Grand Canyon – North Rim

Posted on October 15, 2007 in Photos Vacation Fall 2007

At the last minute, we switched our plans and visited Bryce Canyon before the North Rim because the weather forecasts said there would be extreme winds on the day when we orginally thought to go. We did not evade the winds, but it was sunny and when we dipped below the rim, they did not affect us.

The next day we visited the North Rim of Grand Canyon National Park where the foehns found us. Two minutes after we asked at the Visitor’s Center about the Cape Final Trail, they announced that the road leading to the trailhead had been closed. Winds blew through the ponderosa pines and there were gray clouds overhead. It wasn’t much of a day for going out, so we spent most of it in the lodge looking through the picture windows at the gorge below us. The one trail we attempted — Bright Angel Point — led along a perilous, fenced ridge. Fifteen feet from the end — a lookout which leaned out over a cliff — I announced to Lynn that I had had enough and declared that I would not go to the end. I held onto my hat and turned back after she had taken in the view for herself.

Two ranger talks gave us something to do before we turned back to our motel in Fredonia, Arizona. On the park exit road, we came to a spot where a tree had fallen on the road and shattered into bits so small that we had no trouble driving over them. Four cars lined up next to a riderless bike. We assumed that the biker had been hurt, so we left word at the entrance station.

Rain pelted us as we descended the Kaibab Plateau. About a mile south of Fredonia, it abruptly stopped. The ground at our motel was entirely dry.

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