I found this video on YouTube last night and this guy explains just why hiking the Canyon is so much harder than it looks better than anyone I’ve ever seen, including me! You might remember I did this last year when I was 63 and it exhausted me completely. I’m very happy to finally find someone who captures why it’s so diffiult.
He can’t pronounce Kaibab right and his distance for the length of Bright Angel trail is wrong. He says it’s about 6.3 but it’s really longer than the South Kaibab and less steep. It’s length is about 9.5 miles.
But he explains why 17.5 miles in the Canyon is like double or triple that most other places. Listen and learn my friends.