8 Weeks on Foot Through the Grand Canyon by James Mauch 

James, you are a total badass! What a great trip! 8 years of prep, wow! I am impressed and happy for you. Great presentation, very informative. Awesome! 🙂

Thank you!!!!!❤❤❤🎉🪨🪨🪨☁️⛅️☁️☀️

Mr. Mauch, Thank you for this excellent lecture about your adventure through the Grand Canyon. I so enjoyed your hiking experience and the geology lesson! The hiking is something I’ll never do but loved the chance to see your trip and all of the historical geology. Well done Sir!

trip of your life!

What a wonderful presentation of such a tantalizing and intriguing landscape and geologic history. You mention, almost in passing, that you felt the urge to climb up tothe top of Vulcan's Throne. That's hard to do even from the bottom of the cone--at the RIM of the canyon. To climb the infamous Lava Falls route, and then to ascend to the top of Vulcan's Throne requires a level of physical fitness and perspicacity that is unbelievable. I would imagine you're one of a VERY small number of people who have climbed the Lava Falls Route and then descended it--in that order, as most people likely start from the top.

WOW!!!!!!!!!!👍💙

I would recommend “The Man Who Walked Through Time,” by Colín Fletcher. Your hike was more ambitious than his, but you might find it entertaining. As he was preparing for his hike, he talked to many people, many of whom said that he should talk to Dr. Harvey Butchart. I actually took a class in Real Analysis from him, but never hiked with him. The longest hike I have taken was Bass to Tanner on the Tonto.

Gravel terrace gold hahahahahaha thank you for your journey and illuminating us about the gold in the gravel haahahahahahahahaha

How did you carry enough food for 8 weeks in a backpack???