Day: September 7, 2011

8:00 p.m. setting outside at the picnic table, another great evening at Zion. I got up early this morning and caught the 5:45 hiking bus up the canyon. This bus leaves early and is focused on people who want to get an early start hiking. It doesn’t stop at a regular bus stop unless someone is there. During the day it takes 45 minutes to get up the canyon, on the morning express bus it takes 20 minutes.

My plan for today was to hike up the west rim trail past Scout Pass and Angels Landing and spend most of the morning out on the open rock enjoying the country. Sunrise is after 7:00 a.m so I needed a flashlight to hike to first half hour. I could see trail however I could not see the high spots in trail used to divert water. Enter this ( 37.27938-112.95127 ) into Google Earth and you’ll be able to see where I went.

It was a nice day and got back to camp about 2:00.

I spent some time photographing the attached dragon fly.

On the way back down I saw several condor flying along the ridge line of Scout Pass and Angel’s Landing. I could not read the wing tag numbers until I downloaded the pictures.  Here a a few of the pictures I took.

Some of the pictures I took at our stop at the Golden Spike National Monument are here.