Saturday, November 19, 2016

Sawmill Canyon

First hike of the season, a relatively easy 7 mile round-trip up Sawmill Canyon road/trail, all above 7,200 feet (but a little thin for me yet). 1,150 feet of elevation gain. Beautiful weather and fall colors. Oh, and petroglyphs.




Alien pictographs.

Thursday, February 25, 2016

Below The Rim

The word awesome is almost never apt, certainly not in reference to sauce. There are few things in the known universe to which it could be appropriately applied. China's Wall is merely great; Kreskin is simply amazing. Einstein's Theory of Relativity is awesome, as is the universe itself. Ditto for Darwin's Theory of Evolution. So too, I just found out, is hiking below the rim of the Grand Canyon. Yesterday morning I took a short three-hour hike on the South Kaibab trail down to Skeleton Point, 2040 feet below the rim; six miles round trip. I saw a condor. I worked up a mighty sweat. It was awesome.






Sabino Canyon and West Fork Trails to Hutch's Pool

Lots of cold rainy weather lately, so it was a relief to land on a sunny, warmish (high 60s) Saturday for a longer hike. Today, we chose Hut...