On Sunday, June 20, backpacker Michelle Meder was on a multi-day backpacking trip from Hermit to Bright Angel Trail and the Grand Canyon when Regional Communications Center received a report of a backpacker experiencing heat illness on the Tonto Trail ...

Joseph Don Mount, of Chehalis, organized a trip in October with more than 150 people who hiked from the canyon’s North Rim to the more popular South Rim, according to a complaint filed this week in U.S. Magistrate Court in ...