GRAND CANYON!!!

                    At the top! South Rim!

We made it!!! It was awesome, hard, amazing, hot, spectacular, challenging, jaw dropping, breath taking!!! And we did it together!! It is one of the seven natural wonders of the world, and we not only saw it from the top, but we actually went down into it, passed through the bottom, and then climbed out to the top on the other side!  Before we headed down, we asked a young girl who had just come through it to the North Rim, how it had been for her. She said 'Amazing! But I won't lie! It was HARD'. And that is exactly how it was for us!

                Showing part of trail

                Notice the switchbacks

Soaking in Bright Angel Creek at the bottom of

the Canyon.  We just sat - 45 minutes!

                The 5 men on the trail

We headed down into the canyon Saturday morning about 8 AM, and came out yesterday, Tuesday at about 10:30 AM.  Carrying 30 lbs in my pack, plus 3 to 4 liters of water is heavy! Though by the end of the tramp it was starting to feel like it was a part of me. We couldn't believe how hungry we were on the last day out, as we were climbing up about 3000 feet in just under 5 hours!