Grand Canyon in the Snow

On Wednesday 2 April we woke up and had breakfast.

Then we drove up to Desert View and Watch Tower. There were pictographs and petroglyphs on the walls inside the Watch Tower. From the top you have a great view of the Colorado River.  The Watchtower was built in the early 1900s by a lady architect, Mary Coulter.

Next we went  to Navajo Point to watch the Ranger Talk about the effects on having the dam on the Colorado  River.  One of the facts I learnt was the Colorado River used to be red with the sediment in it and colorado means red in Spanish.  While we were there, Robin and I got our 2nd Junior Ranger badge.

We called into the Pioneer cemetery and saw Captain Hance's grave, as well as a memorial to war veterans and to victims of a plane accident which happened near Desert View in the 1950s in which all passengers and crew were killed.  Because of that accident, air traffic control started in the USA.

We looked at the Kolb Studio which showed a movie the Kolb brothers made while going down the Colorado River in 1915 or so.  We also went to Lookout Studio, another building designed by Mary Coulter.

We then got a free shuttle bus along the Canyon Rim to Hermit's Rest.  We didn't get to see a lot of the Canyon on this trip, as it was snowing quite a lot during the afternoon - the snow flakes were soft and flaky.  There was quite a bit of snow on the ground.  We had to get snow off the car windows.