Saturday, November 27, 2004

Grand Canyon

The project at the Grand Canyon were great!! I was suppose to be at the big campsite together with Josh, but when we arrived Gavin told me to go down in the canyon with Mikkel, Rune and 3x Chris. We hiked around 3 miles the first day before we found a very nice campsite, were we camped for the night. The next morning we hiked 5 miles down the canyon to we found a campsite at a small river. It was a awesome campsite, just in the middle of a dryed river. The first couple of days we could sit in tshirts in the evening playing cards, but then it started to rain for 2 hole days. So in the middle of the night Gavin woke us up because of the rain and we had to find a new campsite. The dryed river were suddenly not that dry anymore, so if we stayed there all our stuff would have been very wet... The next morning we had to work the hole day in the damn rain, and the next day wasn't any better. So no one was very happy and the mood was a bit negative.
Then the day came when we had to hike back to the big campsite. We all wanted to see the Colorado river before we left so we went all the way down to it. When we came back we started the long hike back to the big campsite on the top of the South Rim. 8 miles doesn't sound to be a big problem, but with a 60-70 pounds backpack and all the way is just up, up, up it was very hard. The hike almost killed me, but I was not the only one suffering. All in all we hiked 11-12 miles that day so my legs were useless the next couple of days.

Picture of the long hike down the Canyon:

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