Down Boucher Across Tonto Up Hermit [12h29m]
Video from 01.25.2020, where I went down the Hermit Trail to the Boucher Trail, down Boucher to the Tonto Trail. I hiked across the Tonto Trail back to the Hermit Trail and went back up to the South Rim in 12hours 29m total. 22.9 miles or 36.8k total.
00:35 Hermit's Rest
Toilets and water located here.
02:00 Hermit Trailhead
03:00 Seven-Twenty-five AM start
03:32 Sea Fossils
05:32 Worm Fossils
06:29 History of the Hermit Trail and Louis D. Boucher
Hermit Trail construed 1911.
10:40 Native American Names for Grand Canyon
11:16 Fossilized Track-ways
http://ftp.llu.edu/lbrand/pdf/fossil_...
12:27 Waldron Junction
13:31 Dripping Springs Junction
14:02 Near Death
14:48 Fossilized Track-ways
https://www.nps.gov/grca/learn/news/n...
19:13 Boucher Junction
20:33 Sea Fossils
https://www.nps.gov/grca/learn/nature...
22:38 Columbus Point
26:34 Whites Butte
27:20 Tonto Junction
28:16 Boucher Creek
Water (to be filtered) located here.
29:53 Travertine Canyon
30:15 Hermit Rapids
30:33 Hermit Creek Camp
Toilets and water (to be filtered) located here.
31:47 Old Hermit Camp History
34:37 Tonto Junction
35:05 Cathedral Stairs
35:19 Breezy Point
35:42 Santa Maria Spring
Water (to be filtered) located here.
36:03 Dripping Junction
37:02 Waldron Junction
38:54 Topping out at Hermit Trailhead
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