I spent a week visiting Grand Canyon, Painted Desert, Lake Powell and Canyonlands. This was about 1700 miles of driving in a long drive starting and ending in Phoenix and about 30 miles of hiking.
These are some pictures I have from the Grand Canyon
The two mornings I was at the south rim, I got there early enough to get some sunrise shots.
While hiking the south rim, I saw some birds flying and tried to get some pictures. I found out afterwards that the birds with numbers on their wings were California Condors. The numbers are for tracking them since they are so rare. They have about a 9 ft wingspan and were flying close enough overhead that I could hear the wind noise from their wings.
One of the mule trains for visitors that don't want to hike
The first day, I was about 1.5 miles down Bright Angel trail when there was a nasty thunderstorm with hail that lasted about a half hour. I lucked out and found a rock ledge to stay under while the storm blew thru. This is the canyon after the storm.
The second day, I hiked about a mile down the South Kaibab trail before I had enough of walking on trails where I was thinking about the consequences of one slip and going into free fall for hundreds of feet.
And a couple other photos from the south rim
