Category: Zion National Park

Zion National Park – Wednesday September 6, 2017

Today was travel day to Zion National Park for two week.  It is really a beautiful place.
On the way we made three stops, Lowes, Safelite Auto Glass and Walmart.   Lowes was to look at microwave ovens the microwave convection oven was acting up for a week or so my not working, we threatened it and has worked for the past week.  If it quits again it’s gone.  Safelite to get a motorhome window chip fixed and Walmart for groceries.
Watchman campground.
We are in site B44 for the next two weeks.
This picture was taken with my Ipad, not a bad picture.

Vacation – Zion Narrows – Saturday September 18, 2010

Saturday September 18 Tanya and I went on a Zion Institute guided walk up the Zion Narrows.

We got on the 8:00 a.m. tram for the 40 minute ride to the end of the tram road and the beginning of the River Walk which leads to the starting point of the Zion Narrows river trail. There is tons ofinformation about the Zion Narrows (plan a visit) already on the net so I’ll skip most of the Narrows details. We started the day’s walk at 9:00 am and returned at 3:45 pm. Went up river to the first Y, turned right and up Orderville Canyon to the turn around point, returned to the Y and up main river to Wall Street. At Wall Street we turned around and headed down river. I’d say about 80% of the time is spend walking in the river.

It was a great day with a really nice group of people. I scheduled the hike with the Zion Institute so we’d have the opportunity to learn something and I thought it would be more enjoyable going with someone who knew what they were actually doing. We could have walked up river on our own however going with someone who had done this a couple of hundred times was much more enjoyable. Gene could read the river and picked the easiest and fastest route up and across the river 99% of the time. I didn’t see how really good Gene was until the trip down river. We didn’t encounter many people early in the morning however on the trip down river we saw hundred’s of people. Watching them stuggle to pick the route up river showed Gene’s understanding of the river.

Our Zion Institute guide was Gene (as I mentioned above). He is in his 70’s and volunteers to lead programs for the institute all year round. Gene said his wife’s father was actually born at the same location as the current Zion Museum.

We had a great day. I’ll include a couple of pictures now and maybe some more later.

This is one of the 191 pictures I took during the day.

This is most of the group.
Have a Great day, Harry

 

Vacation – Friday September 17, 2010

It’s Friday and vacation is a great thing. We should do this more often.

It is warm as in the lower 90’s and Hank is uncomfortable. He’s not grouchy as he was the first couple of years he’s just can not get comfortable. He’ll lay in one place for about 10 minutes and then he has to move.

It’s the couch

chair

floor

under the table

different spot on the floor

chair

couch

he’s a warm puppy

In as much as Hank is a warm puppy Jean is ecstatic. She loves the heat and it’s actually quite nice this sunny and warm in September.

On a non vacation topic since I got this new laptop I’ve been working with OpenOffice for word processing and spreadsheets. MsOffice is just to expensive for a non work related activities. I think I’ll continue use OpenOffice for a while. One of the driving forces is my version of Office is Office 97 and it will not work with 64 bit Windows 7, at least I don’t know how to make it work.

OpenOffice wants to save text as ODF whatever that is however I’ve been saving text documents as rtf’s. Not really sure how odf’s will paste into wordpress blogs so I’ll stay with rft’s for now, may try odf’s later.

Got to go get a picture or two for today.
Our campsite for the week.

View of the west rim valley about half way up to the rim.

Zion National Park – Saturday June 6, 2010

Sunday at Zion and more than likely stay in camp all day. It’s going to get to 104 today. At 11:45 it is 90. The weather channel says 89. Jean is laying in the sun and I’m hiding in shade of the MH.

We leave here tomorrow morning and head east up and out through the tunnel. They are starting road construction tomorrow so it only be open to MH from 7:00 am To 9:00 am in the morning and two hours in the evening. You can drive around but that’s about 50 miles. We’ll get all shower’d up this evening, dump & fill with water. I don’t think the two Parks we are go to have water. I don’t want miss the open tunnel time waiting to get water in the morning. It can take a while to take on 100 gallons of water, with the tunnel open for 2 hours everyone may decide to leave at the same time.

HAPPY Birthday to the UW Executive MBA Candidate.

The picture of day is camping thing:

Extra picture, weather channel says 98 this is under our awning not in the direct sun.

 

Zion National Park – Friday June 4, 2010

It’s Friday and we have been gone for a week. As you all know this vacation thing is much better than billed.

Hank and l got up and went for three poo morning walk, that’s anything over 3 miles. We actual did just over 4.

Today is also a two picture day. These where taken within minutes of one another. One was taken were Hank wants to spend the middle of the day and one is where Jean spends the day. Jean’s picture has gone up 2 degrees since l took it.

Have a Great weekend, we’ll be back to Enumclaw weather in a week.

Zion National Park – Wednesday June 2, 2010

Wednesday at Zion Natl Park. Today’s entry will have two pictures, one from the East Rim trail and the other is a mystery picture. If you think you know what the mystery picture is you can add your guess to the comments. I left home with the comments set as moderated and l’ve had no luck getting that changed. You’ll have wait for me to approve comments.

I caught the 5:45 a.m. bus this morning and hiked up to the East Rim trail 4.5 miles up and 4.5 miles back down – a long ways for me. It got to 90 today and should reach 100+ this weekend.