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- From: jskaggs@slate.mines.colorado.edu (JoJo was a man...)
- Newsgroups: rec.skiing
- Subject: Re: Grand Canyon - any X-Country skiing there?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec21.201933.34759@slate.mines.colorado.edu>
- Date: 21 Dec 92 20:19:33 GMT
- References: <livj83INN4vj@jethro.Corp.Sun.COM> <122930228@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM>
- Organization: Colorado School of Mines
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- In article <122930228@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM> blakely@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM (Frank Blakely) writes:
- >I spent two years in Arizona, and went to the Grand Canyon a lot (I lived in a
- >culturally deprived area (Arizona :-) ). In the winter there always seemed
- >to be lots of snow at the North Rim, but the Park Service is closed on the
- >North Rim in the winter. I never got very formal about skiing there, I just
- >went where ever there was enough snow. The Grand Canyon is really spectacular
- >in the winter.
- >
- Actually, you CAN ski the north rim in the wintertime. My dad and
- some of his buddies make a (mostly) yearly "pilgrimage" to the north rim.
- They start at Jacob's lake (about 40 miles from the north rim), and ski
- along the road (it's closed in the winter) to the Grand Canyon Hotel on the
- North rim. The ski trip takes about 5 days from the lake to the north rim.
-
- After arriving at the hotel, they'd stay with the caretakikng staff
- there for a few days (I don't know if they have to pay, or if the
- caretakers are cool guys, or what...), and then hike down to the river and
- out to their shuttle on the South rim. The get some really interesting
- looks from people on the south rim, where the temperature can often be 60 F
- or so... 8-).
-
- -Joe Skaggs
- jskaggs@slate.mines.colorado.edu
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