"Every cloud has a silver lining?" Geoffnsteph's photos around Grand Canyon North Rim
A TripAdvisor™ TripWow slideshow of a travel blog to Grand Canyon North Rim, United States by TravelPod blogger Geoffnsteph titled "Every cloud has a silver lining?" Geoffnsteph's travel blog entry: "Sunday 1st August Every cloud has a silver lining No storms in the night thankfully and 74 degrees when we got up. We had to switch rooms this morning due to our changes in itinerary -- the rooms are identical though! A pleasant drive across the Vermillion Cliffs desert -- backdrop for hundreds of Westerns apparently. Then climbed up through the Kaibab Forest until we reached the rim of the Grand Canyon at over 8800 feet. The nearer we got to the rim, the worse the weather became. The temperature dropped again to 56 degrees; wet, drizzly, misty conditions, just perfect for viewing the immensity of the Grand Canyon. We'd stopped at Point Imperial, the highest viewing point on the rim and saw nothing but floating cloud and mist, and then it started to rain, steadily at first and then drenching stuff. Steph read her book, I tried to snooze in the hope that the clouds would lift enough to give us some sort of view. A passing Ranger (still no Yogi) said that this weather was exceptional for this time of year and it had been the same yesterday until about 1 o' clock. We hung on in hope. Around 12:30 it did clear enough to offer rare glimpses of a cloud-strewn canyon vista, clear one minute, misty the next. The views are amazing nonetheless and I suppose there is some comfort that ...
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