One and 1/2 day Friend

His name is Norman Geiger, a school teacher from Flagstaff, Arizona. Although, he is known to me as "The guy with the Zebra Striped Truck", he became a most memorable one-day friend.

Now I kind of cheat when I call him a one day friend, he was really more like a 1 and 1/2 day friend. As we sat staring out at the beauty of the canyon, I sipped coffee out of my plastic tea cup while he had his out of his only kitchen pan. To anyone else this may have looked strange, but there is just something special about only having what you need.


We talked the usual talk, found out he instructs at a high school, and knows a thing or two about geology. I told him all about Montana and the crazy things I've done in New Zealand, Ecuador and Australia.

He showed me the different layers of rock in the canyon (which I mentioned earlier, photos below), and taught me about fossils, caves, and ages of the rock layers. After a long time of talking (and analyzing his personality... a zebra truck?), we decide to hike from rim to rim in the Grand Canyon. A 26 mile feat... in a day.


The Supai rock layer is between 600 and 700 feet deep, and is about 300 million years old. Looking at the canyon from the rim, it appears to be half the size of my pinky finger.


If you look to the top of the rim, right below the sheer cliff is the Supi layer. It has the trees on a mild slope.