May 27, 20214 yr 18 minutes ago, mr_hunt said: how long do you need to see enough to get the gist of it? i'm back talking about the grand canyon, btw. we're not exactly hikers so we basically just want to see it & snap a few pics. Don't do the Grand Canyon in a day. The Grand Canyon is 100 miles long, so 10 miles west or 10 miles east will have completely different viewpoints. If you don't hike into the canyon, the Rim Trail is a paved trail along the rim, and away from your standard viewpoints with parking lots and bus stops, you can have a view to yourself. At the least, stay overnight. Seeing the sunset and/or sunrise over the canyon is amazing. Sometimes the national park likes to point out that the average amount of time that a person spends in the park is 4 hours. Only 4 hours to visit one of the wonders of the world? Don't go all that way to see it, and then dedicate just an afternoon for it. You can eat good food anywhere. You can drink anywhere. You can walk around a million cities and towns around the world. But there is only one place to see the Grand Canyon.
May 27, 20214 yr 12 minutes ago, mikemack8 said: Well - for me one day was plenty to snap a ton of good pics and be good with it. I think staying on site and spending a few days there may be cool if you really enjoy hiking and outdoors, but I didn't feel like we missed a ton by only being there one day. We also had my mother in law along, who was like 6 months removed from a quadruple bypass so a multi day hike wasn't really an option. that's actually a good comparison to my activity level. thanks! we don't doo deek in the outdoors...other than sit on our back porch & swim in our pool...so we probably wouldn't need too many days at the gc. idk what we're doing yet. were supposed to visit the daughter in co but the dates aren't really working out...plus plane hopping from pa to co to az then back to pa will cost almost 3 grand (for 3 of us).
May 27, 20214 yr 4 minutes ago, mr_hunt said: that's actually a good comparison to my activity level. thanks! we don't doo deek in the outdoors...other than sit on our back porch & swim in our pool...so we probably wouldn't need too many days at the gc. idk what we're doing yet. were supposed to visit the daughter in co but the dates aren't really working out...plus plane hopping from pa to co to az then back to pa will cost almost 3 grand (for 3 of us). I'm headed to CO in July. I can visit the daughter while we're out there if you want.
May 27, 20214 yr 1 minute ago, rambo said: I'm headed to CO in July. I can visit the daughter while we're out there if you want. awesome! take my wife so i can stay home & watch tv!
May 27, 20214 yr Just now, mr_hunt said: awesome! take my wife so i can stay home & watch tv! I don't know...2 wives and 2 kids sounds like a lot.
May 27, 20214 yr 2 minutes ago, rambo said: I don't know...2 wives and 2 kids sounds like a lot. it sounds like a f'n nightmare
May 27, 20214 yr Just now, mr_hunt said: it sounds like a f'n nightmare You're right. I leave the kids with you.
May 27, 20214 yr 28 minutes ago, xzmattzx said: Don't do the Grand Canyon in a day. The Grand Canyon is 100 miles long, so 10 miles west or 10 miles east will have completely different viewpoints. If you don't hike into the canyon, the Rim Trail is a paved trail along the rim, and away from your standard viewpoints with parking lots and bus stops, you can have a view to yourself. At the least, stay overnight. Seeing the sunset and/or sunrise over the canyon is amazing. Sometimes the national park likes to point out that the average amount of time that a person spends in the park is 4 hours. Only 4 hours to visit one of the wonders of the world? Don't go all that way to see it, and then dedicate just an afternoon for it. You can eat good food anywhere. You can drink anywhere. You can walk around a million cities and towns around the world. But there is only one place to see the Grand Canyon. Good post - I didn't do a very good job making my point. Should you stay for more than a day? Probably. Do you have to stay more than a day to appreciate it and see some awesome scenery though? No.
May 27, 20214 yr 27 minutes ago, mr_hunt said: that's actually a good comparison to my activity level. thanks! we don't doo deek in the outdoors...other than sit on our back porch & swim in our pool...so we probably wouldn't need too many days at the gc. idk what we're doing yet. were supposed to visit the daughter in co but the dates aren't really working out...plus plane hopping from pa to co to az then back to pa will cost almost 3 grand (for 3 of us). We ukn' drove it, brah. Lot's of time spent in a truck - you have to really like the people you're traveling with
May 27, 20214 yr 28 minutes ago, mr_hunt said: that's actually a good comparison to my activity level. thanks! we don't doo deek in the outdoors...other than sit on our back porch & swim in our pool...so we probably wouldn't need too many days at the gc. idk what we're doing yet. were supposed to visit the daughter in co but the dates aren't really working out...plus plane hopping from pa to co to az then back to pa will cost almost 3 grand (for 3 of us). Pics? Disclaimer: Assuming she's over 18, of course
May 27, 20214 yr 41 minutes ago, mr_hunt said: that's actually a good comparison to my activity level. thanks! we don't doo deek in the outdoors...other than sit on our back porch & swim in our pool...so we probably wouldn't need too many days at the gc. idk what we're doing yet. were supposed to visit the daughter in co but the dates aren't really working out...plus plane hopping from pa to co to az then back to pa will cost almost 3 grand (for 3 of us). thought you had posts about her buying a house (maybe with a bf?) somewhere in one of those random surrounding philly neighborhoods? now all of a sudden she's living out west?
