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
Here are a couple of flower pictures.
Hammock is working.
This the rain fly from the hammock side.
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.
