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Hiking The Grand Canyon Essay, Research Paper

Hiking the Grand Canyon

I spent 5 years traveling America and have been to 40 states. I kept a detailed

journal of my travels. One of my favorite places I visited was the Grand Canyon.

My husband and I took an 18-mile day hike. We spent the night in Flagstaff and

arrived early at the South Rim entrance. Of all of the pictures I have seen of the

Grand Canyon, I was truly surprised by how many trees and how green the Grand

Canyon was! I was really expecting a big barren red hole, but trees were

everywhere. The panorama over the edge of the rim was overwhelming.

We wanted to start our hike from Yaki Point at the South Kaibab Trailhead a few

miles east of Bright Angel, and hike back up Bright Angel Trail, which emerges at

Bright Angel Lodge. We took the free shuttle bus, which 45 minutes later took us to

within 2 miles of the trailhead. We hiked from there until reaching Yaki Point at an

elevation of around 7,200 feet.

Once there, looking over the edge of the Grand Canyon is amazing,

breathtaking, and unbelievable! I didn’t get a true feel for how large and astounding

the Grand Canyon is until I started to hike into it. South Kaibab Trail is 6.3 miles to

the bottom and is one of the few trails in the park that follows the ridge lines instead

of the canyons, it is very steep. This allowed us to see up the top and below to the

bottom almost the whole way. In fact, just a few hundred yards into the descent, we

saw the Colorado River almost a mile below.

It made me feel like I had been thrust into the middle of the Canyon very quickly.

The trail was not on the edge of a sheer cliff drop-off, but injury was certainly likely

if one took a tumble off the trail. The terrain is rugged, but the trail is well groomed.

As we descended further, we encountered markers that had been placed by the

Park Service providing geology lessons as we passed from one layer of rock to

another layer. The two changes that struck me the most were a brief white strip

that contrasted sharply against the bright red layer below it. The other was an area

near the bottom where lava had filled fissures of previous rock formations leaving a

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