"If you get lost down there, just start a signal fire!" "Is that Canada over there?" "Look mom, the squirrel eats Crayons." Ah, the sounds of spring along Grand Canyon's South Rim. For the thousand or so year-round park residents, the …
East Rim Winter Scenic
Snowstorms at Grand Canyon are typically fast-moving affairs that fail to linger. Not so in March of 2006. A slow moving system parked over the Grand Canyon for days. It was the longest stretch that I could remember in my dozen years as a resident …
Big Canyon; Small World
The National Park Service has estimated that nearly 30% of Grand Canyon National Park's 4.5 million annual visitors reside overseas. This seems most appropriate given Grand Canyon's status as a World Heritage Site as declared by UNESCO (the United …
Clear Creek Saga
Our Grand Canyon Field Institute hike started out very pleasantly, if not a bit warm. Heading down the South Kaibab Trail on March 29th, the sun shone brightly and the air was calm. Temperatures got into the eighties, but starting out early we were …