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I'm not exactly sure if the trail is over here or if it's over here. I don't remember.
Zeena:You're listening to the Grand Canyon Hiker Dude Show, the voice of Grand Canyon Hiking. Presented by Hiken. Built to help you hike your best hike. Here's your guide, Brian Special.
Brian:Ah, yes. Getting lost in the Grand Canyon. What could be more fun than that? Well, that's one of the reasons that I have stuck mostly to the corridor trails. I don't necessarily trust myself in route finding situations.
Brian:Well, all that and I know that rim to rim and rim to river are what most come to us for here on the podcast and in our Facebook group as well. But with both of those bucket list hikes being unavailable at least into the summer and probably much, much longer for rim to rim, I have been branching out and getting off corridor. And it has been, let me tell you, amazing. One of my favorites is what I'd call a sampler's platter of South Rim hiking, which I stole directly from Joe Adlock after he floated the idea in our 10/01/2025 episode of the show after he had an extra day at the canyon.
Joe:I just thought, well, I'll do something. I don't think I've ever heard of anyone doing this. I just did a sample of each of the trails. I started at Tanner, and I did about the first mile of each of the trails. Tanner, New Hance, Grand View, South Kaibab, Bright Angel, and Hermit.
Joe:What a great idea. And it was really fun to sort of, in my head, compare all of those six trails by looking at all of them in one day.
Brian:Of all the things that you've said so far, Joe, this is the one I'm stealing from you, man. This is this is a great idea. Listen. When I say I'm gonna steal something, it is happening. It did take me a couple of months to get to it, but in December, I made it up to the canyon, cruised through the East Entrance and sunrise, and pulled off at Lippin Point to start a day long adventure that I know I'll never forget and that I hope you will be inspired to try one day as well.
Brian:This is the Grand Canyon Hiker Dude show powered by Hikin'. Hike your best hike at hikin.club. That's hikin.club. Sunrise at Lippin Point as we start what we're calling the South Rim six pack. Six Grand Canyon trails, the six most accessible ones, starting here at the Tanner Trail, then moving on to New Hance, then Grand View, then out to Hermit, then finishing the the day at Bright Angel and South Kaibab.
Brian:We're gonna go down about a mile down each trail and then come back up. May not sound like much, but when you put it all together, we're gonna be right at half marathon distance and five to 7,000 feet of elevation gain and loss. I don't know how this is gonna go. I'm excited about it. It's another kind of alternative to traditional corridor trail hiking.
Brian:So excited to get started. We're here at Lippen Point headed for the Tanner Trail. Let's get after it. Alright. This is a good time for a reminder.
Brian:Bring microspikes in the cold season. Just bring them even if you aren't sure that you will actually need them. Even if there hasn't been snow in a while, know that below the rim in the winter, there are spots that get little to no sun, so the snow and slush can linger for weeks even through long dry spells. First thing you notice, of course, starting down Tanner is got a little bit of snow at the top, but I have microspikes with me just in case, but I don't think they're gonna be necessary. Temperatures have been above normal lately.
Brian:It's 35 degrees right now, so it's above freezing. And it is December in the Grand Canyon, one of the best times to be in the canyon. You know, I'd say it's right on the edge of needing spikes or not, but I'm confident enough in my footing that, I'm not gonna put on the spikes. I hope I don't regret that. Update, two tenths of a mile down the trail.
Brian:There's enough ice and, snow in steep enough sections with a little bit of exposure that I'm not taking any chances that the micro spikes are going on. I wear Kutula, ExoSpikes. Kutula is a Flagstaff company, so they're kinda local to the Grand Canyon, which I love. And the ExoSpikes are the smallest ones. They make the smallest spikes, but I've always found that they are just fine for anything in the canyon.
Brian:And now that I've got them on, I can just feel the traction. I feel the confidence. So I wonder why I just don't put them on from the start. But, you know, you get lazy and I don't need them. Next thing you know, you're on your butt.
Brian:So I think it was smart to put them on because we got a little, you know, grade right here, and it's just gonna give you more confidence when you got the spikes on. So when in doubt, put on the spikes. Right? Working our way down through the Coconino sandstone. Some really cool formations.
Brian:Tanner's pretty rugged, unmaintained, and you can see you've got these these boulder fields that you gotta work your way across from time to time. Over there. One thing I don't love is route finding. Usually, I see that on a trail description, I'm like, no. I'm good.
