LAST DAY IN ZION

People with a Death Wish ?

This picture may be a little fuzzy depending on your computer and whether you are viewing in the blog or email.  If in the blog click on it to enlarge.  Those arrows are pointing to rock climbers at various stages of assent.  They are pretty small because the formation is so BIG.  

We saved the best part of Zion, the actual canyon itself, for the last day.  It was more 'fun' because there were more people than on Thursday.  That made it more 'interesting'.  With me on the mend Arlyene and I did two hikes, one level (and paved) trail that was just over 2 miles round trip and a second that was only one quarter of a mile but much steeper.  I went up like a Marine, my knees almost buckling at the top, then came down like a sissy.  I have dozens of pictures of formations looming over our head like 1000 story sky scrapers.  'Big' seems like too small a word in Zion Canyon.  A unique place.  We look forward to coming back prepared for some of the longer, more remote day hikes, where there will be fewer people.  We will find a way to make some more pictures available when we get an internet connection where it does not take the length of a Mariners nine inning loss to get the post to go through.  Things should improve tomorrow when we get to Bryce Canyon and we are looking forward to both a lot.

If you have never been here they have a very efficient system for moving people around inside the park and in the small town just outside the park entrance there are a number of nice hotel/lodges.  There is also a lodge inside the park.  There are two public campgrounds in the park.  One on a first come first served basis and another were you can make reservations.  They are rustic.  We are sissies.  We must have our creature comforts.  I don't think they can accommodate rolling condos anyway and we would feel out of place with a lot of tents and campers.  The jeering as we had to be towed out a place we managed to get into but can't get out of would be painful.

Tomorrow on to Bryce Canyon and something different.