2. 2008

Zion and Bryce, UT

Zion is packed with big walls and amazing canyons. We spent one day hiking the Narrows, and the next climbing one route on the Organ, a less-than-big-wall that we could tackle in a few hours.
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Jess goes airborne after climbing the slippery wall over a deep pool.
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Jess goes airborne after climbing the slippery wall over a deep pool.

UtahZionThe NarrowsJess Young2008

  • Morning wakes Kelsey nice and slowly on Jess' air mattress in the shady woods near Zion.
  • Zion's Narrows provide an incredible hike up a canyon hundreds of feet deep and only dozens wide.
  • Cascading water reflects the red from the cliffs above and turns into gold as Kelsey walks by.
  • Hikers walk up the streambed at the bottom of the canyon, often in the water itself. Tracy takes off ahead of the group.
  • Kelsey and Richard stand in awe of the masses of rock looming overhead.
  • The immense walls of the canyon are incredible, towering hundreds of feet overhead in all directions.
  • Kelsey finds a bit of climbing on the walls of the canyon.
  • Kelsey and Richard hike onward up the streambed.
  • A spotlight of sun illuminates Richard wandering along enjoying himself.
  • Sometimes creatures in the wild adapt their colors to blend in to their natural habitat. Kelsey Gray is one of such creatures.
  • Reflecting sunlight illuminates Kelsey as he searches for holds, bouldering around above a slow spot in the creek.
  • Around every bend in the canyon is another bend, luring us onwards. Kelsey checks out the next turn from a boulder in mid-stream.
  • Natural water streaks make beautiful art on the sandstone walls, hundreds of feet below the surface sandstone where this water was originally deposited.
  • High water during flash floods has left many objects stranded in very interesting places, like this pile of rocks in a pocket well above the riverbed.
  • Richard pulls through some moves well off the deck to get to a higher ledge.
  • The mid-afternoon shadows chase Jess from her warm hole in the wall.
  • Richard poses on the sandstone walls.
  • Jess goes airborne after climbing the slippery wall over a deep pool.
  • Tracy Borland shows off her warpaint.
  • Kelsey makes an odd sideways flip into a deeper pool of water.
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