{"id":4359,"date":"2015-11-24T13:03:15","date_gmt":"2015-11-24T13:03:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/?p=4359"},"modified":"2015-11-24T13:03:15","modified_gmt":"2015-11-24T13:03:15","slug":"back-from-the-canyon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/2015\/11\/24\/back-from-the-canyon\/","title":{"rendered":"Back From The Canyon"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Snow clouds move over the Canyon<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Grunge is back for the Grand Canyon! \u00a0Many, many thanks go out to Dudley (’64) and Judy Burgess for putting together a superb trip.<\/strong> \u00a0\u00a0 The total party included: Dudley and Judy, President and Mrs. Hess, Walt (’68) and Kathy Snodell, Dean Michelle Janssen, Scott Dreher (’82) and Aimee Cox, Ray LaDriere ’78, Greg (’85) and Sarah Estell, Jeff Perkins ’89 and Brandon Leyton. \u00a0Hikers were: Dudley, President Hess, Walt, Scott, Ray, Greg E., Jeff, Brandon, and the Grunge.<\/p>\n

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Hikers ready to go: Runge, President Hess, Brandon, Scott, Jeff, Ray, Greg E., Walt, and Dudley<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

We headed into the Canyon on the South Kaibab Trail and exited on the Bright Angel Trail. \u00a0A good time was had by all.<\/p>\n

On our arrival at the Canyon, we were greeted with a south rim snow fall.<\/p>\n

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Walt and Kathy Snodell with the snow moving through<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

That snowfall made the first couple of miles “interesting” as you can see.<\/p>\n

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President Hess on the early switchbacks<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

By the time the group left Phantom Ranch, everyone knew the “Wabash hikers”. \u00a0Had to get the “banner” shot in front of Phantom Ranch.<\/p>\n

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Some tired but happy..hikers! Ray, Dudley, Jeff, Greg E., President Hess, Walt, Scott, and Brandon<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  The Grunge is back for the Grand Canyon! \u00a0Many, many thanks go out to Dudley (’64) and Judy Burgess for putting together a superb trip. \u00a0\u00a0 The total party included: Dudley […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"w_featured_image_url":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2015\/11\/hess-7882.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4359"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4359\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4367,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4359\/revisions\/4367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}