Grand Canyon hike Rim to Rim
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- čas přidán 26. 05. 2024
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If you've ever thought of walking across the Grand Canyon, rim to Rim or R2R, here's a video with my full experience. Starting at the North Rim on the opening day of the summer 2024 season, we hiked down the North Kaibab trail to Phantom Ranch, crossed the Colorado River, then hiked up the Bright Angel trail to the South Rim.
End to end, it took about 14 hours (including a 1-hour rest at Phantom Ranch).
I was with a group of 10. Three of us made the trip in one day, and five (by some miracle) got to take advantage of a last-minute cancellation that created an open cabin at Phantom Ranch. They hiked out the next day.
One, Johnny, hiked out after getting the other 5 settled, then headed back the next morning to join them on the final 9 miles. - Zábava
I was 18 in the boy scouts and did the Rim to Rim to Rim.
Was it amazing?
Speaking of your final thought to get out and do more of these type of videos. Grand Canyon was my impetus to get hiking. I just thought it would be cool to get to the bottom one day. Fast forward just a few short years and I’ve done almost 4,000 miles, 600,000 ft and have started running/ultramarathoning (goal of a 100 miler in 2 years). Just did rim 2 rim2 rim last week, been atop Mt Whitney, Langley, Grogonio and a bunch of others. It is an inspirational place and moving a lot begets moving a lot more. So I wish you many more great (safe) adventures!
Amazing accomplishments!!
I'd love to do this one day!
Do it!
This hike looks unreal, absolutely brilliant work my friend!🥾🥾
Thank you, what a joy!!
Loved this video, thank you so much for sharing!
So glad you liked it! I plan to make more - how I trained, what I carried, and others about hikes in New England too.
Fantastic video. Great hike. Thanks for sharing. sub & 👍17
Thank you! Grateful for the sub!!
So cool Marion, congrats!! What a grt reminder to get out and enjoy life! 🥾
So glad I made time for it!! DO you have an adventure planned?
@@Madmotion CO Trail NOBO in Aug!!
@@chrislsanders wow!
Subbed! Looking forward to more adventures.
You did fantastic. Having done this route often, both backpacking it with the fam, and running it, I'll offer that everyone was packed waaaaaay too heavy, and it was really wrecking people. Not an uncommon thing for a first trip through the canyon. We go laughed off the bus due to the size of our packs, the first time we backpacked there, and sweet momma did we pay the price. BTDT!!
For an R2R as a through hike, an ultra runner style race pack is all that's needed. Just some easily digestible, normal food, and maybe some sort of pack-lite jacket incase a storm blows in, and little things if you'll be in the dark or it might get cold (petzl headlamp/very light gloves/very light beanie or cycling "skullcap"). Trail runners for shoes, at the most (Vivo Barefoot Primus Trail FG is a fantastic shoe in the Canyon), injinji toe socks to prevent blisters, and for the downhill, lace the top of the shoe tight, to prevent the foot from cramming forward and wrecking the toes. And like you found out... keep it moving. Gravity is your friend on the descent, but you have to have a light enough pack, and enough training, so that your legs can pop along, light and fast. If you have to apply a huge amount of breaking force, as you step down over each of those 10,000 mule steps, either due to pack weight, or excess body weight, it's going to be a very rough day.
So true regarding downhills! Thanks for the sub AND for the great insight! I'm super impressed by folks who can run this, I felt proud that I walked it!
Fantastic!!!
More coming! Thanks Johnny!
Wow.
Such a privilege to be able to be there and do this!
Can you please add time stamps to the stopping points (eg: How long it took to Phantom Ranch / River / Indian Garden etc )? We are planning to do this same hike from North to South. It will help pus to have some target time/points in mind.
I'm sorry, I don't have the proper times. I started my tracker late so I only have guesses.
Where did you stay? I plan to start NK. But was planning on driving from Vegas since not much close by.
We stayed in Kanab the night before
did you stay on the north rim the night before the walk? What are the mechanics of getting to the start
We stayed in the town of Kanab ( a cool little town!), it was about an hour and a half drive to the parking lot at the North Rim. We had a friend drop us off and meet us at the other end.
I'm there running this route a couple times a year, and have been going there since 2007, so I'll offer some suggestions for logistics:
-You have a choice to fly into Vegas, rent a car, and drive to the North Rim, or to the South Rim. On the North Rim, you can stay at the Kaibab Lodge, just outside the park, and they will drive you to the trailhead for 25bucks at 4am. Or you can sleep in your car, at the trailhead. Or, you can stay in a cabin on the North Rim at the North Rim Lodge. They also have other "hotel" rooms there. The NR Lodge used to drive people the 2mi to the trailhead, at any time of the night, for free, but they're being operated by a different company now, so last year they stopped doing that. So plan on having to hike the trail, or along the side of the road, to get back to the trailhead(about 2mi).
Then you do your hike, and when you get out, you need a room right on the South Rim. So that means: Bright Angel Lodge Cabins/Rooms, Maswick Lodge, or Thunderbird Lodge. You pre-arrange those reservations. To get back to the North Rim, and your car, you (pre-arrange) get a shuttle ride from the TransCanyon Shuttle Company (they own Kaibab Lodge), and that shuttle leaves daily from the BA Lodge, at 1-thirty. It'll get you back to your car at about 6pm... and then you have to drive X hours back to civilization (Vegas, Kanab, St. George).
The other option is to fly into Phoenix, rent a car, get to the S. Rim before the daily shuttle leaves, and take the shuttle to the NR. Stay at the Kaibab Lodge, or at the NR Lodge in their rooms or cabins....and begin the hike as I detailed above. When you finish the hike, you have pre arranged a room on the S. Rim, or maybe in Tusayan, and you can drive your car to Tusayan to your room. Head back to the air port the next day.
Trans Canyon Shuttle Reservations: www.trans-canyonshuttle.com
Kaibab Lodge Reservations: kaibablodge.com/reservations/
South Rim Reservations: www.grandcanyonlodges.com/
North Rim Lodge Reservations: www.grandcanyonnorth.com/
I know it sounds complicated, but it's easy to set it all up. Just plan and book early, because you won't get rooms or the dates you want if you wait until last minute. For example, yesterday I got set up with rooms on both rims, for my upcoming run in mid-Aug.
@@austinado16 really helpful info! Thanks for sharing it. I was lucky that a friend organized the shuttle.