Friday, February 26, 2010

Grand Canyon

Sure, we knew that the North Rim of the Grand Canyon was closed in winter due to snow, but is that a reason to have the South Rim snowed in as well?
Anyhow, after a long drive trough Indian reservations we arrive at the Grand Canyon to find the roads and car park free of snow, but pretty much everything else snowed in. Bugger! We had hoped to do some day-trips around the canyon. Same for our spot at the NP campground. It's fine for us in our RV, heating works great, bed is cozy, so no problems at all, but there are people camping in a tent. One of them we see in the morning packing up the tent and stuff in shorts! We thought, Kiwis are nuts, but that guy was more nuts....
At the visitor center we check the weather forecast and it's for about 10 - 12 inches ( 25 to 30 cm) more snow within the next 3 days. Sooooo, we have the choice to dig in and wait it out or again just bugger off the next day.

Easy choice as we would not have any power hookup where we are, generator hours limited to 4 per day, no internet, only one book left to read, so it's off to our next stop : Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument.
On the way, it shows that our decision was right: we travel through a snow storm for most of the day through Flagstaff and Phoenix. Only when we reach lower elevations snow turns to rain, yay. So, this is a good day for driving. We had a few nice looks into the Grand Canyon on our drive to Grand Canyon Village, so that's ok.

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