Yup, that’s right. Late last week Brooke and I were accepted for a Backcountry Permit in the Grand Canyon for the week of August 20-27th. Shortly thereafter, we hopped on southwest.com and purchased our tickets. Thus, it is official — Brooke and I are hiking 30 miles in the Grand Canyon. WHOA.
Our route consists of 3 campsites that are set up for backcountry-ers. We enter at the South Rim, and descend to the base and spend our first night at CIG campground, the second night at CBG, the third night at CCG, and then back again. We wrestled with hiking from one end to the other and that being it, but it is a 4.5 hour bus ride back to the south rim from the north rim — so we decided against that.
After we get out of the canyon and drive back to Phoenix we are going to pamper ourselves and stay in a nice resort for one night before heading back to Seattle.
I can’t wait.
peace
joel
