Congratulations to my Aunt Irene and new Uncle Gary who wer emarried yesterday in the Caribbean. Am waiting for pictures but am sure it was a beautiful wedding... Wish I could have been there.
Anyhoo....
The Robertsons are gone. Headed out last week and ar enow safely back in Scranton, PA. Pretty sure they had a good visit.... I know I had a fun time with them here :)
Well its monsoon season at Grand Canyon. Been raining quite a lot. Especially the weekend before last. Sunday (the 1st) was so crappy, there was really nothing to do but laundry, reading, leg waxing and hanging around. Did however introduce the Robertsons to Kings. Silly.
This past weekend, me and Jesse tackled the Ken Patrick Trail.... again. Failed miserably the first time when we started form Point Imperial (on the 31st), walked the three miles to cross the Cape Royal Road, and hten los thte trail when it headed throuh a burn area. Hike started off pretty nicely though. At point imperial it had rained all night so the canyon was just a wall of fog.
You couldn't see 20 ft in front of you... Kind of spooky when you know that one of the world's biggest holes is right before you but you can't see it.
Picture of the foggy trailhead. Sign says 2 miles to cape royal road but was actually 3... They should change that.
Kind of like hiking in Maine, no?
Was truly amazing looking when the fog was starting to lift and you could just see glimpses of canyon among billowing clouds and fog patches. Beautiful.
Picture from rim part of hike before cape royal road on left.
Picture of Mount Hayden shrouded in fog. I guess you could call it inversion (when the clouds are below the rim of the canyon. Either way looks cool.
When we did the hike this weekend, we started from the other end at the North Kaibab trailhead, checked out the Uncle Jim Trail, then walked hte other 5 miles or so to the road.
Hitchhiked to get back to the developed area again. The first time we did the hike last week, we were rejected by swarms of Americans, and then finally picked up by a van full of people from Indian people. (Thanks fellow Americans...Are a couple of kids wearing Mountain Hardwear/Northface and carrying Nikons really that threatening looking? jeez)
Sunday were only passed by 3 cars before a nice family from Manchester, England picked us up.... again, Americans... what the hell?
The rest of the weekend was relatively unexciting. Journeyed to Kanab on Saturday since it was raining and gross on the Rim. Headed to Page yesterday to get another piece for the truck and then took a tour of the dam dam... Ultimate tourist endeavor. I'd be almost embarassed if I weren't doing a program on it and needed the useful information that the tour provided.
Now my afternoon 15 minute break is up and back to work. Having a rager for JR, Interp ranger who is moving to New Hampshire tomorrow. I think 4 of us are going to be there.... oh intwerps.
Ta
The fog and clouds in the canyon have been superb. Glad it's done raining for a bit.
ReplyDeleteI once hitchhiked in uniform while at Oregon Caves and so many visitors went past I was getting kind of pissed. How could they not stop?
I'll be working tomorrow night so probably won't make it to JR's rager. Have fun.