Ran from the KOA just after 7am; I just find their sites way too close together, and take too much out of camping, including the "C". We drove into Crater Lake Nat'l Monument but made another decision to skip it in lieu of spending more time near the Grand Canyon. Continued on to AZ-64 and made our first real stop of the day at the Little Colorado River Overlook.
There we did the camera weilding tourist thing, but then I also got a couple of items for the kids from some of the growing number of local merchants.
By lunch we were at the Granview Overlook where we chowed and wandered down the trail a few hundred yards or so.
We continued onward to the Grand Canyon Village where we acquired a campsite in the Juniper Loop at the Mather Campground. We quickly got down to the backcountry office to check on last minute details of our itinerary. They had no weather information on the north rim, but all indications was that we would have little issue with weather and hiking conditions to get from Cottonwood Campground up to the north rim a couple of days later. While Clayton went off to take some sunset pics, I battled with organizing my pack for the 4-nighter starting the next day.
Also acquired a copy of the guide book "Hiking Yellowstone National Park" which will hopefully come in useful in the future.
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