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...and it took over an hour to reach the turnpoint on the South Rim of the Grand Canyon. I am not compla...
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.
...gether, and I didn't have any breakfast today. One meal a day saves time and trouble. We followed the San Raphael River to the "Little Grand Canyon" which is in the pictu...
...e edge with my stomach wrenching much more than it would over the large Grand Canyon the next day.
W...he Little Colorado down to the edge of the "Special Use Airspace of the Grand Canyon" where you are prohibi...
We maded it to the south rim, and could see the Grand Canyon Airport about 5 miles to the south. It's...the fire, and also the 30mph winds hitting the higher north rim of the Grand Canyon and deflecting up.&nbs...