Day 7: Sunday, September 10, 2006: Day 3 of Grand Canyon Hike

Today we were able to sleep in later as we didn’t have to leave the river until around noon, due to the lack of water on the trail today.
We ate a yummy breakfast and Lana ate a plum. We were very blessed with our guide as he brought a lot of fresh fruit and veggies with him on the hike, which apparently most of the guides don’t do.
David filtered about 10 more liters of water today for our hike and we rested in the shade of a bank before hiking out. Lana was a good Dr. Seuss and Dr’d my blisters this morning so that I would be able to hike up the Canyon without them hurting too much. The hugemous blister from yesterday had since “popped” and now just needed to be kept clean.
We left the Colorado River around 1100 and arrived at the Red Canyon Spring around 1230 where we rested in the shade of a boulder and ate lunch while David pumped about 18 more liters from the spring for us to drink.
- Tanya

This water would have to last us for drinking, cooking, etc. the rest of today and part of tomorrow, as there is no more water between here and the top. Tomorrow morning another guide will come part way down and meet us with more water.
- Lana

We climbed some more and climbed out of Red Canyon to the east and up through the red wall on the New Hance trail, where we arrived at the top of the Red Wall around 1700. All in all it was only 5 miles up the Canyon today, but a very grueling 5 miles of climbing and hot sun.
- Tanya