Our chat with him on the way down must have upset his timetable. Now, I don't know Michael Kelsey personally, except for our brief chat on the Peak. He's probably a warm and wonderful human being and a credit to the human race. But I have a real problem with what he and many others are doing to the last blank spaces on the map. They are filling them up with idiotic details and statistics, and taking the mystery, the adventure, the fun and the danger out of everything.
Mass marketing brings results.
I've been watching this guide book phenomenon for a long, long time. I walked into the South Rim ranger station and asked what I had to do to hike to Phantom Ranch. Nothing, the ranger said. Just make sure you have the energy to come back up. When I reached Bright Angel Creek, there was nobody around.