Grand Canyon Pictures

Last month, my girlfriend and I spent a few days at the Grand Canyon. I know most of you probably don’t care, but for those of you who know me or who enjoy looking at pictures of other peoples’ vacations, here are some pictures:

Here I am standing on an icy precipice. We tried to do some hiking, but even with crampons, the ice made the already-treacherous paths even more harrowing. Also, people share trails with mules, which means that often there was no way to avoid trudging through a sludge of partially melted snow mixed with mud and mule poop. That was kind of unpleasant.

Here’s one of the trails zig-zagging across one wall of the canyon. We went maybe 10-15% of the way down, but the full hike is kind of an ordeal. You have to spend the night in the canyon, as they are very insistent that you cannot make it down and back in one day.

This is the cabin where we stayed. Hopefully you can tell how close it was to the rim. We didn’t actually have a rim view, though, because there was another cabin in the way. Those were all booked, unfortunately.

Some nice but kind of weird family took our picture.