Day 6 Grand Canyon, Flowers, and Snow - Page 4

On Thursday, Day 6, we crawled from our toasty sleeping bags into freezing air. It hailed a bit at breakfast. A 40% chance of thundershowers was predicted. After a futile foray to try to find another battery for my camera, we strolled to the shuttle stop in the hail/snow and started our tour of the rim. Delightfully, the sun came out and we strolled the rim trail in pleasant weather. But by lunchtime, freezing winds and hail/snow had driven everyone back into the shuttle buses. With white-out conditions in the canyon, we bought a hot lunch indoors and then went to Tusayan to watch the IMAX Grand Canyon film.

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elf1 > Very close photo of the first downslope of the Bright Angel Trail, where you go through a little tunnel in an outcropping. I've been down that part of the trail (not this trip).

elf1 > Another telephoto of Bright Angel Trail, showing steps.

elf1 > There's an actual outhouse about every one and 1/4 miles along the Bright Angel Trail.

elf1 > With the skies overcast, the rocks seemed dark, not so red.

elf1 > Linda climbs the stairs away from one of the overlooks.

elf1 > Another view of the canyon. I took no notes. Bad photographer.

elf1 > Linda waves from the upper overlook.

elf1 > A view of the edge of the plateau and just barely Indian garden in the lower right corner.

Very close photo of the first downslope of the Bright Angel Trail, where you go through a little tunnel in an outcropping. I've been down that part of the trail (not this trip).