Brian:And this boulder field right here, I'm not exactly sure if the trail is over here or if it's over here. And, yeah, I don't remember. So can't see it. That can be a challenge out here on these nine corridor trails is losing the trail and then finding it again. What are you gonna do?
Brian:Alright. That was a bit of a challenge, but if you just keep looking for any sign of a trail, turns I could see little steps here and there. And so I knew that's where the trail was at one time. So you just gotta keep looking. It could be a little stressful, especially when you're out here all by yourself.
Brian:Alright. Exactly one mile in 1,169 vertical feet in that mile. So that shows you how steep Tanner is, but that's one mile down. I'm really tempted to keep on going down the trail here because it's not too much farther till you get this incredible overlook in this view of 75 mile canyon where you can see all the way down to the Colorado. I don't remember how far that is, probably a quarter to a half a mile.
Brian:So we're not gonna do that today because we have five more trails to go after this, and I don't know how long this day is gonna be. So one mile, that's a good turnaround. But if you wanted to continue on just a little bit farther down the trail, a quarter mile to a half mile, you'll see the incredible view off to the left of 75 Mile Canyon. And that would really be the ideal place to turn around because that'll give you kind of a full taste of the Tanner Trail experience. So we're gonna head back up.
Brian:Got a lot of work to do, almost 1,200 vertical feet to get back out of here before we head on to our second hike of the day. Alright. I do wanna update what I just said there about how much farther it is from the one mile point to that incredible overlook of 75 Mile Canyon. I've been on Tanner again since this hike, and I measured it at 1.7 miles on my Garmin Epix Pro. So a bit farther than what I thought it was.
Brian:Still a great place to go, but if you are doing the six pack, that would add about a mile and a half total to what's already gonna be a very, very long day. So my revised advice would be to skip it unless you've got the daylight and the stamina to get it done. Biggest lesson learned so far is wear your spikes. If there's any question whatsoever, put the spikes on because if nothing else, they give you so much confidence. They just dig right into the snow and the ice and and and give you this incredible grip.
Brian:And bring the spikes. They weigh almost nothing. Throw them in your pack. You never know if you're gonna need them this time of the year. I didn't expect to today, but I did.
Brian:So I'm glad I brought them. Alright. Seven tenths of a mile back up. 875 vertical feet, and that's seven tenths of a mile to show you how steep Tanner is again. Incredible views out there.
Brian:This is amazing, but I can already tell that since I have five hikes still to do today that I really have to pace myself because I can already, you know, feel that this is gonna be a long day, and it's a lot harder than it, than it sounds. Alright. Round one is done. Back at Lippen Pointe. 1,200 vertical feet, we are gonna call it in those two miles.
Brian:So pretty significant start to the day. Next will be New Hance, but, just wanna mention here, Lippen Point. If there's one place where you wanna check out the canyon for the first time, say you come in from the East entrance, this is a great place to do it because the views here are just spectacular. It's quickly becoming my favorite viewpoint in the Grand Canyon because you can see so far, you can see the Colorado for so much of it. So Lippen Pointe, not to be missed.
Brian:Alright. On to round two. Alright. One down, five to go. Up next, New Hance.
Brian:This one you'll need to do some research on because it's not as straightforward as the other five in terms of accessibility. I was able to enter New Hance Trailhead into my iPhone, into the maps app, so I could see where it was and get there, but there's no parking lot or turn off. And there are no parking signs at the spot where you access the trailhead from Highway 64. So you'll have to park off the pavement down the road a bit and just find a spot where you can. There is space.
Brian:You just really have to look for it. Then you'll walk through the forest for a quarter mile or so on a well worn path until you see the sign for the Neuhance Trailhead. Alright. Neuhance. This one has a bit of a reputation.
Brian:I've never been on it before. It's supposed to be the most rugged, roughest, hardest to follow trail on the South Rim. So a little bit spooked by it because, again, I'll be out here by myself, and there's no one to follow or no one to ask where do I go. But this is kind of what off corridor is when you're out here by yourself and you've never done a trail before, but that's part of the adventure. So number two of six on the South Rim six pack.
Brian:Let's get after it. First thing I noticed right away about New Hands is it doesn't meander off the rim. It just does a straight dive off the rim. Just straight down till you get to this first switchback here. No joke.
Brian:I'm six one hundredths of a mile down the trail, 56 vertical feet, and I don't know where the trail is. The snow is not helping. I can't tell if it's over here. It's over here. Man, this is crazy.
