Quote Originally Posted by bcipam View Post
Someday we were reverse the route but for some reason what we have been doing makes sense.

My favorite trip took several days... we hiked down Kaibab, stayed at Phantom hiked out to the North Rim stayed at the grand Canyon Lodge, hiked back down to Phantom and then finished out on Bright Angel. I was really tired but it was a trip of a lifetime!
It's hard to go up S. Kaibab because of the lack of water. We did it one year because it was unseasonably cool and overcast, plus we had cached water on the way down.
One year, we lucked out with a computer glitch. Just as my BF got through to try to book a bed and dinners, all the other computers locked up and he got his pick of the place. You haven't lived until you've stayed in a private cabin at Phantom Ranch. We did a rim-to-rim-to-rim staying in a private cabin both ways - deluxe!!!