HIKER TOM
This site was created to provide a central location for trip reports and photos from my hiking and backpacking adventures. Visit often for updates.

BACKGROUND


I have always enjoyed hiking and exploring new places. I got interested in backpacking when my sister mentioned that she would like to go to the bottom of the Grand Canyon. That was in 2005 when the family gathered together for Thanksgiving. We had been to the canyon in 1968 on a family vacation and had the opportunity to fly into the canyon in a twin engine plane before flight restrictions were put into place limiting where the charter companies could fly. We were taken about fifty feet off the river and sometimes the wing tips were so close to the canyon walls and peaks that it looked like they were going to scrape. Anyway, we both got the fever then. I made a quick trip there in 1973 and hiked to Indian Garden, but neither of us really did anything about it until our first trip in 2006. I have not been able to stop going back since that trip and if I lived closer I would be there more often. In 2009 I made two trips, my last trip was in May of 2010, and I have another trip planned for the fall of 2010.