Grand Canyon, AZ. 2009

Grand Canyon is a place that everyone should visit and enjoy. We have been there many times and will always drop by for a visit when we are in the area.

From the rim of the Grand Canyon you can see portions of the Colorado River with slow moving currents to rapid white waters, the canyon is considered to be one of the major natural wonders of the world.

It is almost inconceivable that men and women explored this region in the late 1800’s and early 1900’s, Even today, it is quite a task with our current technology and equipment, imagine the insurmountable problems the early explorers had.

In two days, Donna and I hiked most of the South Rim for a total of 10 miles or so, at those elevations (7,000 ft.), the air is quite thin and plenty of stops and water are mandatory.

Several years ago, we did hike down to the first bathroom stop which is half way down the Canyon wall. This was not easy and as we viewed the trail from the rim this year, we’re glad we did but no more, we'll leave that to the young ones.

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If you look real hard, you can see the trail that Donna and I hiked to half way down the canyon.

It's Okay for these condors to be out on the ledge, they belong there.

It NOT O.K. for this young lady to be out of the ledge, she's an accident waiting to happen...

No wonder it is called the Grand Canyon because it is....