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| no partners | | While on my fall Grand Canyon river trip I was able to complete a couple of hikes to further my goal of hiking all the named trails off the South Rim. My friend Jane and I started at Little Colorado River beach, and made our way across the river (lots of current, but at least it wasn't cold!) and visited the Beamer Cabin. We then started onto the trail. A couple of our friends, boatmen Randy and Mike, waited on the Colorado River until they could see us coming around the bend. They wanted to be certain we were able to cross the LCR, which had flashed a couple of days before.
It was odd that the LCR was muddy and the Colorado was green, at least until the LCR ran into it. Often the LCR is very blue and runs into a muddy Colorado.
We actually did this hike over two days. The first day we hiked to Palisades Creek, where our rafting party was going to set up camp and wait for us. Of all the camps we had on our 24 day river trip, Palisades Creek was by far the worst: very rocky and uncomfortable for our group of 5 rafts and 12 people.
The first day's leg of the hike took longer than I thought it would. I think we hiked about 5 or 6 hours. It was pretty hot, and Jane just about ran out of water, so I shared. She is a boatman, has her own raft, but hasn't done a lot of desert hiking. So, when I was on her raft, I was learning a lot about rowing from a woman's standpoint, but on the hike she was learning about desert hiking from me. But we did fine, and were grateful to get into camp. The next morning we got up and she hiked part of the way to the Tanner backpacker camp with me. Our boaters floated down to 68 Mile Camp, on river right, and a boatman rowed across to pick her up while I continued on to Tanner.
Once I was at Tanner I connected with the places I had been on backpacking trips, so that completed my "line" as far as furthering my goal of hiking S. Rim trails. So, I turned around and hiked back upstream until I was across the river from 68 mile camp and could see our group. I hollered, and Dennis came over in the "Shredder" to pick me up.
The second day's hike was much easier and shorter, and the weather was very pleasant as well. |
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