Brian:I think it's through these trees here. These I think it has to be. I don't see anything over here. Oh, yeah. I just gotta I think this is it.
Brian:Oh, yeah. This is it. Holy mackerel. What a beginning. My god.
Brian:The first switchback, I lost a trail and didn't know where to go. And how would you? Look at this. How would you know there's a trail through there? Maybe you would.
Brian:I didn't. So this is gonna be an adventure. Quarter mile in and about 300 vertical feet, and I can tell you that I have already had to do some moves, some maneuvers with my sticks that I have never had to do before because the step downs are so large, like four and five feet it seems like. So I can see why Nuhance has the reputation it does, and I'm only a quarter mile in. I'm sure I've seen nothing yet.
Brian:One mile in the turnaround point, 1,034 vertical feet. Let's talk about new hands. I got lost, I think, four times on the way down. There were spots where I was just like, I don't know where the trail is. And you just gotta kinda look around, and eventually it appears again.
Brian:Sometimes walk around, and eventually it appears again. But it doesn't seem like there should be a trail anywhere, but eventually you find it. So I thought that was pretty awesome, actually. That was that was kind of fun and kind of, entertaining. And so I'm sure that that accounted for, I don't know, a few hundreds of the mile that I came down.
Brian:But time to go back up another thousand feet to gain. Not quite as steep as Tanner, but still, it's gonna be very steep, a thousand feet in a mile. So back up we go. Definitely a lot different than the corridor trails, especially for a self proclaimed corridor rat like, like I am. But it's been fun to get off these trail off the corridor trails and come out to these more remote trails and unmaintained trails and see what they're all about and get the confidence to to do more in the canyon.
Brian:That's kinda kinda what it's all about, and I hope it inspires you to do the same. So back up new hands. Let's go.
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Brian:Okay. A few more words about New Hance. This is a big introduction to not all Canyon miles are created equal. With all the route finding and getting turned around, it took me almost two hours to do that two mile round trip. Two hours for perspective.
Brian:You If I'm going up Bright Angel and timing myself from, say, three mile rest house to mile and a half rest house, so a mile and a half uphill, I'm usually at about 37. So for a mile down and a mile up to take me almost two hours on Newhance. Well, man, again, it just shows that there that all canyon miles really are not created equal, and it really was an eye opener to me. I also wanna talk about cairns or the man made stacks of rocks that are frowned upon by many, and I can see feeling that way on established and heavily traveled trails. But in the backcountry or in remote spots where trails can be tough to navigate, cairns can absolutely be lifesavers.
Brian:So most experienced hikers know to leave them alone or even help out by building one yourself. The alternative, being lost all alone in the middle of the Grand Canyon on a trail that you might not see another person for a a day or more, Not a pleasant thought. So I am firmly on team Cairn on these remote trails. They saved me more than once just on New Hance and just on the upper mile of New Hance. Alright.
Brian:Next up, after taking that beating on New Hance about an eight minute drive to Grand View Point and the steep but comparatively superhighway like Grand View Trail. Alright. Ready to start down Grand View. I've done this one before. It is steep and relentless.
Brian:So that's what we're in store for for the two miles that we'll be on Grand View, then it's off to Hermit, and then to the Corridor Trails where we will wrap up the day. But, after Grand View, we'll be halfway done. Let's get out. You can come on up.
Zeena:Oh, it's okay.
Brian:Take a little take a breather breather before the final push. Yeah. Alright. Three trails in, and that is the first Good job. Hiker that I have seen outside of myself.
Brian:Alright. One mile down Grandview, 1,025 vertical feet. So only nine vertical feet less than New Hance was, but Grand View feels like a cakewalk in comparison to New Hance just because it's a defined trail the entire way. Steep in sections, step ups in sections, but easy to follow and just way more corridor like than New Hance and even even Tanner, but especially New Hance. This little section on this sandstone is so steep, but the footing is excellent.
Brian:So it's not that big a deal. I will I will take it. Look at this view. Holy cow. Alright.
Brian:So that's Grand View. We are now halfway done. We've done six ish total miles and about 3,000 plus vertical feet down and then back up again. And I'm definitely feeling it. Yeah.
Brian:Don't don't discount how difficult this actually is. And I think I might have a little bit. I might have taken this a little bit lightly because it's like, oh, it's just a mile down, a mile back up. But the reality is when you go off the edge of a canyon, you're pretty much going straight down. Right?
