At the base of Little Grand Canyon 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 headed south along the edge of the Grand Canyon. We had a 25 mph headwind, which slowed our ground speed to 35...idor and it took over an hour to reach the turnpoint on the South Rim of the Grand...
We flew by the Grand Falls of the Little Colorado River, which by luck had some water running after a fall rainstorm three days earlier. The lead pilot is my friend Paul Dressendorfer.
We landed at Huntington Airport, refueled and borrowed the courtesy car to eat a huge lunch. That way I coul...saves time and trouble. We followed the San Raphael River to the "Little Grand...
We continued north and crossed the Little Colorado River again. Here it is a very...ch wrenching much more than it would over the large Grand Canyon the next day.
W...own to the edge of the "Special Use Airspace of the Grand...
We maded it to the south rim, and could see the Grand Canyon Airport about 5 miles to the south. It's a busy airport, so w...the the fire, and also the 30mph winds hitting the higher north rim of the Grand...