This image is Monument Valley, Utah, at dawn on 3/21.
We had a grand adventure in the Grand Canyon. We camped in the Park, about a mile from the South Rim, in a place called Trailer Village (really…not PWT). On Sunday, 3/16, the day started off sunny, but slid downhill from there. Andrea went to Palm Sunday services at a community center and then we headed out to the Rim Trail. There had been snow & sleet but the sun broke through and we walked for an hour or so before it really worked into a heavy snow. Visibility went from many miles to about 15 ft! So we went back to camp and hunkered in for the night.
We woke to 4″ of snow and cold. By noon the sun was out so we went back to the Rim Trail. Went to the westerly end, Hermit’s Rest. This was the farthest west that our travels will take us. From now on, we are headed east and north. On Tuesday we attended a lecture from Ranger Ron as to why there is only one Grand Canyon, as compared to “the Grand Canyon of ……. “. Jim will be happy to give the short version of the lecture at a later date.
On Wednesday 3/19 we left the Park and headed north to the Vermillion Cliffs. We stumbled on a cozy Lodge with “a hundred bottles of beer on the wall” and the very start of the Grand Canyon. Just downstream of Lake Powell and the Glen Canyon Dam we put our toes in the Colorado River, the only place for 800 miles where this was possible.
On to camp in Page AZ before the next stop: Utah and the Monument Valley! More to follow.
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