Grand Canyon 2008, Day 1
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Large -- Medium Some shots from Lipan Point, where the trailhead was for the Tanner Trail. |
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Large -- Medium You can see the Colorado River way in the distance. |
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Large -- Medium Highly zoomed image of the canyon bottom. The bright beacn on the river at middle right is about where we camped on day 2 (actually it's the smaller beach just barely (nearly touching) north of that one. 15 miles away by trail. |
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Large -- Medium There's still some snow in permanently shadowed regions near the top. |
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Large -- Medium Looking past the Coconino Sandstone to the red Supai group beyond. |
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Large -- Medium This massive rockslide occurred last fall, and they only finished repairing the trail and opened it up about amonth before our hike. |
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Large -- Medium David O'Brien, and Jani's head peeking out from behind one of the "Triceratops Ridge" rocks. |
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Large -- Medium An early view of the Watchtower, which we could see from just about every point on the whole 40-mile trail. |
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Large -- Medium Strangely leeched rocks: colored on the outside, white on the inside. |
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Large -- Medium Fuzzy cacti! |
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Large -- Medium I'd given Jani the camera for awhile here, as hers was out of batteries. And I didn't need the extra weight for this hard downhill anyway. |
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Large -- Medium Jani Radebaugh. |
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