We survived the snow storm. Of the 15 or so campers the other day only 3 of us are left. It felt nice to have the campground to ourselves. The sun is starting to pop out so we’re looking forward to going for a walk.
We are all dressed ready to go, RV picked up ready to pull in and the slide…and…it breaks again. This time while the slide is popped out, it won’t come in. Seriously!?! Argh…
Edwin is my ⭐️ HERO! He gets on the phone with the mechanic who fixed it back in Grand Junction a week and a half ago. The motor popped about of the gear track yet again. Edwin was be able to fix it of course 🙂 So thankful that Edwin can fix just about anything and makes doing a trip like this possible with something always needing fixing on this RV. Its kind of crazy how the RV business gets away with selling expensive that are built so poorly.
So while Edwin worked on the RV the girls and I walked over to the visitor center to work on their junior ranger packets. Here’s some of the geology of Bryce Canyon National Park.
Bryce Canyon National Park is not really a canyon rather than a collection of amphitheaters full of geological structures called hoodoos formed by frost wedging. Other places have hoodoos but Bryce Canyon National Park has the largest collection of them in one place.
We also found out that the goblin hoodoos we were just at Goblin Valley State Park are wind eroded hoodoos.
Bryce Canyon National Park lies on the edge of the Paunaugunt Plateau.
It is the beginning of what is known as the Grand Staircase. It starts in Bryce, goes through Zion national park, and ends in the Grand Canyon.
We finished up at the visitor center, but not before Vera became one with the animals,
got their junior ranger badges,
met up with Edwin and drove to the trailhead. We combined the Queens trail with the Navajo loop and did the Queens/Navajo loop trail. We ended up buying these cool little rubber chains for your shoes to walk on the icy trails. It was frustrating earlier that we couldn’t just go… when we were ready too but ended up working out and still got out on the trail with blue skies. The intense color of the sandstone with the the fresh white snow and deep blue sky was pretty incredible.
We took yaktrax off about five minutes to early. For an hour the time I spent wondering if it was worth the 20 buck a pair I realize in last switchback how much they helped us along the way. It was really slippery without them on. Glad we got them plus it made the hike more of an adventure.
We walked along the Rim Trail back to the car and started making our way to Zion. We stopped at coral pink sand dunes about 45 minutes outside of Zion National Park. Edwin and I came here 20 years ago and definitely wanted to bring the kids here. We got there right after sunset so about an hour later than we wanted but we still had enough time to walk around the sand dunes and have a big run down one of them, Daisy lives sand in general and ran around like the crazy little dog she is.
