Category: Zion National Park

Zion Natl Park, UT – Saturday June 2, 2012

Spent most of the day at camp. Listen to Saturday morning radio shows Car Talk and Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me ( reruns) and then the baseball game.
I spent most of the day learning to use new photo editing software, Adobe Photo Elements 10.  I have a long way to go but I can at least get a photo from my camera to this blog.

Today’s picture is of the trail to Angel’s Landing.

Zion Natl Park, Another Milestone – Friday June 1, 2012

May 31 is my birthday and this year I’m 62, one of those mathematical milestones.

Here are several picture documenting how I became a “Senior” today.

For my birthday Jean gave me $10.00.

I took this $10.00 to the Zion entrance gate and purchased my Senior Pass which is one time purchase for Life Time entry into all national parks or until October 30, 2028.
The pass also gives us a 50% discount on many of the National Park camp grounds.  Anyway now I am eligible to draw Social Security and I have a government document which says I’m a Senior (that’s with a capital “S”)

ZION FRIDAY 6/1/2012

It is going to be 101 today and it was 100 yesterday, VACATION.

Today’s picture(s) are from the West Rim trail above Angel’s Landing.  I took the 6:00 a.m. bus up the canyon and spent the morning on the trail above Angel’s Landing taking pictures and hoping the condors I saw last year would come back.    They didn’t.

Over the winter I bought myself a new toy, a Canon 60d and a couple of lens. The walk around lens is 18-200mm and the big toy is a 150-500mm.  The first picture is of Angel’s Landing at 150mm.

I think this lens is going to be a lot of fun and great to take pictures of birds and other animals.

Zion Natl Park, UT – Wednesday May 30, 2012

This was a hiking day.  Got up at 5:15 am to catch the 6:00 bus up the canyon. I think there were 8 people on the early bus.
Hiked up the West side trail, this goes UP the west canyon wall and past Angel’s Landing.  Stopped about half way to the West rim and spent a couple of hours wandering and around taking pictures, think l took 300. 
Picture of the day is our evening view, 8:00 pm and its 80°.

Belfair State Park, Zion Winter – Sunday February 19, 2013

BELFAIR – WEEKEND RAP UP

Sunday is a lot nicer than Friday and Saturday.  Our motor home is just right of the center trailer, you can see the front wheel and the brown front lower quarter panel.   It rained hard all Saturday morning the rain began to slow down about 2:00 o’clock.  These two pictures were taken Sunday morning.
Here’s a picture taken from across the park.

In 1991 Tanya, Brian and I spent Spring break week at Belfair.  This was Jean’s first year at Sacred Heart and she had to work during week.  I think we’d plan on Jean coming over on the weekend however it rained HARD all week and the kids and I gave up Thursday or Friday, I don’t really remember but we did come home early.  I do remember the beach campsites were all flooded and we drove into Belfair so the kids could play under the covered school yard for a  while.

Here are some pictures of the campsite we stayed at in 1991.
From the site looking out towards Hood Canal

Don’t worry I’m not going to go back to every park we ever stayed at and get caught up on all the site pictures I didn’t take.

It was a good weekend and tomorrow starts another week for me (Jean has the day off for President’s day).

Zion Winter

One of the blogs I follow is a guy who has spent the last couple of winters as a camp host in Zion National Park.  Here’s his website and blog, click.  http://www.lightcurve.com/.

What I really want to show you are some pictures he took this morning at Zion’s Watchman Campground:
Maybe someday I’ll get a chance to see Zion in the winter.  At this point spring and falls when it’s 85 to 95 degrees during the day is the perfect time for us.    Have a GREAT week.