May 27, 20214 yr 25 minutes ago, Agent23 said: thought you had posts about her buying a house (maybe with a bf?) somewhere in one of those random surrounding philly neighborhoods? now all of a sudden she's living out west? other daughter
May 27, 20214 yr 1 hour ago, mr_hunt said: other daughter I didn't know there were 2 lol. I think I only remember your son with ex-wife and current-wife's daughter. Hunt with the trifecta of parenthood!
June 2, 20214 yr booked our grand canyon trip this past weekend. going toward the end of july. fly into phoenix then drive up to williams, az. train to the grand canyon one day. maybe drive there another day. and a road trip to the hoover dam on another day. that should be plenty of time for us since we're not hiking anywhere. gonna be hot as ballz though.
June 3, 20214 yr 12 hours ago, mr_hunt said: booked our grand canyon trip this past weekend. going toward the end of july. fly into phoenix then drive up to williams, az. train to the grand canyon one day. maybe drive there another day. and a road trip to the hoover dam on another day. that should be plenty of time for us since we're not hiking anywhere. gonna be hot as ballz though. Williams has some good Route 66 architecture and neon
June 4, 20214 yr This seems like a good time to show my pictures of secret things along the Bright Angel Trail in Grand Canyon National Park. I was going to post these back in November, along with other pictures from my hike, but got swamped with work. We will go top-to-bottom on this little tour. First is the layout. The Bright Angel Trail is here, zig-zagging through this side canyon. By the way, the top of that rock formation on the very left is called the Battleship, since it looks like a battleship coming towards you. I was hiking to the end of Plateau Point, on the Plateau Point Trail. Here's the end of the point. You can see the full trail across the Plateau in the picture above. When you start on the Bright Angel Trail, only about a quarter-mile in you go through a tunnel carved through the rock. This is the Upper Tunnel, because there's another one downtrail. Immediately after the tunnel, on the left, you can see pictographs on the underside of the ledge above you. Almost no one knows that they're there. @mr_hunt, even if you don't want to do much hiking, I suggest going down the Bright Angel Trail at least past the tunnel and looking at these pictographs. You will impress some people by knowing they're there! At some point after 1.5 Mile Resthouse, around the 2-mile mark (but it's all unmarked), there's a huge boulder on the downhill side of the trail. That boulder is important because immediately after it, on one of the rocks lining the edge of the trail, is a rock with 2 million year old dinosaur/lizard tracks. These were recently discovered by a hiker only last year, if I remember. Everyone went right past them without knowing! Somewhere around the 2.5 mile spot, you see a big rock down below to the left. The underside is clean and beige. Notice it looks nice and clean like the underside of the ledge mentioned earlier. That made it a good spot for... ... more pictographs. You can walk 4-5 yards off the trail and touch these things (although they shouldn't be touched, since human oil can affect them). Once again, just about no one knows that these are there. They are documented, but I had to point them out to a park ranger that had only heard about them!
June 4, 20214 yr This is all on the Bright Angel Trail. I was going to the end of the Plateau Point Trail, which branches off from the Bright Angel Trail at Indian Garden. Indian Garden is the grove of trees down in the canyon in the first picture. At the end of the Plateau Point Trail, you get stunning views of the Colorado River and the Inner Canyon (there's an Outer Canyon and an Inner Canyon; you can really only see the Outer Canyon from the canyon rim). It's 6 miles each way - 12 miles round trip. It took me about 4 hours each way, if I remember correctly. Anyway, just before the hike back up from the edge of he plateau, I saw this inscription in the rock. I asked park archivists about it via email later that month after I got home. They said that the inscription was previously unknown, but may be related to early tourists who would camp down at Indian Garden. I legitimately get credit for a discovery!
June 5, 20214 yr I'm making this post from 30,000 ft. and preparing for my final descent into Honolulu, beyotchezzzzz!
June 7, 20214 yr On 6/5/2021 at 5:30 PM, EaglesRocker97 said: I'm making this post from 30,000 ft. and preparing for my final descent into Honolulu, beyotchezzzzz! Awesome - enjoy! Drink a Mai Tai for me!
June 7, 20214 yr On 6/5/2021 at 5:30 PM, EaglesRocker97 said: I'm making this post from 30,000 ft. and preparing for my final descent into Honolulu, beyotchezzzzz! Electronics should be turned off and stowed properly for take off and decent. You’re gonna cause the plane to crash and/or burst into flames.
June 7, 20214 yr On 6/5/2021 at 5:30 PM, EaglesRocker97 said: I'm making this post from 30,000 ft. and preparing for my final descent into Honolulu, beyotchezzzzz! Go to Dukes. You'll like it.
June 9, 20214 yr On 4/22/2020 at 12:11 PM, Toastrel said: Antelope Canyon, near Paige, AZ My name-a is Shamus McPiPi and I'm-a from Ireland This foto make-a me wanna do-a the spelunk-a if you know what I mean-a It look-a like the Mrs. McPiPi's nicchio after she have-a the baby
June 10, 20214 yr On 6/7/2021 at 4:37 AM, greend said: Go to Dukes. You'll like it. We stopped here yesterday morning for breakfast before our trip to Pearl Harbor. I did like it! I'd read some good reviews and took your suggestion into consideration as well. It's a nice setting, for sure.
June 10, 20214 yr 6 minutes ago, EaglesRocker97 said: We stopped here yesterday morning for breakfast before our trip to Pearl Harbor. I did like it! I'd read some good reviews and took your suggestion into consideration as well. It's a nice setting, for sure. Glad you enjoyed it. Have fun!
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