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I just got home from THE Canyon, figured I'd go check it out again, seeing as it's right in my back yard. In the three years since I've been, the South Rim has changed so much.








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Re: Grand Canyon [Re: Vanguard]
#8032737 - 02/16/08 09:13 PM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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Nice pics. For some reason i never pictured that there is ever snow there.
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Re: Grand Canyon [Re: Vanguard]
#8032760 - 02/16/08 09:20 PM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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Nice. Love the canyon.
This pic was taken at the south rim on the morning I hiked out (after a week long backpacking trip). I left the bottom at 11PM and arrived at the rim about 9AM. Probably one of the best hikes I ever had!
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Re: Grand Canyon [Re: The_Ghost]
#8032788 - 02/16/08 09:29 PM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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Yeah this year has been HUGE for snow around here, we've been getting 1-3' every week or so.
Summit: Cool man, we have the same Gregory pack.. I love it at the bottom of the Canyon, so surreal, hearing the roar of the River and looking at the stars at night, I've been able to walk in just starlight down there. I realized today I need to start backpacking more and picked up a book for North Rim loop hikes 7+ days..
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Re: Grand Canyon [Re: Vanguard]
#8032808 - 02/16/08 09:33 PM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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Vanguard said: Summit: Cool man, we have the same Gregory pack.. I love it at the bottom of the Canyon, so surreal, hearing the roar of the River and looking at the stars at night, I've been able to walk in just starlight down there.
Yeah, I love my Gregory pack. Probably the best investment for backpacking I ever made, besides my boots.
And walking at night is awesome! The night before that picture was taken it was a full moon. My buddy and I just enjoyed a nice leisurely stroll under full moonlight all night long. As I said, it was probably the best hike I ever had.
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Re: Grand Canyon [Re: Vanguard]
#8032850 - 02/16/08 09:43 PM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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ive never been. 
lovely pics though...
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The suspension on the Gregory is awsome, and planning pack trips around the full moon definately saves on battery weight.
7 days in the Canyon WOW, what trails were you on?
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Re: Grand Canyon [Re: Vanguard]
#8032925 - 02/16/08 10:00 PM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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wow, im jealous... i'd like to visit the rio grande as well.
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anyone ever throw a hotdog into the grand canyon? 
but seriously. beautiful pics van.
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Re: Grand Canyon [Re: Vanguard]
#8032958 - 02/16/08 10:12 PM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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Vanguard said: 7 days in the Canyon WOW, what trails were you on?
Went in on the South Kaibab trail. Spent one night about halfway down. Spent the rest camped at Bright Angel campground at the bottom. Did lots of day hikes around the area and enjoyed many cold beers in the evening. Hiked out under a full moon on the Bright Angel trail.
Best part was soaking in the Bright Angel creek every eveing before wandering over to have a beer and BS with all the other hikers at the lodge. Backpacking was never so good! 
I even sent myself a postcard from the bottom while I was there. Probably the only place left in the US where mail is actually carried out on a mule!
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Re: Grand Canyon [Re: Vanguard]
#8032992 - 02/16/08 10:22 PM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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The grand canyon is amazing looking down from the edge is something else. I took a raft down the the river saw some people tip over, people jumping out with beers in their hand trying to see if they could hold on to it without dropping it and get back in the raft. Also went somewhere else in the west were there was a suspended bridge that was built in the 1800's over a VERY deep canyon, it was intense standing on that old bastard.
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The Navajo Bridge is pretty bitchin. It is over the Colorado river at the extreme East end of the Grand Canyon, just below Lake Powell near Page AZ.
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Phantom Ranch kicks ass, and chilliin in BA creek is essential...
I have yet to be to Ribbon Falls or Zoroaster...looking at picking up some fresh backcountry permits real soon!
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I can't remember the name of the bridge or were it was, the bridge was only meant to be walked on, it was made of rope and wood some metal I'm sure, very old. No cars ever drove on it, I know that much, it's gonna drive me nuts if I can't think of it.
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Re: Grand Canyon [Re: Vanguard]
#8033067 - 02/16/08 10:54 PM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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I know I saw it when i went to the grand canyon along with the four corners, lake Powell all that good stuff, I'm looking for it now but can't find it.
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Did they build this thing yet?
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Okay I think this is it it was a a long time ago when i went to this thing but I was wrong about the 1800's thing and it's not made of rope, I don't know if this is it but it sounds familiar. I went there a little over 10 years ago so I don't know for sure. But I guess people did drive on this one, I guess i was wrong about alot of things. But then again this may not be the particular one I am thinking but this is cool anyway.
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Re: Grand Canyon [Re: Vanguard]
#8033107 - 02/16/08 11:10 PM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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Can you hike to the bottom?
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Re: Grand Canyon [Re: Psy Baba]
#8033122 - 02/16/08 11:13 PM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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I have no idea but it's called Royal Gorge Bridge the highest suspension bridge in the world, and it's amazing.
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You know its just a big fuckin' hole right?
Aside from that, it's a pretty cool place to visit.
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#8033143 - 02/16/08 11:18 PM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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Yeah the Hualapai Nation opened the Skywalk last year, and you wear hospital room booties on your feet to not mess up the glass. The road to get out there is pretty rough almost 4X4 required, or they will drive/fly you out from Vegas for some $$$.
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Aside from that, it's a pretty cool place to visit.
It's just a big hole till you see it for yourself than it's so much more.
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Re: Grand Canyon [Re: Psy Baba]
#8033158 - 02/16/08 11:24 PM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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I've been to the bottom of the Grand Canyon more times than I can count.
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How deep is the water at the bottom?
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Re: Grand Canyon [Re: Psy Baba]
#8033187 - 02/16/08 11:31 PM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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I'm sure it varies a ton the Colorado goes from 6 to 20 feet so I'm sure the river below that bridge is around the same.
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UnholyChild666 said: Royal Gorge Bridge the highest suspension bridge in the world, and it's amazing.
I've been rafting on the Arkansas River in Colorado, the river under the Royal Gorge Bridge...there's some extreme class IV rapids on that river.
I've have yet to goto the Bridge..I'm searching it now...
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#8034270 - 02/17/08 11:03 AM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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Vanguard said: Yeah this year has been HUGE for snow around here, we've been getting 1-3' every week or so.
Summit: Cool man, we have the same Gregory pack.. I love it at the bottom of the Canyon, so surreal, hearing the roar of the River and looking at the stars at night, I've been able to walk in just starlight down there. I realized today I need to start backpacking more and picked up a book for North Rim loop hikes 7+ days..
Sweet! We should set up a hiking trip this summer. I have an MD buddy that's moving to Kingman in June. Would be sweet to show him a great time on the canyon floor. I have never hiked down into the canyon and i have always wanted to.
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Two or three years ago I hiked to the bottom, it was pretty sweet.


