T. Chester's Grand Canyon Hikes

General Trail Descriptions:

• Bright Angel Trail
• Hualapai, Havasu Canyon Trail
• New Hance Trail (Red Canyon Trail)

For trip descriptions and logs, click on Trip Name where a link is indicated. I am gradually adding more logs, so if you have an interest in one, email me and I'll move it up in the queue.

For travel logs between Southern California to the Grand Canyon, see the table at the bottom.

For the measured accuracy of my pedometer vs. the highly-accurate mileages of the Bright Angel Trail, see Pedometer Accuracy.

For the interesting story of D.W. Mooney, aka James Mooney, his death at Mooney Falls, and the question of whether the current-day tunnels through Mooney Falls are natural or man-made, see The Tunnels In Mooney Falls, Havasu Canyon.

Hikes

#	Date	Rim	Trip Name	Death March #	Miles	Total miles	River miles	New River miles	Total Unique River miles
1	Aug. 1970	S	Bright Angel		19	19	87.5 - 90.0	2.5	2.5
2	Aug. 28, 1982	S	S. Kaibab - Bright Angel	-2	16	35	85.5 - 90.0	2.0	4.5
3	Aug. 27-28, 1983	S	Hermit - Tonto - Bright Angel	-1	28	63	87.5 - 95.0	5.0	9.5
4	Aug. 1984	N	N. Kaibab	0	28	91	86.5 - 88.0	--	9.5
5	June 29-30, 1985	S	Grandview - New Hance	1	21	112	76.5 - 80.5	4.0	13.5
6	Apr. 26-28, 1986	S	Hualapai Hilltop to Supai, Navajo Falls, Havasu Falls, Mooney Falls, First Creek Crossing		35	147	154 - 159	5.0	18.5
7	May 23-26, 1986	S	Tanner - Escalante - New Hance	2	42	189	68.5 - 76.5	8.0	26.5
8	Sep. 3-6, 1987	N	Thunder River	3	46	235	134-136	2.0	28.5
9	May 2-4, 1988	S	Bright Angel - Clear Creek - S. Kaibab		47	282	84 - 90	1.5	30.0
10	Apr. 2-4, 1989	S	Hualapai Hilltop to Supai, Navajo Falls, Havasu Falls, Mooney Falls, Beaver Falls, Beaver Canyon		35	317	154 - 159	--	30.0
11	Aug. 15, 1989	N	Widforss		12	329	TBS	--	30.0
12	Sep. 20-23, 1989	S	Boucher - Tonto - Hermit	4	43	372	94.4 - 96.5	1.5	31.5
13	May 1-3, 1991	S	S. Kaibab - Tonto East - Boulder Creek - Bright Angel		46	418	TBS	TBS	TBS
14	Aug. 14, 1995	S	S. Kaibab - Bright Angel		16	434	85.5 - 90.0	--	TBS
15	June 1, 1996	S	Grandview - Tonto West - Grapevine - Grandview		17	451	TBS	TBS	TBS
16	Sep. 3-6, 1996	N	Thunder River	5	31	489	134-136.5	0.5	TBS
17	Oct. 19, 20, 21, 1997	S	Hermit's Rest to Dripping Springs Bright Angel: Rim to River Grandview Trail to Horseshoe Mesa
18	Sep. 25, 26, 1999	S	Bright Angel Trail to Plateau Point New Hance Dayhike: Rim to Redwall Descent

Car Travel Logs

Click on the date to get the individual logs.

Date	Origin	Destination	Mileage	Total time	Ave. mph
05/31/96	Ontario Airport	Bright Angel Lodge	464	09:41	48
06/02/96	Tusayan	Hualapai Hilltop, Ontario Airport	473	11:27	41

A Death March is a strenuous trip that has the qualities of, say, a death march due to its length, ambitiousness, or any trip that requires a heavy backpack for several long days of hiking. There are two main characteristics of a Death March:

1. At least once during a Death March, you have to ask yourself why you are doing this, and
2. Afterwards you feel a tremendous sense of accomplishment, and almost completely forget the bad parts.

The Death Marches are numbered oddly because Craig and I didn't realize previous trips were death marches until a bunch of IPAC people came with us on the 1985 hike, and forcefully let us know that these trips were indeed death marches!

For extremely complete and accurate information about the Grand Canyon, including a list of all hikes, detailed hike descriptions for many of the trails, a beautiful index and glossary of Grand Canyon subjects and words, and links to quite probably every page that exists on the web relating to the Grand Canyon, go to Bob Ribokas' GRAND CANYON National Park Home Page. In my judgment, this is one of the very best pages on the web and the single best page by an individual.

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