You are considering hiking the Grand Canyon. To hike it is to experience it. If you would like to join the college group, it is important that you make reservations right away; space is limited.
COST:
$100 per first-time IBCS friend
$50 for IBCS town students, prospective students, staff, and returning IBCS friends
$25 for IBCS residence hall students or independently led groups of six or more individuals
(If the group has six or more members, the leader can come free of charge.)
AGE GROUP:
High school sophomores through Adults.
TIME SCHEDULE:
Attend early classes and the 9:00 chapel Wednesday.
Leave campus at 10:15 a.m. Wednesday for the South Rim.
Leave the South Kaibab trail head at approximately 5:00 a.m. Thursday.
Begin ascent up the Bright Angel trail at approximately 10:30 a.m.
Leisure breakfast in Mather Camp Friday.
Return to campus around 4:30 p.m. Friday.
EQUIPMENT:
Hikers are responsible for their own tents, sleeping bags, backpacks and food for the trail and during travel to and from the Canyon. IBCS will provide the meals served on the Rim.
RESPONSIBILITY:
Each hiker assumes full responsibility for his or her safety throughout the trip. This is a serious hike and ought not to be attempted by anyone not in good physical condition. Preparation is a must.
Hiking in the Canyon is not like a stroll in the park. Dr. Tetreau has made over 25 descents into the Canyon. He has led around 300 folks on previous hikes. This is not an outing to make a display of physical strength or a time to showoff physically. This can be an exceptional spiritual, physical, social, and educational experience.
For many years, the display of trilobite and horse-hoof prints in the same Kaibab Limestone viewed at Cedar Ridge Overview presented a 100 million-year problem to the evolutionist. God is good to have given us this Canyon, a powerful testimony of His catastrophic dealing with His living creatures. This Canyon ought to be a reminder to us of God’s omnipotence and His judgment for sin revealed at the time of Noah’s flood. Bible deniers claim the Colorado River carved this canyon. They do not speak to the sharp edges shortly above the present water level, nor do they mention 1½ miles of soil that was removed from the top of the rim.