Le Grande Canyon, Part 1

Although we were in Seattle for two years, we never ended up going to Canada which was so close. I didn't want to repeat that mistake in AZ, so when we had been here already for four years and hadn't yet visited the big canyon, I told Lady last fall that we were setting a weekend aside in the coming spring for just that. I mentioned our plans in passing while we were out in MD visiting the parents and dad got a bee in his bonnet and took it from there. So what was going to be a quick weekend jaunt up to stare out across the vastness of the Grand Canyon became an epic down and up hike within the Canyon.

Dad was the one who made all the reservations, got the hiking permit, and stocked up on dehydrated meals. We just went along. And brought our own food, of course.

The tl;dr version: We hiked down South Kaibab trail on Saturday, which took us seven hours, then stayed the night at Bright Angel and hiked back out on the trail of the same name on Sunday.

( The long version. With pictures. )