Zion National Park Tailor Trail

We decided to do a short fall visit to Zion National Park this fall as a fun way to get out of Bpise for a few days and have a mini adventure.  We started our journey on Friday night and made it to Provo.  Saturday we made it to Zion's north entrance around noon.

We started out fun with a 5 mile hike up Tailor Canyon in the Kolob Canyon section of the park.  This was a pleasant walk that criss-crossed the stream numorous times.  It offered stunning views of the sheer red clif walls on either side of the canyon and ended with a double blind arch.  What is a double blind arch you ask?  Well, a rock arch that is not fully detached from the surrounding rock is a blind arch.  This canyon happened to have 2 such arches, one over the other.  The caveren of the lower arch was supprisingly huge and helped put the massive scale of the surrounding canyon in to perspective.

We finished off our fantastic day with wine, fruit, cheese and crackers that we brought with us, in our vacation rental.  What a great way to start vacation!!!




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  1. UnknownOctober 26, 2013 at 8:17 AM

    Nice photos

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  2. LucyOctober 27, 2013 at 1:40 PM

    Look at those colors! What great pictures. The way that Jeff is strangely fore-lit (the opposite of backlit) makes that picture really cool.

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