The Grand Canyon's Bright Angel Trail in Winter

Dennis Foster and his wife take Bright Angel Trail into the Grand Canyon, hiking a route that gets a high volume of traffic during the summer but is almost empty in winter. “Perhaps the most difficult part of hiking the canyon in the winter is getting good footing on snow-packed trails below the rim, especially if mules have compacted the snow into hard, slippery ice. For this hike, I picked up a pair of Yaktrax for Cara Lynn and Kathoola micro-spikes for me. Both worked as advertised and we had no problems keeping our footing along these steep and slippery trails.” In the Arizona Daily Sun.

Terrain Map of Bright Angel Trail, Grand Canyon | Wikipedia