Leaving the bright lights of Vegas behind us we set off to the first stop on our 6 day camping tour. After a few wrong turns we reached the surreal landscape of Zion just as the sun was illuminating the mountains highlighting the coloured sandstone which the valley is famous for.
Our camp ground may not have had a shower but it did have some friendly wildlife.
As we awoke for our full day of hiking the zion canyon, I felt slightly less excited as the lack of sleep from Vegas and sleeping in a tent had caught up with me. I looked at the map and saw that there were a few short, easy walks which would do nicely.
We did not do any of these.
We started promisingly enough with a gentle stroll to the Emerald Pools.
This walk conveniently led on to the difficult and strenuous Angel Falls walk.
Once you start the walk there is no turning back half way, so along with the other hordes of sweating tourists we ploughed our way to the top.
Thankfully the views were spectacular which made it all worth it.
After lunch we thought we would finish the day with a easy walk to the Weeping Mountain. However, once again I found myself on a steep hike to Hidden Canyon. I cant even blame Karl as the map said it was a 2mile walk so I thought that sounded great. What they didn't say was the 2 miles were vertical.
Exhausted we still had one more site to visit. Zions grand finally is its Narrows. This is the section at the end of the Canyon where the walls close in and the river begins to flow down. These go on for up to 18miles, unfortunately most of that is waste deep in water and we didn't come prepared with waterproof trousers or shoes. We walked as far as we could without getting soaked and were still able to appreciate the scenery.
Feeling like we literally couldn't walk another step of Zion Canyon we fell into a peaceful and well deserved sleep.
