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| no partners | | | Back to Pipe Canyon to explore, this time I stayed above the Redwall. I started out down the South Kaibab trail around noon and just after Buckey O'Neill Butte but before Skeleton Point I dropped down from the trail on the west side and scrambled down to the redwall. I contoured around Pipe Canyon to the head where I found a small cave which was marked on Harvey's map. The route here is pretty rough and along the way I had to climb over many large boulders. On one climb, as I was clinging to a chunk of rock with my left hand, supporting most of my weight, the chunk let go causing me to smash it into my knee at full force. Within about 30 minutes my knee had swelled up pretty good and was extremely painful to bend. With limited mobility, I had to decide whether to continue on to Bright Angel or exit back out the way I came and risk missing the last bus. I think I chose wrong. It ended up taking me more than 4 hours to get from the head of Pipe Creek to 3 mile Resthouse on the Bright Angel Trail, a distance of about 5 miles. It was maybe one of my most difficult hikes. Lots of ravines with loose rock to scrambled up and down with a bad knee and I ran out of light well before getting to BA. Along the way, I spotted the other cave from Harvey's map. I hiked out an empty Bright Angel trail in the dark. |
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