Epic Ascent on New Hance Trail — Grand Canyon Day Four

Michelle Parsons
5 min readDec 16, 2019
Coronado Butte

It’s no exaggeration to say that hiking out of the Grand Canyon was one of the most challenging and strenuous things I’ve ever done. We took three days to hike to the bottom. And we took one day to hike out, climbing 4,422' vertical feet in 7.5 miles in an all-day scramble fest. By the end of the day, I looked and felt like my ass had been kicked.

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