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Hi guys,
We are newbies. I am Michael, 50ish, and did the boy scout thing oh so may years ago. My wife is younger than me (quite a bit), and came from a Thai village that toiled in the Thai jungle, so she is familiar with 'roughing it'.
We started camping about 6 weeks ago. We bought a tent and spent a nite at a Lake Mead National Park campground for one nite just to try out the tent. We live in Las Vegas, so Lake Mead was a no brainer. Next, we spent 3 days in Zion National Park. The camping went well. But we brought out dog, and, hence, we're SEVERELY limited as to what we could do for hikes. Namely, only one 'trail'. A paved one at that.
Okay. So next month we are doing 3 days on the north rim of the Grand Canyon. We aready have a tent site reserved. We have almost everything we think we need, except knowledge of the area. What we are looking for is ideas/suggestions on what to do with our days. We are boarding our dog, so it will be just us. We want to spend our days doing comfortable day hikes. We will have the gear we think is necessary to spend the day hiking, so we are looking for specifics.
I have reviewed the Canyon websites, and we understand a hike to the bottom and back is probably beyond our capabilities, but surely there are other, easier, day trips to be made.
We are totally car campers. We want to base camp at the rim campground and do all our day trips from there. We have no intentions at this time of hiking out with gear enabling us to spend a nite away from our base camp.
We would appreciate any ideas you fine folks may have. We love the site, and have gotten much valuable information already. Thank you so much for everything. We can't wait to be able to contribute instead of just asking for help!
Michael and Ta
We are newbies. I am Michael, 50ish, and did the boy scout thing oh so may years ago. My wife is younger than me (quite a bit), and came from a Thai village that toiled in the Thai jungle, so she is familiar with 'roughing it'.
We started camping about 6 weeks ago. We bought a tent and spent a nite at a Lake Mead National Park campground for one nite just to try out the tent. We live in Las Vegas, so Lake Mead was a no brainer. Next, we spent 3 days in Zion National Park. The camping went well. But we brought out dog, and, hence, we're SEVERELY limited as to what we could do for hikes. Namely, only one 'trail'. A paved one at that.
Okay. So next month we are doing 3 days on the north rim of the Grand Canyon. We aready have a tent site reserved. We have almost everything we think we need, except knowledge of the area. What we are looking for is ideas/suggestions on what to do with our days. We are boarding our dog, so it will be just us. We want to spend our days doing comfortable day hikes. We will have the gear we think is necessary to spend the day hiking, so we are looking for specifics.
I have reviewed the Canyon websites, and we understand a hike to the bottom and back is probably beyond our capabilities, but surely there are other, easier, day trips to be made.
We are totally car campers. We want to base camp at the rim campground and do all our day trips from there. We have no intentions at this time of hiking out with gear enabling us to spend a nite away from our base camp.
We would appreciate any ideas you fine folks may have. We love the site, and have gotten much valuable information already. Thank you so much for everything. We can't wait to be able to contribute instead of just asking for help!
Michael and Ta
A canvas campateer
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