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Bright Angel Trail

Dawn breaks over the Bright Angel Trail
At 4:45 AM, dawn begins to break over the Bright Angel Trail.  We've been hiking for over an hour.

 

 

Bright Angel Trail
The Bright Angel Trail is the least strenuous trail to the bottom of the Canyon from the South Rim, but that still doesn't make it easy.  It's a 9.3 mile walk from bottom to top (in our case).  It took eight hours after we had offloaded most of our pack weight to a mule.  Hoping to beat the mid-day heat, we left camp at 3:30 AM, arriving at the rim at 11:30. 

     

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