Point Sublime and the River

Meant to do this post earlier but thats ok. Crappy weather on the rim has us all bumming around inside so I figured I'd take advantage of it.

This week flew by. Had some program time, saw a bunch of dead kaibab squirrels, and one live one. My scenics roving and programs got rained out againnnn and our neighbor got a new dog who is absolutely precious.

So last weekend......

Because of yet more tire issues, Saturday was somewhat of a lax day. Hung out in the cabin/gym area while Jesse and Ralphy ventured to Kanab to replace the tire they popped on Friday. Friday night we went to Jessica's evening program on past river runners. Pretty interesting and now I really want to get on a trip even though some of the video clips she showed freaked me out ha.

Sunday we went back into the forest. This time took the park road to Point Sublime. Rough. But beautiful once we got out there. The tires survived! Had some food and then headed back toward the cabin. Took a picture of all our feets at the USGS marker (first photo). cute :)



Monday morning. Up at the buttcrack of dawn to get stuff together, run down to Page, rent kayaks, run to Lees Ferry to get a motor rig uprun from Brendan of Colorado River Discovery. Photo on left, view of downriver at the ferry, the location where all the trips going down the Colorado through Grand Canyon start off.

Got a ride up to just before the dam and then paddled down. No rapids or white water but it was a beautiful stretch of canyon definitely. Not too much interest in the pictographs (Jesse offered to draw us some sheep pictorgraphs if we were really upset about it) so we made it down in about 5 hours. Much fun though and lovely.






Got off the river, back to Page to
return kayaks and grab some dinner. Stopped at Navajo Bridge on the way and didn't see condors... again! (picture on right) I should stop telling people that that's the place to see them because I still haven't yet. I think they just go away whenever they know I'm coming...bastards.






Back to the rim after dinner. Ran into a bit of trouble on the way back. Hit a beefalo, the cow-buffalo hybrids we have up here. F'ed the truck up pretty badly... and killed damn thing which we learned the next day when visitors came into the visitor center remarking about a dead beefalo near the park entrance (Normally I'd be a bit more upset, and I was, but beefalos are nonnative and probably invasive which means their screwing stuff up for the native animals that live here). Unfortunately, we were not able to salvage the backstrats in time but at least our beefalo was donated as condor food which is good....


More posts to come soon. Ta