We had another rubbish sleep, we kept getting static shocks from the blanket and sheet, and not just a shock but a spark as well! Was quite scary!
We headed back to the Grand Canyon and to the Bright Angel trail. We wanted to hike down into the Canyon and this seemed the best trail as there was various rest points so you knew roughly how far you were in order to plan when to come back up. We headed down and it didn’t take long until we seemed quite far down the canyon and were just surrounded by multicoloured rock! The trail was very sandy and we noticed when it changed colour, the further we got, because of the type of rock. We also noticed our trainers changing colour..from white to orange/pink! Hmmmm!!
We soon made it to the first rest point which was 1.5miles down, but we both felt that if we were going to hike this far then we may as well carry on to get even better views! As we made our way down, it was so silent, apart from other hikers and birds! We stopped not far from the rest point for lunch on a huge rock!
It wasn’t long before we could see the next rest point and we noticed how the trail was getting steeper! However, the rest point was in a good spot and seemed perfect to really feel like you’re in the canyon. We had also read a review that the hike wasn’t worth doing unless you reached the second point so we carried on! When we made it we soon agreed that it wouldn’t have been worth it without reaching this point! The views were amazing and it was so still and quiet. We mooched about taking in the views and taking photos before making our way back up.
The trail was quite a steep one so we were expecting to take a while to get back up. Parts were difficult, but we paced ourselves and were very pleased to reach the top!! The trail to the second rest point was a 6mile round trip and the park advises to allow between 4 – 6 hours to complete it. We took 2 hours down, including our lunch, and exactly 2 hours back up which we were very impressed with! We were both shattered but a hot chocolate sorted that out and we collapsed back in the car!!
We stopped on the way home at a pasta place where we got a yum dinner to reward ourselves! We will be having an early night as we have to leave by 6am tomorrow to get back to Las Vegas to return the car. We also had some washing to do as we were both grubby from the trail!