Down the Tanner Trail at Grand Canyon's Lipan Point. This very primitive trail is less freequently used than other Canyon trails
1 GRAND CANYON - TANNER TRAIL
2 The overlook at Lipan Point. The canyon is relatively narrow here, which makes it a good bird flyway
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8 Starting down the unmaintained and rocky Tanner Trail
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43 This was a good day for contrails
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58 We're down! Level but undulting from now on.
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63 On the causeway across to the buttes, large thin boulders like the spine of a stegosaurus
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75 Snacking on the causeway
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97 Lookkng toward Desert View, windows below the watchtower
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106 Out at theend of cardenas butte, our lunch stop
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122 Our first injury, a twisted ankle
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