Grand Canyon, Thursday & Friday, May 29^th & 30^th

Friday, May 30^th.   The boys are still asleep in the tent; the raven’s call woke me or was it the cold morning air?  I’m sitting on a wooden bench with a towel to keep my butt semi-warm, oh is it ever cold.  Yesterday we arrived at the Grand Canyon, obtained one of the few available tent sites and set out for a 6-mile hike along the canyon’s rim.  Michael declared that the canyon is too large, overpowering in size.  I enjoyed his description and added that it had way too many people too.  We walked to the Bright Angle trailhead and the boys were able to gaze upon the trail with its many switchbacks that I once hiked on a long time ago on a trip to the bottom and out.   I would have liked to arrange such a trip for us here but that would have meant having reservations months in advance and that’s not how we are running this trip.  I would also need to be in better physical shape to tackle such a hike too.

We also saw some really,  really stupid people at Grand Canyon.     Many were walking along the rim edge, or out onto rocks that even caused the boys to be concerned about.  The really stupid folks  were  the ones who went out to the edge with their little 2yo in an umberella stroller and the front wheels were out in the mid-air.  Have they never seen a little toddler  release himself from a stroller?   It was nerve-wracking to watch and thankfully they did move back to the rim trail and we walked off.   The GCNP policy is that as long as a person does not endanger someone down below then a person can go where they choose.  Not us, and I never had to caution or request my boys not to go out or ask them to move away from the rim.

We’ve seen some interesting license plates such as the one on the RV across from us; NONEEDS.  Very appropriate license plate on this RV –bus-size home.

We’ve seen enough of the canyon, did our laundry too so we are pulling out today and heading for Bryce.