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[quote=Anonymous]I have been at least six times.  The last time was the first week of August.  It is too hot for hiking to base but otherwise lovely.  When I got up in the morning it was cool enough I needed a jacket to go out for breakfast or in the evenings.  Afternoons I was wearing shorts and tee shirt or light pants with tee.  We biked along the rim and it was fine.  We also hiked a couple miles into the canyon on bright angel.  We started early and it was definitely warm towards the end of the hike.  It’s typically 10-20 degrees hotter at base so the temp will go up as you go down.

The three big mistakes hikes make with the canyon are — do not anticipate how hot it gets as you go down; do not realize how far it is between water sources; do not plan for the fact that it’s easy to go down but hard to come up and the bit at the very top is basically the worst fincline that you hit when you are most tired.   The rule of thumb is that if you want to hike three hours, turn around after one.  There’s also a rule of thumb for how much water to carry but I forget what that is right now.  [/quote]

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