Some places make their point before you’ve had time to understand them. On the South Kaibab Trail, the descent toward Cedar Ridge felt almost effortless at first. The path dropped away through steep switchbacks, the canyon opening wider with every turn.
It’s the kind of landscape that makes distance difficult to judge — everything feels impossibly close and impossibly vast at the same time.
Then came the reminder every canyon hike eventually gives you: whatever you walk down, you still have to climb back out.
