Category: Zion National Park

Zion Natl Park – Sunday June 2, 2013

Today is our last day at Zion and we will be heading to Lees Ferry National Rec Area tomorrow morning.  The current plan is Monday and Tuesday at Lees Ferry and then Wednesday and Thursday at a Nevada park, Cathedral Gorge State Park.  Head home early Friday morning.

Hot yesterday.
Hotter today,

It actually says 97.5 now.  Hank is hot but being very good.  He loves ice so we are letting him have ice to eat.

This morning Jean and I took the tram up to the lodge to look at the gift store.  We have final been here enough times that Jean could not find anything.  The visit count is at 13.

 

Zion Natl Park, UT – Friday May 31, 1950

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

 

 

 

Zion Natl Park – Tuesday May 28, 2013

First night of vacation, rest stop just north of Eugene Oregon. Left home at 5:00 on Thursday.

We got to Richard & Vicki’s at the regular time 6:30. Had great time Friday and Saturday getting to see Richard’s 65 Chevy pickup and his talent of making really cool men out of train rail spikes.
We left Sunday morning at 7:00 and got to Cedar City, Utah at 8:00 pm 526 miles. It was a nice drive across Nevada, east on 50 and south on 93. Spent he night in a Home Depot parking let next to Walmart.
Got to Zion in an hour and set up in site B44 right on the river.
This is my birthday/father’s day gift from TA, I’m going to make sure it gets a lot of usage this year and in the future.
Note the rain fly in the middle of the sun cover. Yes on the assembly instructions it’s called a rain fly.

It even has it’s own cooler, the bad picture above shows it from the side with the last picture showing the inside.

Started this on my cellphone and updating it from my IPad. I got a phone app which makes my phone a wiFi hotspot.

That’s it for today my glass is empty.

 

Zion Natl Park, UT – Saturday September 8, 2012

Friday afternoon I decided to take a trip up the Narrows.  One of the equipment outfitters has opened a small pop up store just outside the park entrance.  I could walk over the walk in entrance bridge and rent water walking shoes.  The next available shop is a mile walk into Springdale in the 95+ heat and sun.

I thought about going with my tennis shoes and not spend the $20.00 for the rental shoes however I’m glad I rented the shoes.  I think they made a big difference and I was still pretty tired by the end of the day.  Entered the river at 9:45 and turned around at 12:00. I was getting tired and I still had to return the distance I’d come in the last 2 plus hours.  Got back the the river trail head at 1:30.  I did learn from the hike Tanya and I did a couple of years ago and that was to bring my sandels to walk the mile back to the tram and the 1/2 from the tram to camp.   As the shoes start to dry out they get smaller and start pushing your toes together and creating blisters.

Here are two pictures, I only took 135 pictures in the narrows.  I didn’t want slip and get my camera wet so I kept the camera in my pack and had to stop and unpack it to take pictures.  I didn’t fall all day, however I was more comfortable knowing if I did fall I wouldn’t ruin my camera.
For those of you how have not hike up the Virgin River the walls are up to 2000 feet high.  If you look on the left side of the river just where the river bed meets the rock wall you  can see a hiker next to the wall.

Here’s another group moving up the river.  In time I’ll post more pictures on Google.

Having a great trip.   Harry

Zion Natl Park, Ut – Friday September 7, 2012

We got to take a ride to Hurricane Utah today. Our original plan was to visit the vet at the High Desert Vet clinic. This is the same vet we had Hank to last September when he couldn’t stop scratching. 
This morning he stepped on something while chasing after a lizard. It was more than a burr, he was in significant pain and seemed to be in a panic as he was licking he left paw. He was not about to put it on the ground.  By the time we get to the vet he was fine, walking on the paw like nothing had ever been wrong (children).  We went for a walk this evening he he was fine except for a couple of times he step on it wrong and he’d limp for 2 or 3 more steps.  My guess is he stepped on a bee.

Picture of the day is Zion visitor’s center.

This Android version of WordPress likes something between pictures.
Current plan: I’m going to hike up the narrows tomorrow and Monday we’ll move to Lee’s Ferry National Recreation area in northern Arizona.  It is on the Colorado River and we have never been there. Google says it is 124 miles from here. 
I do not think we will have cell service there.