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Post by desert dweller on May 11, 2019 9:34:54 GMT -8
By Jeff Glor CBS News May 9, 2019, 6:55 PM
2 men endure 71-day hike to document the Grand Canyon
More people have walked on the moon than have walked the entire length of the Grand Canyon, 750 miles, the vast majority without trails.
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Post by davesenesac on May 11, 2019 11:15:39 GMT -8
Since it is impossible to walk alongside the river at numerous locations due to vertical cliffs right at the river edge, expect they were at times far from the actual river as in the level plateau at the rim. Thus something showing where they actually went is most important.
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Post by zeke on May 11, 2019 11:20:26 GMT -8
The Grand Canyon is so much more than just the river level. The Tonto Trail is more than 1000' above the river in most places, and that is just inside the Park. Outside the Park, one would be entirely on their own to find their way. To walk 750 miles in those conditions is quite the feat, almost crazy.
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Post by desert dweller on May 11, 2019 11:40:12 GMT -8
To walk 750 miles in those conditions is quite the feat, almost crazy. A young person's game. |
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Post by johntpenca on May 13, 2019 12:35:57 GMT -8
I watched this documentary. I think it was on NatGeo. Quite the story. They had help from local guides, but by and large a respectable effort. Some of the film of them doing harrowing traverses with full packs with thousand foot drops to the river had this climber's ebie jebees going.
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Post by BigLoad on May 13, 2019 12:55:50 GMT -8
I could see walking 750 miles in the Grand Canyon just looking for a better way out.
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Post by jazzmom on May 13, 2019 13:12:02 GMT -8
They did the hike in 2016 and made a movie about it, which came out earlier this year. If you haven't seen it, it's worth a watch.
The first 10-15 minutes are pretty funny. If I remember right, I think they originally wanted to do it as a supported thru-hike, but they pretty quickly threw out that idea (which is what the somewhat-comical first 10 minutes of the film is about.)
The film briefly touches on the death of Ioana Hociota, who was married to Andrew Holycross, friends of Rich Rudow, who figures in this story. She was attempting the same segment hike of the Canyon in 2012 when she fell at Great Thumb Mesa. She was 24 and would have been the youngest person to complete the hike and I'm thinking the second woman to do so.
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Post by mk on May 19, 2019 19:05:10 GMT -8
Does anyone remember the name of the documentary? If it was in the news clip, I missed it.
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Post by Hungry Jack on May 20, 2019 0:58:36 GMT -8
One of the hikers, Kevin Fedarko, wrote The Emerald Mile, an amazing story about running the canyon during the great flood of 1983.
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Post by jazzmom on May 20, 2019 3:55:00 GMT -8
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Post by johntpenca on May 20, 2019 8:15:24 GMT -8
davesenesac: you are correct; much of the mileage was on the rim, but still looked pretty challenging.
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Post by jazzmom on May 20, 2019 8:41:09 GMT -8
davesenesac : you are correct; much of the mileage was on the rim, but still looked pretty challenging. I actually don't think that's true at all. There's an understanding that hiking the Canyon means hiking "below the rim". There's a mile elevation difference between the Colorado River (aka "the bottom") and the rims. Most traverses in the Canyon are above the river level -- even the very few trail miles that are considered "on the river" are often a hundred or more feet above the river -- but none are on the rim. |
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Post by johntpenca on May 22, 2019 11:34:38 GMT -8
I actually don't think that's true at all. There's an understanding that hiking the Canyon means hiking "below the rim". There's a mile elevation difference between the Colorado River (aka "the bottom") and the rims. Most traverses in the Canyon are above the river level -- even the very few trail miles that are considered "on the river" are often a hundred or more feet above the river -- but none are on the rim. I watched the documentary. Several hundred miles of the hike were on the rim. Maybe there are two? |
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Post by jazzmom on May 22, 2019 13:20:58 GMT -8
I watched the documentary. Several hundred miles of the hike were on the rim. You're not talking about the parts where they hiked out and then back down between sections, right? Did they *say* they were on the rim? I just watched it again recently and don't remember any sections on the rim. Mind you, there are long stretches way above the river, sometimes thousands of feet above the river, on plateaus that look like they're walking along the rim, but they're not. |
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Post by BigLoad on May 22, 2019 14:06:58 GMT -8
there are long stretches way above the river, sometimes thousands of feet above the river On a boot-width strip angled toward the abyss, paved with dusty, red marble-sized gravel? |
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