Author: harrylange

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