Mexico
Hiking Copper Canyon
| Outfitter |
Price |
Accommodations |
Copper Canyon
Sierra Lodge
800-776-3942, www.copper
canyon
lodges.com |
$1,800 |
camping, rustic lodging |
American
Wilderness
Experience
800-444-0099, www.awe
trips.com |
$1,375 |
camping, rustic lodging |
Wilderness Alaska/Mexico
907-479-8203, www.pti
alaska.net/
~wildakmx |
$1,275 |
camping, rustic lodging |
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The Route: An eight- to 10-day burro-supported trek through the parched mesas of North America’s largest canyon system — the mile-deep home turf of the Tarahumara Indians — with hair-raising jeep journeys in and out of the canyon.
When to go: January through March
Difficulty: Difficult
Travel advisory: Get your legs and lungs in fighting shape. The trails are much steeper and rougher than those in the Grand Canyon, and you’ll walk from the 7,400-foot-high rim to the 1,600-foot bottom and back up again.
High/low points:
- Eating apples straight from the trees as you begin the hike down the canyon, and sweet local oranges once you get deep.
- Hand-carrying a live chicken — your prospective dinner — after rain’s dissolved the cardboard box used to pack it aboard your burro.
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