Honeymoon Day 8 - Grand Canyon, AZ (18 November, 2005)

^ The view from Plateau Point ^

We hit Bright Angel Trail (located approximately 367 feet from our hotel room) at exactly 8:00am. We had decided to hike to Plateau Point which is 1.8 miles past Indian Gardens. The total hike distance was approximately 6.4 miles and 3100 vertical feet - one way!

Long story short - down was easy...back to Indian Gardens was easy...Indian Gardens up to the South Rim at first made us afraid we were going to die...by the time we got to the 1.5 mile resthouse (that's 1.5 miles from the end), we were afraid we wouldn't!

We left at exactly 8:00am and arrived back at the south rim at 4:07pm for an average of 1.6 miles per hour - we felt pretty good about that because the last three miles of that trek is very much up and not very much out.

We did nothing else that day except grab a bite to eat and crash.