I know I already had a vacation thread started, however what I did today deserves its own thread (IMO).

My brother in-law and I went to Zion National Park today to hike to Angel's Landing.

This is a 4 hour round trip hike culminating in a stunning panoramic view of the entire canyon.

Getting to the top is challenging, the path is as little as 18 inches at points with shear cliff drop offs in excess of 1000 feet on both sides. There is a chain to hold on to at points, but one slip and you are a gonner

Enjoy.

My brother in law and I....at the top of angel's landing

View of Zion Park from the top




view of road below from the top


Climbing the saddle to the top (these 3 are online photos to give you some perspective of hiking the saddle to the top, I was way to scared to get my camera out at this point)




I will freely admit that I was scared to death. I tried to quit the last 100 meters, but my bro in law talked me into it. Glad he did.

 

good lord that looks scary, do you have to sign anything to climb that trail?

 

Nope. The bus driver tells you there is one way up...but there are TWO ways down lol.

 

Nice job! The temps have to be pretty brutal up there right now. I head up there to climb about three or four times a year -- beautiful park.

You oughta try getting to the top of Angel's Landing the "easy" way some time. ;-)

 

You are crazy my friend. The temps were okay, we started early.

 

Be sure to stop in at Cafe Oscar for breakfast in the morning. Great grub and they usually have a couple of hotties waiting tables. Head across the street to the Mean Bean for your coffee. Where are you guys staying?

Ed

 

My brother in law lives in Cedar City, so that is where we are staying. We went to Cedar Breaks National Monument on the way back today. We went to Zion 2x in the past 2 days.

 

Good pics, that last part of the climb looks intense.

 

oh my, you climb all the way up that last one? how wide would you say is?

 

Yep, all the way up. I tried to quit before I got to the top (I was SCARED). Its as little as 18 inches in a few places, generally 2-3 feet wide. There is also a chain to hang on to most of the time.

I'm never doing it again.

 

Awesome pictures! That does look pretty damn scary... I need to make a trip there...

 

OMG. I cannot construct a coherent sentence to begin to describe how crazy and beautiful that canyon is. I'll definately have to mark this down as "things to do before I die, or die trying" list.

PLEASE tell me you have a 1600x1200 of this picture that you can Email me!

 

http://www.thespectrum.com/apps/pbcs...608230308/1002

not a good way to go. However I'm almost (almost) ready to do it again.

 

although I can't think of many places more beautiful to die. Of all the temples in Utah...this is the most spectacular.

 

can you tell I'm close to 1000?

 

So you mentioned that you came back - but did your brother-in-law??? LOL - JK

Looks pretty intense - would love to try it sometime but just looking at those pictures gave me the willies.

 

Wow!!!

I would be scared walking that too-did something similar in the Smokies last year on solid ice.

 

I'd wheel it.....LOL

Those pics look awesome though, I wish I knew somewhere like that to go around here, but this is Arkansas. Anyboy know the highest point in Arkansas, I think it's around 600 or something.

 

gohawks,

absolutely stunning. now you've added yet another place i should visit.

great pics too! looks like you guys had a great time

bob

 

Those pics make me want to do that trail. That is too cool.