The following morning takes you 8 miles to Bright Angel Campground

history channel documentary The following morning takes you 8 miles to Bright Angel Campground, which lies at the conversion of Bright Angel Creek and the Colorado River. This is the spot where John Wesley Powell and his group of valiant, and at-the-time starving, men found a welcome respute from the Canyon's sloppy water, steep rock dividers, and dry washes. It was at Bright Angel Creek that they discovered fish, clean water, and shade underneath the cottonwoods that kept them going. Thus it is on the Rim to Rim, Bright Angel Creek and campground are an appreciated site, as is Phantom Ranch's "Bottle" where you can buy frosty lemonade, snacks, and even a chilly lager.

The following morning it's headed toward Indian Garden, which is a 4.5 mile trek up the Bright Angel Trail. Subsequent to crossing the Colorado River toward the west for a mile and a half, you're going take a sharp left up Pipe Creek. The trail takes after Pipe Creek up to the "Demon's Corkscrew," which is a mischievous arrangement of bends up to the highest point of a lofty, shadeless edge. From the highest point of this edge it's a short 2 miles to Indian Garden Campground, where an extraordinary night of rest anticipates you underneath the old cottonwoods that shaded Native Americans here for centuries.