(Days 2 and 3, of 3)

our base camp at the foot of the Tanner Trail

We were lucky to see these kayakers running the rapids, early in the morning at Tanner Beach. Their commercial river trip had camped only a few hundred yards upstream of us, on the far side of the Colorado River.

Our plan for the day was to hike the length of the Beamer Trail to the confluence with the Little Colorado River, and return to our camp at Tanner beach.

I don’t know if this was part of the same river trip, or a different one.

“Hmmm… looks like the trail doesn’t go this way!”

All of this tilted rock is part of the Grand Canyon Supergroup. Some of the oldest sedimentary rock in the canyon, it’s supposed to be anywhere from 800 million to 1.2 billion years old.

This is on the north side of an unsettlingly exposed section of trail we had just traversed. You can faintly see the path winding along the edge of the ledge. On the return trip, we found a lower route close to the river to bypass this.

At Palisades Creek we looked briefly for evidence of mining activity.

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