Road Trip West Day 3 (Grand Canyon Day 2)

For our second and last day at the Grand Canyon we decided to do a Hike into the Canyon. We Chose to do the Bright Angel Trail and to take it 5 miles down (5 miles back up too!) to Indian Gardens, a little Oasis in the desert. We started at sunrise.

The Bright Angel trailhead.

Funny sign

Enlarge this one; The grove of trees all the way down on that plateau is Indian Gardens, 5 miles down.

Sunrise

Back at the top, 10 miles completed! We finished in the early afternoon I think around 1:30ish. We went to a restaurant that overlooked the canyon, ate portobello burgers, and relaxed the rest of the time. Had a big fire when we got back and enjoyed the stars above, including a spectacular view of the Milky Way.

New Years Day

This is the first Post.

Each day a new picture from the day will be uploaded. This is more or less a journal of my year in 2009 and a commitment to myself to spend more time with my photography!

Enjoy!

This picture was taken from Waldo Canyon in Colorado Springs, CO.

The idea behind this picture came from a Hike in the mountains. I found it interesting we've built this city right next to the mountains. It's almost as if we're 'groupies' of the mountains and we follow them wherever they go! I like the contrast of the foreground in the mountains, the middleground as a concrete jungle, and the background as an open plain stretching all the way into Kansas.