Grand Canyon, 40 years later

40 years ago this summer, Don and I hiked from the North Rim of the Grand Canyon down to the Colorado River and back out. It was a 28 mile hike and took us three days! We slept on a rain poncho, no tent, no sleeping bag and cooked dehydrated food on a small back packing stove that our son Jonathan uses to this day! We did a lot of hiking and back packing in those days.

                                                        This view is from the South Rim.

Today we saw the South Rim at a location called Desert View. We began at the eastern edge of the canyon at Little Colorado River Gorge. This river cut this narrower part of the canyon shown here.

this is looking down, way down!

40 years ago I couldn't talk him into taking the mules to go part of the way down, and now you couldn't talk either one of us into trying that hike. The canyon is magnificent even from the top!