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Jay, Weihaw, and I hiked the Ken Patrick Trail from Cape Royal Road
to Point Imperial in Grand Canyon National Park.
The entire trail is in a wooded area along the rim of the canyon.
Along the way we ran into patches of snow along the trail. Footprints
in the snow told us we weren't the first to hike this trail this
season.
Hiking through the snow!
Thorny branches nagged at us all along the way. Halfway through we
had a brief snowball fight.
All along the way we were greeted with great views to our right,
into the canyon. We could see both the Walhalla Plateau (which is
where Cape Royal Road goes) and Point Imperial from the trail.
At one point, we reached a very steep switch-backed section which
almost looked impassable due to snow. But there were steps made in
the snow by previous hikers, and we dug in our toes and scrambled up
past the snow onto the trail. Soon after that, we reached the parking
lot where Ben waited for us at Point Imperial, where the views are
fantastic.
Return to Zion/Bryce/Grand Canyon trip report.
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