Today was a short, wet day. When we woke up the skies were grey, and by the time we went for breakfast it was raining very hard, but after we finished eating it cleared up a little bit so we decided to take our chances and go on a hike in The Grand Canyon.
As the canyon is very deep you get warned time and again not to try and hike into the canyon and back up on the same day. Most people hike down, camp overnight in the canyon and hike up the next day. If you want to hike down anyway, you can take one of the trails leading down and hike only part of it. Because it was a stormy day and the trails leading down into the canyon are very steep, we decided to avoid them and hike along the rim trail, which, obviously, runs along the rim. You can hike all of it in about 3-4 hours, and it's a very easy walk, so we decided to go for it.
We took the park shuttle from Grand Canyon Village to the end of the trail – a point called "The Hermit's Rest", and then started walking back towards the village. At the beginning it was very nice, if some what cold. However, after about 20 minutes it started to rain lightly, and it got stronger and stronger, so that about an hour and a half into our hike we were quite drenched (despite out rain coats). That's when we decided to call it a day. Luckily for us there are shuttle stops along the trail, so we walked to the nearest one and got on the first shuttle back to the village. From there we drove to our hotel (we got there at about 2 pm) had a nice warm bath, ate lunch at Wendy's (not very tasty…) and then watched TV until it was time to go to sleep.
I must point out that our backpack was much drier then us thanks to its own little rain coat.
Oh, and we saw a rabbit.
Let's hope tomorrow will be sunny again.
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