Bright Angel Point Trail is the path we walked on the morning of the second day. It leads out (way out) onto a mildly unnerving point where you can see Bright Angel Canyon--and see where the fault line breaks the layers on the south side. I might not have noticed it without the signs telling me--but once you see it, it's obvious.
This is a panorama shot stitched together from several pictures, and pretty big--almost 10 MB. (Remember that if you click on the picture, and your browser shows you a plus sign in a circle when you mouse over the picture, you can click the picture, and blow it up full size, and get a lot more detail. You can also use the scroll bars in the browser to move around the picture.)
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My wife had to just keep staring straight ahead on some stretches of this trail, and I confess, the steep slopes--without rails of any sort on the sides--were a bit scary, especially when the winds started to blow. It's a long ways down, and at least a 70 degree slope.
There's another trail (name now escapes me) that cuts roughly north to south across the Grand Canyon, and we walked along the rim for several miles--which at more than 8300 feet of elevation, I could definitely feel.
Here's a panorama I took as walked along that rim. This is about 6 MB.
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Eventually, we ran into a ramshackle collection of trailers and motor homes where the employees live during the tourist season. Some of the inhabitants look like they aren't eating very nutritious food.
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