Sunday, June 26, 2011

Plateau Point Side Hike from Indian Gardens

Our friends Bill and Connie. Plateau Point, offering views of the Colorado River both up and downstream at the same time, is 1.5 miles of flat trail from Indian Gardens. It is the flat grassy plateau which can be seen from South Rim. The campground emptied out right before sunset for the photo opportunity.

My eighth graders will have a new raven photo next year when we read Edgar Alan Poe's "The Raven."

East from Plateau Point.

Brahma Temple on the left, and Zoroaster Temple on the right are the two prominent buttes that dominate the skyline in this part of Grand Canyon.

From my comfort zone on the rocks where the mules are tied up, it looked like these people were perched on a pile of rocks. I conquered my fear of heights to hike the canyon rim to rim, but I chose to take in Plateau from a distance.


View looking west from Plateau Point to the Colorado River 1,300' below.

Moonrise over the canyon.

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