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| 4x4 Trip | 47.00 Miles |
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| | 4x4 Trip | 47.00 Miles | 9 Hrs | | 5.22 mph |
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| no partners | | The Rainbow Rim Trail connects 5 of the major view points along the North Rim Grand Canyon in the Kaibab National Forest. It is a fairly well groomed hiking trail probably more popular with mountain bikers than hikers. I chose to drive to four of these points on this day as I moved south along the rim from my campsite of the previous four nights near Crazy Jug Point. I used FR250 as the north-to-south connecting road to connect with the roads running out to each point. I took photos at the first three points, Parissawampitts, Fence, and Locust Points, but was more focused on looking for a campsite for the night by the time I got to North Timp Point. Haze from a couple of fires interfered with taking good long distance photos of the views but I've gone ahead and posted pics to give an idea of the views from these points.
I hoped to find a campsite that Friday evening which was remote enough to get away from the hoards which would be visiting the area over the weekend. As it turned out, this area did not get that many people but prime campsites with rim views were mostly filled up by 4pm Friday. I decided to camp back in the forest away from the rim. An area without the scenic canyon views but still a beautiful area with tall Ponderosa Pines, lush green meadows and scattered groves of Aspen. A quick check of the North Kaibab Motor Vehicle Use Map showed just the spot, an old logging spur road that followed the top of a ridge for about 1.3 miles to its end between Timp Point and Stina Point. I found the road despite someone having absconded with the road marker and started driving down it. It quickly disappeared in a sea of knee high grass. The road had so little use that the forest was reclaiming it but I was able to follow it using the MVUM loaded on to my gps. I continued down the road for a half mile finally stopping where the forest reclamation of the road changed from grass to small pine trees and set up camp. I ended up staying there for two nights without seeing anyone until early Sunday morning when I had to make an unplanned 3.5 mile hike to Timp Point, but that's a story for another triplog. |
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