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Hiking The Hopi Salt Trail 2025

Matt and Steve hike the Hopi Salt Trail. It's an ass-kicker of a route requiring some scrambling and quite a bit of route-finding. There are cairns but some cairns mark other trails that head off toward other points of interest like petroglyphs or views. We lost the trail once on the way in and once again on the way back following trails that went astray, each error costing us about an hour and many calories. The water in the river was a milky soft turquoise color and is very salty to drink. Not as salty as sea water but enough to be unpleasant tasting. We did find a spring with fresher water near the helipad which we filtered. It too was somewhat saline but less so than the river. We diluted it with the water we brought in from home and found it made a very nice electrolyte drink that was quenching and nourishing with no ill after-effects. This is a hike that requires scrambling skills, route-finding skills, water-management skills and should definitely not be someone's first Grand Canyon hike. It requires a permit which can be obtained from the Navajo Nation: https://navajonationparks.org/permits/ The following is an AI overview: The Hopi Salt Trail is an ancient pilgrimage route leading into the Grand Canyon to collect salt from deposits along the Little Colorado River. It was established by early peoples and used for thousands of years as a rite of passage for young men to collect salt for their female relatives. The trail also has deep spiritual significance, passing by sacred sites like the Sipapu and connecting to the underworld realm associated with Salt Woman. The Hopi "Salt Woman" is not a single, distinct figure but a personification of salt itself, recognized through stories of the Salt Woman, Ma'lokyattsik'i. The concept is shared by several Southwestern tribes, with the Hopi associating her with the salt deposits in the Grand Canyon. She is the subject of the Hopi Salt Trail, a sacred path for male initiates to make a perilous journey to gather salt for ceremonial purposes. For more on the Little Colorado River's significance in Native cultures; https://www.grandcanyontrust.org/blog...