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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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