Francisco Camberos

I’m a bad blogger. haha, I have so many trips that i haven’t blogged about! like, Thailand, Telescope Peak hiking, Yellowstone, Glacier National Park, The Grand Tetons, Banff NP, Columbia Icefields…. but hey! It’s a sneak peak into what will come out of me :). All of these photos are taken by Yohana and Alvaro. I didn’t bring my camera

So here we go Death Valley’s Telescope Peak October Hike:

This weekend two brave soul’s and I ventured into an adventure we had already completed during the summer expecting it to be similar, which it was…. Until we got to Mahogany Flats. Yes, we started seeing small drops of ice, oh yea. SNOW! So as we are getting closer to the top we didn’t expect that much snow! or snow period! aaaaah!

Our descent up the hill towards the trailhead was exiting! The 60 degree hill was rough! covered in 3-6 inches of snow! I’m driving the 4Runner up the hill, then suddenly we get stuck! No problem time to kick in the 4 wheel drive. I started in H4 made good ground then bam! Got stuck again! I let alvaro drive the rest, he popped it into L4 and bam! Stuck again! So we had to do manual road construction

So after a few minutes of digging through the snow and shoving rocks under the tires we managed to make it up the hill. It was extremely cold, totally not what we expected. It was about 1:30am and it was around 20 Degrees. Yes Very cold, we looked around the sites and alvaro suggested to camp out in the snow, I opposed and we slept in the car.

We woke up around 8 am, freezing of course… Ate breakfast and headed towards the trailhead.

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Ever heard the phrase “Paradise on earth” ? Well that’s what this trip was like…

In the remote canyon of Arizona lies a trailhead to paradise, nearest city i beleive is Kingman. If you ever see photos of havasu falls you’ll think, wow thats beutiful… If you see the trail head you’ll say…oh Cool…just like the Grand Canyon…and assume there’s no paradise here……WRONG!

Let’s start off by saying that it took us 7 hours to get there…we arrived on saturday at around 6am…we waited till about 9am to start our hike down… It must have been around 28 degrees…so cold there was snow on the trail…

From the trailhead to the Supai village is about 8 miles, and from the village to the falls it’s 2 miles. 10 mile hike total. Having done the Bright Angel and the Kaibab trail i though i was in for another challenging psysical and mental backpacking trip.To my surprise there wasn’t too many switchbacks or sudden elevation drops… I think the beggining and the end of the trails are the toughest, as the beggining is has many stwitchbacks and the most sudden elevation drops.

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This Grand Canyon trip we took was in September 2007. This is an old blog but it’s definatively worth posting. For Official park information visit the Grand Canyon National Park Page. For tips on my experience with the Trekking Grand Canyon click here.

The master plan was to take the South Kaibab trail approx. 7.1 miles to the Bright Campground stay there for a night and then hike out via the Bright Angel trail approx. 9.5 miles.

Overall it doesn’t seem like a bad hike… We showed up without permits at the lodge a few hours before they opened. When someone finally got there, we threw our packs on the scale, mine was 45 lbs. + my camera bag… Yohana’s was roughly 35 lbs.

So we got a permit, the rangers were giving us tips about the terrain, flash floods, mountain lions, etc… They were very surprised we were valiantly taking the challenge when temperatures reached 107 F degrees. We thought about that and that is why we decided to make it a night hike…

Since we got there with plenty of time to spare, we drove down to see the challenge. As I stood there, staring down into the Grand Canyon, it hadn’t hit me yet… It didn’t hit me that I would be trekking all the way down there… I used the 70-300mm and I could spot tiny people and mules carrying stuff…

Here’s the view…

Click to view large version..

(photo by Alvaro)

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If you have not read part 1 , Check it out here…

Firstly let me say that these pictures don’t do justice. You HAVE to see Havasu Falls with your own eyes, It’s not only a beutiful place, but its a fun 10 mile hike

On Another note, i do have prints available for the waterfall photos or any photos posted on my site just contact me

It’s so hard selecting what images to show of the waterfalls because they are all great! you can multiply what’s here by 5 and that’s how many more photos i have

Oh, and sorry about the watermakrs

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So this past weekend 2 brave souls and I decided to take a trip to Death Valley NP. I was living in my tent for 4 days :P…

I was told that it was going to be FREEEEZIIIINNNG!!! When we arrived it was pretty cold, I’d say mid low 30’s. Wasn’t too bad actually, I expected it to be colder. After setting up my tent i started taking photos of the floor like a weirdo that i am by other peoples standards…and oh man! I feel in love with the textures all around the ground… Tree textures by the tent..

Photo taken by: Alvaro G.

After snooping around the campsite we went over to the Borax Mines pretty nice there too! Wagon in Borax Mines…

More awesome Death Valley ground Textures…

To my surprise Death Valley receives nearly 2 inches of rain per year!

The sky was also amazing i was able to grab snap a few photos and i stitched them together…

Borax Mine Panorama High Res…

After all that we headed over to…

YUP! The dunes in Death valley are awesome, they seem small, but wow the feeling you get once your there is indescribable…

There was spots in between the dunes where it was solid material like this…

Alvaro decided to walk as far as he could so i could snap a photo and show how big this place was… He found a good spot…sat down…and i snapped the photo!…

Doesn’t look too big does it?… I took that photo at 300mm with a 1.6x crop camera…making my focal lenght 480mm!! I don’t know the exact distance but thats very very far! heres the same shot at 70mm..

Artist Pallete

View Artist Palette Panorama High Res

The last image before my battery died at Devils Golf Course! Overall it was a good trip, we plan on going back for a better photo experience