Rim To Rim To Rim Alternate | A Grand Canyon Adventure

[Music] the rim to rim to rim alt is a very cool road i thought of it a few years ago when the rim to rim was becoming very popular and there's some controversy there it's becoming crowded the rangers were getting upset about the number of runners and the corridor in the kaibab trail is just becoming a little overwhelmed and so if you bump downstream to the bass trail the elevation profile is remarkably similar elevation gain loss and distance it's very similar in that respect one big difference there's no bridge if there's no bridge across the colorado river that of course changes everything yeah i gotta swim it there's no other choice [Music] [Laughter] um [Music] uh [Music] [Music] hey [Music] i think i think we should go back to our spot on the way back i mean he said that all along yeah that he thought this was a good spot to come back yeah that's the beach we were thinking of shooting for right so it was from here but we'll see sounds like playing man figure it out pretty much [Music] yeah so the bass trail is the only other route that uh traverses the canyon uh the only one besides which one besides the the kai the south and north kaibab trails and this is a route that i want to do for a long time just kind of fascinated by all the route different routes to the river and i remember having hiked the bass with my dad years and years ago in flagstaff you don't meet everyone that's done the bass trail you meet tons and tons of people that have done a lot in the canyon but even the vast trails but off the path a little bit this is like back country we're heading 30 miles down this dirt road no bridge across the river the trail's just not built out like the kaibab where you've got you know crews came in and built huge switchbacks it'll be about a about 20 21 miles or just shy across one way um probably looking at 41 42 for the overall day but yeah we're getting started pretty early in part because we want to make that second crossing before it gets too late yeah so you've got to you've got to swim across you we've got uh dry bags that you blow air into so they'll uh they'll float and you you get them around your waist so um you can drag your stuff over yeah the water is typically around 48 degrees i believe so it's pretty chilly so we got wetsuits as well it's december so the high at the the river is supposed to be about 58. the worry is obviously that uh you're in the cold water for a while and then you don't warm up so uh we'll have the wetsuits which will help and then um we've got to come back across and do it again most people do do this route with pack rafts so peter bachmann and buzz burel did this route uh rim during the rim in 2014 and they swam it i guess peter was the only one to complete it in 2014 and it was uh was it 16 hours 15 minutes is that right i think officially we're chasing 16 hours in x amount of minutes based on our our uh just out and back on the south bass trail we've been talking about 12 hours under 12 hours um we'll just have to see how it goes the kaibab trail is just cruiser as you know i'd like to bike it of course you can't bike it the bass trail is not like that all there's cairns you actually follow the cameras there is a path there you can see a trail if it wasn't for the cairns it would be a little iffy started at the south rim all the way to the north rim i think we saw four five other people and about the same coming back and of course if you're on the kaibab trail it's how many you see in the first 30 seconds so if the coconino cowboys do it they should be able to do it a lot faster of course you know you have to have your logistics figured out you have to have your navigation figured out i talked with jim a couple hours ago and he sounded like he researched it really well so for example when you do the swim you can't go back and forth to the same spot the current's gonna take you downstream across here and you go downstream end up there and then when you come back you got to go upstream on that so basically you're forming a triangle if you see what i mean and he had figured that out that was very good if you haven't figured that out it might get ugly i think that's why experienced ultrarunners take to fkts is it engages more of who they are right it's not just cardiovascular you gotta have it in both places you have to feel it you have to respect it you want to learn about it the fun part is learning about this earth that we live on [Music] [Applause] so [Music] so [Music] so [Music] so [Music] [Music] yeah you guys are like in a hurry or something scuba steve yeah you guys scuba diving first it might be a touch lower from where you were thinking okay yeah but it looks pretty clear on the map and the pictures that they posted yeah out left is where i just went i dropped my pack and there's a spot okay a little it sounds drainage [Music] [Music] i think this is where we want to change though we'll probably be five minutes now it's moving pretty fast if you land on the right side of the beach the upstream side there's an easy ramp to get up to that okay trail of higher anything in the middle is like your rock climbing okay [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] looking good jim looks good isn't he yeah that'll just that that's how i would do it but it doesn't it's you you're the one that has to swim [Music] swimming was good i think i got maybe the most little rapids but once you kind of hit the current you can send it right across the river and yeah just about warming up now [Music] [Music] that one or that one down there actually does look good it all looks pretty glassy to keep going down so let's keep carrying our stuff is the stash point yeah so we're gonna dry everything a little bit tim this looks good to you yeah yeah that's what it looks like on the way out you took a little faster water which i think we'll try and avoid on the way back there's a little beach down here dude across diagonally over this beach that looks good moving [Music] foreign about a mile past the river getting our uh land legs back under us tim i'm documenting pretty uh good views here gorgeous gorgeous [Music] what's the good news eric [Music] [Music] foreign hey you gotta win she did we're about uh what are we maybe five miles from the top maybe last 450 elapsed and uh it's pretty steep at the moment we're going there pretty good views all around though we got 6 11 34. that's not helpful oh the uh grand canyon from north pass trailhead a little chilly up here a little [Music] overcast [Music] so [Music] so good how are you you guys made it yeah good good starting a little little worried oh straight up the gully there's a trail actually it's nice the trail is so slow [Music] [Music] [Music] uh one more climb out just kind of hit the last plateau what [Music] [Music] don't make i'd be more enthusiastic but i'm really i'm a struggle right now oh thanks for being here chief yeah so cool any hiking or all running oh it was hiking we were in every step and i got proof um i had two 12 hours 20 minutes 54 seconds 6 38 training status overreaching oh like that yes [Music]

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Length: 19min 9sec (1149 seconds)

Published: Thu Oct 15 2020