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Grand Canyon's Phantom Ranch. Charleston, SC: Arcadia Publishers. ISBN 978-0-7385-8525-3. – Audretsch, who worked as a NPS ranger at Grand Canyon for nearly 20 years, tells the story of Phantom Ranch, its history, geology, and peoples, accompanied by numerous historical photographs. Thybony, Scott (2001). Phantom Ranch.
View of Phantom Ranch from the South Kaibab Trail. A corridor trail receives the highest hiking and stock use by visitors to the park and mule use by park concessionaires. To accommodate this, the National Park Service regularly patrols and maintains corridor trails. Backcountry rangers recommend that hikers taking their first trip into the ...
Phantom Ranch Grand Canyon (North Rim) Use: Hiking Stock (mule use) Elevation change: 5,660 ft (1,730 m) Highest point: North Rim, 8,060 ft (2,460 m) Lowest point: Colorado River, 2,400 ft (730 m) Difficulty: Strenuous: Season: Spring through Fall: Sights: Grand Canyon Colorado River: Hazards: Severe weather overexertion dehydration flash floods
These two trails combined are the most common method used to access Phantom Ranch by hikers and mules. Two trails cross or join the Bright Angel Trail, the first being an intersection with the Tonto Trail at Havasupai Gardens, leading toward the Monument Use Area to the west, and to the South Kaibab Trail 4.7 miles (7.6 km) to the east.
The South Kaibab Trail is a hiking trail in Grand Canyon National Park, located in the U.S. state of Arizona.Unlike the Bright Angel Trail which also begins at the south rim of the Grand Canyon and leads to the Colorado River, the South Kaibab Trail follows a ridge out to Skeleton Point allowing for 360-degree views of the canyon.
His first book, The Thousand-Mile Summer (1964) recounted his 1958 hike along the entire eastern edge of California. His second book was The Man Who Walked Through Time (1968), in which Fletcher was the first person to walk a continuous route through Grand Canyon National Park .
Alicia Dabney, a mother of three who lives on the Tule River Indian reservation, became a firefighter, like her father and uncles before her, at the age of 26 in the Sequoia National Forest. According to Equal Employment Opportunity complaints she filed in 2011 and 2012, Dabney claimed that coworkers made disparaging remarks about her Latina ...
The Fred Harvey Company developed many facilities at the Grand Canyon, including the luxury El Tovar Hotel on the South Rim in 1905 and Phantom Ranch in the Inner Gorge in 1922. Although first afforded federal protection in 1893 as a forest reserve and later as a U.S. National Monument , the Grand Canyon did not achieve U.S. National Park ...