Originally Posted by
Tystevens
Also, take care with what you leave in the parking lot. My dad's motorhome was actually stolen from the parking lot while we were down in the canyon. Despite the fact you get a hang tag with your dates and such, and there is "security" there, they didn't seem to notice anything funny about a 40' motorhome leaving before the leave date, apparently. Being it is on BIA land, it was a tough time getting anything done about it -- the law enforcement "lost" the report about 4 times, and nothing happened until the FBI got involved for reasons I still don't understand.
But almost the worst part was the fact that there was 10 of us on the hike, we "knew" we had a motorhome full of water and food at the top, so we jettisoned all our water and gave away our snacks at the beginning of the stiff climb up the canyon wall, and got to the top in 95* only to find out there was no motorhome, no snacks, and particularly no water! It was a long hitchhike to Kingman to rent a couple cars to come back and get the rest of the group, who were about dead when we got back 4 hrs later after baking in the sun! Good times ...