Another amazing day.
After spending Saturday night at the Mather Campground, we woke up Sunday morning at 4am, drove the 2 or 3 miles over to the Bright Angel Lodge, and were on foot by 5am on our way over to the South Kaibab TH via the maze of park roads and paths that form a web of confusion around the South Rim development. But we made it.
By 6am we were on our way down.
And, as fate would have it, this would be the sole photo of the entire run (about halfway down the S Kaibab Trail) as my frozen battery quickly reached the end of it's charge (it was below freezing for the first 1 1/2 hours of our run).
We were down to the river in under 3 hours, across to the North Rim in just under 7, and back to the river in just over 11. A very casual pace. From there, we diverted over to the Bright Angel Trail for our ascent back up to the South Rim where the car was waiting. We reached the top about an hour past sundown. 15 hours total. And by adding the additional mileage between Bright Angel and South Kaibab at the beginning of the run, we ended up with a total of a tad over 50 miles.
Bright Angel Fault
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