North Rim
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Oct 31, 2026
Jeremy LongHOST
But there's also specific stories like this one, The Wailing Woman.
Jeremy LongHOST
The story goes shortly after the Grand Canyon Lodge was built in the mid-1920s, a young mother in a white dress with blue flowers traveled to the North Rim with her husband and son.
Jeremy LongHOST
The father and son hiked to the transit trail or caught in a storm and fell to their deaths.
Jeremy LongHOST
The bodies were never recovered.
Sean RowleyHOST
Yeah.
Sean RowleyHOST
Zooming out for a moment, it's clear that tourism in the Grand Canyon is experiencing a prolonged slump, especially after the destructive 2025 Dragon Bravo fire raged across the North Rim.
Sean RowleyHOST
And to address that, U.S. Rep. Eli Crane crafted a bill now making its way through Congress that would speed the restoration process up.
Sean RowleyHOST
As that bill moves forward, the leader of Grand Canyon River Outfitters Association has said he's shocked at how long it's taken for policymakers to step in.
Mina GuliGUEST
We had to carry enormous amounts of water.
Mina GuliGUEST
So again, like the logistics consequences that you don't think about when you're making a plan on paper are And one example is that we were up at the top of the North Rim about to go down the Nankoweep Trail, which is, as some of your listeners will know, one of the hardest named trails in the canyon.
Mina GuliGUEST
I did not know at the time, thank goodness, because if I had, I think I would have totally freaked out as opposed to like half freaking out.
Mina GuliGUEST
Actually, I did totally freak out, but it would have been worse.
Bailey ChristopherGUEST
literally had a day.
Bailey ChristopherGUEST
because the North Rim was closed from the Dragon Bravo fire the year prior.
Bailey ChristopherGUEST
And I had, like, a day to get around, and then we were doing caches for the hay duke, like, burying food and water in, like, six different locations across Utah, which was amazing.
Bailey ChristopherGUEST
First time to Utah.
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Bailey ChristopherGUEST
That's gold.
Bailey ChristopherGUEST
So funny.
Bailey ChristopherGUEST
Yeah, because that north rim was still closed.
Bailey ChristopherGUEST
We couldn't exit there.
Elizabeth HarringtonGUEST
Challenge accepted.
Elizabeth HarringtonGUEST
And I dove deep into the research of what does it mean to hike the Grand Canyon and From the south rim to the north rim and back.
Elizabeth HarringtonGUEST
48 miles, you're going to hit more than close to 12,000 vertical in terms of change of up and down climbs.
Elizabeth HarringtonGUEST
That was something I had never done.
Elizabeth HarringtonGUEST
And then we had our younger kids that all did it and they were all active in their own ways.
Elizabeth HarringtonGUEST
But the three older sisters, the three of us needed to take this very seriously because you started to read about the Grand Canyon and you realize really quickly how serious and how how if something went wrong, it could be bad.
Elizabeth HarringtonGUEST
So we did our homework, we did our research and the day came and we were so excited because we were so lucky to get rooms, which is the hard part at the North Rim and Well, the reason we were able to get rooms is because we've picked the first weekend of June, which you'd want to stay away from.
Elizabeth HarringtonGUEST
So when we got there, there was a heat advisory that we were informed through the weather apps, the updates leading.
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The south rim where you stand sits approximately 4,460 feet above the Colorado River, which is visible from certain overlooks as a thin green ribbon threading the bottom of the gorge.
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The north rim across the gap rises even higher, 5,940 feet above the water, nearly a full mile of vertical stone separating the plateau surface from the river.
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The asymmetry is not accidental.
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The north rim receives more precipitation, which has eroded it more deeply, pushing the rim back from the river and creating a wider, more stepped profile on that side.
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The south rim, drier and more resistant, holds its edge closer to the inner gorge.
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An estimated 1,000 cubic miles of rock have been removed to create this space.
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What flows through the canyon now is a managed, regulated, dam-controlled version of a river.
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And the canyon it's shaped continues to change by processes the river no longer controls.
GarrettSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
We were a day into a multi-day bikepacking stage race across Arizona's Kaibab Plateau.
GarrettSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Five of us, Jeff, Nancy, Linda, and Robert, were riding in the high country above Grand Canyon's North Rim.
GarrettSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
It was the first weekend of June, and the winter had been bone dry, which meant water was the kind of thing you had to plan your whole trip around.
GarrettSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
It was a good day.
GarrettSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
But as soon as the sun's twilight faded, the stars just came out in a way that they only do when you are out there.
GarrettSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
There's no civilization anywhere near you, just blazing stars.
GarrettSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
The North Rim had seen a very devastating fire the summer before.
GarrettSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
So given the warm conditions, there was really no way we were going to be building a campfire.
MeganGUEST
have not heard.
MeganGUEST
I don't know either, but I know they did also recently or last fall, they had the fires on the North Rim and lost all those beautiful buildings on the North Rim of the Grand Canyon as well.
Judy GetteHOST
That's El Tavar, right? El Tavar burnt?
MeganGUEST
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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In a single day's hike, you experience conditions that normally require travelling hundreds of miles north to south.
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the North Rim receives much more precipitation and hosts lush forests.
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The North Rim of the Grand Canyon receives about 26 inches of precipitation annually, which is considerably more than the South Rim.
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Because of this extra moisture, the North Rim is home to magnificent forest communities of Ponderosa Pine, White Fir, Douglas Fir, Blue Spruce and Aspen.
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These are cool forests where snow falls in winter and streams run year round.
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The trees are tall and dense.
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The understory is thick with vegetation.
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It feels more like a mountain forest than like the desert.
Marcus ElliottGUEST
And
Michael EasterHOST
that didn't happen either, right? The one I remember you telling me about, you got to the North Rim and you realized you weren't going to be able to make it back to the South Rim.
Michael EasterHOST
And you're like, well, I guess I'll just take a bus back to the South Rim.
Michael EasterHOST
And that was that.
Michael EasterHOST
That was it.
Marcus ElliottGUEST
It was, I actually started going down the South Rim and my legs were wobbling and there was zero probability I was gonna make it back.
Marcus ElliottGUEST
So then I had to go, I'm sorry, I started going down the North Rim after I'd gone all the way across.
Marcus ElliottGUEST
And so then I came back up and I, yeah, I caught the one shuttle just barely.
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