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| Backpack | 35.00 Miles |
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| | Backpack | 35.00 Miles | 4 Days | | |
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| partners | | A Grand Canyon “Route” being “…a known way to get from point A to point B that is a seldom patrolled, never maintained, sometimes difficult to follow, and sometimes dangerous. Paths are often covered with rock slides and overgrowth. Route-finding abilities are essential, and water sources are limited, difficult to find, or nonexistent.”
The Escalante Route, which has become pretty close to a trail in the last 10 years, and involves a well-known obstacle called the Papago Wall and Slide, a 30 foot cliff face that would need to be negotiated, immediately followed by a long descent down a treacherous rockslide of boulder to fist-sized rock. The route essentially follows the Colorado River for 12 miles from Hance Rapid to the west, to Tanner Rapid to the east, or vice-versa. We would go east to west.
At Hance Rapid we intended to follow the beginning of the Tonto Trail 6.4 miles to Hance Creek for one night. Then 3.5 miles to Horseshoe Mesa, a “cliff-bound sky island” located where the Tonto Trail meets the Grandview trail, which would be our 3-mile exit route the next morning. The Grandview is known for its extreme elevation gain, being the highest trailhead on the south rim. 2500 feet is gained in the upper mile and a half of its three miles, which is significantly greater than many other trails on the south rim.
We descended the TannerTrail, from Lipan Point, 20 miles east of Grand CanyonVillage, 9 miles to the river. It is known as one of the “most difficult and demanding south side trails,” and there is no water along the trail and very little shade.
Day #1 We descended Tanner trail to Tanner beach and enjoyed our Thanksgiving dinner (8 miles).
Day #2 Continued from Tanner beach to Escalante beach (10 miles)
Extremely difficult, mentally, due to high winds, an uncertain destination, and what we felt to be a great deal of exposure, or hiking close to the edge of am impossible-to-survive fall.
Day #3 Escalante route via Papago wall and Hance Rapids to Hance Creek (12 miles)
Day#4 Hiking up the South Rim to Grandview (5 miles).
Total around 35 miles, 10000 feet elevation gain. |
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