Zion National Park

Hey y'all! We got to Grand Canyon yesterday afternoon. We're currently resting up for our big trip through the canyon! We're going to be taking a shuttle from the North Rim to the South Rim in a couple hours and then set out on our adventure tomorrow morning. We will be back in civilization on Saturday late morning/early afternoon. Just an idea of what we're going to be doing, check out this site... http://www.everytrail.com/guide/hiking-the-grand-canyon-rim-to-rim. The only difference is that we're going from the South Rim (4300 ft elevation change) to the North Rim (5800 ft elevation change). So, the way we're doing it is the unpopular way to say the least.

Anyways, we just got done with Zion National Park in Southwest Utah. It was beautiful. Check out my facebook for pictures. We did two famous day hikes here: Angel's Landing and The Narrow Straights. Angel's Landing is a 1500 foot ascent through 2.5 miles whilst part of it is more like climbing than hiking. Don't worry... there are some chains for us to hold onto for the real cool parts. :)

Tyler and I's favorite part in this hike was a section that was about 7 feet wide and 1200 feet straight down on either side. It was a blast. Here are a few of my favorite pictures from the hike up...

This is the first ascent at the beginning of the trail.

A view back towards the beginning of the trail... The trailhead is by the road in the left side of the valley. 

A picture at the top! What a view!

A picture from the road to the peak that we hiked to... The one on the far left.

The final ascent to the top...

I don't have a lot more time to talk about the Narrow Straights but here is goes. It was BEAUTIFUL. For those of you that don't know, it's a 9.4 mile round trip hike through a slot canyon. So there's a river through it all. We took a small canyon off of the main trail to a water fall that added around 2.5 miles to the hike so together, we hiked around 12 miles that day... mostly walking through a river. The river is mostly around a foot deep and at points it got to 10 feet deep. Tyler took every chance he could to jump off of rocks into the river while I joined him every now and then... I was too cold as the water was a whopping 56 degrees! My camera died about half way through the hike so here's some pictures and videos of the canyon from what I had it for.