This is a long shady gallery on the first part of the hike up to Whispering Spring. We hiked about 2 hours up Kanab Creek, and then turned right into a dry side canyon. Another half hour or so up and we reached a beautiful, deep pool set in a shady cave. We dove and swam, some of us more daring than others!!!

Here's our guide Lyndsay, after a swim in the spring. Lyndsay let me take one oar through a rapid early in the trip, and I was totally hooked. I think she decided that being a Grand Canyon river guide was the MOST fun job in the world, and so that's what she became, in the summer, and she teaches snowboarding in the winter, and travels...she has amazing enthusiasm and charm, knows a huge amount about Grand Canyon and has an incredible sense of humor. Plus she made the critically important BUCKET suggestion, yeah!