Grand Canyon South Kaibab Trail

We pulled out of Mather Campground this morning and found a park at the Grand Canyon South Rim
Visitors Centre. There was a lot of cool stuff inside, including a movie on how the Canyon was formed and a great globe that spins in front of your eyes and tracks the movements of the land masses eons ago.

Standing back at the Rim, Nath explained to us where his walk had taken him the day before. It looked awesome and feeling a bit green with envy, I decided to go and do a small section while Nath and the kids played in Bessie.

So I caught an orange shuttle to the South Kaibab trailhead and set off down the zig-zags, stopping only a few hundred metres past Cedar Ridge, where I sat and enjoyed the tranquility and a sandwich at about 360 metres below the South Rim.

Nath was right, the ridgeline you follow really gives you a good sense of being 'in' the canyon, even without getting any further down into the depths like he had done the day before.

Not wanting to keep the boys waiting too long, I set a cracking pace back up and matched my downhill time (an hour each way).

The walk was only a bit over 5km return but offered really big rewards in terms of views for such a short distance.

Once back with the boys, we said Goodbye to the Canyon and drove as far as Seligman at the start of one of the longest remaining original sections of Route 66.

While some people might think overnighting only a hundred metres from an extremely active freight train line would be some kind of nightmare, the kids thought it was THE BEST THING EVER!!