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By: kathy_s16 in POPE 5 | Recommend this post (0)
Wed, 24 Oct 18 6:21 AM | 67 view(s)
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Late September . . I needed a hat and a warm
sweatshirt up on the North Rim. Once I finished the
worst of the vertical going down, it was time to change
into shorts and a T-shirt.

and where do you change? They must have a place along the way - or do you go off the trail and hide behind a tree, unless you're an exhibitionist.

Yanno, kind of like I was today!


If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.


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By: Zimbler0 in POPE 5
Wed, 24 Oct 18 3:43 AM 		Msg. 11079 of 62138

Nacl01 > they will need reservations at Phantom Ranch. These reservations are hard to get and must be made a year in advance. Check into when reservations open and try to get in right away. In an hour or two they are filled up.


Yeah.
Seems a lot of folks make the reservations . . .
then cancel later. In 2012 I could not get reservations.
Then I was able to get Phantom Ranch, but not the North Rim. So I drove around and visited the North
Rim. Had breakfast there, and ran into a lady who
had made no reservations . . . but she just kept calling
and, often enough, somebody would cancel and she was
able to get a reservation.

In 1986 and 1988 I hiked across the Canyon. Not hard
getting the reservations back then. I hiked from the
North Rim to Phantom . . spent the night . . then
hiked on to the South Rim. Easier that way - the North
Rim is higher than the South, and the trail from the
North is longer.

It was still a grudge match crawling back out.

(Do I need to dig out the trail map and list the mileages?

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Oh, yeah . . looks like North Rim to Phantom is going
to be about 14 miles. The first few are very steep.
The last bunch are closer to flat.

P.S. Late September . . I needed a hat and a warm
sweatshirt up on the North Rim. Once I finished the
worst of the vertical going down, it was time to change
into shorts and a T-shirt.
Zim.

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