48 hours on a deserted 14 mile stretch of primitive trail on the North Rim of the Grand Canyon.
December, 2016
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Looking south from the trailhead. The area was torched a few months before by the Fuller Fire.
Looking east across the north stretch of the canyon -also known as Marble Canyon
Saddle Mountain. The route drops below the rim on the other side of the saddle.
Manzanita bush
A waning moon setting over the Kaibab Plateau
Information board at the National Park boundary at the rim.
Looking south towards Cape Final
Nankoweap Valley, Butte, Mesa and Chuar Butte
Several miles of the trail traverses along the Supai formation.
The trail is there.. it’s just not that visible.
The San Francisco Peaks framed between Siegfried Pyre and Gunther Castle
Mount Hayden and Point Imperial
The East Rim and a peek at the Colorado River
Barrel cactus and Chuar Butte
Evening shadows falling over the cliffs above lower Nankoweap Creek.
Mt Hayden
Dusk on Nankoweap Creek
The river at the bottom of Nankoweap Canyon
Looking upstream
Bright Angel shale cliffs.
Cottonwood tree
Agave
I didn’t see anybody on the trail for two days, but I counted over 25 sightseeing aircraft on the hike out.
The crux of the trail… I think it would be a real obstacle for anyone under 5′-6″
This is the spring above Marion Point. It left a small but very inconvenient sheet of ice on an exposed part of trail.
Snow and Redwall Limestone.
Last light on Marion Point
Dave Gangadean, to be specific.
