on the South...

*** Samuel (Dipodomys microps) wakes up after a third prodding from his mother. You have to get up. Uhhh, its not even late mom. She looks down at her son and pushes her nose into him again. She’s not messing around. He rubs his eyes and begins to rise, his sagging belly droops across the...

Thank you for allowing me to take over the canyoneering forum for a spell. I hope you enjoyed the journey. After a lunch....oh the joy on Jenny's face when Rich shared his salami....we headed down a slot. One that had been scoured clean and very beautiful the year before. Rich lamented the...

The following day plus, involved working our way up toward the rim, but not so focused on task to miss several mini-slot opportunities. After ascending and descending a lovely non tech canyon, we found a camp for the night. Rich knew where water was. Over an hour later he came back, having...

We awake in the canyon. There are these slanted ledges, with steps and many of us fit in the grooves, swaddled in smooth limestone.We assume the canyon will release us soon and we will be at the river promptly. We figured wrong. Three rappel anchors must be built. The usual solution is found...

A few days later, back for more...... One Grand Canyon trip down, a few days rest and back out for a 5 day 6 night encore. I wasn't going to be able to go, as it was going too end to late in the month, so I tossed an idea out. "Move it up 5 days?" The trip leaders said yes. I was shocked and...

All trip reports in this series: Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 Afternoon of Day 6 to mid- morning Day 7 For 5 and a half days I have carried these pool toys. Time to inflate and cast off to whatever awaits. I have done enough pack rafting to know that I am not particularly good at it. Also...

All trip reports in this series: Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 Day 5 to midday Day 6 We wake early. It is day 5 of 7 and we are still moving further away from where we started. Enough dead burro water too!. We head up Dump Truck fork and it is a delight. Redwall rim gives way to Supai...

All trip reports in this series: Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 Next installment Day 3 & 4 Up not so early the next morning, Jenny and are first out of camp at 9:30. We hike the 1/4 mile to the break and down to the river and note that a river trip came around the corner and is coming over...

All trip reports in this series: Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 Day 1 & 2 Having been a "bit player" in the Grand Canyon slot explorations, I had listened in and gathered, that with the Great Thumb closed to access, that a combo of 150 Mile Canyon, Matkatamebia, Panameta and Olo, with a...

Photo: House Rock Rapid and Rider Canyon South Canyon to Soap Canyon ~ Grand Canyon Hiking with Botanists Glenn Rink and Steve Till In my efforts to complete a Grand Canyon Traverse I have never stumbled on such rough, unstable, scary terrain for so long a distance. Hiking this section in...