Another great day at Zion.
I got up at 5:15 a.m. to catch the 6:00 a.m. bus up the valley. This gives me an hour and a half start on most of the people who visit the park. The traffic into the valley gets really started about 7:00 a.m. My goals was to spend a couple of hours on the trail heading towards the East Rim. The east rim trail follows the heavily used Observation Point trail for the first two miles than cuts off to the very seldom used east rim trail. As an example I’d guess 3-400 people climb up to Observation Point most days and the east rim trail sees 10-20 people. This year I saw 6 people from 7:00 to 11:00 a.m and in past years I’ve spent of 7:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m and seen 2 people. Zion is a big place and any place off the main trails is quite. I went to GPS 37 16.498N 112 55.547W, this is worth looking at in Google Earth however here are some screen shots.
By the way the elevation is 5511.
Here are a couple of pictures from the last couple of days.
Hank and I got this picture the other morning.
Had to have a least one sunset taken from our campsite.
Have not idea what flower this is.
This seed pod is at least 4 inches across, a half hour later it was gone 😦 .
Think it got up to 92 on Friday, Saturday’s forecast is 94 and Sunday 100. See you later.
PS. CONGRATULATIONS Stine