Grand Canyon 2005

Day	Activities	Yahoo! Maps driving time
Saturday Aug 6^th	Sturms leave Kenmore early Sturms overnight: Boise D&M & Em to Fruita (church @ Loma) hotel: Comfort Inn, 400 Jurassic Ave, (970) 858-1333	Kenmore -> Boise: 508 miles, 7 hours 48 min M&D: Loveland -> Fuita: 301 miles, 5 hours 14 min
Sunday Aug 7^th	Patricks leave, to Moab; hotel: Motel 8, Moab, 889 North Main 435-259-8868 D&M &Em en route; hotel: Motel 8, Moab, 889 North Main 435-259-8868 Sturms en route, overnight in Richfield, UT	Patricks: Loveland -> Moab: 401 miles, 6 hours 10 min M&D &Em: Fruita -> Moab: 101 miles, 2hrs Sturms: Boise -> Richfield: 499 miles, 7 hours 40 min
Monday Aug 8^th	Dale leaves all arrive in Page hotel: Best Western at Lake Powell (Page)	N. CO: Moab -> Page: 273 miles, 6 hours 35 mins Dale: Penrose -> Page: 8 hours 6 min Sturms: Richfield -> Page: 219 miles, 5 hours 31 min
Tuesday Aug 9^th	all day at Grand Canyon hotel: Red Feather Lodge, Tusayan, GC	Page -> Tusayan: 140 miles, 3 hours 27 min
Wednesday Aug 10th	all day at Grand Canyon hotel: Motel at Days Inn, Page	Tusayan -> Page: 140 miles, 3 hours 27 min
Thursday, Aug 11^th	Patricks head back toward Loveland, non-stop Sturms, Dale, M&D, Em, Jim to Mesa Verde; hotel: Cortez Travelodge	Patricks: Page -> Loveland: 674 miles, 10 hours 21 min Page -> Cortez: 215 miles, 5 hours 21 min
Friday, Aug 12^th	Patricks arrive back in Loveland for Disciple Now Mesa Verde crew tours Mesa Verde, hotel: Days inn Montrose	Cortez -> Montrose: 135 miles, 3 hours 21 min
Saturday, Aug 13^th	Mesa Verde crew arrives in Penrose hotel: Holiday Inn Express, Canon City	Montrose -> Penrose: 197 miles, 4 hours 40 min

Factors:

camping up on deadman instead of camping on the Grand Canyon trip
CA condors: equal chances north/south RIM (release in Vermillion Cliffs); 3 nesting couples
Dale back by Saturday
Dale drive back with the crew
Patricks back by late afternoon Friday for Disciple Now
Mesa Verde for all except Patricks
all day at GC Tue & Wed
Sturms head to Penrose after GC
hiking in GC? small hike maybe
Sturms need to be home 19^th or 20^th
Sturms in Penrose through Sunday night, visit Esterh Sunday (maybe Mon Norn)

Here are directions to the Page Motel we have reservations at for August 8th.

From: The east. Take Highway 98 westbound then turn right at traffic light, pass through 3 traffic lights (downtown). Go two blocks south of North Navajo Drive on the right hand on the corner of Vista Avenue is the Best Western At Lake Powell.

208 N Lake Powell Blvd
Page, AZ 86040
USA