telos leadership ventures: Grand Canyon National Park
Grand Canyon National Park April 10-14, 2018 Flagstaff, Arizona
Trip Type: Backpacking
Physical Difficulty: 4 (strenuous*)
Length: 5 days (4 days on the trail and 1 day of community building and professional development in Flagstaff) Hiking Mileage: 25+ miles
Group Size: maximum 11, including Introduction Themes that are common to all facilitators and back country guide(s) telos leadership ventures Leaders know that change Meeting Time & Place: April 10, include the following: 2018, 8:00 am at Little America Hotel, simultaneously represents 2515 East Butler Avenue, Flagstaff, • Arizona 86004 opportunities and challenges. Exploring self-leadership • Crafting your personal charter This trip explores the dynamic Trip Conclusion: return to Flagstaff • Developing your leadership by approximately 4 pm aspects of change in both our on the final day of hike April 14, 2018; signature personal and professional lives, group dinner at 7 pm to conclude • Leveraging group dynamics program and encourages participants to Trip Cost: $9475 • Incorporating mindfulness as embrace the continual nature of a tactical advantage Trip Fees Include: 4 coaching change as a strategic advantage. sessions; on-line leadership • Identifying and challenging assessment and individual report; telos'powerful development pre-trip exercises and activities to your self-imposed limitations help you prepare for your telos methodology combines themes • Using systems thinking as a leadership venture; community building activities throughout the central to leaders of all kinds, strategic advantage experience; personal and • professional development tools, while uniquely combining the Igniting transformational content, and resources throughout individual goals expressed by change the experience. each participant prior to each Trip fees also include: Transportation to / from trail head, 3 trip. days hotel accommodations at Little America Hotel, park entrance fees, permits, essential trip gear (see list on page 3), meals, * Strenuous Level of Difficulty: denotes backpacking trips on established but rugged, unmaintained trails with multi-day backpacks (30-40 pounds). The hiking can be steep and sustained with long daily distances (up to 9 miles) and professional guide, and tip for guide. significant elevation change (up to 4,000 feet). You should be comfortable running/biking/hiking for several hours without many breaks. Overview
This deservedly popular, point-to-point hike takes us through a breathtaking exploration of the landscape, as we explore our leadership & life goals. We begin off the South Rim, descend the Bright Angel Trail, then head across the Tonto Plateau, & up the historic Hermit Trail. It allows fantastic views, historic ruins, a canyon narrow section, & time at both Hermit & Granite Rapids. In addition to clear night skies & multiple opportunities for insight & reflection, this route offers tremendous natural & cultural diversity that must be seen.
Day 2 Day 1 Day 4 Mileage: 12.6 miles Shuttle to South Rim: 1.5-hour drive Mileage: 8 miles Elevation Loss: 800 feet from Flagstaff Elevation Gain: 3,400 feet Mileage: 5 miles We'll get an early start & begin our Shuttle to Flagstaff: 1.5-hour drive Elevation Loss: 3,060 feet westward trek along the Tonto Plateau from the South Rim
Our trek begins with a 4.9-mile downhill to Monument Creek. This is a long The first mile of hiking takes us back hike on the Bright Angel Trail to Indian hike, but most of the route is on a well- past the Hermit Resort ruins on the Garden, a Havasupai spring site that groomed, relatively flat trail. Our hike Tonto Trail to the junction with the watered seasonal garden plots for takes us around the head of two large Hermit Trail. At the junction we begin centuries. At Indian Garden we'll relax drainages: Salt & Horn Creek, & offers our ascent out of the Grand Canyon on in the shade of the Cottonwood trees, an abundance of classic, expansive the Hermit Trail. We'll switchback dip our feet in the ice cold spring water views of the Grand Canyon, inner through the immense Redwall, then of Garden Creek, & enjoy lunch. If time gorge, & Colorado River. Our contour a series of shelves high above & conditions allow, we'll add a side hike destination for the night is Granite Hermit Creek. This section of hiking to Plateau Point, before returning to Rapids on the beach of the Colorado features increasingly stunning views of Indian Garden to camp for the evening. River. the Grand Canyon behind us. The last Here you'll see amazing stars & enjoy Day 3 bit of hiking is on beautifully the first night of quiet in the Canyon. Mileage: 4.7 miles constructed, hand-fitted rock slabs - a Elevation Gain/Loss: 1,200 feet true work of masonry art - and takes us past 250+ million year old footprint We'll hike west past the fascinating fossils that are some of the best in the Hermit Resort ruins to our camp on Canyon. Once we reach the South Rim, Hermit Creek. We'll set up camp & we'll shuttle back to the South Rim have lunch, then hike approximately 1.5 Village where our shuttle awaits us. miles one-way to Hermit Rapids, where we'll take a few hours to explore this Trip itinerary note: All trips are breathtaking section of the Colorado subject to itinerary changes based on a River. We'll return to camp & enjoy a variety of circumstances, including, but tasty dinner beneath one of the clearest not limited to permit availability, night skies you've ever seen before extreme weather, and forest fires. The turning in for the night. price and duration of a trip will never change once you have registered.
Offered in partnership Payments are not refundable based on with The Wildland itinerary changes, only on cancellations. Trekking Company, LLC o Hiking socks, one pair for every two Transportation Gear days of your trip, plus an extra pair to This trip begins and ends in Flagstaff, What We Provide sleep in. Recommended brands include Bridgedale®, Smartwool®, or similar Arizona. Travel to and from Flagstaff, AZ We provide top-of-the-line backpacks, padded socks (wearing thin liner socks is not included in the cost of our trips. tents, sleeping bags, sleeping pads, under your hiking socks is highly trekking poles, stoves, cookware, bowls, recommended). No cotton socks! You can fly into either Phoenix or cups and utensils. We also carry field Warm hat and gloves Flagstaff, AZ. Flagstaff has a small guides and quality binoculars for the o o Long underwear, one pair of wicking airport served by Horizon and US natural history buff. Airways Express. From the Flagstaff tops and bottoms that are light-to airport you can take a taxi into town. midweight, example materials include What You Need To Bring You can also fly into Phoenix and rent a capilene, merino wool, polypropylene, car or take a shuttle to Flagstaff. This is The following items are required for your etc. often your cheapest option. It is a 2.5- trip unless otherwise noted. They are a o Fleece jacket or insulated coat, warm, hour drive from Phoenix to Flagstaff. must for your safety and comfort. When lightweight and packable fleece jacket shopping, think layered clothing systems or coat insulated with a synthetic From the Phoenix Airport: Arizona that work together. material Shuttle and Arizona Executive Transport o Water bottles or bladder, 3 liters total Sturdy Hiking boots, mid weight, lug- run daily vans to Flagstaff. 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