And we also save a group of Mormons more tourists who clearly had no idea what they were getting themselves into when taking on hiking into the Grand Canyon.
Driving from Pennsylvania, five children, mom afriad of heights, all of family is not physically fit. They decided to hike down to bottom of Grade Canyon in hiking shoes bought from ebay that don’t fit and eight cases of 24 packs of water. First of all, you need to break in your hiking shoes, bring enough water for the hike down and then bring a water purifier to get moe water at the river whenyou arrive.
So the family embarks and the mom gets stuck at a the first water refill station at the top only 2 miles into 12 mile hike. The rest of the family takes 2 days to get to the bottom of the canyon to Hermit Creek where some of us camped.
The two youngest kids come up to Hossay, one of our professors, at the campsite and told him their father is dyhydrated and wants them to hike out of the Grand Canyon that night. Hossay who once was a wildresness rescuer goes over and gives the dad Gatorade and convinces him to not hike at night. Hossay also duct tapes one of the kids hiking shoes together because they fell apart on the way down hiking.
The next day we hike out with the kids- telling them only to bring the purified water we give them in their backpacks. A ranger has to go to where the mom is and has been staying for 4 days- not knowing what shape her family is in- and help her hike out by holding her hand. The dad had to be lifted out by helicopter. What a great family vacation! and what a story for us not only did I hike the Grand Canyon but we saved a family.
Driving from Pennsylvania, five children, mom afriad of heights, all of family is not physically fit. They decided to hike down to bottom of Grade Canyon in hiking shoes bought from ebay that don’t fit and eight cases of 24 packs of water. First of all, you need to break in your hiking shoes, bring enough water for the hike down and then bring a water purifier to get moe water at the river whenyou arrive.
So the family embarks and the mom gets stuck at a the first water refill station at the top only 2 miles into 12 mile hike. The rest of the family takes 2 days to get to the bottom of the canyon to Hermit Creek where some of us camped.
The two youngest kids come up to Hossay, one of our professors, at the campsite and told him their father is dyhydrated and wants them to hike out of the Grand Canyon that night. Hossay who once was a wildresness rescuer goes over and gives the dad Gatorade and convinces him to not hike at night. Hossay also duct tapes one of the kids hiking shoes together because they fell apart on the way down hiking.
The next day we hike out with the kids- telling them only to bring the purified water we give them in their backpacks. A ranger has to go to where the mom is and has been staying for 4 days- not knowing what shape her family is in- and help her hike out by holding her hand. The dad had to be lifted out by helicopter. What a great family vacation! and what a story for us not only did I hike the Grand Canyon but we saved a family.
The family's car at the top of the canyon.
Check out the red bumper sticker- it says one of the older sons is an Eagle Scout.....
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