Grand Canyon
Trip Start
Oct 13, 2007
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Trip End
Nov 02, 2007
Williams,
Arizona,
United States
Sunday, October 28, 2007
On arriving at Desert View point over the actual Grand Canyon it looked a bit less impressive as all the fires in the distance cast a pall of smoke over and into the canyon, and this led to the cancellation of our helicopter flight which we rescheduled for the next day.
Instead we hiked around a bit, watched the sunset and headed into town where we found an arcade and bowling alley. Reigniting the old international rivalries we had another tournament, and whilst I did ok at the air-hockey, the bowling was shameful, only being saved from last place by someone accidentally bowling during my turn and getting a reasonable score, thereby relegating themselves to the bottom of the leader board. Skill!
The next day, with people still sulking about their self inflicted loss we set off on a long hike of the rim of the canyon, before going back to the aerodrome for a 45min helicopter flight. This took us round the far side of the canyon to get a better view of the rivers that shaped it, and even over the still burning forest fires.
