• Date: December 26, 2020

• 5 Miles

• Havasupai Gardens to Home

We awoke at 6:20 am as the first rays of sun lightened the sky visible from inside the canyon.  We got up and started making some hot cocoa.  A quick pack and we were ready to go.  We climbed up and out of Havasupai Gardens.  Only about a mile up from there, I turned to my left and saw a massive male bighorn sheep/ram standing next to us.  He quickly turned and raced across the rocky plains/slopes.  

Day hikers began downward in a trickle that soon turned to a rush.  It was surprising to us because we saw so few people the days before; now, everyone was coming down on a holiday visit.  We kept a good upward pace, passing ice falls near the top.  By 10:40, we were out and walking back to our place.