The Grand Canyon In All of its Glory!

You can just barely see the Colorado river in the picture. This is generally a picture of where we will be coming up. I am standing on the trailhead.

Big Sis and Dad

Mom and Big Sis at Mather Point

You can see a trail on what will probably be the only easy part of the Bright Angel trail....looks flat from here before it drops off again or in our case before the climb to the top.

In short the pictures don't come close to showing its majesty. You have to visit.

I have been to the Grand Canyon three times now and believe I will always be amazed at the expansiveness of its size and beauty. We (Dad, Mom and Big Sis) arrived around 11:00 today, but thought it was 1:00 (on a side note, Danielle and I made the same mistake and ended up starting our hike at 4:00 instead of 5:00 back in 1998) and grabbed something to eat at the Wendy's outside the park. We then headed up to the South Rim to get our bearings for the hike down tomorrow. We will be starting our hike down the South Kaibab trail at 5:00 a.m. in the morning to take advantage of cool weather. We should arrive at our camp for the next two days around 10:00 a.m. Highs are expected to be between 97 and 102 degrees at the bottom, which tends to be 20 degrees hotter than the rim. We will make the trek back up the Bright Angel Trail and should hike out around 1:00 on Saturday afternoon. We will be taking a day hike excursion on Friday that will total about 12 miles. By the time we make it out, we will have hiked approximately 30 miles. We just completed the process of packing our backpacks and are about to go out for our last good meal for the next 3 days. Here are some pics to enjoy. Most of them are taken from the trailhead of Bright Angel where we will make our escape. Please be thinking about us. I know we will have fun.