Grand Canyon – from Rim to Rim
What’s it like to hike from the North Rim to the South Rim of Grand Canyon in a single day? Considering the distance from one trailhead to the other is a bit more than 23 miles, this is not your typical walk in the park. I’ve attempted to capture some of this extraordinary experience in my first trip report here on Canyon Eupho.
Disclaimer: This particular hike actually occurred in June of 2004, and thus it has taken me six years to complete this first report. This description of the 6th of my 7 rim-to-rim hikes (yes, I am in a literal rut) turned out to be somewhat of an epic narrative and photo summary. My Grand Canyon experience includes plenty of other memorable backpacking trips and dayhikes that I intend to document here . . . eventually. If I am to quicken my publishing pace, subsequent trip reports will need to be a bit more succinct.
This website is dedicated to Grand Canyon, the euphonium, and whatever other disconnected thoughts that spill from my head . . . at least to the extent I take the time to mop them up and post them here for all to read. As with most any personal website, this motley combination of non-sequiturs (the correct spelling of the word) is meant to be a representation of the personality and beliefs of the author. Whoa . . . I’m an author?!? The internet is truly a wonderful thing.
Since first learning of the internet in the early 1990s (anyone remember life before the internet?), I’ve wanted a website of my own. It seemed that all the cool kids had one. (Sadly, I’m still not cool.) But then I realized I would need to fill said website with something called “content,” so the idea languished for several years. And then I got myself some kids. And more responsibilities at work. And a bigger house to take care of. Gosh, where does the time go?
This website is largely intended to document my experiences with Grand Canyon, hopefully with a little flavor of what it’s like to be there. Once I actually start publishing trip reports from what is now more than 60 trips to the Big Ditch, spanning a time period over 20 years, this website will begin to fulfill that destiny. We’ll see what the spirit and decaying synaptic connections are actually capable of. There may also be a few surprises along the way that have little to do with either Grand Canyon or the euphonium. This is the Great Unknown.
We are now ready to start on our way down the Great Unknown. We have an unknown distance yet to run, an unknown river to explore. What falls there are, we know not; what rocks beset the channel, we know not; what walls ride over the river, we know not.
As it was for the first white man to explore the Colorado River through Grand Canyon, so it goes for many others in various aspects of life, whether hiking the Grand Canyon, or just trying to make it through another day of their own version of the Great Unknown.