Another beautiful, majestic, awesome national park. We stayed in the Zion Lodge, which is about 3 miles from the visitors center, so you are right in the middle of the valley where all the great sites and hiking trails are. We arrived Tuesday afternoon and took it easy after a day of driving. We got lucky with the weather, it's normally pretty hot here, but it rained on Wednesday, so we were able to do a full day of hiking in relatively cool, cloudy weather. We did a ranger hike for the kids, then the narrows hike which takes you along the river and into the narrowest part of the main canyon. There was a flash flood warning, so we decided to wait until the next day to hike into the river.
We then did a hike up to "Weeping Rock" which was beautiful -- in the middle of a desert you have these sections where the water seeps through the rock and creates "hanging gardens":
We all then decided to hike up a rather steep and treacherous trail to "hidden canyon" -- Brandon and I stopped when it got a bit too steep and scary, which included having to hold on to chains in places where the trail basically sloped off to a cliff. Mike and Andrew made it all the way, but I was glad Brandon and I skipped it -- we both have vertigo and it would have been very problematic.
The boys have been doing amazingly well with all the hiking -- they both have tons of energy, even after a full day of steep climbs. Today was a sunny day, but the temperatures stayed reasonable. I'll post more pictures if I have time in the morning. Next stop will be camping in Bryce Canyon, so we won't have internet access for a few days.
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