Just saw this on the park service web site. I can't imagine hiking in that heat and then having to deal with how awful the air is at the grand canyon...
Yesterday the south park entrance was backed up almost all the way to Tusyan so I decided to use the Rowes Well entrance. There are road graders work on FR 238...
... The air quality is bad for the Canyon but far healthier than a lot of the big cities in the world. Yesterday I did South Kaibab - Tonto - Bright Angel...
You animal Gene! Bet the ice cream melted. That is a pretty tough training regime. I think I would be under a rock waiting for the sun to get over the Canyon...
... Note that the guy was on a day hike from Cottonwood (5 miles above, 2 miles below north rim). So presumedly he wouldn't have been carrying a heavy pack. ...
I think there's been research that has shown that air pollution can increase the chances of having a heart attack so maybe it was a contributing factor......
Possibly. The Cave Creek complex fire keeps burning and the winds are blowing to the north currently. Big backburns started on eastern edge of Black Canyon...
... Ditto Bob M's comment on training. (All bow to Ice Cream Man) It does show the difference of acclimated, desert conditioned hikers and everyone else when...
Smoke must be going somewhere. There is still a large yellow-red glow over the Agua Fria National Monument just north of us. The fire to the east of us, the...
These images made their way through email last year. Fascinating animal behavior. Mule vs. Mountain Lion http://www.greenapple.com/~jorp/amzanim/aacmule.htm ...
Hi Jim, We had a great trip, but did end up in the Paria Wilderness Area after all. We drove through a couple of storms in the AZ strip on the way to Paria...
This could very well happen in the Canyon. On my rafting trip in April, I was camped a few yards from Whitmore Wash and ventured over to the still-muddy wash...
Good post Doc. Could the heat, lack of humidity, and guys hydration situation be a factor? Reports seems to indicate he has just below the tunnel so previous...
I had to cancel a Thunder River hike last June. I was thinking about trying in early September but I have never been in the Canyon that late in the year and...
... Pretty bloody hot ! Go to the "Files" area of this group (you must be a member) and look for a folder called "Temp Averages and Extremes". There are a...
... I was gonna upload JPGs of these temperature graphs too, because they're smaller (for our bandwidth-challenged members) and are more gracefully handled by...
http://www.grandcanyonnews.com/main.asp?SectionID=7&SubSectionID=7&ArticleID=5718 Simple registration required for full article 7/1/2005 2:42:00 PM Work starts...
Dwight & Gloria RE: Temps in GC It is VERY hot there at present However, note below post Reason I choose Mid-Oct is that it is ideal time of all months to...
I would like to reinforce the "obscure trail" portion of Doug's comment. I was coming the other way, from the rim, with GPS coords, and it took forever to find...
A follow up to the earlier discussion on Senate Bill 787 which would limit what the National Weather Service could distribute and hand much of it over to...
This is the reply I got from Senator Cantwell, who is a member of the Senate ... Thank you for contacting me to express your views on the National Weather ...
This bill is sure to get bi-partisan support. From Republicans on a mission to reduce government everywhere conceivable. From Democrats who will see a gold...
... From: Bob Washburn ...It appears the bill isn't dead yet. No, but it may be stalled out. Here's a site that explains the political realities pretty well: ...
Being from Pennsylvania, I can shed some light on this piece of legislation. Sen Santorum in a payback to one of his supporters, cooked up this bill so that...
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