Re: Near-Death Experience on Cranberry Route (long)
You hit a sore point with me. I had started hiking with Steck in '65 and from ' 69 did numerous trips with him. I sort of learned to wake up, reach into...
donaldpvadair@cs.com 2008-01-06 15:28:42 #48998

Near-Death Experience on Cranberry Route (long)
One of my earliest off-trail backpacks in Grand Canyon ended up in near disaster, with the lives of a couple of people in real danger. I learned a lot from...
Bob Bordasch 2008-01-06 11:32:01 #48997

Re: South Bass March trip < bad water? >
We use a MiOX because (1) our filters aren't purifiers and thus don't kill viruses, and (2) I needed it anyway for overseas travel. There are many other...
ffeagans 2008-01-06 10:22:16 #48996

Hermit Loop trip report
I promised many moons ago that I'd post a trip report of my Hermit Loop backpack in October. Well . . . finally got around to finishing it recently. You...
Brian 2008-01-06 09:12:08 #48995

Re: Aerial photo (to augment maps) sources?
There are actually add-ons to Google Earth (GE) that allow you to overlay USGS topo into GE. It will even do so in a terrain matching way (sort of like a 3-D...
Brian 2008-01-06 09:12:06 #48994

Re: South Bass March trip < bad water? >
I don't have a MiOX system yet, but I do have a question...Is one way better than the other as far as filtering before MiOX or vice versa? Wouldn't it be...
scoutmaster1006 2008-01-05 21:06:33 #48992

Re: South Bass March trip < bad water? >
Good question. We pumped 1st and MIOX'd 2nd while at the beach as we had to fill several bottles at a time for the 4 of us and we had 2 pumps so we could...
ffeagans 2008-01-05 19:48:04 #48991

Re: Cranberry Canyon
Jim -- I did not recommend camping on arch sites, or disagree with CM's concern, or comment in any way on subsurface possibilities. But thanks for...
Doug Nering 2008-01-05 17:43:58 #48990

<< NewerOlder >>

 

Archive of Grand_Canyon_Hikers Yahoo Group as of 2014-10-07. Contact info@e-t.com for help.