RHH's photos with the keyword: bright angel trail

When in Grand Canyon last spring we hiked part of the Bright Angel trail down into the canyon. This was the view from the trail and more of the trail is visible near the center of the photo.

Taken near the beginning of the Bright Angel trail in Grand Canyon National Park, the photo shows a tunnel that was dug through the rock to make the trail.

This was taken near the start of the Bright Angel Trail in Grand Canyon National Park. The Colorado River is below the cliffs on the far side of the canyon and we would hike to the green area to the right of the photo, a distance of about five miles and an elevation loss of 3000 feet.

When hiking the Bright Angel Trail in Grand Canyon we were told to look for this rock along the trail. The marks in the rock are supposed to be the fossil tracks of a lizard of some kind.

We were hiking the Bright Angel Trail down into Grand Canyon when this photo was taken. We did not hike all the way to the river, but only as far as the green area in the center of the photo, known as Indian Gardens, a total of about five miles and 3000 feet of elevation loss.

The photo was taken as my wife and I hiked the Bright Angel trail down into Grand Canyon. We had wanted to do an overnight backpack to the river, but no camping was available, and so we hiked to Indian Gardens, a hike of five miles (8 km) and 3000 feet (914 m) of descent, had our lunch at the campground at Indian Gardens and then hiked the five miles and 3000 feet of ascent back to the rim. The photo looks back up to the rim of the canyon.

One of the days we were in Grand Canyon National Park, we hiked the Bright Angel trail down into the canyon as far as Indian Gardens. We had hoped to backpack all the way to the river but one of the campgrounds was washed out and the other campgrounds full, so we had to day-hike and did so only part way to the river, to the end of the green area visible in the middle right of the photo. The hike was 10 miles (16 km) round trip and we descended 3000 feet (914 m) into the canyon. My eife is visible on the trail on the left of the photo.