Re: Newcomer Introduction - how about these route options?
Hmmm... it is the trail that leads off the east side of Horseshoe Mesa and goes past the mine workings. I've been down the west side and the north side of...
mowcowbell 2010-01-12 19:50:29 #59351
Tuckup (was Re: Newcomer Introduction)
Well ... maybe??? I just took a closer loop at Steck's Tuckup description and he seems to suggest that you stay high on the bypass to nearly the mouth of...
rich_rudow 2010-01-12 19:42:50 #59350
Re: Newcomer Introduction - how about these route options?
Chris, if you're offering to guide this couple on their first Grand Canyon backpack, I'd encourage them to go anywhere you're willing to lead. You're fun to...
Bill Ferris 2010-01-12 19:38:20 #59349
Re: Grandview to Hance Rapids (was... Newcomer Introduction - how ab
Why backtrack to Tanner and risk missing the LCR? If you can do a car shuttle, then I would hit the LCR confluence and keep on trucking up the LCR to exit at...
rich_rudow 2010-01-12 18:51:26 #59348
Re: Newcomer Introduction - how about these route options?
I agree with Chris, but for one point: there are a couple of trail junctions where the old trail around Mineral Canyon was replaced by a less scary route. If...
davegz_2000 2010-01-12 17:51:05 #59347
Jack Fields--Belated Eulogy
Sometimes we get so tied up in the day to day that we forget to renew
our ties with the grand people of our past. I have been working mostly
in remote...
oldhakataihobo 2010-01-12 16:56:56 #59346
Re: Grandview to Hance Rapids (was... Newcomer Introduction - how ab
I agree with John. As I recall, once you make your way through the boulder field at the north end of Mineral Canyon just below that overhang area, you reach...
richard2425848 2010-01-12 16:02:16 #59345
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