I nearly fell in, due to ice.
Who would have thought there would be ice at a trailhead?
Who would have thought there would be ice at a trailhead?
In 1966 my family went on a camping vacation out west and back in a brand new Oldsmobile Vista Cruiser, including the seven members of our family, my Sister's girlfriend and our Grandmother. We saw the Grand Canyon and it was as hot as it could be at the edge of the overlook. Mom and my Grandma cooked supper, washed the dishes and we went to sleep in the tent. We got up the next morning and the washcloth Mom had draped over something to dry was frozen as stiff as a board.
I camped out in the high desert some miles east of the GC in summer of 1976. I don’t think I have ever been as cold as I was that night. I had a light sleeping bag rated for 35 or 40 F and it didn’t do a thing to warm me. It gets REALLY cold up there.
The North Rim is something like 8000 feet in elevation.
Trust the mules.