Spent my first week in arizona at the Grand Canyon. It was Grand to say the least. I have been here before, but it was way more spectacular the second time! And guess what!? I got to check one thing off my bucket list, hiking from Rim to river and back in one day, and it wasn't easy. Since I havnt worked out or ran in like 3 weeks now, I wasn't in the best shape I could be to tackle this huge feat, but I made it, struggling behind my brother the whole way.
We woke up at 4:30 and started hiking at 5:45 in the morning to try and avoid some of the heat of the day. We made it to indian gardens in great time and made it down to the river by 9:30ish. Unfortunately, hiking the grand canyon is totally different than hiking a mountain, the easy part is first! ugh. The river felt great and it was supppppeeeeerrrr cold. Sadly we started our hike back up at 10:30 nearing the heat of the day. We survived the 5k hike back up to indian gardens which isn't even half way back up the canyon. We stayed there a while in order to recuperate and throw some rocks at annoying squirrels. The last 4.5 miles up the canyon was the hardest. It was almost 100 degrees outside and the switchbacks were deceivingly steep. Oh, did i mention that the elevation change was about 2,000 feet at the river to about 6,000 feet at the rim...yup, thats a big clime! And stupid dakota felt "great" the whole time, so i was struggling to keep up with him on the way up. The last mile or so was the HARDEST! wow did it suck, every step hurt and I couldn't have done it without my hiking pole. But we made it to the rim at exactly 4:00 which is faster than my dads record! yay! Anyways, dakota and I recorded our adventure through video and pictures and we will be putting together a little video soonish and I will post it. Its actually pretty interesting seeing how our optimism changes throughout the hike and how we look physically and stuff. Yup, and there is some humor in it too :P
Anyways, thats all for now, im headed back to prescott today, good by hot and sunny grand canyon (got a tan :)) and hello hot and sunny prescott! haha.
K and T, you NEED to write! whats up!?! Love you guys and miss you a ton.......seriously, alot.
Love,
~M
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