Kilted @ THE Kanyon

[Retro Red]

Whew, finally got around to downloading the pics I took last week up at the Grand Canyon. We had a Japanese guest staying with us & she wanted to see the canyon. It had been a few years since my last visit, so this was the first time for me to go kilted there.

My wife & I & our guest went up the day after the last major winter storm passed through, so there was still some snow there. It was pretty nippy in the morning, too, about 14ºF (-10ºC), but being a clear, sunny day, it warmed up nicely to the mid-50s (~12.75C). I wore my military box-pleat Black Watch tank & was very comfortable.

As it was Spring Break, there were a number of families with children there. I had several opportunities to respond to overheard questions of "Daddy, why is that man wearing a skirt/dress?" I also got several positive comments, but mostly just a lot of astonished looks. Obviously, kilts are still a novelty at the Grand Canyon.

We did a lot of hiking along the rim trail, from the Bright Angel Lodge to Mather Point. Then we took the shuttle over to Yaki Point, hiked back to the Kaibab trailhead, then took the shuttle over to Hopi Point to catch the sunset.

I took lots of pics & there's just such amazing scenery almost everywhere you turn there, it was hard for me to whittle the pics down to just a few, so instead of posting individual pics, I'm posting slideshows, plus the 4 panoramic pics I took.

Every visit I've had to the Canyon, there's been some kind of wildlife encounter, & this time I had the special privilege of seeing a couple of California Condors; you'll see 3 pics of them in the first slideshow. Also had a close encounter with a bull elk, - I was on the shuttle on my way back to Hopi Point with the jackets my wife & our guest had left in the car & the bull elk was at the side of the road munching on a bush not more than 15 feet (4.5 meters) away but I wasn't able to get a picture because I'd left my camera with my wife. I knew elk were kind of big, but not that big!

Anyway, I hope you enjoy the show...

To view the slideshow, just click on the pic, below, & I'd recommend clicking on the "full size" button once you're there which will display the pics at 100% rather than 80%. Since everything at the Canyon is on a "grand" scale, the bigger the pic, the better to appreciate all the detail. If you move your cursor toward the lower right-hand corner there are buttons to control the slideshow.

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Panoramic pics work well to give some idea of the immense size the Grand Canyon & even then you only capture a small part of the place!

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That's all, folks!
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