| 2012-5-31 (Thu) | Page, AZ - Trip to Rainbow Bridge on Lake Powell |
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(bu_5059) Drinking my morning coffee on the boat ride to Rainbow Bridge enjoying the scenery. Now this is a real vacation do nothing.
(bu_5086) Boat dock at Rainbow Bridge NM
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(bu_5105) Rainbow Bridge. This is what we came for on the boat ride.
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(bu_1420) Rainbow Bridge
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(bu_5106) Ancient dinosaur tracks
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| 2012-5-31 (Thu) | Grand Canyon National Park (North Rim) |
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(bu_1472) That canyon behind me is the one that leads out to the Colorado River and the main canyon.
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(bu_1496) View of Grand Canyon at sunset time.
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| 2012-6-1 (Fri) |
Zion National Park |
(bu_1502) wild goats
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(bu_5244) famous Checkboard Mesa
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(bu_5279) East entrance to the tunnel into Zion Canyon.
(bu_5282) The view as we exit the tunnel.
(bu_5288) Looking back at one of the view points in the tunnel we just drove through.
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(bu_1523) On the hiking trail to Angel's Landing
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(bu_1537) Wallys' Wiggles
(bu_5315) Looking up at the Wallys Wiggles section of the trail to Angel's Landing
() Strain guage measuring how much the the two rock sections are moving over time
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(bu_1544) The higher and more dangerous the climb, the better I like it.
(bu_1548) On slip and it is a 700 feet fall death.
(bu_5338) Climb that ridge to the top of Angel's Landing. And be careful not to fall off !
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(bu_1549) I made it!
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(bu_1552) Does not look that scary but there is a 1000 feet fall to the right.
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(bu_5353) The easy part on the way down to the valley.
(bu_5359) We can almost see where we started.
(bu_5367) Looking back up the trail where we came from.
(bu_5370) Unique plant.
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(bu_5375) Back near the trailhead. That 2.5 miles to Angel's Landing seemed like 25 miles.
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(bu_1560) Back down at ground level in the canyon
(bu_1563) Hiking to Weeping Wall
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(bu_1566) Water falling over Weeping Rock
(bu_1569) This is another view looking up at Angel's Landing which I have climbed two times in my life and lived to tell about itl