[at-l] The Canyon

[CrzyPlum@aol.com (CrzyPlum@aol.com)]

Gimme,
My memory was better than I thought. From the River, Clear Creek is very 
interesting. The mouth is too small to beach a motor rig and it's in the 
middle of a rapid so you tie up against a spine of Vishnu Schist 40 or 50 
feet high, make a vertical ascent, swing over the spine and descend almost 
vertically to the creek bed. A hike of about a quarter mile along/in the 
creek brings you to a nice waterfall with a backyard sized pool in which to 
frolic. That may be as far as one can go from the river, at least as far as a 
tourista can go, there may be a climbers route around the waterfall and on up 
the creek.
Other than to have a mid winter thought about Zona and the Canyon, I don't 
know why I told you all that cause in looking at my Canyon hiking map I see 
that your route won't take closer than a mile or two from that part of the 
creek.
Looks like a nice hike along the first shelf 700 or so vertical feet above 
the river at the 3500' level bout a half mile back from the lip of the shelf 
with maybe 4 creeks to cross [Possible water Wow]. Appears to be reasonably 
flat except for, in AT guide book parlance, an ascend very/very/very steeply 
few hundred yard stretch to get to 5424'  followed immediately by a descend 
very/very steeply half mile or less back to 4000' at the creek. Your terminus 
at the creek is two to three miles upstream from my waterfall and pool. How 
does your hike get to the Clear Creek Trail? Are you coming down the Kiabab 
from the North Rim or one of the South Rim approaches?
How many days? I'm jealous.
Plum'Crazy

> Tom and I signed on for another trek through the Grand Canyon in April.
>  This time we'll be going to Clear Creek. Anybody here ever been there
> before?
> 




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