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Day 56: Farewell Grand Canyon
May 17thShowerbath Spring(824.4)-Hack Canyon(851.1)26.7miMy posts from this leg have been long and I'm happy to get a shorter one to get a break, ha! Today was more straight forward. We woke up from our perfect campsite at Showerbath Spring and just had a bit further...
Day 55: Grand Canyon: Colorado River & Kanab Creek
May 16thColorado River @ Fishtail Rapids (811.5)-Showerbath Spring(824.4)12.9miAlternate Title: No Rest For You! After two poor weather days and coming up short on mileage, we knew we needed to really hike today and not fall further behind. Somehow for the third...
Day 54: Grand Canyon: Tapeats Cr, Thunder R, Deer Cr, Colorado R
May 15thTapeats Creek(802.5)-Colorado River @ Fishtail Rapids (811.5)9miAlternate Title: Welp, That Wasn't The Plan...Here's another long entry from a day with few miles. So yesterday ended with a bit of a cliff hanger. We did not make our goal mileage due to rain on...
Day 53: Grand Canyon: Saddle Canyon & Tapeats Creek
May 14thTeddy's Cabin(795.1)-Tapeats Creek(802.5)7.4miAlternate Title: Four By Four!There are no words to describe the crazy in this day! I swear, it's like an initiation into some club of insanity. There were many times today that we did question our sanity. We joked...
Day 52: Grand Canyon: North Bass Trail
May 13thColorado River(784.8)-Teddy's Cabin(795.1)10.3miAlternate Title: The Uphill BattleIt was pretty wonderful to sleep in this morning. We needed to wait for our shuttle to come down river. There was a large commercial rafting group about 100yds upstream and they...
Day 51: Grand Canyon: Tonto West & S Bass Trails
May 12thSapphire Canyon(766.8)-Colorado River@ Bass Rapids(784.8)18miAlternate Title: Here We Go AgainToday was almost a carbon copy of yesterday. We only had to do 18mi to get to the hitch point down at the Colorado River. We had 16 more miles on the Tonto West trail...
Day 50: Grand Canyon: Tonto West Trail
May 11thCedar Spring Campsite(746.4)-Sapphire Canyon(766.8)20.4miAlternate Title: The Lethal Combo For Uncomfortable Hiking We got going at 6:45am back on the Tonto West Trail. Again, this is an alternate route that adds 27mi and stays off a long road walk. We...
Day 49: Grand Canyon: Bright Angel & Tonto West Trails
May 10thGrand Canyon Village(732.8)-Cedar Spring Campsite(746.4)13.6miAlternate Title: Easing Into The Long LegI woke up feeling refreshed and rested after yesterday's zero. Town time always goes by faster than I'd like, but I felt good about all that got done. I was...
Day 48: A GRAND Zero
Today was a pretty ideal zero. My last zero of the Hayduke and I had A LOT of details to tend to. I stayed up late last night til midnight (when the wifi was running speedy and everyone was asleep) getting the blog updated and in the order I deem acceptable...It...
Day 47: Grand Canyon: S Kaibab Tr to S Rim
May 8th Lonetree Creek(719.5)-Grand Canyon Village(732.8) 13.3mi Alternate Title: Hikin' UP to The South Rim Today was the big hike up the S Kaibab Trail. One of the two main "corridor" trails used to hike between the top rim and the Colorado River. Our camp was...
Day 46: Grand Canyon: Tonto Trail
May 7thColorado River @ Hance Rapids (697.1)-Lonetree Creek(719.5)22.4miAlternate Title: Cruisin' The Tonto ShelfI was up early well before the alarm and it was a nice morning. I was in the mood to hike and was hopeful to get some good trail to stretch my legs a bit...
Day 45: Grand Canyon: Beamer Trail & Escalante Route
May 6thColorado River @ Lava Canyon Rapids(683.8)-Colorado River @ Hance Rapids (697.1)13.3mAlternate Title: Plan Goes Awry AGAIN...Today started out good and with a plan...this whole leg has not gone according to plan and we are two days ahead of schedule. That has...
Day 44: Grand Canyon: Colorado River Bushwhack & Beamer Trail
May 5thColorado River @ Kwagunt Rapids(671.8)-Colorado River @ Lava Canyon Rapids(683.8)12miAlternate Title: The Full ExperienceThe night on the beach was pretty darn perfect. It stayed mild all night with a cool breeze. I kept my tent doors open to let the breeze...
Day 43: Grand Canyon: Nankoweap Tr, Horsetheif Alt, Colorado River
May 4th2mi before Nankoweap Trailhead(656.1)-Colorado River @ Kwagunt Rapids(671.8)15.7miAlternate Title: Diving Down To The ColoradoOh man, it was another one of those Hayduke days where so much happened in a day that it felt like three days. Gavin and I had camped...
Day 42: All Over The Place
May 3rdCrane Lake(634.7)-FS610, 2mi before Nankoweap Trailhead(656.1)21.4miSince we didn't have to do many miles today and we both felt spent last night, we decided to sleep in. We got going at 7:20am, which is a good 40-50mins later than the usual start time. We...