Kaibab camping and Grand Canyon hiking...and Jacob's Lake cookies!

Our camp spot

We are pretty spoiled I guess, but we just have to take advantage of the chance to get out during camping season.  After our nice camp out last weekend, we decided we would do it again.  Friday after getting things done, we took off to find a camp spot over in the Kaibab on one of the many dirt roads that filter through it.  There are so many that it's kind of hard to pick. We found a nice spot among the aspen, fir and spruce.  We didn't see anyone else the whole time we were there.  Paul cooked up a nice dinner and we went for a long evening walk and then came back and watched True Grit sitting out in the cool forest air.  After a great night's sleep and tasty breakfast we decided to use our new park pass again and went the few more miles over to the North Rim of the Grand Canyon.  We had only the day, so we picked a hike we could do and then drive home in time to get to bed.  The Widforss trail is a 10 miler that goes out to Widforss Point which is a very nice overlook.  There's a little interpretive guide for the first half of the trail that was informative and there is a picnic table at the point, so we lunched there.  It was a really nice hike on a good trail.  There weren't many people there compared to the rest of the canyon.  

Widforss Trail and water stations at South Kaibab trail head and North Rim Administration Office

We also went over to the main lodge and Kaibab trail head area and checked out a few of the water stations that we put in last winter to see how the looked all finished up.  They turned out well and people are making good use of them.  I even washed my feet at one of them.  They were pretty dirty after the hike and I wanted to wear my flip flops without that black ankle line of dirt showing!  We stopped in at Jacob's Lake and had some good food and cookies for dinner. After that it was time to head for the hogan. Only wish we would have had one more night to camp out.