Finally got to do our Kaibab-Bright Angel loop. Only three people coming out the SK in the morning, and no one along the Tonto until we got almost to Indian Garden. Then we met a man carrying a plastic bag. That's a long way in and a long hike for someone with no pack. Picked up his granola bar wrapper, too. Behind him was a lady runner, but she had a pack, so we figured that if they were friends or together, he would also own a pack. It's so much more intriguing to make up these stories about people we meet as opposed to actually stopping to ask them about themselves.

When I reached Indian Garden, the mules were saddling up, so I thought: oops! Don't want to get caught behind them! So I took off.

Brad asked if they were heading out, and they said, nope: hadn't even been to Plateau Point yet, so he hung around long enough to get a drink and use the outhouse. Sissy.

Kept ahead of Brad by dint of never stopping except for a quick drink, and we did the whole loop, about 14 miles, in five hours and 15 minutes,not that we are competitive or anything.