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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Ancient water stains pour down the walls from seeping spouts of water that has spent hundreds and sometimes thousands of years creeping downward through the sandstone.
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Ancient water stains pour down the walls from seeping spouts of water that has spent hundreds and sometimes thousands of years creeping downward through the sandstone.

UtahZionThe Narrows2008

  • Taking advantage of a bit of sunlight to warm up a little, we found some local wildlife with the same idea.
  • A small lizard hides quietly in the leaves, soaking up the sunlight.
  • Spotty sunlight provides comfortable warmth for this lizard on a rock at the bottom of the canyon.
  • This lizard enjoys sitting in the sun enough to let me get close.
  • A lizard pauses in flight on a dried stick, unsure of the danger from the photographer.
  • Sunlight peers through a low spot in the canyon wall, reaching us for a few brief minutes of our hike.
  • Kelsey takes a shot at the skyline in the only angle possible for the subject matter.
  • Water-carved sandstone creates beautiful curves and features high above us.
  • The Narrows are certainly appropriately named, closing in some spots to about twenty feet wide and always hundreds of feet deep.
  • Hundreds of hikers leave their impermanent mark on the canyon's walls in the form of muddy handprints to be washed away in the next flood.
  • Ancient water stains pour down the walls from seeping spouts of water that has spent hundreds and sometimes thousands of years creeping downward through the sandstone.
  • Tracy and Jess and the Narrows.
  • A gentle waterfall drops into the canyon bottom, marking the turnaround point on our hike. From here, we headed back downstream and out of the narrows.
  • Tracy crawls over a boulder mid-stream in the hike back to camp.
  • Layers of soft sandstone erode on the riverbanks of Zion.
  • While waiting for another party to finish a route we wanted to climb, we got to know some of the local wildlife a little more personally.
  • A tiny lizard perches on my fingers.
  • "You and what army?" Richard's tiny lizard peeks at the camera past his giant fingertips.
  • Richard eyes a tiny lizard face to face.
  • Yellow flowers attract bugs of all varieties, including this happy bee and tiny hoverflies..
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