We had a great trip to the Grand Canyon. Participants: Peter, Nan, Maren, Sara, Lucy. We spen two nights at Toroweap out on the Arizona strip and then drove over to the trailhead for the Thunder River trail (after stopping at Jacob's Lake for breakfast and to fill up on water). We headed down the Bill Hall trail - a very rugged north rim hiking trail that takes you into the bowels of the canyon via Thunder River - a spectacular waterfall shooting out of the side of the canyon. The first night we camped on the Esplanade and cached water for the return trip (a new concept and challenge for us). We hike to the waterfall on day two. We laid around the waterfall for a few hours (until it cooled off a bit) and the went on down to Upper Tapeats Creek and found a campsite and spent two nights there. Then, it took us another two days to hike out. It was quite challenging, but we all made it safely. There was a point on the Bill Hall where we had to lower our packs with rope and downclimb about 15 feet of cliff face!!! We all did fine.
