At the base of Little GrandCanyon is a valley filled with buttes and camping sites. We met a guy at Huntington Airport that told us the local pilots are working to put in a backcountry airstrip here.
We maded it to the south rim, and could see the GrandCanyonAirport about 5 miles to the south. It's a busy airport, so we pass...o linger too long over the center of the Cany...inds hitting the higher north rim of the GrandCanyon and deflecting up. I was...
We landed at Huntington Airport, refueled and borrowed the courtesy car to eat a huge...aves time and trouble. We followed the San Raphael River to the "Little GrandCanyon" which is in the picture...
We headed south along the edge of the GrandCanyon. We had a 25 mph headwind, which slowed our gr...Corridor and it took over an hour to reach the turnpoint on the South Rim of the GrandCanyon....
We continued north and crossed the Little Colorado River again. Here it is a very steep and narrow canyon. It definitely was a th...much more than it would over the large GrandCanyon t...dge of the "Special Use Airspace of the GrandCanyon"...
We headed due east along the northern edge of Canyonlands NationalPark to the Colorado River side. This fin of rock is below Dead Horse Point State Park and just outside of Canyonlands NationalPark. It's near the "Caveman Airstrip", if you know where that is.
The winds picked up very strong as we flew past Paria Canyon. We were flighting a 30mph headwind. ...L, the winds dropped down to about 5mph. We stayed low all the way to Zion Canyon....