{"id":584,"date":"2010-06-17T15:13:00","date_gmt":"2010-06-17T23:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mountainbikebill.com\/blog\/?p=584"},"modified":"2010-06-21T09:43:27","modified_gmt":"2010-06-21T17:43:27","slug":"north-rim-of-grand-canyon-sampler-pics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mountainbikebill.com\/blog\/?p=584","title":{"rendered":"North Rim of Grand Canyon Sampler Pics"},"content":{"rendered":"

Still getting through pictures from the AZ trip, but here are some pics from along the Rainbow Rim Trail on the North Rim of The Grand Canyon.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

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The waning minutes of the day from our campsite.\u00a0 My tent was about 40 miles from cell service, 22 miles from the nearest paved road and about 20 feet from the edge of the canyon.\u00a0\u00a0 This is not a good place to camp if you are a sleep walker.\u00a0 For everyone else, this is soooo freaking awesome.<\/p>\n

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The Rainbow Rim Trail is 18 miles long and easily ridable in a day as an out-and-back if you are “on the pedals”.\u00a0\u00a0 Personally, I think you would be quite the bonehead to do so as this ride deserves to take plenty of time to\u00a0stop and smell the flowers, take in the views and generally just soak the whole place in.\u00a0 You can hammer on any trail, but it’s not everyday you get to cruise along the rim of the Grand Canyon.\u00a0 We were camped at Locust Point and did the trail in two days.\u00a0 Day one was an out-and-back to Parissawampitts\u00a0 Point.\u00a0 It is a tricky name to say and we found unending pleasure from seeing how many ways we could butcher the name.\u00a0 Day two was Locust Point to Timp Point and back.<\/p>\n

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The trail\u00a0undulates mildly for most of the time as you gradually descend out to the points and then climb back away from the points before contouring around to the mid-point drainage.\u00a0\u00a0 When you do not have the Grand Canyon vistas, you have some sweet singletrack through the mixed pine and aspen forest.<\/p>\n

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Jeff cruising along<\/p>\n

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Once out to the end of the trail at “Popabeertopitts Point”\u00a0 we spent about 30 minutes hiking\/scrambling out to the far-tip of the of point for an even better view of the canyon.\u00a0\u00a0 Here we enjoyed a sandwich and a little something extra we had packed in our camelbak bladders.\u00a0\u00a0 Ahh still nice and cold.<\/p>\n

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One thing we all firmly agreed upon was that it did not suck to be us today.<\/p>\n

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The next morning we set off at just about the crack of dawn for an out-and-back ride in the other direction to Timp Point.\u00a0 The morning light was pretty incredible.<\/p>\n

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Once again there were plenty of picture taking going on and generally enjoying \u00a0the stops just as much as the GOs.<\/p>\n

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Jeff on the Go<\/p>\n

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We also came across at buffalo kill that was presumably made by a mountain lion.\u00a0 Amazing to think about the power of these big cats to take down a buffalo.\u00a0 Armed only with cameras we were certainly not the apex predator out here.<\/p>\n

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Hello Kitty Toothpicks<\/p>\n

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The views from Timp Point (the terminous of the trail) were once again impressive.\u00a0\u00a0The time of day can totally determine what you can see because of the way the light shifts along the canyon walls.\u00a0 We noticed a small speck of white in the distance and were able to determine that it was Thunder Springs, an impressive waterfall that comes right out of the side of canyon from an underground river.\u00a0 I did some Googling on this place and I might\u00a0just have to dust off my hiking boots for a return trip up here.<\/p>\n

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The “back” part of the ride went fairly quickly but we did stop to smell some of these.<\/p>\n

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And\u00a0check out this guy.<\/p>\n

We were back at camp at brunch time and Jeff started busting up camp as he had to leave.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 It was great getting to hang out with Jeff (aka MTB Mayor of Kernville).\u00a0 Later that day Bill and I would get in another ride, but that is another story.<\/p>\n

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