Brian:So it's very steep. These primitive trails, especially New Hance, was extremely difficult to go down and up with a lot of route finding and getting lost and huge step ups and downs and using your hands. So all canyon miles are not created equally. Grand View by far was the easiest of the three I've done so far, Tanner, New Hance, and Grandview. So we gotta go all the way out to Hermit.
Brian:That's another one that I have never done before, so I'm a little nervous about what's in store out there. I hope it's nothing like Newhance. Might be. I don't know. But we'll move now to the back half of this South Rim six pack challenge.
Brian:Super fun. Highly recommend. Man, it's not easy. Don't think it's easy. It's not.
Brian:Alright. Off to Hermit now. Now a huge advantage of doing the six pack in December, January, or February is that Hermit Road is open to private vehicles, so you can drive yourself out to Hermit's Rest and the Hermit Trailhead. The rest of the year, you have to take the shuttle, which would complicate this all quite a bit. This South Rim six pack challenge, though, should really only be done in those winter months anyways as the upper mile of these trails are all very steep and very exposed and without water, so this would be a very dangerous thing to take on in the warmer months.
Brian:So if you're gonna do it, think winter. Winter's awesome at the canyon. The trade off is the days are very short, and that's something that I almost am embarrassed to admit I had not taken into consideration when I started at sunrise. It honestly never occurred to me that I might not be able to finish in daylight. But when I saw how long of a drive it was to Hermit, my expectations began to change.
Brian:I finally made it out to Hermit Trail. Crazy. About a forty two minute drive, my GPS said, from Grand View, which I was not expecting. So because of drive time and all the filming and stuff like that and the fact that the day is really short, only about ten hours of daylight, I think I'm gonna finish entire this entire thing in the daylight, which is kind of a bummer to me. It had never occurred to me that I wouldn't be able to.
Brian:But I think by the time I get to Bright Angel or South Kaibab tonight, we're gonna be doing it in the dark, but that's okay. Hermit, never been on this trail before. Let me go down a mile, see what it is all about. I think it might be tough to judge hermit because hermit starts off going toward the main canyon. It's a little bit steep, but then it really levels off as it meanders into this side canyon.
Brian:I think just following the natural lay of the land to make it a little bit more of a gentle descent. Whereas the other trails we've done just go crashing into the, into the canyon from the rim. This one starts out kinda steep, not as steep as the other ones, but then it's just kinda you can just see it following the lay of the land here and just kinda gently descending into this side canyon. So I'm sure there are places later where it gets steeper, but we're only doing the first mile. So I feel like this is a little bit of a of a bonus almost.
Brian:Not quite the same grade and profile as the other trails we've done, so enjoying it. One mile, 866 feet of elevation. Comparatively speaking, that's not that much compared to every other one. So far, the other three trails have been over a thousand. Up we go as we start to race the daylight here, and we'll get to the top, and then we finish with the corridor trails.
Brian:Bright Angel and South Kaibab. It's like a it'd be like a homecoming for me. Looking forward to it. Let's go. Alright.
Brian:That's Hermit, and now I've got the two corridor trails. Problem is I got a long drive to them, I gotta shuttle to South Kaibab. So I don't think I'm gonna be able to finish this whole thing in the daylight, which is a bummer. But at least the trails that I hadn't seen before, I have now seen because I've definitely seen South Kaibab and Bright Angel. So onto the final two.
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Brian:Now my plan when I got back to the corridor trails was to finish on South Kaibab because I thought that was the perfect place to finish with those absolutely epic views, but the calculus had changed by this point. Alright. Switched it up a little bit and figured that since I'm probably gonna finish after dark, I don't wanna have to wait for the shuttle and deal deal with all that hassle. So I wanted to finish at my car. So I'm gonna finish on Bright Angel, and I'm gonna do South Kaibab right now.
Brian:So we'll go down to just a little bit past Oo Ah Point. The famous Oo Ah Point is nine tenths of a mile down the trail. We'll go just a little bit past that, see some of the incredible canyon views, then head back up, hopefully catch the shuttle fairly quickly, and then proceed on down, over to Bright Angel. I'll drive over to Bright Angel after I get off the shuttle and finish the hike that way. Unfortunate timing.
