Hello once again! Catch everyone up, we were in Utah at Capitol Reef National Park. From there we headed up to a quick trip to Great Basin in Nevada. However, everything was closed but the caves so we did that (it took about a hour) and headed back in Utah to finish the last two national parks there, Zion and Bryce Canyon. Zion was amazing. Our first day, we decided to do short trails and overlooks and the next day the longer trails. The reason behind that was because we had to wait at the campsite from 8am-12pm for an auto glass repairman to come to us. A rock had hit Amanda's windshield, almost killing me :/, and put a nice little knick in her glass. Well they finally came out at 12:30 so we only had half a day really. Regardless, we filled up our days. The second day was the most exciting. We hiked up to this area called Angel's Landing (I called the path Demon's walk because it was a little hard haha). It was 5.4 miles round trip and the last .5 mile was basically traversing a mountain and they have chain links to help you not fall. It was amazing and I would do it again in a heartbeat. Amanda and I killed these two guys who started it at the same time as us. We were fairly proud of ourselves because they looked like they were gonna just run up. We got to the top and the views were breath-taking. Trying to come down was the hard part. The rock was slick so we were afraid of falling, Amanda crab walked most of the first .5 mile (the part with chains) which was a good idea.
The rest of the day consisted of shorted hikes and seeing the rest of the park (our legs hurt pretty bad haha). The main trail we wanted to do was the Narrows. You are wading through the Virgin river through the canyon however far you want. But because of the snow melting they closed it due to flash floods. Oh well maybe next time.
The next morning was Bryce Canyon. We got up early, Amanda a little perturbed because there were no showers and headed out. We got there and realized that we would finish this park in a few hours and there was snow all over the campgrounds. I'm not that rugged that I am willing to sleep on snow. So we did the park which was mostly overlooks and then headed towards the Grand Canyon in Arizona. Goodbye Utah! Tonight we got to swim in a heated pool and hot tub and do laundry, it was a good night haha. Tomorrow we spend the day in the Grand Canyon and then we are off to Vegas for the weekend :) Until then, keep a look out for pictures on facebook and an update in Vegas this weekend! Bye guys.
Nadeen
PS
I GOT A NEW CAMERA WOOO!
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