Yavapai Observation Station Grand Canyon National Park

Since the sunset I saw the night before was so spectacular I decided to get up super early to watch the sunrise over the Grand Canyon. Anyone who knows me will find this shocking since I am not a morning person. I got up at 6:15 a.m. to get ready and needed to be at the Rim shortly before 7 a.m.

I had made plans to meet Donna and Lindsay …

After another very restless and disturbed sleep on the hard ground we awoke at 5am and started packing for the return hike. I stopped at the store in the village to get a frozen Gatorade and we made good time again overtaking other hikers along the way. Most of the route was still covered in shade thankfully. We really struggled the last one and a …

I woke up and 4.55am and woke Claire up, we both complained about our aches and pains through the night, one because we had done over 12miles walking the day before and two because we were sleeping on the hard ground.

We set off on the return hike at 5.50am we knew this would be harder because it was mainly downhill on the way …

Awoke to find it snowing! It was freezing cold. Went out to Grand Canyon National Park. From Williams it is north on Highway 64 for about 1 hour. We stopped off at Maverick Helicopters to see if they were flying today.  They have the top ...

... where I drove this morning. It was really windy but sunny and seven deer were grazing by the trail. I went into the Yavapai Observation Station/Museum. I was getting tired and hungry by then so I rode the Village Route back to the Train Depot and walked ...

... to eventually snow once we were hiking the southern rim of the Grand Canyon. We visited Mather Point, Yavapai Observation Station, and then Grand Canyon Village where we inquired about camping permits for a possible summer hiking trip later this ...