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The Two Day Difference

Posted on March 15, 2013 by Heather Dugan
Posted in Grand Canyon National Park, Grand Canyon Village/Tusayan, Hiking Tagged , , , ,

Plan B was better. My son Zach had laughed when I shared the pre-trip itinerary for an Arizona hiking trip, saying, “and we know that will change…” Apparently I have a history of flexibility. That’s OK. Because it almost always pays to be responsive to opportunities and challenges. I call it vacation maximization.

Our spring hiking trip in Arizona a couple of years ago followed that norm.  A weather event led to some on-the-fly itinerary changes. but led us, finally, back to the South Kabib Trail in the Grand Canyon.

 

It was Goldilocks weather.  Not too hot, not too cold.  Just right for a hike with one of my favorite guys. Just right for admiring views that stretched forever forward and forever down…

 

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Walk Through Sand Sculpture

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Grand Weather at the Canyon

Posted on April 6, 2012 by Heather Dugan
Posted in Extremes, Grand Canyon National Park, Grand Canyon Village/Tusayan, Hiking Tagged , , , ,

Sixty-five mph winds blew us straight to Plan B during a spring hiking trip. No matter. We were in the land of Plans A to Z: Arizona.

The Grand Canyon was having a weather event. Hail. High winds. While wind chill can be battled, teetering in gusts along elevated edges as high as a mile seemed a dubious ambition. So, we did a little rearranging of the itinerary and drove in to the Canyon a few slightly warmer days later.

Our first peek of the Canyon this time was hit and miss between heavy fog and hail. Our second venture allowed us to hike partway down the South Kabib Trail. Which only whetted the hiking appetite for doing the whole deal next time with a little less wind and a little more warm.

Updated from March 18, 2011.

More Arizona and Grand Canyon:

Walk Through Sand Sculpture

Desert View at the Grand Canyon

Sinagua Style Sky-Boxes

Don’t Look Down

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Deceiving Distances

Posted on January 23, 2012 by Heather Dugan
Posted in Extremes, Grand Canyon National Park, Grand Canyon Village/Tusayan, Hiking, Kayak/Canoe Tagged , , , ,

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Up, down and across still extend in all the usual directions, but the distance between their visible limits is a bit deceiving at the Grand Canyon. At some points down is a drop of over a mile (the view back up from the canyon floor is one I aim to hike down to someday soon!). Width of the Canyon at any point ranges between 4 and 18 miles. There is no “stone’s throw” across that one!

Hance Rapid (pictured at right from Desert View) is rated an 8 in difficulty on a 1 to 10 scale. This mile long stretch of river features the Canyon’s greatest single drop. Thirty feet doesn’t sound like much in a place where everything else seems to be measured in miles, but in a kayak?  That could be excessively thrilling!

Updated from June 6, 2010.

 

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