Grand Canyon Photos and Musings
by Rob Kleine

 

A Grand Canyon butterfly in hand. (c) Rob Kleine, All Rights Reserved.  www.gentleye.com (c) Rob Kleine, All Rights Reserved

 

The Grand Canyon ... I don't know where to begin.

Silhouetted backpacker.  (c) Rob Kleine, All Rights Reserved.  www.gentleye.com

 

 

Because the Canyon warps my sense of perspective ...

 

Silhouetted backpacker dwarfed by the immensity of the Grand Canyon  (c) Rob Kleine, All Rights Reserved.  www.gentleye.com
it can make me feel small ...

A backpacker looks back.  Escalante Route.  Grand Canyon Natinoal Park  (c) Rob Kleine, All Rights Reserved.  www.gentleye.com

 

So I pause and absorb the incomprehensible magnitude along a rare easy stretch of the Escalante route.

backpackers decending the Tanner Trail.  Grand Canyon National Park  (c) Rob Kleine, All Rights Reserved.  www.gentleye.com

 

 

The Colorado River looks so close from this spot on the Tanner Trail. "We're almost there," I allow yourself to think. Then I remember how the Grand Canyon's scale warps my sense of perspective, how the distant looks close. That several hours of hard hiking separate you from the Colorado River.

Backpackers decending the Tanner Trail, Grand Canyon national Park. (c) Rob Kleine, All Rights Reserved.  www.gentleye.com

 

 

So I continue on. Descending.

Kayaker negotiating Tanner Rapids, Colorado River, Grand Canyon National Park  (c) Rob Kleine, All Rights Reserved.  www.gentleye.com

 

 

On reaching the Colorado River, I drop my pack and beeline to the river for water and its coolness. River runners provide entertainment.

Backpackers ascending the Papago wall.  Escalante Route.  Grand Canyon National Park.  (c) Rob Kleine, All Rights Reserved.  www.gentleye.com

 

 

The Grand Canyon back country offers an impressive array of challenges for backpackers. Although the wall out of the Papago Creek is challenge for me, I doub't Harvey Butchart would rate it a 'sporty' climb.

Backpacker pauses to check progress.  Red Canyon (New Hance) Trail.  Grand Canyon National Park.  (c) Rob Kleine, All Rights Reserved.  www.gentleye.com

 

 

 

Weary legs beg for a rest while ascending the Red Canyon trail.

Backpacker smiles on reaching the top of the Red Canyon (New Hance) trail. Grand Canyon National Park.  (c) Rob Kleine, All Rights Reserved.  www.gentleye.com

 

 

The smile says it all. It is easy to tell that this man just reached the South Rim, the upper terminus of the Red Canyon Trail.

Butterfly.  Photographed in the Tanner Rapids area.  Grand Canyon National Park.   (c) Rob Kleine, All Rights Reserved.  www.gentleye.com
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