We left Vegas and drove to the Grand Canyon, camping is small town that was the closest to the southern gate called Tusayan. It was so small, I am not sure it qualified as a town, but it had what we needed! J It was nice and quiet this time of year.
The first day we drove to the visitor center and walked around the canyon in that area for awhile. We then drove to Mather Point, and checked out some different views along the drive there and back.
The next couple of days, we hiked down into the canyon for about a mile-and-a-half. At that point, Sam and I turned around and came back out, but Jim opted to hike down another 2-3 miles (or so he thought at the time). After Sam and I left him, we talked to a few people, pointing out the area where he wanted to stop, and were told it was about 7 miles in! Not knowing if he would stop earlier, or go all the way to that point, we opted to come back and pick him up about three hours later, estimating that he would realize at some point that he would not make it all the way to the point he had picked out, and then turn around. When we came back, we found him at the same place we had parked earlier, and he said he had just gotten there! Great timing! He was pretty wiped out, having walked about 13 miles, half of it uphill – whew!
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