Saturday, April 07, 2007

March 17, 2007 La Luz hike in preparation for the Grand Canyon hike.

The La Luz trail head is about 10 minutes from our house. The trail is extremely beautiful and takes about 8 to 9 hours to complete. The trail is 16 miles round trip with a 1 mile change in elevation. This is very similar to the change in elevation at the Grand Canyon, so I thought it would be an excellent training hike. I had Celestine go with me since I could not get any other adult leaders to go. I have a great wife! We hiked only 5 miles since the mountain had too much snow to go all of the way to the top. We finished the 10-mile hike by 11 am. I think the boys areready for the Grand Canyon now.

I really felt like king of the mountain! Check out my backpack!

1 comment:

Travis said...

Sounds like a cool hike. Now I totally need to go hiking in the Grand Canyon someday.