Brian:This time of year is only ten hours of daylight. I never really took that into consideration. Honestly, I should have. Didn't think I'd have any trouble finishing all this, but a lot of drive time, a lot of starting and stopping. Just waited for, like, twenty minutes for the shuttle and then had to drive out here.
Brian:So a lot of extra time that I did not factor in, unfortunately. So probably gonna finish, well, definitely gonna finish Bright Angel in the dark. So there we go. Down South Kaibab. Here we go.
Brian:Our famous Victor vomit sign. Always gotta say hi to Vic and not be like Vic. Don't be a Vic. Alright. We just hit a mile.
Brian:One mile, 723 feet of descent. Hello. But we're gonna go a little bit farther. I can't help it. It's golden hour, sun setting, and you've gotta see these views.
Brian:They're just barely up ahead. So we're gonna go over the one mile rule just for South Cabot. Just come down past just barely a mile. Look at this. These views right here are iconic.
Brian:Howdy. Hey. How you doing? So you can see Cedar Ridge down there, the bathroom at Cedar Ridge right down there. This is Windy Ridge right here, which is that iconic spot where you'll see many, many incredible pictures taken.
Brian:But this little section right here, and this is one point o six miles down South Kaibab from the South Kaibab Trailhead. So if you do the six pack, I highly recommend you come down just this little bit farther so that you can see Windy Ridge, and maybe even go down a little bit farther if you want. Even all the way to Cedar Ridge if you're if you're feeling it because that's a mile and a half total down the trail. So you'd be adding, you know, another mile to the six pack, which would take it up to about 13 miles. But it's worth it because South Kaibab is the crown jewel of the Grand Canyon National National Park Trail system as far as I'm concerned.
Brian:Just standing here and looking at these views just panoramic all the way around east to west, it's just phenomenal. And seeing the trail itself, it's just this is the true Grand Canyon experience. So highly recommend that if you come and do the canyon, you do the six pack, that you at least come down this far in South Kaibab. If you do nothing else in the canyon, you're not doing the six pack, you're just looking for a hike to do, you have a couple hours to spare, this is the one that you do. And you see the greatest views maybe in the world.
Brian:I mean, really. Let's be let's be real here. This is one of the seven natural wonders of the world. These are the best views that I have seen in one of the seven natural wonders of the world. So pictures and video cannot do justice to what your eyes see.
Brian:It's just not possible. The Grand Canyon is is that special. Just like that, we're down South Kabab. 800 vertical feet. Similar elevation profile of the hermit.
Brian:Interesting. One more Bright angel. Five out of six on the six pack complete. Alright. Here we are at the deserted Bright Angel Trailhead finishing off the six pack.
Brian:I gotta run down, pretty much the lower tunnel, about a mile down there, and that will finish us off here. But time kinda got away from us a little bit. Had to shuttle the South Kaibab and back, and that took forever. And then there was a emergency medical situation I couldn't even get into Bright Angel parking lot. So this thing's working against us here at the end of the day, but it's been a long day.
Brian:It's been a fantastic day. And we'll finish it off right now doing a bright angel essentially in the dark. Got my waist light, and I'm ready to rock it. Let's go. Alright.
Brian:I've got the lower tunnel at nine tenths of a mile. So much to my chagrin, still another tenth of a mile we gotta go down to make this official. Alright. We have reached our turnaround point. We're at exactly one mile and 688 vertical feet.
Brian:Back up we go, then we head to the hotel. There's a hot, hot shower. Let's go. And just like that in the pitch black at Bright Angel Trailhead, which I know a lot of you can probably relate to after long rim to rims. Right?
Brian:The South Rim six pack was complete. What an experience it was. 12.1 miles, 5,781 vertical feet down and up, roughly the same elevation gain and loss as it would be from North Kaibab all the way to the river. But that would be over 28 total miles round trip, and this was just a tad over 12. So much, much steeper when you put them all together.
Brian:Right at eleven hours total, it took me with all the drive time and only only had ten hours to play with, it turns out. So that's the one thing I learned that it's gonna be difficult if you're if you're stopping to film or if you're, you know, stopping for lunch. It's like every second counts this time of year when there's not a lot of light to play with. So I might have been a little quicker had I known that and not had to pick up the pace so much at the end and still was not able to finish in the daylight. But overall, just a 10 out of 10 Grand Canyon experience like most of them are.
Brian:This one was just kinda unique. Again, just like kinda like a sampler's platter, a smorgasbord of Grand Canyon hiking. You got to do so much in just one day. Six Grand Canyon trails in a day. Pretty darn cool.
