Today is my first day in the grand Canyon. Officially up to the meeting of the Little Colorado we were in the Marble Canyon, who knew. The result of the change in name is the canyon opens up and you often can’t see the rims on either side, both of which are now over a mile above river level.
Today was also the first day where we didn’t move camp which did make things more relaxed in the morning.
Mid morning we hiked up a valley. The first thing we came to was a 19th century attempt at a copper mine, in these conditions it is no surprise it didn’t succeed but the work to even attempt this here must have been truly immense.
Some of us then walked up a bluff, about 500 vertical meters up a sharp, slippery, very hot, very steep hill on a day well into the 30’s this was a whole lot of work. The view from the top was amazing, truly the view that people come from around the world to see, and we didn’t have to put up with the crowds of the south rim to see it.
After the trip down I just fell into the river and had a cold beer, there must be something in the beer here because it has never tasted that good anywhere else.
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