We got a slow start this morning but headed to Canyonlands National Park on our way to Moab. This park is split into three pieces, divided by the Canyon. We went to the Needles District today which on the south-east part of the park. We enjoyed a 2 hour hike when we arrived which gave us beautiful views of the park. After that we headed to see the Pothole Pools, which are indentations in the rock that collect water and are home to some small shrimp, etc. That was a quick 20 min. hike. We then drove a dirt road (this one flat and fairly easy to drive with a regular car) and went on another hike. By this point in the day I think the sun had started to get to me (though it wasn't terribly sunny or warm today, perfect hiking temperature) so we just did a 1 hour hike and returned to the car.
Near the park we also got to see more petroglyphs. Unfortunately this rock had some graffiti on it which was not nice to see, but otherwise nice.
Tomorrow we are scheduled to go to the Island in the Sky section of Canyonlands (we won't go to the Maze district which is very remote and where Aron Ralston went hiking when he had to amputate him arm). It looks like it might rain on Monday though so we might switch our schedule and go to Arches tomorrow instead...stay tuned for our decision. :)
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment