Sleeping by the River and Exploring Zion in a day

August 2
Woke up on Zion and realized had a great night sleep by sleeping next to the river. It really is a great sound.

We had a bit of a lazy morning and then went to the visitors center and collected another great stamp since we missed it the night before by getting in too late. And we took the shuttle as far as it would go. It took us to the first of four small hikes.
It was the river side trail which ends in another trail which leads down the river called the narrows in the canyon. It was closed due to flash flooding warnings which was not surprising after the rain we drove through last night to get here.

Then we saw a couple of other great viewpoints off the shuttle and set off on some cool walks to see the weeping rock which is a wall of sandstone basically dripping water 4000 years old and another trail to the emerald pools which had some great waterfalls as a result of the rain from last night. We also saw three different peaks called the court of the patriarchs named Abraham, Isaac and Jacob by a Methodist minister. We then had a bit of a lazy afternoon, and took a great scenic drive through a much less populated area of Zion called the Kolob Canyons which were just as spectacular but much less crowded and we were able to drive ourselves. We then stopped at a place for great bread and blogged and ds’ed a bit after one of the most glorious parts of our trip a great 8 minute shower paid for in 8 minute increments, It was spectacular. We then had a nice dinner and chilled before heading off too bed.

Zion was a great campground though, both of our favorites so far,

Random PT story we were walking on one of the trails this morning and I saw a heavyset older woman with a straight cane with the stool in kind of a tripod form which I swear must have covered only 10 % o0f her ass. I was prepared to watch her sit down to watch the engineering marvel and of course she fell down. Laura and I spring into action and help her to her feet but just a warning that as a PT I absolutely hate these things
Tomorrow we are off to the Grand Canyon, Exploring the Colorado River from below on a float trip first and then on to our campground.