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Podcast: Ultrarunning History
Episode: 141: Grand Canyon Rim-to-Rim History – Part 11: More for 1950-1964
Description: By Davy Crockett. Read, listen, or watch
This part will cover additional stories found through deeper research, adding to the history shared in found in the new book, Grand Canyon Rim to Rim History.
Rim To Rim in the 1950s
In 1950, two 15-year-old boys from Los Angeles discovered that hiking rim-to-rim was a lot harder than they thought. While resting down at Phantom Ranch, they ran up an $8 unpaid bill and then decided that there was no way that they were going to hike back up.
“So, the two youths ‘borrowed’ a pair of mules at the ranch and rode to the...