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Red Canyon is the route of the New Hance Trail from South Rim to river

Hiking the inner canyon on the Tonto Trail means rounding many drainages and looking for water in each - springs were rare and, in this case, shared with the burros

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Mike Quinn DS70, Paul Patterson DS70, and Mike Hunston DS68 view the Inner Gorge. The Tonto Plateau runs just above the Inner Gorge, carved into old granite and metmorphic rocks.

Mike Huston DS68, Mike Quinn DS70, and Paul Patterson DS70 stop for rests at various points on the Tonto Trail

The Tonto Trail stays on the Tonto Plateau, above the Inner Gorge, and in places opens up to surprisingly wide views, considering it is most of the way down into the Grand Canyon

Barcroft station, at 12,500 feet, part of the White Mountain Research Station. The person on station, Jerry, let us stay here overnight

Denis Clark DS69 stops at the summit of the road from Crooked Creek into the North Fork of Cottonwood Creek, leading to Granite Meadow

This is more than a year after the 1969 floods, but the canyon bottom was still scoured to bare rock. This waterfall was about 6 feet high and blocked passage for cattle.

A pool with floating aspen leaves along the north fork of Cottonwood Creek