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| no partners | | The original plan: Day 1, go down South Kaibab trail, stay the night at bright angel campgrounds, next day go up bright angel trail, stay the night at Indian Gardens, then the next day maek our way out of the canyon. Found getting the permits can be a no-so-easy process. We ended up with a permit for clear creek the first night and indian gardens the second night. The closer we got to our trip, and the more I read about clear creek, that was going to be too much for our group to handle at the time. So we came up with a new plan to work with our existing permit.
Day1; Drove up to the canyon, stayed the night in Mather Campground. gave us time to look around, scope out our starting plan for the next morning, and enjoy an evening up on the rim.
Day2: Hiked down Bright Angel trail to Indian Garden's campgrounds. Set up camp, enjoyed the day arpund the Indian Garden's area. The creek, the picnic area, there was a brief rain shower, we also made the hike out to Plateau Point. Nice area down there.
Day3: Woke up a 4 am, packed up camp, hit the trail at 4:50 am, wanted to beat the Sun. Got to the 3 mile rest house just as the sun was coming up. That was nice. then we got to the 1 1/2 mile rest house just as a few trail runners here and there were coming down. Past the that rest house is wehn we would start getting into the heavier traffic of hikers, and people trying to catch the sunrise, and even the first mule train on its way down at about a 1/4 mile left to the top. We reached the the rim about 8:20 ish, dumped our packs in the truck and headed for breakfast.
We all really enjoyed the trip, it was a quick one, but nice. the weather cooperated, we saw some deer, an elk, and did come car camping mixed with our backpacking. Hopefully next time we can actually make it to the river! |
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