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Gisele’s sister Angela was in town, so we took her to the Grand Canyon. She had never been there, and we had not been there in the winter.

We went on Wednesday, and they had received over a foot of snow on Monday and Tuesday. It was enough time that the roads were all clear, but the snow had not started melting, and was still covering everything. It was beautiful.

There was a light snow falling most of the time we were there, but it was light enough that the roads stayed clear. It did reduce the visibility into the canyon much of the time, but it let up enough to see the river and north rim much of the time.

The snow reached about 1/3 of the way down to the river. The south rim is about 7000 feet, and the river about 2000, so it looked like it had melted below about 5000 feet or so.

Here are some pictures taken with my Droid. This first one shows the rim:

Here’s Gisele getting ready to take her own pictures. She unfortunately had to take her gloves off to press the shutter button.

And here’s Angela and Gisele. Notice the ice on the sidewalk behind. It had been spread with some kind of gravel so it wasn’t slippery in most places. But you still had to be careful. Slipping while standing on the rim of the Grand Canyon can make your heart skip a beat.