After flavorful steak and vegetable supper on the South Rim

history channel documentary After flavorful steak and vegetable supper on the South Rim, we did one more apparatus register and ventured off with the haziness at 6:30pm. Lamentably, my hydration pack totally spilled out on the short trek to the trail head. Evidently, a pack was determined to the "nibble tube" and gravity depleted my water supply everywhere throughout the payload territory of my Sequoia. A bummer, yet not worth taking an ideal opportunity to about-face and re-fill the hydration bladder....after all it was a mid-November night with the temperature floating around 40 degrees. Notwithstanding, inside a quarter mile two explorers were coming up the South Kaibab trail, I handed-off my scrape and they liberally gave me whatever is left of their water - all that anyone could need to get to Phantom Ranch. Climbing the South Kaibab during the evening is an ordeal, particularly going down the trail. Our headlamps gave a brilliant white "level" light, which affected my profundity discernment.

So I voyaged a little slower than amid sunlight hours and continued thinking - this is the place you have to spare your vitality - this climb is about going up!!! We touched base at Phantom Ranch in somewhat under 3 hours and delighted in some espresso to keep us wakeful. I talked with a companion of mine (Vicki) at the Ranch and she educated us that the water was without a doubt stop while in transit to the North Rim. So off we went into the moonless night and into one of the darkest segments of the Grand Canyon known as The Box. A few times along the trail we killed our headlamps to appreciate the complete coal black. At a certain point close Phantom Creek, Roy was standing 2' far from me and I couldn't make out that he was there. We chose that without headlamps, we would either need to hold up until light or slither.