Sorry it's been taking so long to get the pictures up. Morgan and I are in school now and we haven't had much free time with wedding showers, book buying, and the lake. Well, after Bryce we went on to Zion National Park. The day after we got there we rode in some beat up suburban that barely passed as a shuttle up this crazy dirt road that let out at a trail head. It was about a 45 min. drive which we spent mostly behind an suv filled with people with very... uh... nervous stomachs. I don't know what he had for breakfast, but it sure didn't look good coming out of the back window! Anyway, we were let out at a creek and the "shuttle" driver said "Follow that." We followed it. The creek started out in a big field with cows and was about ten feet wide in most parts. I tried to keep my feet dry for about a mile, but then gave up and just trudged through with my boots. morgan, by this point, had already been completely drinched from the knee down. We got to some of the narrow parts about 2 miles in. and that's where the pictures start.
This is actually on the second day. We started at the drop off point and hiked to our campsite that was 8 miles in. A ranger came up that evening and made sure we were in the right spot. He camped in another site down the river and the next morning took this picture.
This was an awesome spot. Right in front of me there was a huge rock wall with just a thin, tall sliver of light hitting it.
I really liked this spot. As you can see in some of these pictures the creek definately grew as we went down. The flash floods are really dangerous here because it is so narrow and there's no place to go, but we survived. In some places the rock walls enclosing the river were 20 feet apart and 2000 feet tall! The whole hike was about 16 miles long which usually we could do in a pretty long day, but since this was through a river it proved to be very challenging to do even in 2 days.
This was a hike we did the next day still in Zion. It was called angels landing. Over a 2.5 mile hike we climbed about 1800 feet and traversed along little more than a cliff face with a chain railing on it. Great view that was definately worth the hike and climb.
I'll try to post again soon.
