Grand Canyon Day 3:

Monument Creek down to the river and over to Hermit Creek


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Me in front of one of the Monuments in Monument Canyon.
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It rained on us most of the way down to the Colorado River, here you can see that up higher in the canyon it was worse.
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The Colorado River looking across to the North Rim.
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Jani in front of Granite Rapids, note that the water level is at the level of the camera, and then drops in a hurry.
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Jani, Dave, Jason, and Ross at Granite Rapids.
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Movie of a crazy kayaker going through the Granite Rapids.
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Ross contemplates the cosmos.
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The Sun finally came out!
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This crazy fold was above our Monument Creek campsite.
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Monument amphitheater.
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Monument Creek's monument, with Dave.
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I just liked the colors in this one.
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Dave, and the rafters that we saw earlier in the day, camped on a sandbar.
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Jani on a precarious trail.
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A few hundred meters above the Hermit Creek campsite I layed back on a rock, and thought this was cool so I took a picture. (i.e., when I saw it, it was upside-down relative to how it is here)