Grand Canyon overflight proposal

No, I wasn't overlooking this issue. As a matter of fact
this would be the issue. Keeping the price high would
cut down the number of overhead visitors. Businesses would not go out
of business
because they don't have one currently. If you didn't limit the days or
time, everybody with 41 hours would be over the canyon every minute of
every day. Make it expensive, it's expensive go by boat, With boats
there are only so many permits per year and it works.
Lou

While I agree with most of your sentiment, I can't let this pass. I'm
hardly a a hyper-fit Aryan uber-athlete (I'm none of those things) yet
I'm pretty confident I could hike to the bottom of the Grand Canyon
(yes, I have been there so I've got an idea on what it'd be like!)

It is coming back up that is harder.

Ron Lee

On 2006-04-21, Ron Lee wrote:

While I agree with most of your sentiment, I can't let this pass. I'm
hardly a a hyper-fit Aryan uber-athlete (I'm none of those things) yet
I'm pretty confident I could hike to the bottom of the Grand Canyon
(yes, I have been there so I've got an idea on what it'd be like!)

It is coming back up that is harder.

It still doesn't take a hyper-fit Aryan uber-athlete!

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Last year a 79 year old man did 45 rim-to-rim (20+ miles) Grand Canyon
crossings. He plans to do 52 this year.

This makes me wonder how most of the people who hike the Grand Canyon
actually GET to the Grand Canyon.

"Welcome aboard American Airlines. The Captain would like to inform all
passengers who have the Grand Canyon as part of their itinerary, that they
must deboard the aircraft at this time..... y'all like to hike so much, your
Association figures that you'd just as soon walk to Arizona.
Have a nice day."

Jim