Grand Canyon hiking.

[Kerrytravelers]

Mr. kt and I are hikers. My obsession is to get to the bottom of Grand Canyon. We are training and reading all we can from various sites (one that I found here at DU!)

If anyone here has made the hike, I'd love to hear your advice. If anyone else has done extensive hiking (Grand Canyon or not) I'd like to gather your advice as well.

Our plans is to make the trek in April of 2007. We're considering going down South Kaibob, camping at Bright Angel Campsite, possibly camping at one more location on the floor, and heading up Bright Angel trail.

Our last trip to Arizona, we spent time at both Sedona hiking and camping and at Grand Canyon, also hiking and camping. We have gone a little over 3 miles down Bright Angel.

Please, all advice is welcome. Pretend like we don't know anything. I will appreciate anything anyone would like to advise.

I will also be cross-posting this to other areas as well in an attempt to reach as much of DU as possible.

Thank you all in advance. I know I'll get great advice from my wonderful DU friends!

kt

[catmandu57]

1. There is an excellent book you may want to read

Colin Fletcher, The Man Who Walked Through Time. Colin fletcher hiked the length of the canyon then wtote about the experience, myself I never made it to the bottom.

[pitohui]

2. well i've done it a couple of times

my advice is that if you want to hike down to the river and come up the same day, do it in summer months when you have more daylight if one or more of you is a slow hiker especially uphill, i could tell a long boring story here but i won't

bring more water and energy bars than you think you'll need just in case

i think you have to make reservations to camp at the bottom at long time in advance and i can't really do that, so i've never stayed overnight at the bottom

[Ptah]

3. A friend of mine has an excellent site about the experience.

This might be helpful:

http://www.rockhounds.com/grand_hikes/





http://www.rockhounds.com/grand_hikes/geology/overview.shtml




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