Medium Large	The hikers are ready to go!
	Medium Large	The South Kaibab trailhead
	Medium Large	Pretty nice outhouse at the South Kaibab and Tonto Trail junction. It was the only shade around. After we passed it again on the morning of day 2 when we came back up from the river, we had to dig our own toilets for the rest of the hike.
	Medium Large	The South Kaibab trail winds along this thing. Crazy!
	Medium Large	A steep dropoff, but far from the worst we've seen!
	Medium Large	The 'Black Bridge' over the Colorado River, which we took to get to the Bright Angel campground
	Medium Large	Mmmm, switchbacks. This is how you lose thousands of vertical feet on a 7 mile hike.
	Medium Large	Nice Canyon view from the South Kaibab trail
	Medium Large	Bright Angel Creek, right next to our first night's campsite, which was 4650 feet below the rim where we started.
	Medium Large	Phantom Ranch. That was too much comfort for us (and we didn't have the reservation 2 years in advance), so we went for the nearby Bright Angel campground and slept in the dirt.
	Medium Large	Mule deer wandering around the Bright Angel campground
	Medium Large	On the morning of day 2, we loaded up with over 2 gallons of water and hiked 1500 feet up this thing!
	Medium Large	Cool shot of the canyon between Cremation creek and Lonetree creek
	Medium Large	Moonrise over the eastern canyon on the second night
	Medium Large	Waking up on the third day at a damn fine campsite. Almost made up for the fact that we had to get up at 5:15 so we could get to our next water source before it got blazing hot. It was still blazing hot when we got to the water
	Medium Large	After getting water at the Colorado river at the beginning of day 2, it was over a day and a half before we got to our next water source (shown here) in the western fork of Grapevine Creek. I was quite happy that I own a good water filter!
	Medium Large	Once we got water and we all regrouped, we spent a while at this nice shady spot in Grapevine Creek.
	Medium Large	This is a shot from within Grapevine Creek, which is a huge side canyon. If it weren't attatched to the Grand Canyon, it would be considered a pretty serious hike. Most of our hiking was right along the edge of the cliff.
	Medium Large	We found more water at a spring on the eastern side of Grapevine Creek canyon. It was a somewhat better than our first find, as it was actually flowing.
	Medium Large	This was one of the scariest sections of the whole hike. This is no trick of perspective--We actually had to hike along a sheer cliff on a ledge that was 2 feet wide at best. It was many hundreds of feet down to the bottom of the canyon below.
	Medium Large	The Vishnu Schist is nearly 2 billion year old rock that makes up the lowest part of the Grand Canyon. The pink rock intruding into it is called the Zoroaster Granite.
	Medium Large	Waking up on day 4 at our modest campsite
	Medium Large	This raven saw John doing a little first aid and seemed to be hoping that John may be his next meal
	Medium Large	While this may look like a hike along flat ground, note that everyone is using their hands to pull themselves along. This was our first set of switchbacks on the way out of the canyon on day 4, and they were damn steep.
	Medium Large	Another steep section on the way to the Grandview trail junction
	Medium Large	An old copper mine on Horseshoe Mesa
	Medium Large	Mining winch on Horseshoe Mesa
	Medium Large	The Grandview trail was damn steep in places. There were lots of switchbacks like this.
	Medium Large	A shot of Horseshoe Mesa from near the top of the Grandview trail. We started the day in Cottonwood Creek on the left side of the mesa, about 3700 feet below the rim.
	Medium Large	I wasn't sure if this was trustworthy, but we all made it over
	Medium Large	A victorious and tired Dave
	Medium Large	Catherine, Oleg and I made it up at the same time. Some random dude snuck into our picture.
	Medium Large	Jason made it up next
	Medium Large	And Jani and John were just behind him
	Medium Large	A fireplace in the Bright Angel Lodge that uses actual rocks from the canyon to replicate the Grand Canyon geologic cross-section