Indian Garden to South Rim
Update Jan 28, 2013: Posted more photos. Getting out of the sleeping bag was a major gymnastic exercise today. I briefly considered asking one of the young girls sharing the group site with us to pull...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Passage 30: Pine Grove Campground to Allan Lake Landing
Update Mar 19, 2013: Posted more photos. The trail today proved partly nice single track, partly rocky, bumpy track like yesterday. Most of the trail goes through more densely wooded areas than...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Passage 28: Blue Ridge
Updated Mar 22, 2013: Posted more photos. Got off to an “early” start (8:30) and had to walk the bikes right away up a steep grade but only for about ten minutes. Then we had good single track,...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Cruising south: The Andrea Lankford route
Updated Mar 23, 2013: Posted more photos. We did about 53 miles today but it was easier than the much shorter daily sections we’ve been managing so far. It’s easily explained too: Not a single meter of...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Blood, sweat, and tears
Updated Mar 24, 2013: Posted more photos. Blood: see photos. Sweat: can’t you smell it? Tears: Like in shirts all torn up by thorns. This was a hardcore section. Not the official trail, in fact not a...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Photos from detour: 89A via Jacob Lake to North Rim (Day 2)
I made the original post for this section on Sep 19, 2012. Route: Thinking that we’d be quite a bit faster than we actually were we had made arrangements for our bikes to be picked up at the North Rim...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Crossing the Chasm: Photos from North Rim to Indian Garden (AZT part of...
You can find comments on our third day on the trail (Sep 20, 2012) in my original post for this passage. Route: A spectacular descent into the Canyon but a long, tiring hike (About 20 miles Rim-to-Rim;...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Back to our Bikes: Photos from Bright Angel Trail and the South Rim (AZT part...
You can find comments on our fourth day on the trail (Sep 21, 2012) in my original post for this passage. Route: The morning air was nice and cool and if it hadn’t been for our extremely sore muscles...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Gila River Canyons – Fighting the Ants
This is where we bailed out two years ago for several reasons, one of them being that we ran out of patches. Robert had kept account of the patches used in 2012: It was 126 altogether – no kidding! So...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Getting Bruised on the Way to Mammoth
After my successful bout with the ants last night I awoke refreshed. As usual we got up at six and an amazingly chilly morning it was – at seven degrees Centigrade one of the coldest of the whole trip....
View Article
