South Rim of Grand Canyon

Grand Canyon 2010 (4 of 7) :

Jim and John and I had a fantastic trip to Grand Canyon National Park during John's Spring Break from college. We travelled by train - 23 hours and about 800 miles each way. Just great. Thanks guys for your company.

After our quite demanding walk on Sunday, we decided to take it easy and explore the South Rim. We walked about 4 miles west on the rim and got the shuttle bus back to Grand Canyon Village. After lunch, we used to car to drive 25 miles east to Desert View and visited most of the vista points on the way back.

Monday was full moon with the usual trouble with Werewolves and stuff. By sunset the temperature was too low for hanging about outdoors - so we didn't take photos of the moon rise over Grand Canyon. It was of course very light in the tent in the middle of the night.

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John and Jim at lunch

Ready to walk

About Mary Colter

About Fred Harvey

About the Harvey Girls

Bright Angel Trail

About Mules

From Hopi Point

It's a long way down

View to Village

Bright Angel Canyon

About the mountains

The Mountains

Snow on the canyon walls

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About Grand Canyon Vista

Grand Canyon Vista

About the Uranium

More about uranium

The cleanup

50th Anniversary

75th Anniversary

100th Anniversary

Anniversary Pyramid

View from Pyramid

East from Pyramid

About the Powell Expedition

River to the east

River to the west

Mohave Point

Fantastic Vista

Looking north

Looking west

Hermit's Rest

View from Hermit's Rest

About Granite Rapid

The Rapids

Zoomed in on rapids

Downriver

John and Jim at lunch

The Ranger Talk

Ron the Ranger

Fantastic Talk

Breaking up

Desert View Tower

Desert View

Jim near Hance Rapid

About the Gorge

Looking up river

The Tower

Tower and view to East

Sun starting to set

West towards Village

Sunset

From Grand View

East from Grand View

Turkey Vulture

View at sunset

East at sunset

North at sunset

Sunsetting

Last seconds

Map

Warning

Valpalai Point

Sun has gone

Full Moon


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