Walking down into The Grand Canyon
August 19th, 2018 10:37 pm
We got up pretty early and got going so we wouldn’t be hiking in the heat of the day. By 9 we had driven up to the visitors centre and were waiting for a shuttle. The free shuttle ride out to the South Kaibab Trail only took about 15 minutes. You cannot drive by car to this trail head. The track descends quite steeply along a well-made track. Already there were lots of weary people coming back up it. This track goes to the Ooh Aah point, then to Cedar Point, then down onto a plateau which, if you walk to the end gives you a look over the river below-this is Skeleton Point. The National Park strongly advises nobody tries to walk to the […]