The Oregon Trail - Day 6

We spent the night in Kanab, Utah and headed to Zion National Park early to try to beat the rain that we had been told was coming back in.  And they were right.  Zion was so beautiful and it was Bop's favorite place we have been.    We saw mountains that words cannot describe!

After seeing the whole Park we drove the 124 mile long Scenic Highway 12 that goes from Panguitch to Torrey, Utah.  Again, it was outstanding and so very different from the other places we have seen.  We walked right up to the edge of some cliffs that were 9,600 feet in elevation along the Devil's Backbone Mountain Range.  Baker, that is a very tall place to be looking off of.  Remember it was in the high 30 degrees and very windy and rainy lots of the time.  COLD!  We even got some snow pictures up there.  The first snow of this season fell that day.  When we got to the end of the Scenic Drive at Torrey we decided the weather was too cold and rainy to set up the tent, so again another warm night.  

This is Checkerboard Mesa which  is in Zion Park.  It really did look somewhat like a checkerboard.  Neat!

Not a great picture, but it shows just how much rain and fast rising water there was.  The camp grounds were on the other side and the campers could not get in or out until it went down.  This is along the Scenic Highway 12.  The water was rising before our very eyes just the few minutes we were there and gushing danagerously fast.  Glad we were not camping there!

Marmalade's Side of the Story

We all got out to see great stuff very early.  Nonnie put me out there in the cold to take a picture beside the Kanab sign and look at the pretty pink sunset we saw.  I like that and of course you know Nonnie did too!

Sidney, can you even find me?  Do you know where Utah is on the map?  It was very wet and cold out there.  But look at the next picture.  That was the sun shining on the clouds early in the morning.

Not only did I get to play in the rain, but I also got to act like I was snow skiing.  I hope it snows at mine and Sidney poo's house this winter.  Nonnie got all excited about the snow more than I did.  Time for us to go to bed and see if we can sleep all night.  We ate Mexican late.  Ugh!!!  It was a cool place, Nedra's Too, with pictures of movie stars and Nascar drivers all over the walls.  Aunt Tonya would have liked it because Tony was large on the wall.