How Not to Do The Grand Canyon Rim to Rim to Rim

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Published 2018-03-15

WARNING: This video contains vomiting if you are a sympathetic vomiter watch this video at your own risk. The rim to rim to rim is a trail running adventure that starts at one rim of the grand canyon crosses some 20 miles to the other then returns to the starting rim. All in all it is approximately 42 miles in length and some 11,000 feet or so of uphill, lactic acid generating agony. I wasn't going to put this episode together. It's too lo-fi, we both didn't shoot enough footage and I didn't feel like it captured our rim to rim to rim experience in the Grand Canyon. But Blake seemed really stoked on this trip and kept asking me about it so this is for him. I had a next level come apart during this adventure but I plan to go back and give it another go.

All Comments (21)

@tylerbaker5355 3 years ago

“Hope Danny is okay” cuts to Danny puking 😂😂 love it guys
@TheVirtualSherpa 5 years ago

"Leave any man who inconveniences you behind" may be a good t shirt slogan.
@ohiovetoutdoors 8 months ago

"52 miles and 12,000 feet of climbing and Idk why but it was just really hard" LMAO.
@johnnorris1024 4 years ago

I used to be a puker. I was told it was my expelling water because my PH was off dramatically. Started taking salt tablets to balance that out, seems to be effective.
@victor.randolph 6 years ago

What a sufferfest. Blake’s wake up was epic. Thanks for sharing 🤙🏻
@RealSoundNow 5 years ago

I learned that hard way not to watch this while eating vegetable soup ...
@melissavictoriafrayer388 4 years ago

Have watched this more than six times and it makes me laugh so hard. Thanks for your honest channel
@adventurebycycle7937 6 years ago

Love your videos. Would love to hike that trail, but I'd absolutely have to do it over several days. You all are ANIMALS. Thanks for sharing.
@yanwo2359 4 years ago

"People less fit than me do it all the time." NO WAY!!!
@marykelley5182 5 years ago

Thx for the run along guys. Admire your youthful tenacity! Nice way to get a glimpse of the bottom and surrounding canyon beauty! Stay safe.
@kenwbrenner 3 years ago

Hi. Sorry about the difficulties you both experienced. Just glad you made it back without any serious physical injuries. I really like your channel and the way you film and narrate. I'm impressed with how you worked through all the challenges and finished. God Bless for your safety and comfort.
@eganfo 4 years ago

Thanks for documenting the hardship as well. These days happen. You guys are amazing and a total inspiration.
@annapurna50 5 years ago

I just finished Bright Angel to North Rim to Bright Angel last Friday. I appreciate the video and it's honesty. I didn't hurl, but had nausea much of the day. Epic!!!
@curtbentley 4 years ago

Hahaha! I mean, my deepest sympathy! Oh how this reminds me of our first time doing R2R2R. We started out with a 12 hour goal, finished in 17+ in a snowstorm, got back to Grand Canyon Village, and ate frozen burritos at the liquor store because nothing else was open anywhere.
@expatadventureturkey9324 6 years ago

Both of you are awesome, smart call on the knee 👍🏽 next year it still be there 👣👣👣👣👣👣🏔
@ConquerYou 2 years ago

I did Bright Angel Trailhead rim to the river (pipe beach) yesterday here in mid March, and back up bright Angel to the rim. It about kilked me. My knee started hurting about 4 miles in/down and got worse and worse. I made through inching along the final miles. Seemed to go on forever. I learned something about myself though yesterday, i’m one out of shape fat bastard. You guys are amazing and just trying a rim to rim to rim is insane. I was thinking about you and your channel yesterday trying to find inspiration and dig deep for purchase. Kudos to you guys for doing amazing things and posting amazing videos.
@mikemcintosh9933 5 years ago

Ha I remember visiting there years ago. I remember signs saying, "do not attempt to go to the river and back in 1 day." lol
@ExploreSomethingFilms 6 years ago

Was the Blizz sleeping to an audio recording of your soothing voice in the van??
@danieljensen2626 5 years ago

I think "people do it all the time" is a bit of an overstatement, I don't know how many people do it all in one day or actually do rim to rim to rim at all. Single rim to rim in a day is not even THAT common, although obviously you guys did that without too much trouble. I guess it depends what circles you're in though. I'm sure a decent number of ultra runners have done it, but in terms of absolute numbers I doubt more than like 10-20 people do a one shot r2r2r in any given year. Blown away that you managed this at all, but makes me feel a little less bad about myself that it at least was hard.
@ES-ge7bb 5 years ago

Hats off to your somewhat successful challenge. I struggled getting back up Bright Angel after going down South Kaibab, and I was only hiking!