For those looking for the english version: Just scroll down a little. Nach San Francisco war der Yosemite NP eine richtige Wohltat. Es hat zwar auch hier eine Menge Leute, aber viel mehr Natur, und was fuer eine! Ich machte ein paar nette Bekanntschaften. Die Wanderung auf den Half Dome war das Highlight. Auch wenn die Wanderung nicht ganz ohne ist (10h, ca. 27km horizontal und knapp 1500m Höhendifferenz) und gerade 2 Tage vor meinem Trip jemand tödlich verunglückt ist, hat es viele Leute welche sich auch ans letzte Stück, die Cables wagen. Das sind 2 Stahlseile welche über die letzten [View Full Entry]

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Day 27 – Saturday – Hurricane, Utah Well after such a late night we all agreed to having a nice lie in this morning before heading off to see Bryce Canyon and Zion National Park (this time in the day light!). Dean & I have to admit that after yesterday's effort and seeing 3 Grand Canyon rims in one day that we weren't completely invested in seeing two more national parks....silly us! We had a great day!!! So first it was off to Bryce Canyon (ANOTHER whole in the ground hahah). But on our way we made an emegency stop [View Full Entry]

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"The Grand Circle" is the circle of national parks in Northern Arizona, Southern Utah and Southwestern Colorado. They're Mesa Verde, Arches, Capitol Reef, Bryce Canyon, Zion, and the Grand Canyon. And now, we've officially been to all of them! We started at Bryce Canyon after Capitol Reef (complete with Paul's Aussie Hat). Bryce is beautiful because of the look of its rock features (sorry, no big geology lesson this time). This one was carved out by water, and is still being eroded by water in the winter. That means that all of the rocky spires, called HOODOOS! (isn't that fun? Hoodoo [View Full Entry]

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new hot springs, old roads, some magic North America » United States » Utah » Bryce Canyon By pulama May 11th 2007 Lisa Bartoletti HI Friends, At this moment I am somewhere below Provo Utah and wondering if I should head back to Arizona [View Full Entry]

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Torsdag d. 26/4 (dag 10) Bye, bye Vegas, med en kombination af en gammel "fighter pilot" og en klonet Torkild Thyring bag rattet kom vi meget hurtigt ud af Vegas!! Gudskelov ikke med pantelånere i hælene . Det var en besynderlig by, sjov at have set, men dybest set ikke videre charmerende. Hvis man tænker over, hvad det er; en kæmpe lysende by midt i ørkenen, alt er kunstigt med kopier af ægte kulturskatte, men nu i plastik med et massivt forbrug af el og begrænsede vand ressoourcer og en masse mennesker, der alle håber på den lette vej til lidt [View Full Entry]

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Distance: 4 miles Rating: easy-difficult (final climb out of amphitheater) The term "other-worldly" gets tossed around a lot. I for one am guilty of having used it several times to describe some of the more unique hikes I've been on. However, I have now found a place that truly fits the other-worldly designation. As I look back at the pictures from my visit to Bryce Canyon National Park, I am still absolutely in awe of the place. I can honestly say that I've never seen anything like it! Thousands upon thousands of stone pillars run from the rim out to the [View Full Entry]

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After too short of a time in Sedona, it was time to continue on. I left on Thursday April 12 and proceeded to head North. About 50 miles and just outside of Flagstaff, AZ the temperature had dropped from 65 degrees to 31 and snow had begun falling. I stopped briefly to take in the surealness of the moment, then continued on. The entire day of travel was somewhat strenuous, as I had been for the most part stationary the previous week, taking short day trips of 20 miles or so and traveling mostly on foot. It was nice to [View Full Entry]

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13/04/07 - 14/04/07 A Dash of Utah As we’d stopped at Zabriskie Point in Death Valley, an English woman we met told us that sunrise at Bryce Canyon was so beautiful that it had made her weep. Leaving Las Vegas, it was a slight detour North and would take us into an extra State where the book of Mormon, not the Gilead Bible makes bedside reading - Utah. To cause as much confusion as possible, seemed to be the goal of whoever named the viewpoints in Bryce Canyon National Park. The best place to watch sunset is at Sunrise Point and [View Full Entry]

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Well today we hit the wonder of Bryce and the 'hoodoos'. I remember as a child thinking that the rock towers looked liked people's faces, and this impression still sticks after visiting the park today. It has to be one of the most beautiful places I have visited, and I even bought a poster (and sadly a geological cross-section poster too!). Alex and I spent ages sitting overlooking the 'amphitheater', he drawing and me writing my journal. It was lovely and warm in the sun, and so peaceful. We only saw 2 other people the whole time. The colours are wonderful, [View Full Entry]

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On the way to Capitol Reef we also visited Goblin Valley State Park - an unusual collection of sandstone hoodoos that look a lot like mushrooms. Some of them are quite large and it was quite a maze to walk amongst them. We had a slight detour getting out of the park though and back on to the main road. I had a map that said there was another road back out but this actually turned out to be a 4wd drive road down a wash. It was rather late in the afternoon before we got back out again! The next [View Full Entry]

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