snowy trip

We just returned from 5 nights in Grand Canyon, I stayed in Trailer Village while DH backpacked for 4 of those nights. This was the 4th time I've been to the Canyon during the same week in Nov. and the coldest temps as well as the first time it snowed.
Since I had power (the reason we'd opted for Trailer Village instead of Mather CG) I stayed nice and warm, with PUGs, Gizmos new bunk end liners, electric mattress pad, space heater and furnace.
Here's a pic:

Packing up took a lot longer than usual, due to dealing with icy patches around the pup, ice on the Gizmos, the door mat was frozen into the mud, etc. etc.

 

Here's the link to the album:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/kitphantom/

I'll try again for the pic of the pup, I am definitely not good at embedding pics:


yes it was chilly, 15 degrees one night, highs mostly in the low 30s, I walked 7-8 miles on the rim trail one day in pretty much snow storm conditions. I've long wished to see the Canyon with snow on it, but expected we'd need to make a trip mid-winter. Our travel days were pretty good, we avoided the worst of the wind until just outside Flagstaff.

 

This was one of those trips that was not the one we'd planned, exactly, but I got to see a lot of things I have not on other trips. I took a lot of pictures because the light, clouds, etc. were changing quickly. I saw a raven (in the campground) roll in the snow - who knew they would take a snow bath?

DH was below snowline, after the first mile or so of trail - he hiked 85 miles in 5 days. I was sorry to miss some of the trip he had in the bottom of the Canyon, but was very glad not to have to hike up Bright Angel when the last section was icy.

 

Yes, while it was neat for us to see the Canyon in the snow, it is sad for those who travel many miles to find it filled with fog, clouds and/or snow - however, it is nature and there is no "clear view" button.

I have read The Man Who Waked through time, though it has been a long while. I like to backpack some, but Fletcher's style was just a bit too minimalist for me.

Thanks you to themanfromvan for telling me how to link my pictures, I'd never found "grab the link".

 

Thanks . I think we're going to personalize it with some lizard decals when it warms up - we have the decals, we just need to figure out placement without various impediments (furnace, drain, etc.)

We already have a couple days scheduled at North Rim in late May - when we hope not to have new snow, nor too much lingering from the winter. The first trip we made to North Rim was a year they had something like 175% of normal snowfall, and the trails were being shoveled out.