Brian:Joe Adlock, man, I'm gonna call him I don't know. He's the he's the grandfather, the godfather of the South Rim six pack. Somebody even said maybe we don't even call him Facebook Joe anymore because he's so well known known in our Facebook group. Maybe he just becomes Six Pack Joe. Joe, I think you even you I think you're the one who actually brought that up.
Brian:So maybe just out of respect, we will call him Six Pack Joe from now on. By the way, I even made a t shirt and a logo out of this that I thought came out pretty cool. So if you do end up doing this someday, we'll probably make those available on our website, hiking.club, at some point because I hope more and more people do it because it's just a just a cool challenge and and a cool way to see what the Grand Canyon has to offer. Alright. Well, we've been talking about winter hiking a lot so far in this episode, and that's what coach Arnie is gonna talk about in his training tip this week.
Brian:You know, it's winter. It's cold. It's hard to train. It's it's hard not to just wanna sleep in every morning, but coach has a lot to say about cold weather training.
Arnie:Hey, guys. This is coach Arnie with another Grand Canyon tip of the week. And once again, thank you, Brian, for allowing me to share some wisdom and hopefully make everybody's adventure that much more memorable. Today, I wanna talk to you guys about cold weather training. You know, this came to mind because I have some individuals that I'm working with that are actually getting ready for the canyon, and they're dealing with lots of snow and lots of cold weather, and it can be very depressing.
Arnie:It can be very frustrating. So we have to learn how to train, not just in a way that allows us to move, but there's other things involved with cold weather training that I think are important. And although you may be in an area of the country that you're not dealing with this, there are those that are. So I wanna share some ideas with those individuals, and you never know. You might be in a situation as well, and this might be able to help you the the same way.
Arnie:So here we go. First of all, like I said, it can be very very depressing. But remember, there are indoor things you still can do. The indoor treadmill, indoor cycling, all those things are beneficial. I promise you.
Arnie:They may not be the greatest, but they're they are beneficial. Be aware of proper hydration. When you're training in the cold, you have to still make sure you're properly hydrating. So you gotta watch for things when you're out training as well. You can still cramp.
Arnie:You can still have other issue. Also, meds, especially for those of us that are older, if you're on certain meds, those things could also affect your electrolytes and your hydration. So be aware of that as well because as we get older, we gotta be more thoughtful and mindful about these things. Get creative. Dress appropriately and find ways to challenge yourself.
Arnie:Don't sit back and and just give into it. Find ways get out there working in the yard, walking around the the the street with the proper footwear on, you can get a lot of work done. And here's what I know, is that your body just knows it's working hard. So don't be afraid to get get dressed well, put the right footwear on. Heck, you can get out there in in even though it may not even be a sport, but you can walk around on snowshoes.
Arnie:There's so many ways that you can challenge yourself in the snow and the cold as well. And for those of you that are even more active, winter sports can be very they can be a lifeline. You know? Skiing. Schimo.
Arnie:That's a new one. Cross country skiing. These are all things that you can do and re and get super fit, and and you can allow yourself to continue training hard for your canyon adventure. And lastly, just do your best. Don't panic.
Arnie:You know, just like those of us in the warm climates, when it becomes a 110 or hotter, you know, we may shut it all down. But the same goes for you guys. Don't you don't have to shut it down. You can get creative and just do your best, and you will have a great canyon adventure. I love you guys.
Arnie:I'll talk to you later.
Brian:Yeah. It's hard for us out here in Arizona to relate. No one feels sorry for us even though we have to go through such brutal summers, but when it's 70 degrees as it seems like it's been every day from December through January, and you see the rest of the country in the teens and twenties and below freezing and snow. Yeah. Hard to feel sorry for us.
Brian:Arizona is a great place to be. Even down here in Phoenix where there's endless hiking, you can hike year round, and you've got the Grand Canyon just three hours and fifteen minutes away. Pretty darn cool. Great place to live. Alright.
Brian:That is it for now. My name is Brian Special encouraging you as always to go hike the canyon. You got this. Come on. Do it.
Brian:Take that first step. Embrace the journey. And when you get there, whether it's for time goals or taking your time, just hike your own hike and savor every step in the majestic Grand Canyon. We'll see you next time on the Grand Canyon Hiker Dude show powered by Hikin'. Support the brand that supports this show at hikin.club.
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