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Kathy > 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,


I think that is what I did.
(That was either 1986 or 1988 . . .)
But there (I believe) is the Roaring Springs
campground.

Zim.

Might not be a campground at Roaring Springs . . .

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http://www.nps.gov/grca/planyourvisit/upload/North_Kaibab_Trail.pdf

North Kaibab Trail
The North Kaibab Trail is the least visited but most difficult of the three maintained trails at Grand Canyon National Park. Almost a thousand feet higher at the trailhead than South Rim trails, hikers on the North Kaibab Trail pass through every ecosystem to be found between Canada and Mexico. At the rim, hikers will glimpse the vast maw of Bright Angel Canyon through fir trees and aspen, ferns and wildflowers. The trail as it descends through the Redwall Limestone is blasted directly into the cliff, "literally hewn from solid rock in half-tunnel sections." Farther down, the ecology progresses so that hikers look up at the surrounding canyon walls through a blend of riparian and desert vegetation. Along the way, Roaring Springs and Ribbon Falls both offer rewarding side trips that are wonderfully juxtaposed to the often hot conditions of the main trail.

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This is the trail down from the North Rim.
Article does continue - it is a pdf.
Zim.




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By: kathy_s16
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Wed, 24 Oct 18 6:21 AM
Msg. 11101 of 62138

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!


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