March 2026 - the Tonto Trail from Grandview to Bright Angel
I don't have a great deal to say about the actual route. Other people have done a more thorough job than I ever will, but I did want to post a few photographs. I had just had Eric Hendrickson CLA the two Spotmatics I have, and I wanted to take one of them as a tribute to my friend Paige Pinnell, who had owned them, but in the end, the compactness of the Olympus OM-1n won out. It was also a factor that the never ready case for the Olympus snaps shut over the 28mm lens. The wider angle lenses on the Pentax cameras are just too long for the case I have. I took all of these photos on Kodacolor 200, purchased, as I often do, from the Film Photography Project's store . I had them developed and printed at the Darkroom . The Tonto Trail runs, as you might assume, along the Tonto Plateau in the Grand Canyon. You can see a bit of the Colorado River in the photo above, down in the inner gorge. It's been a dry winter in the Southwest, an...



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