Going Deep — Grand Canyon Day One
4 min readApr 29, 2019
Starting a 4-day backpacking venture in the South Rim of the Grand Canyon
We’d planned, prepped, trained, and looked forward to backpacking the Grand Canyon for months. Part of a REI Adventures 4-day guided trip, we were about to hike to the bottom of the Grand Canyon from the south rim. Would it be stunning? Hell yeah. Would it be strenuous, one of the hardest adventures I’d ever tried? Oh hell yeah.