It was fucking nuts,like 900 feet from the river, it started pouring rain. The trails turned into flooding creeks of donkey urine/shit mud and a little bit of water. Then we got to the tunnel that's right before the bridge at the river for shelter with a few other hiker and it started hailing, at the bottom of the grand canyon!


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UnholyChild666 said: Okay I think this is it it was a a long time ago when i went to this thing but I was wrong about the 1800's thing and it's not made of rope, I don't know if this is it but it sounds familiar. I went there a little over 10 years ago so I don't know for sure. But I guess people did drive on this one, I guess i was wrong about alot of things. But then again this may not be the particular one I am thinking but this is cool anyway.
That's not the grand canyon that's the royal gorge in Colorado. This is me hanging my feet over the edge.
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That's an awsome pic...what time of year?? Looks pretty intense
There is some crazy runoff during the monsoons, and I usually read about someone getting caught in one of the side canyons every few years...One of my neighbors was air-evaced out of Paria 2 Augusts ago.
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Yeah, I floated the all day royal gorge trip, those rapids are nuts. I was in the front of the raft. In the very beginning I almost fell out on a small rapid, which kind of taught me how to stay in. But right underneath the bridge in the picture my cousin fell out...in some class IV rapids. She ended up going under the boat to the other side where my dad picked her out. She was only under for a few seconds but she could of been fucked. Its awesome being able to look back at a near death experience and laugh, at least for her. ...Shes the chick in the pink, I'm the guy with he long hair.

I think I hiked into the grand canyon in late summer/early fall '06
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Re: Grand Canyon [Re: Idiot]
#8036755 - 02/18/08 06:14 AM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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It's cool how on the Colorado river when you go rafting they have homing pigeons take the film from the photographer and bring them back to the station so the pictures are ready when your done with your trip.
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UnholyChild666 said: It's cool how on the Colorado river when you go rafting they have homing pigeons take the film from the photographer and bring them back to the station so the pictures are ready when your done with your trip.
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#8036786 - 02/18/08 06:34 AM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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Dude it's true little birds with backpacks, I saw the shit.
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UnholyChild666 said: Dude it's true little birds with backpacks, I saw the shit.
idk man i went rafting on that damn river i never saw no fuckin birds especialy with backpacks, id like to see a bird fly around with a backpack, did you get pictures of this bird?
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Re: Grand Canyon [Re: AJ4U]
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nope, they even had a show about it on the discovery channel, here's what happens when your going down the river there's a guy who takes pictures of people passing by, but because there is not enough time for someone to drive all the way back to the station were the trip ends with the pictures (because the rafts get there faster than the cars would) they have numerous homing pigeons, not just one. they have little backpacks on them where the photographer puts the film and they fly back to the station where they develop them. It's really pretty cool man, I'm seriously not making this up I know it sounds funny but it's true.
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Lol nah no way that shits fo real fucking birds with backpacks delivery film? You gotta be kidding me why hasnt som1 mastered drug birds that fly dimebags to people
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AJ4U said: Lol nah no way that shits fo real fucking birds with backpacks delivery film? You gotta be kidding me why hasnt som1 mastered drug birds that fly dimebags to people
Becuase they have to go to the same place everytime to and from
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