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Jani waking up, Jason not waking up |
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Bright Angel Creek |
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The Silver Bridge, which takes us over the Colorado River to the south side of the Canyon |
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The River || || \/ |
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Looking back towards the bridge on our way up the other side |
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Giant boulder, with Catherine for scale |
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Rest house before the big climb up to Indian Gardens, which is about 1200 feet up in elevation || || \/ |
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Nicole beginning the climb |
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The view as we're climbing up |
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The tadpoles here were trapped and packed into in a small puddle in the upper left, so Catherine and I dug a few little canals to let them get over to the rest of the water. There may be some frogs/toads thanking us on our next trip. |
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More climbing... |
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Looking back at the switchbacks that we took up from the river |
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Heading towards Indian Gardens, and it's getting noticeably greener tu to a stream that's beginning to flow |
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Indian Gardens |
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People doing the Canyon the easy way |
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Me, clearly having not taken the easy way |
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Catherine, mellow and content after finding a good sitting spot |
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The rest of the hikers showed up shortly after. We rested for a while and had some lunch, then loaded up with about 2 gallons of water per person and continued on to our campsite. |
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Hiking out to Plateau Point. We dropped our packs at the junction with the Tonto Trail and continued out to the point to admire the views. || || \/ |
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Some of the longest spines I've ever seen on a Prickly Pear |
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Looking across the Canyon towards Bright Angel Canyon, which comes in diagonally from the upper left. You can see some rapids in the river below. |
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Towards the west |
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View of the trail and switchbacks that we took up from the river to Indian Gardens |
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Looking back at Indian Gardens |
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Views from the hike west towards Horn Creek, where we'll be camping || || \/ |
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Deer |
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Another deer, this one looking a bit emaciated for some reason |
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Looking out from Horn Creek into the main canyon |
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Our campsite is down below near the stream bed. An old uranium mine above the creek supposedly still contaminates the stream and it's recommended that you don't drink the water there, so we brough over a lot from Indian Gardens. |
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Our campsite for the evening || || \/ |
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Outhouse near the campsite. On my trip 3 years before, it was just a toilet with no enclosure sitting on the hillside. I liked that one better, as this one hides the great view while you're sitting there. |
