Grand Canyon hike Day 4: Deer Creek

Here’s some more pictures, hastily thrown together, of Deer Creek

I particularly like the fact the park service has installed a nice clean toliet, to promote sanitary conditions in the wilderness. This thing must of been helicoptered in. I know it’s better for the environment to use it, than to leave droppings behind in the wilderness, where they decay slowly, but it was a bit of a shock to me to round a corner and see:

In Deer Creek, as at Thunder River, there was a tremendous amount of water flowing. Last time I was there, in 2000 on a raft trip, we climbed down into the narrows. This time we just stood on top, and looked at all the fun water cascading down into the deep.

I can think of much worse places to be on a warm May afternoon than in the narrows of Deer Creek.