Grand Canyon with Cheryl
2 weeks ago
I want to go to the Grand Canyon with Cheryl and hike to the bottom of the canyon to the place you can stay overnight.
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How to go to the Grand Canyon
It made me
Appreciative & happy
 "Beautiful"
How I did it: I've lived in AZ for 8 years and have never been to the grand canyon. Finally, my husband decided to take me. We didn't do the tourist stuff, we hiked to the canyon from some old roads. When walking, the grand canyon just suddenly appears out of nowhere. If I had been walking at night I would have walked off the cliff :-0 We walked along the rim for a while then we decided to relax by the edge, letting our feet hang off the cliff. It was very peaceful. On the way up we saw a bear or an elk, couldn't decipher because it had ran between the bushes. It was really nice to FINALLY see what everyone had been talking about! Lessons & tips: If you take off roads to the canyon make sure you have a spare tire. We had a flat on the way up. Bring binoculars, a camera and GPS. Resources: Get someone that knows the land-like a hunter or a local to take you up there (if you want to avoid tourists). |
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It made me
awestruck
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It made me
Happy
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It made me
Mesmerized
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It made me
Amazed
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21 months ago
Not a very realistic right now but somewhere near the future!
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22 months ago
I guess I don’t just want to go there…I want to hike down to the bottom, camp out, and hike out the next day. Is that hard? Can you do that? How do you go about setting up a trip like that?
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23 months ago
I saw the Grand Canyon when I was in kindergarten, so I didn’t get the chance to appreciate it. I hope to take my family there sometime in the future but it might be a few years still as the last time we flew to the U.S. it was pretty expensive for our family of four.
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23 months ago
I went with my family on a month long driving vacation. As much as the family troubles were a bit rough in some spots, I’d advise everyone to do this and to drive all the way out there. It’s worth it to see the land around the Grand Canyon and understand how the settlers saw things when they rolled out there in their covered wagons. Good luck to all of you who haven’t!~
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2 years ago
This isn’t on my close horizon. I want to go, I will go, but I’m not planning to soon and I’m trying to get a handle on near and more vital goals.
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2 years ago
Trip is paid for (generous mommy) and dates to go are this September. Will be fast but we felt like it was now or never—taking easy trip with tour group to let them do all the hard parts of traveling…”wow” is how I hope I’ll feel when I stand on the edge of that canyon!
