Here is a link to the interactive expedition map, which has a pin in it to show Bright Angel Trail's lookout point.
Big sky over the far-away south rim of the Grand Canyon. The south rim is about 10 miles from the north rim, here at the north-rim lodge, if I used Google Maps properly in trying to find out.
We are on the eastern veranda next to the lodge. (We watched the sunset on May 29 from the western veranda.)
There is a path from the eastern edge of the eastern veranda which leads to Bright Angel Trail. We are looking sort of southeast, in this next image.
White flowers and oak leaves beside the path to Bright Angel Trail.
Lichens.
Looking back toward the lodge. The pale rocks at the left edge of this image include part of the lookout point we walked to on the 29th.
This is a closer crop of the above. Those big windows are part of the lodge's huge room full of huge couches. Note that the space under that room is open. We'll look out from there, later on.
Another closer crop from the same image as the prev. The eastern veranda is behind the wall that cuts diagonally through the next pic from left to right. A bunch of people are scattered around the veranda.
This image is the result of turning just a bit to the left of the image the previous two pics were cut from. You can see the lookout point on those piles of tan stone in the top right quadrant.
Closer crop of the above, showing the lookout point. There's no one at the far end of it (near the left edge of this next image), but the look-out point fence is visible, to the left of the pile of pale rocks left of the guy in the pink shirt.
Looking more left.... In the background (particularly in the left upper corner) we can see the cliff beneath the south rim of the Grand Canyon.
On our way out to the end of Bright Angel. Twisty tree. (You can see it was not hot, mid-morning on the north rim, on May 30.)
Looking up at more of the twisty tree.
I think this is part of the Bright Angel Trail. Or maybe it's the path to it.
This is definitely the Bright Angel Trail.
Closer crop of the above. You can see more of the trail, heading up....
One of the problems I had with the camera was that the screen was not bright enough for me to see what the camera was looking at, when the ambient light was very bright. I hoped for the best, and sometimes it worked out better than other times. This next pic is not one of the successes.
I've mentioned that we saw little lizards here and there as we traveled. Note tail and left hind leg of a small lizard spotted along Bright Angel Trail.........
Looking through so many pics, I'm learning to recognize land features......
We have reached the lookout point. Note our shadows near the bottom of the image.
Layers and layers and layers and layers, slowly slowly built up, and slowly slowly carved away......
We have looked at this before, from different angles. We can see farther down from here than we can from right by the lodge.
Zooming in on the lower left quadrant of the above. We can see that a LOT of rock has fallen off that rectangular-ish bit near top center of the next image. (I believe the green spots are trees, and not tiny baby trees, either.....)
A closer crop of the above -- a LOT of rock fell from here. And when I scroll back up to the image (2 above) which shows this cliff from the farthest distance of these shots, I don't see red rock on the ground below. I think the bottom is a lot lower than we can see............... So big. So deep...........
So wide. A tiny piece of the Grand Canyon, spread out into the distance......
Looking toward the south rim, from a new vantage point. (The sky!)
Again, with our eyes lifted............
Walking back toward the lodge.
Earlier I said we'd look out from below the lodge's huge room with huge couches. Here we are, looking out....
What a beautiful day!
Here is a link to the next post about the Grand Canyon expedition.
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