"Awesome day! Was able to stay at the el Tovar hotel. My wife and I started around 6:30am. It was really cold on the rim. We hiked down bright angel trail to 1.5 rest house then cut across the ridges to the battleship. There are many cairns all over the place. After some cross country we got to the battleship. I had read the route was class 3. I got off trail and unclimbed a chimney prob like 5.4 or something. My wife was smart enough not to follow me because up climbing and down climbing are different with no rope. I made another dumb decision and took my pack off thinking I was almost at the top. I tried to route find on the ledges. I found a spot others had climbed a short crack climb again, not class 3, I got up it and knew I was in trouble. Because I was not going to be able to down climb it. I wandered around to the wrong side tried to climb a even more exposed section and wasn’t comfortable with it. So I back tracked and thought I must be off trail. I found the correct trail class 3 and got to the summit. Then I had to go back around and up climb and down climb the first chimney and get my backpack where all our water was. Almost turned into a epic but a awesome climb. ..." — ryancoburn • Oct 23, 2021