RHH's photos with the keyword: south kaibab

We met this mule train coming up the South Kaibab trail in Grand Canyon. There are no roads into the canyon and the only way supplies (and sometimes visitors) reach the Phantom Ranch at the bottom of the canyon is on mules.

Taken near Skeleton Point and along the South Kaibab trail in Grand Canyon.

Taken along the South Kaibab trail as we hiked down into Grand Canyon to Skeleton Point. As can be seen from the photo, the colors in the Grand Canyon are almost beyond belief.

Taken while hiking the South Kaibab trail in Grand Canyon National Park. We hiked from the rim to Skeleton Point, here passing O'Neill Butte.

While in Grand Canyon National Park last month we twice hiked down into the canyon, though not all the way to the river. One of those hikes took us down the South Kaibab trail to Skeleton Point. I could not find an explanation of the name, but this is the view from where we ended our hike, three miles (5 km) and two thousand feet (610 m) down into the canyon. On another note, we will be away today and tonight and so I will not be returning comments until tomorrow morning. We have a short trip to western Washington for a graduation.

This is the South Kaibab trail in Grand Canyon. At this point we were half-way to our destination at Skeleton Point, a couple of miles and 1000 feet down into the canyon.